exercise · all tools
Celebrity Interview
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
A leader or expert is interviewed talk-show style with questions that reach for the person behind the role — struggles, doubts, stories — while pairs in the audience formulate follow-up questions on cards. Reconnects people closest to a challenge with the experience of those formally leading it, replacing the keynote with something human.
Hold with care
- The interviewee's genuine vulnerability is the entire value — brief them honestly, and never ambush
Practical
- Time
- 30-55 min
- Group
- 12–∞ · pairs, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Front-of-room seating; prepared questions; index cards
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, narrative-identity, feedback-mirroring
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/celebrity-interview — 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 — Liberating Structures
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status: checked · added 2026-08-25