The use of Liberating Structures (LS) in improvement work has spread widely since the first trainings at Q annual events and the immersion workshops Q offered. Many people find them an inspiring way to enable more inclusive, innovative, productive (and fun) meetings and projects.
This Q Liberating Structures user group offers a ‘safe space’ to share our experiences and try out different Liberating Structures together – both new ones, and more familiar ones. It’s a peer-learning space – where people like you will lead (or co-lead) each LS, rather than veteran trainers.
This session we’ll discover, invent and unleash solutions to chronic QI-related problems through the practice of Discovery & Action Dialogue (DAD). We’ll be guided by fellow members Sophia Mody and Nicola Duncan.
Register here.
DADs make it easy for a group or community to discover practices and behaviors that enable some individuals (without access to special resources and facing the same constraints) to find better solutions than their peers to common problems. These are called positive deviant (PD) behaviors and practices.
DADs make it possible for people in the group, unit, or community to discover by themselves these PD practices. DADs also create favorable conditions for stimulating participants’ creativity in spaces where they can feel safe to invent new and more effective practices. Resistance to change evaporates as participants are unleashed to choose freely which practices they will adopt or try and which problems they will tackle. DADs make it possible to achieve frontline ownership of solutions.
LS feels particularly timely at the moment, with so many meetings moved into Zoom, Teams etc due to COVID-19. Yet the opportunities that Liberating Structures give us for making these truly engaging, fun and creative meetings are all too often missed when people run their meetings. We can change this! As one participant in one of our meet-ups put it: “I didn’t realise how much fun I’d have – but I also learnt something“.
Find out more about all the Liberating Structures, including FAQs and how-tos.
Register for future meet-ups here:
Thursday 2 Nov, 12.00-13.00
Thursday 7 Dec, 12.00-13.00
Thursday 11 Jan, 12.00-13.00 (collective planning sessions for first half of 2024)
Thursday 1 Feb, 12.00-13.00
To hear about future meet-ups, join Q’s Liberating Structures in healthcare Special Interest Group – all are welcome! (Includes a sign-up page if you’d like to try leading a particular Liberating Structure in this safe space).
There’s also an LS user group in Scotland (started by two Q members, contact Kirsty Ellis) and other groups in London, Cardiff, Leeds and the West Midlands.
DAD – LS user group session 051023 Q community LS 051023 Release Time for QI