Enjoy the full slide deck from Braz Brandt's workshop, Put Your Oxygen Mask on First: Self-Care and the Modern ScrumMaster, from the December Agile Richmond meeting. For ScrumMasters, coaches, and anyone else who needs to take time to care for themselves, this workshop focuses on providing a framework to help understand the different types of self-care – internal and external, individual, and collective.

1. Put Your Oxygen
Mask on First
Self-Care and the Modern ScrumMaster
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2. Braz Brandt
Enterprise Agile Coach
Agile Velocity, LLC
@braz
braz@agilevelocity.com
www.agilevelocity.com
Accelerate Agility
Transformation | Training | Coaching
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3. The Core Protocols: Check–In
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When you’re in a psychologically safe team environment, you
bring your whole self into that space: your emotions, your
thoughts, your distractions, and your physical state.

4. Let’s Check In...
• Form into triads (ad hoc groups of three)
• Check–In using the “I feel… I’m in” format
from the Core Protocols
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Chair Yoga
Building the Body of a Coach

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Images inspired by Chair Yoga poses from livingwordsofwisdom.com

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Loving Kindness
Meditation
Building the Mind of a Coach

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Loving Kindness Meditation
May I be well.
May I be peaceful
and at ease.
May I be happy.
May I be filled
with loving
kindness.

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Network of
Support
Building Your Community and Support

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Who What When
1 Reed richards
Being super flexible, science
stuff
Next week
2 Sue Storm
Blending in during social
situations
Tuesday
3 Ben Grimm Having a really thick skin Next Thursday
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Network of Support

13. Questions
…and maybe some Answers.
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14. Some Self-Care Dates
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• Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019
May 20–22
• Agile 2019 in Washington, DC
August 5–9

15. Thank You!
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