The management model has its roots in Medieval Alchemy. Once you understand this history you can create almost any model or process you need for your situation or play design it.

3. Alchemy
Through a combination of elements and
understanding and new states of being arise.

4. Alchemy
Through a combination of elements and
understanding and new states of being arise.

5. Alchemy
Through a combination of elements and
understanding and new states of being arise.

6. the classical stages
of alchemy
• Purification
• Rediscovering our essence
• The immaculate state
• Alchemical marriage
• Embodying our new perspective
• Clarifying our life purpose and the qualities
we need

7. Sources of Alchemy
• Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air
• Life: Birth, Learning, Maturity, Wisdom, Death
• Cycles: Winter (internal), Spring (growth), Summer
(harvest), Fall (incubation & storage)
• Polarity: Ying, Yang; Male,Female
• Divination: Zero, Oneness, duality, trinity, etc
• Influencing: Planets, numbers, symbols
• Processes: Rot, decay, mutation, growth
• Myth: symbolism, deeper truth’s

10. The Alchemistic process 1
• Fire: Where is the fire? What do we want (to change)? What are
our intentions/passions? What’s the purpose? What does the new
design need to fulfill?
• Earth: What is stuck in this? What are the inmoveble objects or
elements? What is the material side of this? Budget, means,
people. How to use them.
• Water: What is fluid in this? What can be changed, transformed?
What are the relationships and emotions that influence the
outcomes? What’s the discussion? How to communicate?
• Air: what are the images concerning/influencing this? What
decisions need to be taken? What are our assumptions?
• Ether: What is the bigger picture? How does this process fit in the
bigger pattern? How are we, or do we want to be, changed by it?

11. The Alchemistic process 2
• Calcination: Bring the essence of the case back to one clear
question.
• Dissolution: Bring the involved parties back to their essence.
• Separation: Distinguish the different sides and aspects of the case.
• Conjunction: Integrate or bring balance into the different aspects of
the case.
• Fermentation: Take the time to see what comes up. Create space
to think and explore.
• Distillation or Rotation: Take your time to look at all angles to see
what comes up.
• Coagulation: solidifying. Look and clarify what’s left and test it.
NB:Be prepared to repeat the whole process or parts of it and integrate old mistakes in new
solutions/possibilities.

12. A NEW DESIGN

13. What are the keywords for the new
design?
In the practicing alchemists point of view, fire is a catalyst to both initiating and
completing metaphysical demonstrations. This symbol signifies upward mobility,
forward motion, rising flames and aspirations to solar embodiment (in both literal
and philosophical senses). To move into the energy of fire is to be utterly
consumed, transformed and lifted out of limitation (vis a vis: smoke rising – also
bringing to mind the symbolic message of the phoenix in alchemical literature).

15. What is the earth, air, water, fire in
the new situation?
• Fire: what is our vision in this?
• Earth: what is fixed, cannot be changed? (in
reality and by choice) What’s the budget?
What materials do we have?
• Water: What is adaptable/fluid changeable?
How should it feel?
• Air: what decisions need to be taken? What
images/assumptions do we have?

21. Floris Koot
Turning planning
into effective
action
PlayDesign
How to get things done? Our
meetings take way too long and
little comes out of it. New and
different approaches are on the
rise. One of the most fun and
effective at the same time is
Play Design: do it now, as if it
already there & then.
Playing the Future into
Reality!

22. Play Design Foundations
Play is the most integrated learning there is.
• Purposeful messy play is dialogue and leads to
emergence of shared new reality.
• Mind, Body, Spirit and Heart are all active and all
bring knowledge.
• Be Open to Experiment/Experience (yes)
• Turn any assumption into an experience.
• Empower people by trough co-creation: they will
have to work/deal with it.

23. Play Design in Action
Visualize or Play the New Reality as if it’s already here.
1. Have the goal/purpose/question clear in mind.
2. Dream together a new wished for Reality.
3. Make things tangible/reality quickly.
4. Play the new reality.
5. Build the experience step by step. Adjust when
needed
6. Integrate all Feedback
7. Stop when the energy is gone.
8. Evaluate and settle.

24. The Art of Possibility
• Change your Viewpoint (flipthink)
• Give yourself an A and live it. (you are already a
contribution)
• Follow the energy.
• Work from/speak to WE, think inclusive,
everyone’s a leader, speak to essence, not to
mask
• Think in possibilities, critism is help, not attack.
• # 6: don’t take yourself so fucking seriously!

25. • The Art of Possibility
• The Power of Possibility: The worth of thinking in
possibilities, tools and attitude
• Reinvent yourself: working on change of mindset
and personal possibilities
• Journeying: Finding your way by Inner
navigation. Lessons for those who are allergic to
planning and hard set goals. Tricks and tools of
the traveling way of self and entrepreneurial
development