Instructions

Double Spiral 2nd Annual 2012Quantum Storytelling Conference – Las Cruces New Mexico
When: Dec 16-18; Beginning 8am Dec 16, ending 1pm Dec 18, with networking and Boje consultations during afternoon Dec 18.
Where: Las Cruces New Mexico, Inn of the Arts http://www.innofthearts.com

Conference Theme: Quantum Spirals of Storytelling Organization and Environment Turbulence. See Boje (2012) online book, On Line Book" Quantum Spirals for Organization Consulting for overview of human-centric storytelling, plus the more posthumanist storytelling ways: living stories of animals and other non-human life, geometric storytelling of fractals cycles spirals PERT and so forth, material storytelling of living things (e.g. Anete Strand's ‘material storytelling’ work http://www.hum.aau.dk/~kisser/Enacting_the_Between/ ), and quantum (e.g. Boje's “Quantum Storytelling” YouTube film, books online on Quantum Storytelling, and the new book Quantum Spirals for Organization Consulting. Links to books & film at http://peaceaware.com/quantum/
SCHEDULE
Dec 16th - 8:00 AM breakfast Inn of the Arts
9AM introductions
9-10:30 - We will invite Joe Gladstone to do 40 minute presentation and 40 minutes discussion of dissertation on Native American Business practices
10:45-12:20 - Papers presented by participants on Humanist Storytelling and on Living Story-telling (Indigenous & Native American, posthumanist living story work) that is about animals, plants, and Natural environment (posthumanist)
Lunch at local restaurants in groups
1:30-3 PM - We will invite Krisha Coppedge to do keynote for 40 minutes, with 40 minute discussion on her doctoral dissertation
3:15-5:45 - Papers presented by participants on Ontological Storytelling (ontologies such materiality, geometric renditions of organization action, quantum-ness, Heidegger, Deleuze, Mead, Merleau-Ponty, Hannah Arendt, Heisenberg's (1958) book Physics & Philosophy is good place to read up on history of material ontologies
6PM - Dinner in groups at nearby Las Cruces restaurants

Dec 17th - 8:30 AM breakfast Inn of the Arts
9 AM - We will invite Anete Strand to do keynote on Material Storytelling in her dissertation
10:30-noon - Papers on Material Storytelling (see work by Anete Strand, Denmark)
Lunch at local restaurants in groups
2PM - 5:30 PM - Papers by participants on Geometric Storytelling (e.g. PERT, Life Cycle,
Spirals, Rhizomes, etc. See on line book: Quantum Spirals for Organization Consulting at
http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/448/448LCAS.html
Dinner together at - local Pizza place

Dec 18th 8:30 AM breakfast Inn of the Arts
9AM -10:30 AM- Boje Keynote on New Directions in Storytelling Consulting
10:45-noon - Participant presentations on differences and similarities of Material Storytelling and Quantum Storytelling

ending 1pm Dec 18, with networking and Boje consultations during afternoon Dec 18.

Please send in your participant 200-300 word abstract, title, and preferred slot in schedule (day & time) by October 15th to Tonya Wakefield and Debra Hockenberry at wakefieldz@me.com. They will check them in, track them, send them out for review, and send notifications out as well, so that we can organize the final schedule. Please have accepted session paper (15 to 25 pages, single spaced Time Roman 12 point, in Word file) to dboje@nmsu.edu by Nov15th, so that conference CD of Proceedings can be prepared, and also put on the quantum storytelling conference website. E.g. Sample Title and Abstract
Presenter: David M. Boje, Ph.D. New Mexico State University dboje@nmsu.edu
Title: New Directions in Storytelling Consulting
Abstract: Storytelling has a long glorious history. Walter Benjamin (1936) says storytelling is coming to an end because of changes in capitalism, the new information processing ways, etc. Arendt (1958) says storytelling is the way transformation of human systems happens, and says storytelling is speech acts and action, but action has been morphed over the years since the Greek city states to be something less than democratic, an ethic of non-answerability (as Bakhtin would say). The trends in Geometric storytelling are so engrained in management, such as PERT, cycle time, life cycle, network and other images, that as Merleau-Ponty (1962 Phenomenology of Perception) that the visual images of the geometric do not have a registry in the five senses. We cannot see a spiral, except in an image. We cannot see a PERT chart except in a drawing of time arrows. We cannot see a product or organization or market 'life' cycle except in a drawn image. Yet, we have an ontological understanding of these activities, actions, processes of organizing, and how they change in relation to our environment. Environment has been understood since Emery & Trist (1965) as just other organizations, and that all environments are 'turbulent' (type 4). With ontological storytelling, we get a way to conceptualize and study turbulence itself. Turbulence is approached differently in human storytelling and the various posthumanist storytelling ways, such as living stories of non-humans, material storytelling, and quantum storytelling. The difference between material storytelling is Strand (2012: 168-170, vol 1; following Barad, 2003, 2007) says that Boje's quantum storytelling is following Heisenberg, and Strand and Barad follow Bohr. Boje will propose an alternative reading of his work.
Send Abstract by Oct 15th to Tonya Wakefield and Debra Hockenberry at wakefieldz@me.com. They will check them in, track them, send them out for review, and send notifications out as well (questions call Tonya cell number, 719-338-0539). Please make your presentation an oral storytelling, only slides being pictures, drawings, key transcript quotes, but no outlines or summaries on slides. Please submit the slides by Dec 1st, to Rohny Saylors rsaylors@gmail.com so they can be pre-loaded onto conference computer, so all is ready to go for your session. For local hotel and other arrangements, contact Pamela Caldwell pcaldwell09@gmail.com . There will be a conference proceedings CD, and special journal theme issues. Our conference website is at http://peaceaware.com/quantum/