gospelofchangeWhat makes Liberating Structures Liberating?
A question I received this morning: What makes Liberating Structures(LS) liberating? There is some quantitative reasons that have to do with the consequences that LS cause and a some qualitative ones that have to do with how that experience feels.LS Design ElementsQuant has to do with the way that the LS Design Elements help us to get a grip on how:Interaction mechanics that enable everyone to participate in smaller groups in shorter time boxesInquiry is guided by exploratory questionsArtifac...
gospelofchangeProcess Mindfulness: Agreement Certainty Matrix
Process Mindfulness is not a meditation but an impractical framework that will encourage you to waste some time thinking about, planning and organizing communication in order to figure out what/how you want to get something done, instead of actually going to get something done. Curious though isn’t it? That sometimes you can just shoot from the hip and go get shit done, and yet others you need to stop, think and sometimes you know, make a god-damned plan. How do you know when you need to do o...
gospelofchangeDominating Structures
So bandwith is a particular type of potential, in this instance for flow. It’s a broad technical term but I’m going to use it to talk about max potential to be used of human time attention information energy processing.Human time attention information energy has enormous creative potential but requires a lot of invested energy as well. At the micro/individual scale a brain accounts for something like 2% of body mass but uses almost 20% of calories. This is a huge evolutionary choice that must...
Empowering curiosity, care and courage with Liberating Structures for Organizational Game Design.
gospelofchangeWhat makes Liberating Structures Liberating?
A question I received this morning: What makes Liberating Structures(LS) liberating? There is some quantitative reasons that have to do with the consequences that LS cause and a some qualitative ones that have to do with how that experience feels.LS Design ElementsQuant has to do with the way that the LS Design Elements help us to get a grip on how:Interaction mechanics that enable everyone to participate in smaller groups in shorter time boxesInquiry is guided by exploratory questionsArtifac...
gospelofchangeProcess Mindfulness: Agreement Certainty Matrix
Process Mindfulness is not a meditation but an impractical framework that will encourage you to waste some time thinking about, planning and organizing communication in order to figure out what/how you want to get something done, instead of actually going to get something done. Curious though isn’t it? That sometimes you can just shoot from the hip and go get shit done, and yet others you need to stop, think and sometimes you know, make a god-damned plan. How do you know when you need to do o...
gospelofchangeDominating Structures
So bandwith is a particular type of potential, in this instance for flow. It’s a broad technical term but I’m going to use it to talk about max potential to be used of human time attention information energy processing.Human time attention information energy has enormous creative potential but requires a lot of invested energy as well. At the micro/individual scale a brain accounts for something like 2% of body mass but uses almost 20% of calories. This is a huge evolutionary choice that must...
Empowering curiosity, care and courage with Liberating Structures for Organizational Game Design.
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What? Liberating Structures contain a Design System
So What? They stack up and make LS both easy to learn, get started applying and build the skill of facilitation
Now What? LFG
What? LS are practices, not theoretical
So What? That means we’re always applying them to real life contexts and situations
Now What? Here’s what I want to have some grip on in order to pick the right LS…
🅿️ lace: what context, situtation or challenges am I operating in?
🅿️ urpose: what do I want to have happen in this place?
🅿️ people: who do I need to work with to realize that purpose in this place?
🅿️arameters: what logistics must I take into consideration?
What? These are the Min-Specs I need to select a LS
So What? Which of these three is most important right now?
⏹️Interaction: making space for everyone to share information
⏺️Inquiry: the right question
🔼Artifacts: create a deliverable from our conversation to share with others
What? I’m going to unpack the ⏹️Interaction class
So What? Because they are the easiest to apply with very little skill
Now What? Let’s look at what they help us do
What?
While all of these principles are embedded in each LS, ⏹️Interaction emphasizes these
Include and unleash everyone
Practice deep respect for people and local solutions
Build trust as you go
Practice self-discovery within a group
Amplify freedom and responsibility
So What?
That’s complicated but has to do with this whole notion around increasing the Throughput of human time attention energy information processing capacity, or Bandwidth. A significant part of the value proposition of Liberating Structures is the way that they increase the throughput by intending that everyone participate in many shorter smaller grouped discussions.
Now What?
Well clearly you should learn to weild them.
