My first experience with World Café!

A first experiment with World Café: how it worked and how it compares to Liberating Structures.

Five Insights From The Reflexive AI Work Group

"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

Make Purpose Your Bouncer

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.

The Never-Ending Optimism of Workshop Venues

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.

How do we make the "Big Five" meetings the exception?

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 Reflexive AI Initiative

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

Reflect on what human-centered AI means in your organization

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?

Facilitator, participant, or both?

“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,

Liberating Structures Through the Lens of Complexity

How changing interactions creates the conditions for better solutions, collective adaptation, and cultural change

The Paradox of Workshop Preparation

Short personal thoughts, ideas, and reflections

“Can I ask you a quick question?”

Short personal thoughts, ideas, and reflections

Data-Informed Strategy Knotworking

How we turned multi-team data into strategic conversations