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Jason Sears's avatar

Awesome! I appreciate you bringing up this new liberating structure. I've experienced something similar in EGP (Ephemeral Group Process) circles. Clean Language is an easier-on-the-tongue title :-)

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Eleonora Della Bernardina's avatar

Great article, Mark! This new structure looks very interesting, I definitely give it a try in the future near future.

A first thought coming to my mind reading the structure is that it could be interesting to string it together with “Drawing Together” when people need to describe what the X looks like (giving space to the other person to “guess” what the word).

Coming back to the similarities with LS and SF, I think that AI and 15% solutions are the 2 Liberating Structures which are probably the most close to a Solution Focus approach.

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Mark McKergow's avatar

Yes, Appreciative Interviews and 15% Solutions have some good alignment with SF. And most of the others can have some SF sprinkled on them with productive results.

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Nancy White's avatar

Great piece, Mark! I am sharing it around the LS community. And sorry the post about making a new LS is so hard to find. I was actually trying that text out and hopefully an improved version will be in the appendix of the new LS book Keith McCandless and I are currently working on. (To the EDITING stage! Yay!) I use my blog to "think out loud with others" but it is pretty old skool these days. (There are 67 posts on LS there if you are feeling geeky and don't mind the "drafty" style!)

Thanks again

Nancy

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Mark McKergow's avatar

Thanks Nancy!

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