Yesterday at a “becom agile” event (every two months, an event with the entire agile community of benext), everyone gave their “lightning talk”. Here’s mine.

Hello, delighted to be here, thank you for having me.

Hello you bunch of (silence)(people murmur “bastards”, “benevolent ones”, “benexters”)…

Well, that’s interesting what you’re saying to fill this emptiness I wish to talk to you about.

This emptiness that you filled. This emptiness is important in your daily practice of facilitation.

Don’t confuse this emptiness with the buzzing silence of the complacent or the coward, nor with the purring of hollow discourse. Don’t confuse it with the desert of apathy, of the lazy person, or with the absence of the incompetent.

It’s also not the rhythm that changes when discovering coaching. That very surprising one, of the absence of cause and effect.

I’m talking to you about this emptiness that nature abhors.

The fold that invites filling, and that undeniably gets filled.

This emptiness is a fleeting, ephemeral matter. But it is indeed a matter that you should learn to manipulate instead of saturating the space with know-how.

You must be attentive. The moment is subtle, and then you never know what happens, there’s a risk involved.

• Remove the circles, which ones are reborn?
• Remove the bugs from the base, which ones resurface?
• Remove the information, what gets told?
• Remove the managers, who takes power?
• Remove the processes or controls, how do things get done?
• Remove the last words of a sentence, who completes it and how?

This emptiness is the creation of a fascinating space, but also full of uncertainties, and therefore risks, very informative or necessary for emergence.

Thank you.