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Liberating Structures Workshop

By emi1989 on October 30, 2015

Registration for the Liberating Structures Workshop is open. The three-day event will explore the powerful facilitation strategies that can be used in classrooms, everyday meetings, strategic planning sessions, workshops and presentations that help students, faculty and staff engage and work together.

Liberating Structures are small design shifts that move us gently away from more constraining “conventional structures” (e.g., lectures, open discussions, round robin updates, brainstorms) and toward sessions that quickly foster lively participation in groups of any size, making it possible to unleash and include everyone.

According to Keith McCandless, co-founder of Liberating Structures and the workshop’s facilitator, conventional structures are often too inhibiting or too loose and disorganized to engage people effectively and creatively. These structures frustrate and exclude as well as fail to provide the right environment for good ideas to emerge and develop.

In the workshop, participants will learn how to choose, facilitate, and sequence Liberating Structures for your individual facilitation challenges and contexts. Liberating Structures practices include social network webbing, designing storyboards, drawing together and engaging in appreciative interviews.

The workshop will be held from February 17 to 19 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Due to popular demand the Liberating Structures Workshop has been moved to a larger venue, able to accommodate 100 people. CTLT has extended the early bird rate deadline to December 1. The registration fee is $600 per person after December 1. The rate includes 2.5 days of active learning, meals, refreshments, a copy of the Liberating Structures book as well as design cards to keep.

Win free registration to Liberating Structures!

All UBC faculty members that register for Liberating Structures will be entered into a draw, where one lucky winner will win back their registration fee – a $600 value!

For information, visit the event page for the Liberating Structures Workshop.

The CTLT is located on the ancestral and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ - speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. These lands have long been a place of learning for Musqueam, with cultural and traditional knowledge passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

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