1. Infecting Education
with
Liberating
Structures @
ETUG
Nancy White
@NancyWhite
http://www.fullcirc.com channeling
Keith McCandless from
http://www.liberatingstructures.com

2. Liberating Structures
…including and unleashing everyone
http://www.liberatingstructures.com
Keith and Henri… (and thanks for their
permission to share their agendas, images, etc.)

3. McCandless and LipmanowiczMcCandless and Lipmanowicz

4. A repertoire to help us…
1. BE together
2. Engage WITH each other
3. Unleash everyone
(sensemaking/application)

5. Human Spectrogram
• I’ll tell you the questions

6. So far…So far…
1-2-4-All
What, so what, what now (W3)
15% solution

7. Impromptu Networking
What question do we want to
explore in the next 60 minutes?

8. Variants
• Mad Tea Party – a.k.a. speed dating

9. McCandless and Lipmanowicz

10. McCandless and Lipmanowicz

11. McCandless and Lipmanowicz

12. McCandless and Lipmanowicz

13. Trial Balloon
For LS Series
In Seattle
McCandless and Lipmanowicz

14. Inspired by McCandless and Lipmanowicz

15. TRIZ

16. TRIZ Variant:
"If our approach to teaching andteaching and
learning onlinelearning online was totally
obliterated last night, what parts
would you re-establish?"
"What new functions or attributes
would you add?"

17. 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 < lunch > 9
10 11 12 13 14
Seattle Workshop 1 A G E N D AA G E N D A
1. Impromptu Networking
2. TBD
3. 1-2-4 All
4. 15% Solutions
5. Troika Consulting
6. Nine Whys
7. Generative Relationships
8. Users Fishbowl
Lunch
9. TRIZ
10. What³ Debrief
11. StoryBoards
12. Celebrity Interview
13. Panarchy
14. Webbing or Mad Tea
McCandless and Lipmanowicz

18. McCandless and Lipmanowicz

19. Topic or
Phase
Goal LS Micro-
Structure
Why this
LS?
Steps/
Timing
Facilitator/
Participant
s
McCandless and Lipmanowicz

20. McCandless and Lipmanowicz

21. 25/10 Crowd Sourcing
“If you were 10 times bolder,
what big idea would you
recommend? What first step
would you take to get
started?”

22. McCandless and Lipmanowicz

23. 15% Solution
“Where is your 15%?” Where do you have
discretion and freedom to act?”

24. Troika Consulting + Kanban
• What next?

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Strategy Safari G A M E P L A N
GOAL 1
1. What is
happening
around us
that
demands
adaptation?
GOAL 2
3. Given our purpose,
what seems possible now?
4. What is
at stake if we
do not change? •
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5. How are we breaking away from
the current state toward the future?
McCandless