What? I’m going to unpack the ⏹️Interaction LS I believe are the most useful in the order I believe is best in class
So What? For each I’m going to sketch out a scene with the
🅿️lace
🅿️urpose
🅿️people
🅿️arams
Now what? I’m going to describe how they shape ⏹️Interaction
🅿️lace: peer support exchange
🅿️urpose: give and get advice
🅿️people: that have wide skill distribution
🅿️arams: 30mins, online
Troika Consulting(Helping Heuristics)
Groups of 3 (2 talk while 3rd listens)
Troika: 2 consultants 1 client
HH: coach and client, observer
🅿️lace: work
🅿️urpose: decide how to do the next thing
🅿️people: project team
🅿️arams: 1 hour planning
1-2-4-All
1 min silent reflection
2 min 1-1
4 min pairs pair
5 min group discussion
Viola, everyone’s ideas are on the table
🅿️lace: local community
🅿️urpose: discuss the problem of the day
🅿️people: diverse stakeholders
🅿️arams: strong feelings
Conversation Cafe
Circles of 5 people
Use a talking object to go around the circle 1 min/turn to speak to
Topic
One another
10min convo
Take away
🅿️lace: conference
🅿️urpose: share experience
🅿️people: experts
🅿️arams: big room
UX Fishbowl/Celebrity Interview Prep some questions to get the convo rolling for 20 min Invite audience to form small groups to discuss and generate questions in 5 min Q&A to finish
🅿️lace: New assemblage
🅿️urpose: spread and refine thinking
🅿️people: group of people that don’t meet often
🅿️arams: IRL, 20m, upbeat energy
Impromptu Networking
1-1s
5min
3x
Same question.
Go
Want to experience these moves, practice using them and dig deeper into the Design System?
Drop into a practice session sometime https://lu.ma/wisecrowds
Come hang out with Jyotsna Maan and I in the LS Design Studio starting June 10th! https://tally.so/r/3E56oX
Join Nadia von Holzen, Ewen Le Borgne, and I as we embark on a 6 month Liberating Journey in October https://tally.so/r/mDVp1X
Join us at the @greaterthxn Liberating Structures (Design) Studio on April 29th
What? Liberating Structures contain a Design System
So What? They stack up and make LS both easy to learn, get started applying and build the skill of facilitation
Now What? LFG
What? LS are practices, not theoretical
So What? That means we’re always applying them to real life contexts and situations
Now What? Here’s what I want to have some grip on in order to pick the right LS…
🅿️ lace: what context, situtation or challenges am I operating in?
🅿️ urpose: what do I want to have happen in this place?
🅿️ people: who do I need to work with to realize that purpose in this place?
🅿️arameters: what logistics must I take into consideration?
What? These are the Min-Specs I need to select a LS
So What? Which of these three is most important right now?
⏹️Interaction: making space for everyone to share information
⏺️Inquiry: the right question
🔼Artifacts: create a deliverable from our conversation to share with others
What? I’m going to unpack the ⏹️Interaction class
So What? Because they are the easiest to apply with very little skill
Now What? Let’s look at what they help us do
What?
While all of these principles are embedded in each LS, ⏹️Interaction emphasizes these
Include and unleash everyone
Practice deep respect for people and local solutions
Build trust as you go
Practice self-discovery within a group
Amplify freedom and responsibility
So What?
That’s complicated but has to do with this whole notion around increasing the Throughput of human time attention energy information processing capacity, or Bandwidth. A significant part of the value proposition of Liberating Structures is the way that they increase the throughput by intending that everyone participate in many shorter smaller grouped discussions.
Now What?
Well clearly you should learn to weild them.
What? I’m going to unpack the ⏹️Interaction LS I believe are the most useful in the order I believe is best in class
So What? For each I’m going to sketch out a scene with the
🅿️lace
🅿️urpose
🅿️people
🅿️arams
Now what? I’m going to describe how they shape ⏹️Interaction
🅿️lace: peer support exchange
🅿️urpose: give and get advice
🅿️people: that have wide skill distribution
🅿️arams: 30mins, online
Troika Consulting(Helping Heuristics)
Groups of 3 (2 talk while 3rd listens)
Troika: 2 consultants 1 client
HH: coach and client, observer
🅿️lace: work
🅿️urpose: decide how to do the next thing
🅿️people: project team
🅿️arams: 1 hour planning
1-2-4-All
1 min silent reflection
2 min 1-1
4 min pairs pair
5 min group discussion
Viola, everyone’s ideas are on the table
🅿️lace: local community
🅿️urpose: discuss the problem of the day
🅿️people: diverse stakeholders
🅿️arams: strong feelings
Conversation Cafe
Circles of 5 people
Use a talking object to go around the circle 1 min/turn to speak to
Topic
One another
10min convo
Take away
🅿️lace: conference
🅿️urpose: share experience
🅿️people: experts
🅿️arams: big room
UX Fishbowl/Celebrity Interview Prep some questions to get the convo rolling for 20 min Invite audience to form small groups to discuss and generate questions in 5 min Q&A to finish
🅿️lace: New assemblage
🅿️urpose: spread and refine thinking
🅿️people: group of people that don’t meet often
🅿️arams: IRL, 20m, upbeat energy
Impromptu Networking
1-1s
5min
3x
Same question.
Go
Want to experience these moves, practice using them and dig deeper into the Design System?
Drop into a practice session sometime https://lu.ma/wisecrowds
Come hang out with Jyotsna Maan and I in the LS Design Studio starting June 10th! https://tally.so/r/3E56oX
Join Nadia von Holzen, Ewen Le Borgne, and I as we embark on a 6 month Liberating Journey in October https://tally.so/r/mDVp1X
Join us at the @greaterthxn Liberating Structures (Design) Studio on April 29th
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