What are Liberating Structures?

Liberating Structures (LS) are a dynamic set of processes designed to facilitate group interaction in a way that includes everyone and taps into collective capacity. They are easy-to-learn microstructures that will change the way you set up meetings, organize discussions, and solve problems. By infusing small changes in everyday practices, individuals alienated by hierarchal dullness or disappointed by the inability to affect positive change become inspired and engaged participants in disruptive innovation.

Formulated by Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz, LS has been used to overhaul health management practices, retool judicial practices, improve secondary educational learning, and create new modes of idea generation and implementation for scientists and engineers. They are applicable in just about any situation where you have more than one person working on a project, task, or goal, and can be adpated for any size group.

We lead Immersion Workshops to teach you how to use LS and incorporate them into your business practices, and we also use LS as the structural foundation of our consulting practice.