I just finished a two-day workshop about Liberating Structures (LS).

How did LS get on my path? I need to thank Michelle Miller that announced a LS user meeting in a PNODN meeting we both attended in 2013. I truly believe that good connections make us stronger. Being in good places bring good connections. We need to be opened to hear what is happening around us. And, we need to get out of our couch… then, a virtuous circle of good people and good activities surround us.

LS provokes many feelings and thoughts on me. It is a mix of freedom, authentic connection to our nature as human beings, genuine focus on what matters. It is an intercultural approach and at the same time brings a home-sweet-home feeling. I admire and trust people that are running LS. They are not looking for selling anything, they are genuinely sharing their knowledge. They don’t intent to build certifications or any programs that are only status-related.

LS is about participation, individual and group dynamics, brain and body movement. Walls fall down. Unspoken and invisible practices are revisited and are better developed, all voices are heard.

During the workshop, a participant said to me: “this is my first LS event. I am surprised by how informal it is” and that stroke me an important truth, despite me not paying attention to that. Speakers were participants most of the time and in assigned moments they were at the stage sharing their knowledge and facilitating our learning. People had a broad range of experience in terms of years, but no different status. What a dream to our workplaces and society: respect to the other, admiration, without having to consider different statuses.

Please accept my invitation to check more information about LS: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/

I wish you will share my enthusiasm.