How do you engage a huge room full of people and get them to talk openly about sensitive subjects? With puppets! (And humor!) What started out as a joke about doing a puppet show at a SAFe Program Increment Planning event, turned into a real-world training technique that uses puppets to break down social resistance to hard conversations. Today, in a very special episode of Agile Puppet Theater, we'll look at the psychology of why people may be resistant to having honest, open conversations across a large organization. We'll investigate techniques to allow us to discuss problems and make real change a possibility, using puppets, humor and hyperbole. Combining multiple approaches, you will learn how to create a safe space to address the issues in your organization that are holding back your cultural development. As a team, you will build your own Minimum Viable Puppets and use them in scripted sketches that we've actually used to spark candid conversations about tough issues. Along the way, we'll pull back the curtain on how the different parts of the training work together to create the engagement and safe space we're looking for. We will also leave you with strategies for creating your own versions of Agile Puppet Theater to bring back to your organizations to encourage communication and improve your own organizational culture.