I agree with you that “being outed” is different than “encouraging one to out oneself.” Like taking the huge vulnerable leap to come out as gay (or queer, or whatever your identity is), you are inviting affiliation by inviting people to out themselves as more human and poetry-seeking in the work world.

I tried to do this in a small way yesterday — I was having a collaborative conversation with clients about a first draft of a document, where one was very very focused on ticking the boxes on whether this faithfully fulfilled the brief (rather than seeing what was emerging as our collaboration continued). And I noted how the challenge was to find the poetry that captures complexity without complication. And this subtly shifted the conversation from the box-ticking to a shared hope.

Thanks for this, P. Such a lovely invitation.

Computer Systems training
Systems from another site/no first-hand experience
Training material dry (almost all step-action charts)
Shortened time frame (four days to give what had been an eight-day training)

So, knowing this had the potential to be the MOST boring class of all time, I borrowed a couple of concepts from making workplace play space. Here were the two really stand out, in hindsight:
1) We started each day with a “warming up” activity (the class’s favorite was the one-word story game). This helped us start each day with everyone in a positive place – and with their brains shaking off the early morning doldrums.
2) I had the participants assist me in creating visual charts (emphasizing different colors, key phrases, steps, etc) as we were going through the systems. This allowed us to create a picture-based representation of the things we were learning about the systems. I was told at the close of training that these pict-o-charts really helped cement key steps and processes.