You are invited to a highly engaging, experiential learning 3 day workshop, facilitated by the co-founder of Liberating Structures, Keith McCandless. Visiting from the USA, Keith will guide us through what for a growing number of organisations and communities has proven to be a revolutionary way of helping groups work together and get great things done.

Thank you very much to CoSpace North for hosting us.

Do you want to involve more people in coming up with ideas and making decisions? Want to get your team or organisation working together? Are you just fed up of the same old people speaking up all the time?

If so, Liberating Structures are for you. They are simple facilitation techniques to involve everyone equally in coming up with ideas, sharing knowledge, and making decisions. They leave people feeling engaged and excited. Read more about them at liberatingstructures.com.

We'll work through some Liberating Structures to see how they work. You don’t need to prepare anything. You’ll leave knowing how to use those structures in your work and know where to look for more information.

If you would like to be part of the design team for a meetup, facilitate a structure, or if you would like to suggest a challenge to use as an example please let me know.
Sharon @pixlz

You are invited to a highly engaging, experiential learning 3 day workshop, facilitated by the co-founder of Liberating Structures, Keith McCandless. Visiting from the USA, Keith will guide us through what for a growing number of organisations and communities has proven to be a revolutionary way of helping groups work together and get great things done.

Meeting online to play with Zoom + Google docs to understand how various structures work online versus in person.

Prepare to be surprised! Making waves around the world, Liberating Structures (LS) productively and playfully disrupt conventional patterns in how we work together.
Come engage, reengage and dive deeper into this repertoire of 33+ simple methods that change the way results are generated without expensive investments, complicated training, or shifts in formal structure.

LS introduce tiny shifts in way we meet, plan, decide, and relate to one another. They put the innovative power once reserved for experts only in the hands of everyone. By design, Liberating Structures distribute control so that participants can shape direction as the action unfolds. Inspired by complexity science and developed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless, LS helps you address some of the most challenging aspects of working together while supporting human development.

This two day immersion workshop is an opportunity to develop or expand your repertoire to improve work, meetings, unleash selfless leadership and network engagement. Liberate yourself from deadly boring meetings, someone else’s “best practices,” wondering why people don’t speak up, strategic planning that is anything BUT strategic and group process that feels like drudgery. You will experience 20+ LS methods and get a chance to practice for use in your local setting. On the second day, we will welcome some special guests and offer/dive deeper into subgroups focusing on specific application of LS. (The first identified focus is on “Strategic Knotworking” or how to really develop strategic approaches for complex contexts versus pointless leaden plans that rot on hard drives.)

There will be people brand new to liberating structures all the way through those who have been around since the start. We will ignite and liberate each other!

The first Liberating Structures global gathering will take place March 13-15, 2019 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Here is our purpose for organizing the gathering:
- Thicken relational coordination in a way that increases social inventiveness, amplifies freedom & responsibility, and invites/incites each person to spread/evolve the repertoire with greater imagination AND greater fidelity
- Discover & deliberately develop connections that might turn into enduring sources of generative novelty for each individual AND the group as a whole
- Engage with seriously playful curiosity around the past, present, and future of spreading Liberating Structures more widely
- Act our way into new insights & thinking about the way a global community can collectively protect & hold onto what’s important, resist counter-productive influences, and continuously invent/renew/dissolve itself
- Meaningfully advance specific projects/activities/investments that would support more people in scaling up the use/spread of LS

You are invited to propose session topics and designs here.

The event is being run as a community offering and therefore the costs are based only on the direct expenses related to space, food, and materials. If the financial expense would interfere with your ability to participate, let us know and we'll work something out.

Auftakt - 1. Meetup Liberating Structures - jetzt auch in Kassel

„Agenda“
- Vorstellung „Liberating Structures“
- Vorstellung (kurz) der Teilnehmer
- Austausch & Netzwerk
- bei Bedarf weiterer gemütlicher Ausklang

The purpose of this meeting is to get acquainted and to practice the basics of Liberating Structures.

LS is a group of techniques and practices which liberate creativity and promote whole group engagement.

If you are not a Scrum Master, if you don't work in/with Agile, don't worry! Regardless of your role in your organization, you can always use these techniques whenever you want to engage a group of people in some creative collaboration.

The NEXUS Great Lakes Exchange is hosting an event to explore how to blend online and in-person participation, using an Open Space format.

Subject of the Sandbox is yet to be decided. This time Harry Nieboer will be the host.

Slack thread: https://liberatingstructures.slack.com/conversation/C0N3LG0S3/p1547197893039500
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/6011870707
LS virtual Sandbox Log: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13WJWvU4HgphM_3JSSssLRKXr7RGvopmtz6nPpjbMwNM/edit?usp=sharing

This is an open discussion where participants can share what tools they'd like to see invented in order to use LS online more effectively.

This is a workshop in Dutch.

In deze sessie gaan we Liberating Structures ontdekken. Zowel voor de nieuwelingen als degenen die al Liberating Structures kennen. We gaan ook specifiek op zoek om een aantal Liberating Structures toe te passen op situaties voor een Scrum Team en specifiek hoe Scrum Masters bepaalde Liberating Structures kunnen gebruiken om onderwerpen bespreekbaar te maken en op zoek te gaan naar actiepunten voor verbeteringen.

Dit is een 2 uur interactieve sessie, waarin we de facilitatie technieken van Liberating Structures uitproberen, een echte "doe" sessie.

Join our community of practice in Munich. Hosted by MaibornWolff, sign up via Meetups.

Learn to facilitate group problem solving by providing a little bit of structure to unleash a wealth of creativity and positive engagement.

Facilitated by Anja Ebers, Alina Barenz, Jutta Weimar.

Our regular LS Berlin playground hosting a fun evening of playing with structures.

Hosted by Susanne Taylor. This is a periodic gathering organized in the LS community on Slack.

This workshop is for everyone leading or supporting change processes in social initiatives, development organizations/agencies/projects, NGOs, social movements, networks, educational institutions, foundations – engaged to foster lively collaborations and learning for social change.

Unleash innovation with the simple rules of Liberating Structures. Enable groups of any size to work at the top of their intelligence. Join us for a 2-day Immersion Workshop on December 10 & 11. Pioneers Fisher Qua, Anna Jackson and a local Design Team will let you experience dozens of structures first-hand.

We are proud to offer the second Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop in Hamburg, Germany. Liberating Structures (LS) pioneers Fisher Qua and Anna Jackson will demonstrate these structures with the full participation of all attendees. Full participation means that participants will experience first hand how LS make it easy to include and engage everybody no matter what the nature of the work or challenge is, and no matter how many people need to be included. Attendees will repeatedly see how LS give everybody the opportunity to work at the top of their intelligence and creativity.

This is just an example event to ensure that when you create an event on Qiqo it is visible in the LS Community on Slack.

Anyone can add an event related to LS to the shared Google calendar via this page: https://ls.qiqochat.com/events

Feel free to try this example Qiqo event now or anytime in the future.

To test this out with someone else, share the link via Slack or email.