The Liberating Structures Fieldbook
Flipping the Script on Meetings, Planning, and Progress
Published on 1. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
314 pages
979-8-9957791-0-0 (ISBN)
Description
Why Liberating Structures? Because the old ways are failing us. We live in a high-stakes world where trust is eroding and complex problems feel impossible to solve. Yet, we cling to inherited meeting habits-presentations, managed discussions, and brainstorming-and wonder why the needle doesn't move.
The Reality: Conventional structures are too slow for complexity, too exclusive for equity, and too rigid for innovation.
The Solution: The Liberating Structures Fieldbook flips the script. Originally introduced in the 2014 foundational text, this "remastered" edition by Keith McCandless and Nancy White is an outcome of practitioners' global experience in diverse settings. By adjusting the "micro-rules" of interaction, you can:Include and Unleash Everyone: Ensure every voice shapes the future.
Tackle Higher-Order Goals: Address deepest needs rather than short-term fixes.
Restore Trust and Resolve: Recover the human imagination dormant in our groups.
Whether you are a CEO, an educator, a healthcare worker, or a community organizer, this is the definitive field guide for turning dull meetings into transformative collaboration. You can stop accepting a world of over-control and under-engagement. It's time to start making progress on the things that actually matter.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
677 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9957791-0-0 (9798995779100)
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Keith McCandless is the co-developer of Liberating Structures (LS) and a consultant dedicated to helping organizations shift from over-control and under-engagement toward inclusive, distributed leadership. Since co-authoring the foundational text, The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures (2014) with Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith has spent over a decade nurturing a global community of practice.With a background in the management of human services and complexity science, Keith's work spans every sector-from healthcare and education to global social movements and agile business strategy. He is a practitioner who believes the world changes through small, elegant shifts in the patterns of how we meet, plan, and act together. He lives in Seattle with his family and a devilishly alert whippet named Bootsy.