The Liberating Structures Fieldbook
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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Content
Preface: Why This Book, Why Now
1. Tenets of Liberating Structures
2. Leading with Liberating Structures
3. Practices: Roll Up Your Sleeves
4. Moving Liberating Structures Online
5. 43 Liberating Structures
6. Rhapsody for Strings: Designing with LS
7. Acting Our Way Toward Higher-Order Goals
APPENDICES
1. Glossary: Decoding the LS Lingo
2. LS Principles: Must Dos and Must Not Dos
3. LS Selection Matchmaker
4. So, You Want to Create a New Liberating Structure!
5. Inspiring References
Index
About Us
Acknowledgments
