Big Story Conference: ‘Mapping Quantum Storytelling’ Sessions
Below is the timeline for the ‘Mapping Quantum Storytelling’ session of Big Story Conference. *Important Note: each presenter will have 10 minutes to present. The other 10 minutes are for the mapping discussion. Please plan accordingly. Presenters are very much encouraged to use creative modalities for their presentations. In the past we’ve had stories, dance, art, creative PPTs. Avoid the talking head syndrome (please do not put your notes on PPTs). Aim to provoke and inspire by interactive performance.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: David Boje, Mike Bonifer, Wanda Cousar, Daphne DePorres, Tonya Henderson, DebraPearl Hockenberry, Jeremi Karnell, Grace Ann Rosile, Rohny Saylors, Jillian Saylors, Anna Scott, & Anete Mikkala Camille Strand
Mapping Quantum Storytelling Session Team for 18th & 19th Dec: David Boje, Daphne Deporres, Tonya Henderson, Wanda Cousar, & Grace Ann Rosile
Day One (full day) Dec 17th
Industry Program (click here)
Day Two (full day) Dec 18th
8:30-8:50 coffee, meet and greet
8:50-9:10 20 min Introduction to the 2-day ‘Quantum Storytelling Mapping Session’ by Mapping Team
9:10-9:55 45 min Icebreaker led by Daphne Deporres
9:55-10am 5 min Explanation of Process (10 min presentation, 10 minute guided discussion, simultaneous contributions to the “map” Note: the map will emerge throughout the two days. We won’t insert a metaphor (e.g. tree, but let one develop throughout the 1.5 days)
10-10:10am 10 min Break
10:10-10:30 20 min David M. Boje Mapping Quantum Storytelling Fractal Patterns Before and Beneath Triple Bottom Line’s and Veterans Administration’s Stupid Narratives + discussion/mapping see pdf full paper
10:30-10:50 20 min Tonya L. Henderson Sociomaterial Fractals in a Quantum Storytelling Frame (direct link to fractal change tools) Link to Tonya's Ted Talk Click here of PDF of proceedings paper + discussion/mapping
10:50-11:10 20 min Wanda Tisby Cousar Sande Leadership:Sustainable Education and Professional Development + discussion/mapping See Full Proceedings Paper
11:10-11:20 Bio break (very short break)
11:20-11:30 Reflection on Mapping Process thus far
11:30-11:50 20 min Grace Ann Rosile & David Boje Quantum Storytelling and Ensemble Leadership + discussion/mapping
11:50-12:10 20 min DebraPearl Hockenberry Ultraliminal Team Consciousness
+ discussion/mapping
12:10-12:30 20 min Mike Bonifer with Josh Willis and Nazanin Tourani (via Skype) Ten story metrics for organizations + discussion/mapping
12:30-12:50 Brief check-in before lunch Reflection on Mapping Process thus far
12:50-1:50 1 hour Lunch on campus Lunchtime “homework” discussion topics
1:50-2pm Reconvene and Report on Lunch Discussions
2:00-2:20 20 min Rohny Saylors Entrepreneurial Storytelling of Flux + discussion/mapping
2:20-2:40 20 min Amandine Savall SEAM Storytelling See Slides from Presentation PDF + discussion/mapping
2:40-3:pm 20 min Hank Strevel Pragmatic implications of systems theory + discussion/mapping
3:00-3:10 Break 10 min
3:10-3:30 20 min Ruoqing Zhang Quantum Storytelling Network Analysis of Xiaomi’s Supply Chain Management + discussion/mapping
3:30-3:50 20 min Yianni Liang The Fulfillments of Panda Express’s Mission and Values in Its Macro and Micro Storytelling + discussion/mapping
3:50-4:10 20 min Anete M. Camille Strand Entangling Organizations – Intra-active ways of reworking the organizational scenography for the processes of becoming of the changed relationalities of (dis)ability + discussion/mapping (see pdf full paper)
4:10-4:20 Break
4:20-4:40 20 min Bahareh Javadizadeh Autoethnography and spacetimematching: a Persian management scholar + discussion/mapping
4:40-5pm 20 min David Perez Antenarrative and Counternarrative Inquiry into Wal-Mart’s Greenwashing tactics and Social Responsibility Flaws + discussion/mapping
5:00-5:30 20 min Debrief of day What do our maps tell us thus far?
