Liberating Structures Practice Session

Infecting Education with Liberating Structures @ ETUG

Nancy White@NancyWhitehttp://www.fullcirc.com channeling Keith McCandless from http://www.liberatingstructures.com

Liberating Structures…including and unleashing everyonehttp://www.liberatingstructures.comKeith and Henri… (and thanks for their permission to share their agendas, images, etc.)

McCandless and Lipmanowicz McCandless and Lipmanowicz

A repertoire to help us…1. BE together 2. Engage WITH each other

3. Unleash everyone (sensemaking/application)

Human Spectrogram

• I’ll tell you the questions

So far…So far…

1-2-4-AllWhat, so what, what now (W3)15% solution

Impromptu Networking

What question do we want to explore in the next 60 minutes?

Variants

• Mad Tea Party – a.k.a. speed dating

McCandless and Lipmanowicz




Trial Balloon For LS SeriesIn Seattle


Inspired by McCandless and Lipmanowicz

TRIZ

TRIZ Variant:

"If our approach to teaching and teaching and learning onlinelearning online was totally obliterated last night, what parts would you re-establish?"

"What new functions or attributes would you add?"

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Seattle Workshop 1 A G E N D AA G E N D A

1. Impromptu Networking

2. TBD

3. 1-2-4 All

4. 15% Solutions

5. Troika Consulting

6. Nine Whys

7. Generative Relationships

8. Users Fishbowl

Lunch

9. TRIZ

10. What³ Debrief

11. StoryBoards

12. Celebrity Interview

13. Panarchy

14. Webbing or Mad Tea



Topic or Phase

Goal LS Micro-Structure

Why this LS?

Steps/Timing

Facilitator/Participants



25/10 Crowd Sourcing

“If you were 10 times bolder, what big idea would you recommend? What first step would you take to get started?”


15% Solution

“Where is your 15%?” Where do you have discretion and freedom to act?”

Troika Consulting + Kanban

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Next Week

Next Month

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Next Year

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Strategy Safari G A M E P L A N

GOAL 1

1. What is happening around us that demandsadaptation?

GOAL 2

3. Given our purpose, what seems possible now?

4. What isat stake if we do not change? •

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5. How are we breaking away from the current state toward the future?

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