Slides for my workshop "Creating magical moments - Collaborative Modeling meets Liberating Structures" at Kandddinsky 2023

1. Creating magical moments
Collaborative Modeling (CM) meets Liberating Structures (LS)
Martin Günther

2. Who am I?
• Martin Günther
• Studied Mathematics
• IT Consultant since 2009, since 2015 @Holisticon
• Various roles: DEV, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Architect, Workshop
Facilitator

3. What to expect from today‘s session?
• Experience Liberating Structures in action
• Understand some of the basic concepts behind Liberating Structures
• And how to apply them to Collaborative Modeling
• Some magical moments for each of you
• What not to expect?
• Collaborative modeling like f.e. doing a case study
• All 33 Liberating Structures in 2 hours
• Magic – I am a Mathematician, not a Magician L
Don't stress
yourself!

4. What is a magical moment?
„All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point
is to discover them.“ Galileo Galilei
AHA!

5. Our String for today

6. Folding Spectrogram

7. 3 levels of using LS in CM
1. Icebreaker/Connecting things/Wrap-ups

8. Conventional interaction structures (BIG 5)
• Presentation
• Open discussion
• Managed discussion
• Status report
• Brainstorming

9. Liberating (!) Structures (!)
Too little
structure
Too much
structure
Leads to
chaos and
frustration
Kills
creativity
and fun
Liberating
Structures

10. LS and LS in Development
https://liberatingstructures.de/liberating-structures-menue/

11. The DDD Starter Modeling Process
https://github.com/ddd-crew/ddd-starter-modelling-process

12. Example: Ecocycle Planning
https://www.liberatingstructures.com/31-ecocycle-planning/

13. Ecocycle Planning

14. LS as activity in DDD Starter Modeling Process
Ecocycle
Planning
Appreciative
Interviews
9 Whys
Wicked
Questions
TRIZ
Troika
Consulting
Discovery and
Action Dialogue
Shift and
Share
Min Specs
Social
Network
Webbing
Wise Crowds
WINFY
Open Space
Technology
Generative
Relationships
Agreement
Certainty
Matrix
Simple
Ethnography
Integrated
Autonomy
Critical
Uncertainties
Purpose-To-
Practice
Network
Patterning
Cards
Future~
Present
https://github.com/ddd-crew/ddd-starter-modelling-process

15. 3 levels of using LS in CM
1. Icebreaker/Connecting things/Wrap-ups
2. LS as activity in DDD Starter Modeling Process

16. Liberating Structures Principles
Include and
unleash everyone
Practice deep
respect for people
and local solutions
Build trust as you
go
Learn by failing
forward
Practice self-
discovery within a
group
Amplify freedom
AND responsibility
Emphasize
possibilities:
believe before you
see
Invite creative
destruction to
enable innovation
Engage in serious-
playful curiosity Never start
without a clear
purpose

17. The 5 Design Elements of interaction
structures
Structuring Invitation
Space and Material
Group Configuration
Distribution of
Participation Sequence of Steps
and Timing

18. Appreciative Interviews

19. 3 levels of using LS in CM
1. Icebreaker/Connecting things/Wrap-ups
2. LS as activity in DDD Starter Modeling Process
3. Use the 5 design elements as a spectrum and consciously choose to
design them. Apply the LS principles when applicable and thereby
improve your style of facilitation when using existing CM
techniques.

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21. 4-2-1-Snap

22. What‘s next?
• User groups
• Immersion workshops
• Books
• Card decks
• LISA – LIberatingStructuresApp
• Seek opportunities to use them
• Contact me:
• In person at Kandddinsky 2023
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maguenth/

23. Today‘s magical moments
• 1: What was your magical moment today? Did you have one? Write it
down on a sticky and give enough context so that someone else (or
yourself with some time distance J) can understand what it was
about.
• 3 options:
• Keep for yourself when leaving the room
• Share your sticky on the Metaplan with everybody (and me J)
• In case another participant helped you with your magical moment, you might
want to tell the person about it

25. Thank you and goodbye! J