Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop

When you feel included and engaged, do you do a better job? Have you noticed the best ideas often come from unexpected sources? Do you want to work at the top of your intelligence and give the same opportunity to others?

In this practical one-day workshop you’ll gain hands-on experience of Liberating Structures, a field-tested, results-focused repertoire of interaction patterns which include everyone in shaping the future. You will leave equipped with a rich and adaptable toolkit to unleash the creativity and talent of everyone in your team, work group, community, and organisation.

Workshop delivered in partnership with Liberating Structures London.

Course Overview

Prices

  • Standard Price

    £450*

  • SME
    Fewer than 250 staff

    £385*

  • Public Sector Price

    £330*

  • Large Charity
    Over 31+ staff

    £250*

  • Small Charity
    Fewer than 30 staff

    £195*

  • *Per person, excluding VAT

  • Duration

    1 day

  • Class size

    100 approx.

  • Location

    Interactive online sessions delivered via Zoom. The link is sent to you after booking.

    Classroom

    Public classroom sessions are held at 3rd Floor, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE

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Since the workshop, I have been able to use Liberating Structures to break the deadlock in meetings, prioritise work and increase morale. Much of my work in leading change and improvement is about having the best possible data and generating the best possible options; Liberating Structures is a great tool for both, with the bonus that the process naturally brings the people involved together on the journey.Mike Robinson, Business Agility Consultant

Course Overview

This workshop is available in the classroom or online through our Face-to-Face Live Online learning sessions. The content delivered is the same and we create the same interactive and engaging environment via Zoom as we do in the classroom.

What you will learn

What are Liberating Structures?

Liberating Structures (LS) are simple social technologies and tiny methods that disrupt conventional patterns in how we work together. Taken individually, each of the 33+ methods changes the way results are generated by a group. As a repertoire of complementary methods, they address many chronic challenges faced by groups.

When LS are introduced, many familiar approaches that people use all the time — presentations, open discussions, managed discussions, status reports, and brainstorms — become less attractive or fade away. LS make it possible to immediately and productively tap a group’s creative intelligence and generative potential. The precise and minimum way each LS is specified makes it possible for anyone to quickly start using them. LS remove the mystery behind effective participatory leadership, group facilitation, and hosting dynamic processes. Prepare to be surprised!

Throughout this interactive immersion workshop you’ll learn about the underlying principles of Liberating Structures, how to introduce them in your own work, and hear stories about inventive ways people are applying them in diverse settings around the world.

What you will get from the workshop

  • Gain hands-on experience of at least eight of the 33+ Liberating Structures repertoire
  • Understand the underlying micro-structural elements of Liberating Structures
  • Hear first-hand field stories of practical applications of Liberating Structures in healthcare, education, software development, community building
  • Learn how to design interventions and workshops by combining Liberating Structures into strings
  • Explore how to apply Liberating Structures in your own life and work at both small and large scales
  • Learn how to apply Liberating Structures in video conferences and virtual meetings

 

High energy, kept you engaged – lots of fantastic tools and reflection time to really take stock of what we learnt.Ellen Cale
There were so many structures packed into a day and yet the flow felt easy and I didn't feel drained, but energised at the end! In the age of back to back Zooms, that is a very hard thing to achieve so I'm quite excited to take this back and implement in my work too!Humarrah Sheikh
It was astonishing how a day on Zoom could be so energising, interesting and engaging.Delegate

 

Which Liberating Structures workshop is for me?

Our half-day Using Liberating Structures Online workshop is for those who want just to do four structures.

Our one-day Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop is for those who want a deep dive into Liberating Structures and has eight structures.

About Liberating Structures

The origins of Liberating Structures are described by co-developers--Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless.

Group Learning Events

Looking for a private group event for your team, or even your whole organisation?

We can organise a date that works for you, and we can tailor the content to your team. Our private workshops can be held online, inhouse at your workplace or here at Happy's HQ in London.

Find out more and enquire now

What's it like to learn with Happy?

We offer complete individual involvement and participation on all of our workshops. In this video, Nicky delivers a short session about the different Communication Styles, and how they affect the way you work with and manage others.

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See our available course dates, or contact us for bespoke options.

The Small Print

For Face-to-Face Live Online Learning

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

Please reserve the session in your diary for the learning. This will allow you to join the interactive workshops and have time to reflect and do the assignments in between. We believe immersing yourself in the content for a whole day will create deep learning and lasting impact. 

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.

Your active participation is expected: everyone will be heard and seen throughout, just as they would be if we were in a room together. To be heard, hear and seen you will need a microphone, speakers and camera — if you have a modern laptop that’s all you will need. Remember, you’ll need a quiet place to call from and a decent internet connection is a must.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:30pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9.45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with our friendly team.

Did you know...

...one way to think about what you want is to think about what you least want and how you are already achieving that?

Happy also offers a one-day introductory workshop in Liberating Structures, which is perfect if you have never used Liberating Structures before.

Using Liberating Structures Online is a two-hour introductory workshop where you'll learn about the underlying principles of Liberating Structures and experience a selection of these methods in an online setting. Find out more

Introduction to Liberating Structures will get you familiar with the underlying principles of Liberating Structures and introduce you to a selection of methods. Find out more

Happy Leadership Programme will enable you to gain personal insight and develop practical leadership and management skills to create a high performing team. Find out more