If we want to be a culture change player, it helps to understand what are our own beliefs and assumptions before trying to change others. Based on the Liminal Thinking Approach and the Third Culture Kids profile (TCK) , here is a tool for a journey to deconstruct our confirmation and attribution biases.

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Blow the Self-Sealing
Logic Bubble
A journey to understand our own culture and explore others’
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Reality

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Reality
Unknown

4. From Reality To Obvious
Experience
Relevant to Needs
Assumptions
Obvious
Reality Credits to Dave Gray - Liminal Thinking

5. From Reality To Obvious
Experience
Relevant to Needs
Assumptions
Obvious
Reality Credits to Dave Gray - Liminal Thinking
THE
GAP
Self-Sealing Bubble of
Beliefs

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Blow
the Self-Sealing
Bubble
“Deconstruct our own beliefs”
Dave Gray

7. Liminal Space
Set of beliefs B
Set of beliefs A

8. Resilient Learning happens in the
Liminal Space
Agile Beliefs“Non Agile” Beliefs

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where are you from?

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“I am from X”

11. Third Culture Kids
Culture A Culture B
David Pollock - Third Culture Kids, Growing Up Among Worlds

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TIME

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TIME
a main culture pointer
Robert Levine - A geography of Time

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What is your
relationship to time?

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O’Clock

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Event Driven
“Open Space”

17. Deconstruct The Agile Obvious
Experience
Relevant to Needs
What Assumptions did I make ?
Reality Credits to Dave Gray - Liminal Thinking
THE
GAP
What is Obvious ( To US ) about Agile ?

18. Deconstruct The Agile Obvious
Which was our Experience ?
What was Relevant to our Needs ?
Reality Credits to Dave Gray - Liminal Thinking
THE
GAP
What Assumptions did I make ?
What is Obvious about Agile ?

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“Involvement”
Enter the Liminal Space
TCK pattern
“Leaving”
“Transition ”
“Re-Involvement”
What are Agile-resistant
group beliefs ?
What would make me
have those beliefs?
Beliefs
Assumptions
Needs
What seem obvious
to us to stick to
Agile?
list & order
What Assumption
did we make ?
List & order
What is dangerous
to me ?
list & order

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Tell The Story !
Lead Outcome :
My beliefs
My Status Quo :
My needs
My Story :
How did my Agile experience meet my needs ?

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Beliefs Values

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What did you discover
&
How will you use it ?
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