Immersion Workshop Liberating Structures
€ 1.400,00 incl. VAT
19 November 2026
Stockholm
Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop
Two days of hands-on practice with the interaction methods that are changing how groups collaborate worldwide. You’ll experience around 20 structures, design your own sessions, and leave with skills you can use the next morning.
Facilitator
Lotta Adelstål, Ruben Klerkx
€ 1.400,00 incl. VAT
Two days that change how you think about group interaction
Most of us have spent years in meetings, workshops, and conversations that follow the same pattern. One person presents. A few people respond. The rest observes. Decisions happen somewhere between the lines. Everyone moves on.
Liberating Structures offer a completely different experience. They’re a collection of 33+ interaction patterns that distribute participation across the whole group. Every person thinks, contributes, and shapes what happens next. Not in theory, but in practice, through the design of the interaction itself.
An immersion workshop is the fastest way to learn them. Over two days, you’ll cycle through 20+ structures in rapid succession. Each one is introduced briefly, practiced immediately, and reflected on together. By the second day, you’ll find yourself designing your own “strings” and crafting invitations for your own situation. That’s the point. These methods are designed to be used by everyone, regardless of experience.
What the two days look like
The workshop is designed as a progression. Day one builds your vocabulary. Day two builds your fluency.
Day 1: Experience the range
You’ll move through 10 to 12 different structures at a brisk pace. Some take ten minutes, others take thirty to fourty. Each one shows a different way to organize how people interact: how they generate ideas, surface tensions, make sense of complexity, or decide together.
Between structures, we pause to reflect. What just happened in the room? How did the design shape the conversation? What felt different from how you normally work? These reflections are as valuable as the practice itself.
By the end of day one, you’ll have experienced more variety in interaction design than most people encounter in a year.
Day 2: Build your own practice
Day two goes deeper. You’ll learn how to combine structures into sequences (called “strings”) designed for specific purposes: running a strategy session, facilitating a retrospective, making a difficult decision with a large group, onboarding new team members.
You’ll design your own strings for challenges you’re actually facing, get feedback from the group, and practice facilitating. Something shifts on the second day. The trust in the room deepens. People take creative risks. The group starts to surprise itself.
You’ll also explore the principles underneath the structures: the five design elements that make every structure work, and how to adapt them to your own context.
" Learning Liberating Structures is like learning a new language. First you learn individual words. Then you put them together into sentences. Soon you're speaking fluently." — Keith McCandless & Henri Lipmanowicz, creators of Liberating Structures
Who joins these workshops?
Immersion workshops attract a wonderfully diverse mix of people. What they share is a desire to change how groups work together. Some typical profiles:
👉🏽 Team leads and managers who want their conversations to produce better thinking and stronger commitment
👉🏽 HR and L&D professionals looking for practical, evidence-informed methods to embed across the organization
👉🏽 Coaches, trainers, and facilitators who want methods that genuinely shift group dynamics
👉🏽 Scrum masters and agile practitioners who want richer retrospectives, planning sessions, and stakeholder interactions
👉🏽 Internal change agents who want practical tools to spread across their organization
👉🏽 People working in healthcare, education, or government where participation and inclusion are essential
👉🏽 Anyone who has ever left a meeting thinking “there must be a better way to do this”
No prior experience with Liberating Structures is needed. Complete beginners and seasoned practitioners learn alongside each other. That mix is part of what makes the experience so rich.
What you take home
This workshop is designed so that everything you learn is immediately usable.
A repertoire of 44 structures
All (44!) structures in a practical workbook. 20+ practiced, reflected on, and ready to use. You'll know when to reach for 1-2-4-All, when TRIZ is the right provocation, and when Troika Consulting will do more than any advice session ever could.
The ability to design your own sessions
You'll understand how to string structures together for different purposes. A team retrospective, a strategy conversation, a community gathering. The design skills transfer to any context.
Confidence to facilitate
By the end of day two, you will have practiced so many structures, you'll know when and how to run them. And a great BONUS: Immersion workshops bring together people from different sectors and backgrounds. The connections you make here often last well beyond the two days.
Follow-up session
About a month after the workshop, we'll meet online for a 2-hour follow-up. A chance to share how you've been applying what you learned, ask questions, and get input from the group. You'll also experience how well Liberating Structures work in a virtual setting.
Book an Exploration Call
Curious whether an in-company workshop fits your situation?
Let’s have a conversation. In a 30-minute Exploration Call, we’ll discuss your team’s challenges, explore which format makes sense, and see if there’s a good fit.
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What's included
✅ Two full days of hands-on practice
✅ 20+ Liberating Structures experienced
✅ Workshop materials and LS Workbook
✅ Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments
✅ String design templates
✅ 2-hour online follow-up session
“I never thought meetings could be this engaging. Liberating Structures changed how I work with my team!”
Participant, 2022 Workshop
“Practical, fun, and transformative. I walked away with tools I could use immediately.”
Facilitator, Nonprofit Sector
"I learned more about Liberating Structures from the contagiously enthusiastic Ruben Klerkx today! Thank you all for all the new and refreshed insights on effective facilitation."
Participant, 2025 Workshop
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
- Do I need experience with Liberating Structures?
- What's the difference between this and an in-company workshop?
- Is there a cancellation policy?
- Can I also pay by business invoice?
- What if the fee is beyond my budget?
Do I need experience with Liberating Structures?
Do I need experience with Liberating Structures?
No. The workshop is designed for both newcomers and experienced practitioners. You learn by doing, so the structures teach themselves. People who have used LS before consistently say they discover new depth in structures they thought they already knew.
What's the difference between this and an in-company workshop?
What's the difference between this and an in-company workshop?
An in-company workshop is tailored to one team or organization, using their specific challenges. This open workshop brings together people from different organizations, sectors, and roles. The diversity makes the experience especially generative: you’ll hear perspectives you’d never encounter in your own workplace.
Bring yourself and your curiosity. It helps to think about a real challenge or question from your work that you’d like to explore during the workshop. We’ll provide everything else.
Is there a cancellation policy?
Is there a cancellation policy?
You can cancel up to 30 days before the workshop. Only registration costs of €75,- will be charged. After that, you’re welcome to transfer your registration to someone else. Full refund if the event is cancelled.
Can I also pay by business invoice?
Can I also pay by business invoice?
Yes, you can. Send us a message with the workshop details and your company details so we can send you an invoice.
Note: your registration is only valid once we have received your payment.
What if the fee is beyond my budget?
What if the fee is beyond my budget?
We want a diverse group of participants. If the full price is a barrier, reach out. We’ll explore what’s possible.
Book an Exploration Call
Curious whether an in-company workshop fits your situation?
Let’s have a conversation. In a 30-minute Exploration Call, we’ll discuss your team’s challenges, explore which format makes sense, and see if there’s a good fit.
✅ Free Zoomcall ✅ No obligation
€ 1.400,00 incl. VAT