Q Liberating Structures user group – Shift and share: reflections from the NHS

An opportunity to try some Liberating Structures together - join the fun, and learn new skills to use in your work.

2 Feb 2023
12:00 – 13:00

Liberating Structures board

This Liberating Structure provides a quick and effective way to surface hidden experiences and wisdom from the Q community. Four volunteers will take 10 minutes to share in a small breakout group and attendees will get to move to all four breakouts. If you are willing to be one of the 4 volunteers, please email Kristin and she will be happy to provide more guidance.

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.

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 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!

This group is organised by Matt Clack, MaryCate McLennan, Lyse Edwards, Jonathan O’Reilly and Matthew Mezey.

Find out more about all the Liberating Structures, including FAQs and how-to’s.

To hear about future meet-ups, join Q’s Liberating Structures in healthcare Special Interest Group – all 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 (started by two Q members) in Scotland. Contact Kirsty Ellis – and other groups in London, Cardiff, Leeds and the West Midlands. (Please note: the Leeds and West Midlands groups are still suspended due to the pandemic).

Download the slides from the session

This was a practice-oriented session, so the usefulness of the slide presentation on its own is limited. For more information visit the Liberating Structures: Shift and Share webpage.