Liberating  Structures  Menu:  Including  and  Unleashing  Everyone      v  2.2  

Impromptu   Min  Specs     Discovery  &  Action  

Networking     Specify  only  the  absolute   Dialogue  
Rapidly  share  challenges  and   “Must  do’s”  &  “Must  not  do’s”   Discover,  spark  &  unleash  local  
expectations,  building  new   for  achieving  a  purpose   solutions  to  chronic  problems  
connections  
9  Whys     Wise  Crowds     Integrated~Autonomy  
Make  the  purpose  of  your   Tap  the  wisdom  of  the  whole   Move  from  either-­‐or  to  robust  
work  together  clear   group  in  rapid  cycles   both-­‐and  solutions  

What,  So  What,  Now   Wicked  Questions       Generative  

What?     Articulate  the  paradoxical   Relationships  
Together,  look  back  on   challenges  that  a  group  must   Reveal  relationship  patterns  
progress  to-­‐date  and  decide   confront  to  succeed   that  create  surprising  value  or  
what  adjustments  are  needed   dysfunctions  
TRIZ   Drawing  Together   Critical  Uncertainties    
Stop  counterproductive   Reveal  insights  &  paths   Develop  strategies  for  operating  
activities  &  behaviors  to   forward  through  non-­‐verbal   in  a  range  of  plausible  yet  
make  space  for  innovation   expression   unpredictable  futures  
 
Appreciative   Improv  Prototyping     Purpose-­‐To-­‐Practice    
Interviews   Develop  effective  solutions  to   Define  the  five  elements  that  
Discover  &  build  on  the  root   chronic  challenges  while  having   are  essential  for  a  resilient  &  
causes  of  success   serious  fun   enduring  initiative  
 

1-­‐2-­‐4-­‐All     Agreement-­‐Certainty   Ecocycle  Planning  

Engage  everyone   Matrix   Analyze  the  full  portfolio  of  
simultaneously  in  generating   Sort  challenges  into  simple,   activities  &  relationships  to  
questions/ideas/suggestions   complicated,  complex  and   identify  obstacles  and  
  chaotic  domains   opportunities  for  progress  
 

 User  Experience   Shift  &  Share     Panarchy    

Fishbowl   Understand  how  embedded  
Spread  good  ideas  and  make  
Share  know-­‐how  gained  from   systems  interact,  evolve,  spread  
informal  connections  with  
experience  with  a  larger   innovation,  and  transform  
innovators
community  

15%  Solutions     Heard,  Seen,   What  I  Need  From  You  

Discover  &  focus  on  what   Respected   Surface  essential  needs  across  
each  person  has  the  freedom   Practice  deeper  listening  and   functions  and  accept  or  reject  
and  resources  to  do  now   empathy  with  colleagues     requests  for  support  
   
 

25-­‐To-­‐10  Crowd   Social  Network   Celebrity  Interview  

Webbing     Reconnect  the  experience  of  
Sourcing    
Map  informal  connections  &   leaders  and  experts  with  people  
Rapidly  generate  &  sift  a  
decide  how  to  strengthen  the   closest  to  the  challenges  at  hand  
group’s  most  powerful  
network  to  achieve  a  purpose    
actionable  ideas  
Troika  Consulting     Design  StoryBoards     Helping  Heuristics  
Get  practical  and  imaginative   Define  step-­‐by-­‐step  elements   Practice  progressive  methods  
help  from  colleagues   for  bringing  projects  to   for  helping  others,  receiving  
immediately   productive  endpoints   help,  and  asking  for  help  

Conversation  Café   Open  Space   Simple  Ethnography  

Engage  everyone  in  making   Liberate  inherent  action  and   Observe  &  record  actual  
sense  of  profound  challenges   leadership  in  large  groups   behavior  of  users  in  the  field  

Keith  McCandless  &  Henri  Lipmanowicz      www.liberatingstructures.com