The New Liberating Structures Menu
transform together – the podcast meetup about organizational developmentShow Notes
For Episode 14 of transform together, Johannes Schartau talks to Keith McCandless, co-developer of Liberating Structures, about the biggest expansion of the Liberating Structures menu since the publication of The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures. Keith shares what has changed, why the new Liberating Structures Fieldbook brings the experience of the global practitioner community into the repertoire, and how ten new structures deepen the possibilities for working with groups, strategy, relationships, and change.
The conversation also explores the principles behind Liberating Structures, the role of minimum specifications, the limits of traditional whole-system change, and why Keith believes real transformation starts by shifting the patterns of interaction at the smallest relational level. Along the way, Johannes and Keith discuss complexity, adjacent possibilities, Creative Commons, the future growth of the Liberating Structures repertoire, and the experiments in the global community that currently excite Keith most.
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