About this session
These monthly user group sessions are an opportunity to try some Liberating Structures (LS) together and learn new skills to use in your work. This month we’ll experiment with Users Experience Fishbowl.
A Fishbowl session has a small inside circle of people surrounded by a larger outside circle of participants. The inside group is formed with people who made concrete progress on a challenge of interest to those in the outside circle. This subset of people with direct field experience can quickly foster understanding, spark creativity, and facilitate adoption of new practices among members of a larger community.
The Fishbowl design makes it easy for people in the inside circle to illuminate what they have done by sharing experiences while in conversation with each other. The informality breaks down the barriers with direct communication between the two groups of people and facilitates questions and answers flowing back and forth. This creates the best conditions for people to learn from each other by discovering answers to their concerns themselves within the context of their working groups.
Join this session to share and learn with fellow Q members and QI professionals.
About the Liberating Structures user group
The use of Liberating Structures 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.
Q Liberating Structures user group sessions offer 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 you will lead (or co-lead) each LS, rather than trainers.
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“.
LS feels particularly timely at the moment, with so many meetings moved online. 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.
Find out more about all the Liberating Structures, including FAQs and how-tos.
To hear about future meet-ups, join Q’s Liberating Structures in healthcare Special Interest Group – all are welcome and there are also opportunities to lead 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.