Great question Afra! I just don’t anything about Liberating Structures videos. The emphasis is usually on just trying one or two asap.

@lyseedwards sometimes mentions The Liberators as another good source (beyond the main Liberating Structures website).

I can see this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbmwRpDf05E

But it might more of an overview of a workshop, not of LS themselves. Title is ”What is a Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop?’.

It might work to search youtube for “Keith McCandless” and “liberating Structures” “introduction.”. Or the other author Henri. Possibly Fisher Qua may have done one…?

The Liberating Structures Scotland team eg @danharley @jonathanoreilly @kirstellis are working to gather LS resources now – perhaps videos too, I’m not sure.

If really nothing turns up (when is your first session?), maybe we should work with Scotland and @joriamramos and @lyseedwards etc to make a little ‘Introduction to Liberating Structures in health & care’ video. Might be rather excellent! And – as you’re finding – much needed!

There’s also the issue to grapple with that often in healthcare any kind of breathless ‘Wanna try this new-fangled thing?!’ invitation quickly evokes a solid ‘No!’ from most people (even those who’ll be loving LS a week or two later!).

A subtler approach is often more effective, just using a structure or two to solve a real work challenge. And letting people know afterwards that they were using Liberating Structures. By then they’ll probably be converts 😉

@rob-cunney and @juanitamariaguidera have made huge inroads with Liberating Structures into QI in Ireland – but soon learned that a wily approach is often more appropriate.

If you do find a good video, maybe everyone can watch it, but then ask people after to think on their own for a minute about the responses and questions it evokes in them, then discuss with another person for two mins, then get into 4s, and feed back the biggest takeaways or questions each group has.

After 10 mins you can then thank them for the feedback and say ‘You’ve just all used a core Liberating Structures called 1-2-4-All’, and you’ll probably have a room full of converts 😉

@afrakensell OK a super quick search on Youtube generated Keith McCandless introducing Liberating Structures from min 5 – 10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoGJrQ_hJZE&ab_channel=ScrumMastersoftheUniverse) and using 5 slides (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jeTSx1ULE3AouYRdpwPtqL1UgqUc38I9oWcW9qj-t94/edit#slide=id.g21054935e12_0_359). It might work to highlight one of the founders and use the slides as handouts. I’ll post here if I find 1 or 2 other good ones.

Great points Kristin and Matthew and I think creating a wee intro video is a great idea, and the SIG Joriam is convening on video and podcast offers ideas how. I found this short video on you tube if you need something now, may be helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxo8H2_K8MQ

Absolutely agree, Afra, the online content about it is sparce and often dull – there’s definitely a niche there for people to work with.

Perhaps that’s something that SQC could fund?

Wow! What a great thread of responses – thanks everyone! My first session is this afternoon and I’ve decided not to use a video that doesn’t quite fit the bill.
I had already planned to introduce LS by using one in the second session planned for November, so I’ll go with this approach.
The Liberators were the best resources I could find, but they were talking more about their events than about the actual structures in the videos I watched (please correct me if I’m wrong here!)
It would be fantastic if we could produce something though as there does seem to be some agreement here that there is a gap for a short engaging intro video.
Thanks so much everyone for your help and suggestions with this.