Vitalizing Health, Care, and Community with Liberating Structures

Vitalize Your Health and Healthcare Community with Liberating Structures

*** Funds raised here will be used to support the health and recovery of a member of our community.***

It’s time to transform how you approach health for yourself and others! This series of three highly-interactive, virtual workshops will rewire how you approach your health and care for others.

These sessions will be guided by Liberating Structures. These simple yet powerful methods deliver proven results in changing individual and group dynamics and have deep roots in health contexts. To kick us off, we'll deep-dive into the origin story of Liberating Structures, which has its roots in healthcare.

You can attend them all for one discounted rate or buy individual tickets for the sessions that will help you the most! Funds raised here will support the health and recovery of a member of our community. Click the red "Get Tickets" button to see pricing and make your purchase.

Roots of Liberating Structures in Health

• May 8th - Vitality, Health, and the Roots of Liberating Structures in Complexity Science

Personal Health

• May 29th - How to Enhance Your Health and Vitality
• June 12th - Positive Aging

THESE SESSIONS ARE FOR YOU IF…

• You want to explore the history of Liberating Structures in health contexts and are interested in how Liberating Structures can strengthen personal and collective well-being.
• You believe that care—whether for yourself, others, or your community—is a powerful force for good.
• You’re curious about how small shifts can bring more vitality to your work, health, relationships, and communities.
• You’re focused on your health, especially as you grow older, or you care for an aging parent.
• You work in health, care, or community settings and want fresh, practical ways to foster engagement and innovation.

MEET THE TEAM:

These sessions will be led by a team of experts in group facilitation, specifically Liberating Structures, with a rich background and deep experiences in individual, community, and systemic health care.

Keith McCandless helps people innovate and take on complex challenges by working with groups to unleash creativity, discover opportunities, and create momentum. While co-developing Liberating Structures, he cut across disciplines, tapped into spiritual practices, and deepened scientific insights along the way.

S. Fisher Qua has a focus on community health and wellbeing and is very committed to developing participatory approaches to working with complex problems that tap into more of each person’s intelligence, imagination, and creativity.

Anna Jackson specializes in designing and facilitating collaborative learning experiences and first adopted the Liberating Structures repertoire in 2011. She has a particular focus on supporting social services systems change and promoting community-based mental health support.

Nancy White is a Liberating Structures maestro supporting distributed learning, teams, communities of practice, especially for NGO, NPOs and community organizations.

Ann Blocker specializes in operations, dealing with the strategies and processes that help organizations scale. Since 2018, she has used Liberating Structures to help her clients grow.

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Ticketing Notes

Funds raised here will be used to support the health and recovery of a member of our community.

• We are committed to making this financially accessible to anyone who would like to attend! The discount codes are: LS50 to save 50%
• You are welcome to pick-and-choose the sessions that seem relevant for your practice. If you need help figuring out which ones might be a fit, we're happy to have a quick chat.

• Experienced practitioners AND people who are new to Liberating Structures should be able to meaningfully participate in and contribute to all of the sessions.

• All sessions will be from 10:00 am - 12 pm US Central Time. To check your timezones alongside this, use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html.

Some ways of describing Liberating Structures:

• Tiny methods that make it possible to productively engage and benefit from complexity instead of flattening, ignoring, and pushing it away.
• Novel patterns for organizing people to collaborate and mutually shape their work together.
• Simple social technologies that aim to distribute participation more widely while drawing out greater difference and variation within groups.
• Leadership tools that remove common obstacles to engaging more robustly in learning.
• Familiar facilitation approaches that have been specified and ordered in a particular way.

By introducing tiny shifts in the structure of our interactions, LS may make it more possible to tap a wider set of voices, intelligence, creativity and imagination in groups of every stripe. Liberating Structures frequently unleash greater liveliness, difference, and vitality as each person learns to embrace more freedom and responsibility for themselves and the collective.

More On LS:

• More on Liberating Structures here. LS are made available through a Creative Commons License by Keith McCandless & Henri Lipmanowicz:
• Menu of 33+ Liberating Structures explained
• Liberating Structures Background & History
• Liberating Structures Principles & DNA or design elements

Hosts

These sessions will be hosted by an ensemble of experienced Liberating Structures practitioners, including Keith McCandless, Nancy White, Ann Blocker, Fisher Qua, and Anna Jackson.