Day Three – (full day) Dec 19th
8:30-9:00 coffee, meet and greet Reconnect and Reflect
9:00-9:20 10 min Introduction to the day’s session Re-view of yesterday in today’s light; intro to today
9:20-9:40 20 min Nazanin Tourani Story Vs. Narrative: Fade or Brighten of Failures in Public Record See PDF of Slides+ discussion/mapping
9:40-10:00 20 min Andres Marquez-Lara Recreating stories on the stage of improv + discussion/mapping
10:00-10:20 20 min Jillian Saylors Revealing antenarratives in the autism market + discussion/mapping
10:20-10:30 Bio break (very short break)
10:30-10:50 20 min Cynthia Cortez Testimonios: Conduits for communication and preparation + discussion/mapping (Organizing group member)
10:50-11:10 20 min Jamie Lakey Bike sharing from a quantum storytelling perspective + discussion/mapping full paper PDF
11:10-11:30 20 min Marja Turunen Storytelling on Consciousness-Based View of Organizing + discussion/mapping
11:30-11:40 Bio break (very short break)
11:40-12:00 20 min Elmira Shahriari The most common decision-making biases in entrepreneurial marketing + discussion/mapping See Presentation PowerPoint; See Full Proceedings Paper
12:00-12:20 20 min Anete M. Camille Strand & Jens Larsen The Break Work-life balance, energy and leadership anno 2015 - Reconfiguring contemporary leadership through 2400 years old coaching concept Protreptic and Material Storytelling + discussion/mapping See Full paper PDF in Proceedings
12:20-1:30 Lunch
1:30-1:50 Anna Scott - Mapping Quantum Storytelling in Dance and Improv
1:50-2:30 40 min dialogue and Mapping Fine-tuning
2:30-3:30 Jazz and Quantum Storytelling Event (A performing Jazz band will Map Quantum Storytelling in their Music)
3:30-3:40 Break 10 min
3:40-4:30pm Closing and next Steps
SOME USEFUL DEFINITIONS FOR MAPPING QUANTUM STORYTELLING
Quantum Storytelling is not just words, texts, or human dramatic action. Rather, Quantum Storytelling is the pattern of assemblages of material actants, non-human beings, and humans doing a Quantum version of Storytelling in the inseparability of spacetimemattering (Boje & Henderson, 2014). Newtonian Storytelling is position in 3D space, and linear time events. Quantum Storytelling is a paradigm shift. “The game of storytelling in organizations is changing in the Quantum Age” (Boje, 2014: xxv).
Mapping Quantum Storytelling is observing and interpreting the assemblages of humans, non-human beings, and material entities as they form repeating patterns of convergence and divergence. Some patterns are fractals (patterns repeating self-sameness across magnifactions in spacetimemattering) such as branching fractals, spiral fractals, Mandelbrot fractals, Sierpinski, and Multifractals, and others just random (Henderson & Boje, 2015; Boje, 2015).
Tamara-land is a Quantum analysis of storytelling organizations, such as Disney, where there is simultaneous storytelling by assemblages of humans distributed in different rooms, hallways, buildings, transport, and trying to map what is happening, what will happen next, and what has happened (Boje, 1995).
John Dewey (1929) made a Quantum Storytelling turn after reading Warner Heisenberg’s (1927) article on the Uncertainty Principle: Observing accurately for momentum, and position is not as accurate to determine, and vice verse. Another American Pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1932) studied Niels Bohr’s Complementarity Principle (the Quantum and the Newtonian must line up) and Mead concluded that quantum time is not same as Newtonian (clock/mechanical) time. In Quantum time, the future arrives to change the present, and that emergence changes how we look at the past (in retrospection). We are always prevising (antenarrating) a prospective sensemaking of the multitude of future possibilities arriving present. When we previse, the Observer Effect, collapses many choices to one, and we change the path of arrival.
William James (1907: 98) “things tell a story” and given the plurality of material things humans carry about, organize, and assemble, the things are telling a story in their pattern. Each organization is many materials that tell many stories, and humans tune into some of them by acts of forensic, science, and detective work. Example: As we observe climate change by one apparatus or another, we change the path of its arrival by our dismissal or our changes.