Liberating Structures are refreshing, easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination and trust between people. Usually interactions are organised (meetings, workshops, etc.) either too inhibiting (presentations, status reports, and managed discussions), or too loose and disorganised (open discussions and brainstorms).

Liberating Structures instantly foster lively participation in groups of any size, making it possible to truly include and unleash everyone. Liberating Structures are a disruptive innovation that can replace more controlling or constraining approaches.

Liberating Structures are easy-to-learn effective facilitation techniques for interaction and conversation in small and large groups. You can easily start experimenting with these, without the need of explaining them too much!

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Key attributes

SIMPLE

requires only a few minutes to introduce

EXPERT-LESS

beginners can succeed after a first experience

RESULTS-FOCUSED

likely to generate better-than-expected, innovative results

RAPID CYCLING

fast iterative rounds are very productive

INNOVATIVE

sparks creative relationships with clients or customers

INCLUSIVE

together, everyone is invited to shape next steps

MULTI-SCALE

works for everyday solutions, big projects, strategy, and transforming movements

SERIOUSLY FUN

boosts freedom & responsibility

SELF-SPREADING

easy to copy without formal training

ADAPTABLE

spreads with fidelity and adapts to local conditions via Min Specs

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Practical info

TRAINING? WORKSHOP?

  • We offer in-person and online (virtual) events. All workshops are fully interactive and you’ll be fully immersed in Liberating Structures.
  • We also organise a 1 day Liberating Structures Open Space, where you can design your own string of Liberating Structures with a specific purpose in mind and/or come and practice facilitating Liberating Structures in group. To participate in this workshop you don’t need to have experience with Liberating Structures (you can learn from others) or you come and practice any structure you like! We also invite people to volunteer as facilitator.

WHEN & WHERE?

  • In-person (Belgium) or virtual (World-Wide)
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Testimonials

Quotes of previous participants.

  • “Refreshing!”
  • “Open up your mind and heart the make ideas emerge from people and teams.”
  • “My mid-morning on the first day I felt like the course had already earned its fee.”
  • “Great workshop that requires full engagement”
  • “I really loved the experience of being with people of 10 nationalities making sense on important topics and sharing ideas. And building something together. It was seriously playful.”
  • “Insightful, energising, liberating and exhausting, in the best way possible.”
  • “I didn’t leave this training with a groundbreaking and complex new insight. Instead I left with a mass of new ideas that are simple enough to put to use right away!”
  • “This was a great experience, organised around participant’s needs. Great!”
  • “Great experience!”
  • “You walk out of this workshop with new tools you can use tomorrow!”
  • “A unique experience of immersion in deep conversations”
  • “Make your meetings more efficient and more fun.”
  • “So much fun, so many learnings!”
  • “Unleash groups”
  • “You live it – you love it”
  • “Free your mind through Liberating Structures”
  • “Super interactive and fun way of learning about liberating structures and getting an introduction into the LS community.”
  • “Fruitful”
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Contact

Workshops and training

Contact me for custom facilitation workshops and training using Liberating Structures.

Contact

info@liberatingstructures.be or via LinkedIn

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