I had three packs of Dixit cards on the table, and it took about an hour for the 120 cards to find their place on the map we had made from screenshots of our work and the faces of the participants. Looking through the many details revealed connections that everyone understood without deep analysis. It's an exciting experience to express with Dixit the arrival or departure of a person. There I was humming, laughing, and inquiring with many of myself about the details. I got a perspective on the connections and work experience within the company like never before.
We've moved beyond whether this project was good or bad beyond whether something is generally good or bad. Most of the experiences are both this and that, and the subjective nature of the essence can be expressed in colors and images in a way that words cannot.
We left every day for two full days went to a thatched cottage in Badacsony to get an impression of our state.
We didn't talk strategy, vision, or dream big. We didn't get drunk out of our minds to air our tensions. However, all this was possible if there had been a need for it.
The key sentence of the retreat came from Folly Rea as we stared at one of Europe's most diverse cedar parks while sipping wine: "We realized that a walk in the nursery must be accompanied by wine. The year we realized this, our traffic increased tenfold."
So here, we have a unique specialty, yet it takes a mass product to be known. Here we have an excellent content management system that we've been delivering for years, but what is it about the wine that makes us appealing?
I would have had a different answer to that question in Sicily two years ago. Back then, the quality of the team was something to be happy about. The simultaneous presence of joy and tension in the community seems to create movement together. The focus over the last two years has been on emotional awareness. We have done a lot of NVC, we have achieved that our retreats are full of content, Integral Vision has now grown into a self-organizing company.
In the last two years, nine people have joined the team, of which three have left.
I am grateful to Greta for the new impetus, Edit I for a different perspective, and Edit L for an inspiring voice that has made us blog more frequently and consciously.
Peti brought something new in DevOps; Zsuzsi finally allowed us to move to a new level in assertive communication and a gender-conscious approach. Gábor gave us all initial energy as three enthusiastic students, and Ancsa brought the hidden and invisible power relations to the surface.
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