Liberating Structures

Engage everyone simultaneously in generating questions, ideas, and suggestions.

Rapidly share challenges and expectations while making new connections.

Make the purpose of your work and underlying driving motivations clear.

Stop counterproductive activities and behaviors to make space for innovation.

Together reflect on progress to date and decide what adjustments are needed to move forward.

Discover and build on the root causes of success.

Get immediate practical and imaginative help from colleagues.

Discover and focus on what each person can do now with the resources and authority they already have.

Rapidly generate and sift through a group’s most powerful and actionable ideas.

Analyze the full portfolio of activities and relationships to identify obstacles and opportunities for progress.

Engage everyone in making sense of profound challenges.

Articulate the paradoxical challenges that a group must confront to succeed.

Specify only the minimum required do’s and don'ts for achieving a purpose.

Share know-how gained from experience with a larger community.

Practice deeper listening and empathy with others.

Design the five essential elements for a resilient and enduring initiative.

Reveal insights and paths forward through nonverbal expression.

Liberate inherent action and leadership in groups of any size.

Discover, invent and unleash local solutions to chronic problems.

Spread good ideas and make informal connections with innovators.

Develop effective solutions to chronic challenges while having serious fun.

Practice progressive methods for helping others, receiving help and asking for help.

Understand how embedded systems interact, evolve, spread innovation and transform.

Develop strategies for operating in a range of plausible yet unpredictable futures.

Observe and record actual behaviors of users in the field.

Reconnect the experience of leaders and experts with people closest to the challenge at hand.

Define step-by-step elements for bringing meetings to productive endpoints.

Map informal connections and decide how to strengthen the network to achieve a purpose.

Tap into the wisdom of the whole group in rapid cycles.

Surface essential needs across functions and accept or reject requests for support.

Sort challenges into simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic domains.

Reveal relationship patterns that create surprising value or dysfunctions in groups.

Move from either-or to robust both-and solutions.

Playfully expand the scope for reflections, insights and actions.

Reflect on experiences, build awareness and reveal patterns over time.

Bring diverse perspectives together for deeper understanding and better decisions.

Start turning around a destructive pattern of negative gossip.

Delve deeper into shared information and ideas while strolling.

Identify and shape more productive work patterns by making the invisible visible.

Develop imaginative tactics for scaling up from local to global action.

Identify beliefs and assumptions that may limit your progress.

Get to know and appreciate your own demons in order to…

Answer six questions together to develop strategy everyone owns.

Utilise social support while experiencing loss or profound change in order to…