exercise · all tools
Agreement & Certainty Matrix
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Groups sort their challenges onto a 2×2: how much do we agree about what to do, and how certain are we about cause and effect? Simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic work each get matched to fitting approaches — ending the habit of managing complex problems with complicated-problem tools (plans, experts, more control).
Practical
- Time
- 50 min
- Group
- 1–∞ · individual, small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Matrix visual; sticky notes; small tables
- Mechanisms
- cognitive-reframing, systems-sensing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/agreement-and-certainty — Liberating Structures, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless (adapted from Brenda Zimmerman's version of Ralph Stacey's matrix) — Liberating Structures / complexity science
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status: checked · added 2026-08-25