Using Liberating Structures

Are you tired of boring online meetings? Would you like your online meetings and events to be involving, focused and memorable?

Liberating Structures is a repertoire of over 30 methods to make your activities fully inclusive and more effective. All have been widely tested and are focused on results. They work in live meetings and they also work for online events.

In these half-day introductory workshops, you will learn about the underlying principles of Liberating Structures and will experience a selection of these methods in an online setting. They are perfect if you have never used Liberating Structures before and would like to learn more, or if you have used them before and would like to see how they work online.

These half-day workshops are only available online. Please get in touch to discuss private group options.

Course Overview

Prices

  • Standard Price

    £360*

  • SME
    Fewer than 250 staff

    £308*

  • Public Sector Price

    £264*

  • Large Charity
    Over 31+ staff

    £200*

  • Small Charity
    Fewer than 30 staff

    £156*

  • *Per person, excluding VAT

  • Duration

    0.25 day

  • Class size

    100 approx.

  • Location

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

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Course Overview

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!

What you will learn

Make your online meetings interactive. Involve everybody in clear, focused discussion by using Liberating Structures.

Using Zoom, this half day online learning session will demonstrate how to use specific structures that you can take away and use.

The different sessions will include different structures. Feel free to attend just one or both.

3rd February

  • Wild Tea: Rapid fire energised networking
  • 124All: Engage everybody in generating questions, ideas and suggestions
  • Troika: Get practical and imaginative help from colleagues immediately
  • Conversation Café: Shared thinking to make sense of profound challenges

10th June

  • Impromptu Networking: Rapidly share challenges and expectations
  • 124All: Engage everybody in generating questions, ideas and suggestions
  • TRIZ: Innovative way to explore what we must stop doing
  • 15% Solutions: Focus on what you have the freedom to do

15th October

  • Wild Tea: Rapid fire energised networking
  • 124All: Engage everybody in generating questions, ideas and suggestions
  • Troika: Get practical and imaginative help from colleagues immediately
  • Conversation Café: Shared thinking to make sense of profound challenges

By the end you will feel confident in being able to use some basic structures to involve and empower your people.

Which Liberating Structures workshop is for me?

Our half-day Using Liberating Structures 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. It has eight structures.

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 Aldgate, Central London (following current government guidelines).

Find out more and enquire now

What are Happy's online events like?

In this short video, take a look at some of the ways that we create interactive, engaging experiences online using Zoom.

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

Using Liberating Structures
There are currently no upcoming public course dates available. Please email our team on hello@happy.co.uk and register your interest for this course. We'll let you know as soon as a date is available.

Not sure if this workshop is right for you? Call us:

020 7375 7300

Why choose Happy?

  • Learn the skills you need to succeed
  • Fun and interactive workshops, whether online or face-to-face
  • Learn in a confidential environment with our experienced facilitators
  • Small class sizes to give personal one-to-one support
  • Private group options available
  • No quibble money-back guarantee on all courses

The Small Print

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.

Learners should log into the training 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.

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, just 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, get in touch with our friendly team.