Liberating Structures are a collection of 33+ methods or ‘structures’ for working in groups of any size. The meetup group is a safe playground to try out and experience Liberating Structures, suitable for both newcomers to Liberating Structures and experience practitioners.

We are meeting virtually at present and we use Zoom for the sessions, as it supports breakout rooms.

We put hands-on experience first so we'll dive right in to an activity, and then provide a space for reflection on the experience afterwards.

In this months meetup Alexis and David will lead us in a discussion and reflection on our LS practice and community over the past year, and then we'll use virtual 25/10 crowdsourcing to generate ideas for what we'd like to change or improve in the coming year.

If you've joined any of our meetups over the past year, this is a great chance to help shape the meetup community for the year ahead. If you're new to LS or to this community, you're reflections, hopes and curiosities will be most welcome, as we are very keen to support anyone who is just discovering LS for the first time!

Once we've generated the ideas, we'll run a mini open-space using zoom breakout rooms to develop and refine the top ideas in small groups.

If you want to connect with the organising team, please find us in slack.

Meetup will run from 17:00 - 19:00, with an optional virtual social afterwards.

Tech and practicalities

We will use Zoom for video calls. You can use zoom either on your desktop/laptop or on a mobile device/tablet. The desktop version of zoom has slightly more features than on a tablet/mobile device, but both work fine.

If possible please download the zoom client before the session.

If possible use a headset, or headphones which can help to improve sound quality and reduce feedback.

Don't worry if it's your first time using these tools we'll have time at the start of the session to practice and get everything working.

How to join the session

Joining instructions will be sent in the confirmation email after you register and also in email reminders sent before the session starts. Please take time to read the joining instructions before the session.

Timings

17:00 - arrivals and tech debugging

17:10 - Workshop starts

19:00 - Workshop ends

19:00 - optional virtual social!