Liberating Structures Meetup: Wicked Questions

Liberating Structures, created by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless, offer a fresh, practical way to collaborate. These 33 simple microstructures help any group unlock the insights and contributions of everyone involved. In this hands-on meetup, you’ll experience how they bring energy, trust, and collective intelligence to life.

During this third meetup, we’ll focus on Wicked Questions. It helps teams surface and hold two seemingly conflicting truths simultaneously. By framing a question as “How is it that we are both A and B?” you make underlying tensions explicit instead of smoothing them over. This often leads to richer conversations and more realistic choices, especially when tradeoffs are unavoidable. Simple to use, but not always comfortable. And that’s partly the point.

• Practice the original Wicked Questions steps.
• Try out different tweaks and variations.
• Learn how to combine it with other Liberating Structures.
• Exchange experiences, ideas, and insights with others.
• As a bonus, we'll use other LS to explore Wicked Questions.

This meetup is open to everyone — no prior experience is required. Whether you’re just discovering Liberating Structures or looking for new inspiration as a seasoned practitioner, you’re very welcome.

Since this is an in-person meetup, seats are limited. When you sign up, please commit to showing up — every spot counts. If you can’t make it, cancel your ticket so someone else can take your place.

We start at 13:30 sharp (doors open at 13:00) and wrap up at 16:00. We’ll stick around for some snacks and drinks—so if you’ve got time to hang out, we’d love that.

As The Liberators, we aim to liberate teams from ineffective work practices by empowering them to shape their future. To achieve this, we create products to unleash the superpowers of (Agile) teams worldwide. We share a wide variety of content and support a community that learns and grows together.

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