On Monday February 17th we will host a Failure Festival ask a kick off to “what’s next” for both personal and group growth.

 

How to participate 

• Presenting a failure is optional, being an open minded respectful listener is not:)
• If you do want to take advantage of this opportunity. Be ready to present the following in a storytelling fashion:

What was the project?
What were you trying to do?
What was the fail/where did it go wrong?
What would you do differently next time (or never again!)?
What lessons can be learned?

 

FAIL_slam format
Presentations should be no longer than 10 minutes to maximize learning and promote actionable lessons that can be embedded into future work.  Each group will have a moderator and group size will depend on the number of individuals that would like to present.  Each presentation will be “captured” on a large post it note written either before the event by the presenter or during the presentation by a scribe.

 

Ground rules

• When presenting: 
  Maximize learning, stay away from blaming other people or factors you cannot control. No third party bashing, you must have been personally involved in the project that you present in some way.

Keep true to the storytelling style of the formate, however props or presentation slides (to be displayed on your tablet) are allowed.

• When listening:
  Be open minded when people share what they believe to be true. Respect the process for ultimate access to collective reflection.

  Active reflection in the form or blogging and tweeting is allowed unless someone say that a presentation or parts of the presentation are off the record

 

Please strongly consider presenting a failure!  The more failures are expressed the more we can learn! Here are some great examples of failures to spark your thinking.