Last week, I participated in a 3-day interactive PhD workshop on Human-Centered AI at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, provided by Prof Daniel Russo. What I loved about the course was that it saw 16 AI researchers discuss the many challenges posed by AI (GenAI, LLMs, Agentic AI) to
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What happens when you stop showing your entire workshop agenda upfront? I experimented with a minimal calendar and discovered how less planning visibility can create more calm, flexibility, and meaningful engagement.
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A playful look at how participants settle in, claim their spot, and adapt when a workshop turns out differently than expected.
Liberating Structures
My experiences from using Liberating Structures with just six participants.
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AI can design a workshop in seconds, but what do we lose when we skip the creative process ourselves?
Liberating Structures
Get more out of 1-2-4-All by giving individual reflection more time and keeping group discussions short. And sometimes, consider skipping the 'All' step altogether!
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A first experiment with World Café: how it worked and how it compares to Liberating Structures.
Unleashing Organizational Superpowers
"Computers that do the sorts of things that minds do" is how the cognitive psychologist Margaret Ann Boden pragmatically defines Artificial Intelligence. It highlights well the nature of the technological revolution that is unfolding. Where the industrial revolution was about replacing physical labor with steam-powered engines, and
A clear purpose helps you decide what belongs in a gathering and what doesn’t. If everything gets in, your bouncer isn’t doing their job.
A venue may say a room fits 100 people. A facilitator might look at the same room and say 30. In this post, I share why workshop spaces need more than enough chairs and what I look for when choosing a space where people can actually move, interact, and participate.
Liberating Structures has offered alternatives to the Big Five for more than a decade. So why do we keep falling back on presentations, status reports, managed discussions, open discussions, and brainstorms?
The mission of The Liberators has always been "to liberate individuals, teams, and organizations from dehumanizing and ineffective ways of organizing work by putting them in control of shaping their future". I find it helpful to periodically ask myself the question "What is currently an area where
Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally changing how we work. This post offers a guide to run a World Café in your organization to reflect on what this means. How does AI impact your work? Where did it help and where did it not?
“Can you be a Liberating Structures facilitator and participant at the same time?” If the question hadn’t included LS, my answer would have been a clear “no.” As a facilitator, you don’t actively participate in the workshop. You remain as neutral as possible and leave the content creation,
How changing interactions creates the conditions for better solutions, collective adaptation, and cultural change
Short personal thoughts, ideas, and reflections
Short personal thoughts, ideas, and reflections
How we turned multi-team data into strategic conversations
Help a group quickly converge on the ideas, actions, or priorities that matter most