[Ailist] AI summit: how do you reconnect to yesterday's energy?

[Dr. Zeb Waturuocha]

Yes Katia, I also face such dilemas and during the same times.  I have found
playing popular tones as the participants walk in for the second or third
day very envigorating as each one seem to come into a new world as soon as
they enter the room.  I also ask participants to write down on a flipchart
and in one word how they describe their feelings at that moment in time.  I
have also seen this work wonders.

Zeb

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Katia <katia at propellor.be> wrote:

>
>
> Dear all,
>
> As I find more and more opportunities to use AI with my customers, also
> more
> and more questions arise. Here is one I would like to discuss with you, and
> learn from your experience & ideas.
>
> In the last month I used AI twice. It was a wonderful experience both
> times.
> The first was a 2-day strategy session with a government agency. The second
> was on a 3day retreat with my 3 collegues.
>
> In both cases I (and the group) experienced a very high energy at the end
> of
> both the discovery and the design phases: a feeling of shared meaning,
> recognition of the positive core, collective dreams... But of course, at
> the
> end of the day the session ends, people go to diner, have a good evening
> together... And then the next day, we want to build on the previous phase
> and start part of the 4D-cycle.
>
> Both times we found it was difficult to reconnect to the high energy we had
> ended with. The feeling we shared the evening before seemed far away, and
> we
> were left with a lot of words and pictures, which didn't have the same
> meaning as they had the evening before.
>
> So here's my question: how do you keep the energy high? How do you start
> the
> next day? How do you reconnect?
>
> Thank you for sharing!
> Katia
> (Katia Van Belle - Belgium)
>
>
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