TechSoup Connect London: Using Liberating Structures Online

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 this 2.5-hour introductory workshop, available at a discounted price of just £25 + VAT per person for TechSoup Connect London members, you will learn about the underlying principles of Liberating Structures and will experience a selection of these methods in an online setting. It’s 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.

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 2.5 hour online learning session will demonstrate how to use specific structures that you can take away and use.

The three sessions each cover one different Structure, as follows — please feel free to attend one or all.

Monday 7th March at 10am: 

  • 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

Wednesday 23rd March at 10am:

  • Impromptu Networking: Rapidly share challenges and expectations
  • TRIZ: Innovative way to explore what we must stop doing
  • Appreciative Interviews: Discovering and building on the root causes of success
  • W3: What? So What? Now What?

Monday 4th April at 10am:

  • Spiral Journal: Take time to reflect and assess ideas
  • 9 Whys: Find the true purpose of your work
  • 25/10 crowdsourcing: Rapidly generate and sift a group's ideas
  • 15% Solutions: Focus on what you have the freedom to do

Book now

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Using Liberating Structures Online
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.

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Why learn online with Happy?

  • Interactive and engaging - just like our classroom sessions
  • Bitesize or full-day sessions - fit around your schedule
  • Learn from home - all you need is a quiet place to call from and an internet connection
  • No quibble money-back guarantee

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.