The Liberating Structures Fieldbook: Flipping the Script on Meetings and Planning

In a high-stakes world grappling with eroding trust and complex, persistent problems, conventional meeting structures often lead to deadlock and under-engagement. This fieldbook from Liberating Structures Press offers minimalist tools designed to adjust the 'micro-rules' of interaction, enabling educators and professionals to move from stagnation to discovery.

Key Features & Benefits for Education and Collaboration

• Inclusion and Equity: Tools designed to include and unleash everyone, ensuring every voice shapes the future, not just the usual participants.
• Tackle Higher-Order Goals: Facilitates moving beyond short-term fixes to address deeper, more complex needs within educational settings or organizational planning.
• Scalable Solutions: Promotes making small, elegant shifts in interaction methods that generate massive positive ripples in action and outcomes.
• Innovation Focus: Provides alternatives to rigid, slow, and exclusive inherited meeting habits like presentations and open brainstorming.

Specifications

• Brand/Manufacturer: Liberating Structures Press
• Author(s): Nancy White, Keith McCandless
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Print Length: 312 pages
• Publication Date: June 2, 2026
• ISBN-13: 979-8995779100
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 1.8 x 25.4 cm (Approx. 203x18x254mm)
• Weight: 626 g

How to Use

This fieldbook provides practical, minimalist tools that can be immediately applied to adjust the micro-rules of any group interaction, whether in a classroom, workshop, or planning session, to foster deeper engagement and solve complex challenges effectively.

Stop accepting over-control and under-engagement. Acquire The Liberating Structures Fieldbook to start making tangible progress on the critical issues that matter most in education and organizational development.