Read about a retrospective The Liberators facilitated for a rapidly growing startup using a string of Liberating Structures: https://medium.com/the-liberators/a-retrospective-with-liberating-structures-at-a-rapidly-growing-startup-e90a255ce848
Share novel ideas and creative solutions with ‘Shift & Share’ and ‘Caravan’
Shift & Share is a Liberating Structure that helps spread novelty across groups and functions. Innovators showcase their ideas or products and gather meaningful feedback in short cycles. In one hour or less it’s possible to include everyone in a large group and make every voice heard in a structured, constructive way.
Read about it in this article: https://medium.com/the-liberators/liberating-structures-are-33-microstructures-that-allow-you-to-unleash-and-involve-everyone-in-a-9f55c2cdab56
Clearly express essential needs across groups with “What I Need From You”
The Liberating Structure “What I Need From You” (WINFY) helps groups to clearly express their needs and for others to clearly respond to those requests, sidestepping the kind of corporate jargon that often muddies such requests.
Read all about it in this article: https://medium.com/the-liberators/clearly-express-essential-needs-across-groups-with-what-i-need-from-you-8114093a312
Create focus with Ecocycle Planning
The Liberating Structure Ecocycle
Read all about it in this article: https://medium.com/the-liberators/create-focus-with-ecocycle-planning-7d86c4b8b799
Rapidly share novel ideas and make personal connections with ‘Impromptu Networking’
In this post, Christiaan Verwijs shared how you can use the simple structure ‘Impromptu Networking’ to spread novel ideas and form personal connections quickly.
Read the complete article here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/rapidly-create-personal-connections-with-impromptu-networking-d5698cf02630
Playful learning with Improv Prototyping
The purpose of Improv Prototyping is to re-enact a challenging scenario faced by a group or an individual and work together to devise different behavioural strategies and interventions by acting it out. The twist that this structure brings is that the person who introduced the scenario becomes the ‘director’, while the others become the ‘actors’. This allows the director to playfully experiment with strategies, behaviours and interventions.
Read the complete article here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/playful-learning-with-improv-prototyping-18dc4ab4a304
Trying out MindMeld – a Liberating Structure in development
MindMeld is a microstructure still in development, which means it’s not yet part of the 33 in the LS menu, but it is a promising one in the works. MindMeld is a combination of forming Mindmaps by using the structure What, So What, Now What? (W3). Saskia Vermeer-Ooms has used W3 several times and she thinks it is a powerful structure to use when you need your audience to come up with concrete actions of a certain challenge. You do this by first taking two other steps in which you take the time to observe the data available before drawing conclusions and moving into action mode.
Read about her experience with MindMeld in this post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trying-out-mindmeld-liberating-structure-saskia-vermeer-ooms/
Use ‘25/10 Crowd Sourcing’ to quickly generate new ideas with groups
‘25/10 Crowd Sourcing’ is a structure that allows you to rapidly generate and sift through a group’s boldest actionable ideas in less than 30 minutes. Christiaan Verwijs has applied this structure both to small (12–20 members) and large groups (>150). Not only is it an innovative way to identify bold, ‘out of the box’-solutions, it is also appreciated by participants for its highly active nature.
Read about it here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/use-25-10-crowd-sourcing-to-spice-up-your-scrum-events-56fdd127e1dc
Team mission and purpose through Ecocycle planning
Saskia Vermeer-Ooms had the opportunity to facilitate a Team Mission workshop with one of her HR teams. She decided to use a string of Liberating Structures: 9 why’s – Ecocycle planning – What? So what? Now what?
Read all about her workshop here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/team-mission-purpose-through-ecocycle-planning-saskia-vermeer-ooms/
Liberating Strategy
Liberating Strategy begins and ends with Liberating Structures (LS). They are simple rules that make it possible to include and engage every voice in shaping the future and strategy. LS can be used to not only create a different kind of strategy but also to transform the whole process of strategy-making.
Read the complete article by Keith McCandless and Johannes Schartau here: https://medium.com/@keithmccandless/liberating-strategy-6fda41f6c1