Liberating Structures: Including and Unleashing Everyone

Why Liberating Structures? We know that staff members are at their best when they feel included and engaged. However, the conventional structures we use to organize how people meet and work together often unwittingly stifle creativity and participation. Is it possible to engage employees and help transform higher education simply by implementing easy-to-learn group processes that allow the best ideas and solutions to come forth?  The answer is yes. Liberating Structures introduce tiny shifts in the way groups meet, plan, decide and relate to one another that can help foster inclusiveness, innovation and a positive culture.

Resources

Website: Liberating Structures

Article: Tools of Engagement, Business Officer magazine

Book: The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash a Culture of Innovation

List of colleagues willing to share their experience:
Want to work with a LS for the first time? Refer to this spreadsheet with a list of colleagues who have experience leading different liberating structures and willing to share what they have learned.

Teams Community of Practice Site:
Anyone interested can join the Liberating Structures Community of Practice Teams site. Resources are posted here and this provides a dynamic opportunity to share your questions or the material you develop doing the work (e.g. handouts, agenda, PowerPoint and other resources).

(Free App) filter liberating structures by categories geared to the desired outcome. Offers simple step by step guidance to easily learn and apply liberating structures on the go.

Video: Vimeo presentation (10 min.), Liberating Structures with Dr. Arvind Singhal