Slide presentation used at the IODA conference in Budapest in 2010 about methods to decelerate a change proces so in the end you can accelerate

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Decelerate to AccelerateDecelerate to Accelerate
how to use time and timinghow to use time and timing
in co-creatingin co-creating

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Goals of this sessionGoals of this session
In this session participants experience how to:
Decelerate by creating shared
references in a group
Decelerate by creating a shared sense of urgency in a
group
Decelerate by postponing your interpretations and
judgements
Decelerate by provoking change instead of making or
organizing change

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CarrouselCarrousel
1. Mark in the program what words or what
(parts of) sentences made you decide to
come to this session
2. Make 2 circles: the inner and the outer
circle face each other

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CarrouselCarrousel
3. Outside circle:
• I am…
• The words or (parts of) sentences that made
me decide to come to this session were…
• Because…
• The question, that puzzles me, is…
4. Inside circle:
• You are…
• You decided to come to this session because…
• The question, that puzzles you, is…
• What touches me in your story, is…

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• We postpone our interpretations and
judgments
• We do that by including multiple
perspectives
• And by asking
participants
to tell their story
in terms of
observations
• We do not look for guilty parties that
contributed to the unexpected event
The Blame Free PrincipleThe Blame Free Principle

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• We assume that patterns of interaction will
make anyone act in the same
way, making the same
mistakes as did the person
in this specific situation
• So it is about changing the
patterns, and the conditions
in which these patterns can excist, not
about changing the person
No one is to blame forNo one is to blame for

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• Judging enables you to make a decision
• If it is not necessary to make a decision,
you can postpone your judgment
• By postponing your judgment, you can
start observing and renew your
observations and interpretations
concerning a certain event
Postponing your judgmentPostponing your judgment

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I invite you to stand and
walk over to someone
And to practice some blame
free evaluating by asking the
other person about how he or
she woke up and got to the
conference this morning
Invitation to experienceInvitation to experience……

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• Tell me about a specific moment in a project
of yours that you experienced something
you did not expect?
• Where were you at that time, who was
there with you, were you sitting or
standing?
• What did you say, in what way did you
move?
• And then? What happened then?
• And then?
Storytelling in observationsStorytelling in observations

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Negotiating the conditionsNegotiating the conditions
• What problem is your project an answer
to?
• Who experiences a sense of urgency?
• Which people and therefore perspectives
are included?
• What cannot be questioned or touched?

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Breaking through patternsBreaking through patterns
1. How do I get stakeholders to feel their dreams,
hopes and desires so that they ask me what they
really want?
2. How do I make crucial stakeholders care about
this project?
3. How do I create space for variety, where there is
no space at the moment?
4. How do I seduce stakeholders and secretly touch
what I cannot touch or discuss? (how can I give
them a sense of security and of control?)

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The method of contemplationThe method of contemplation
1.First round: every person tells whenever he
wishes what inspired him or touched him
during this session. No one reacts, just listen
2.Second round: every person tells whenever
he wishes what inspired him or touched him
in the words that were spoken during the first
round. No one reacts, just listen