Slides used to support an experimental session at the May 2015 AgKnowledge Innovation Process ShareFair in Addis Ababa. We were introducing some examples of LiberatingStructures methods and testing out different options for remote participation

1. Liberating Structures can go deep too….
A exploration in 3-ish levels with Ewen Le Borgne and Pete Cranston

2. Level 1: Explore and understand what’s going on
Level 2: Narrow down your task and learn from
your peers
Level 3: Feel your way into behaving differently

3. 1 Who’s here 2 Discovery and Action
Dialogue (DAD)
3 Troika Consulting 4 Improv Prototyping
:: A G E N D A
a) Play and discover together
b) One 90-minute block
featuring a variety of
microstructures
c) Reflection, practice, design
and (a tiny bit of ) theory
WE ARE RECORDING THIS!
We are taking lots of FUN risks!
PLAY!

4. Who’s here?

5. FORM GROUPS OF 5–7
• Face to face
• Online
• Blended
Elect a recorder
1. How do you know when a process problem is
present?
2.
DAD Steps and Schedule
Discover, Invent, and Unleash Solutions to Chronic Process
Problems

6. IN YOUR GROUPS OF 5 – 7
1. How do you know when a process problem is
present?
2. How do you contribute effectively to solving
process problems?
2.
DAD Steps and Schedule
Discover, Invent, and Unleash Solutions to Chronic Process
Problems

7. IN YOUR GROUPS OF 5 – 7
1. How do you know when a process problem is
present?
2. How do you contribute effectively to solving
process problems?
3. What prevents you from doing this or taking
these actions all the time?
2.
DAD Steps and Schedule
Discover, Invent, and Unleash Solutions to Chronic Process
Problems

8. IN YOUR GROUPS OF 5 - 7
1. How do you know when a process problem is
present?
2. How do you contribute effectively to solving
process problems?
3. What prevents you from doing this or taking
these actions all the time?
4. Do you know anybody who is able to
frequently solve process problems and
overcome barriers? What behaviors or
practices made their success possible?
2.
DAD Steps and Schedule
Discover, Invent, and Unleash Solutions to Chronic Process
Problems

9. IN YOUR GROUPS OF 5 - 7
1. How do you know when a process problem is
present?
2. How do you contribute effectively to solving
process problems?
3. What prevents you from doing this or taking
these actions all the time?
4. Do you know anybody who is able to
frequently solve process problems and
overcome barriers? What behaviors or
practices made their success possible?
5. Do you have any ideas?
2.
DAD Steps and Schedule
Discover, Invent, and Unleash Solutions to Chronic Process
Problems

10. 2. Share back with the whole group
Recorded on the Adobe whiteboard
DAD Steps and Schedule
Discover, Invent, and Unleash Solutions to Chronic Process
Problems
1Complete
the
questions

11. microstructures

12. Troika
Consulting

13. Troika Consulting
Get Practical and Imaginative Help from Colleagues Immediately
• Form groups of 3
• Think about your work situation: select a specific process that you find challenging
and what help you might need. 1 min.
• Groups have first client share his or her question. 1-2 min.
• Consultants ask the client clarifying questions. 1-2 min.
• Consultation
– Face 2 Face: Client turns around with his or her back facing the consultants
– Online: turn off or away from the video if it is on
• Together, the consultants generate ideas, suggestions, coaching advice. 4-5 min.
• Client turns around/turns on video and shares what was most valuable about the
experience. 1-2 min.
• Groups switch to next person and repeat steps.

14. Improv Prototyping

15. Improv Prototyping
1. One small group of players on “the stage”
• All others, the observers, in small groups in front or
around the stage
2. Play the scene 3-5 mins
3. Small observer group debriefs, perhaps with 1-2-4-All to
identify successful and unsuccessful “chunks” from the scene
that they just observed. 5 min.
4. Each observer group then pieces together the successful
chunks into a new prototype and volunteers within the group
act out the new prototype for their own group only. 5 min.
5. Participants from one of the observer groups who judge that
they have an improved prototype come on stage and enact
their version in front of the whole group. 3–5 minutes

16. Your Experience? http://bit.ly/1ds1sXa

17. Resources
• Engagement possibilities
http://www.liberatingstructures.com