exercise · all tools
Folding Spectrogram
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
The room becomes the scale: people stand along a line according to their position on a real question, hear voices from different points, then the line folds — bringing the most different perspectives face to face in pairs for a short exchange. Differences become visible, personal, and talkable before any decision is made.
Hold with care
- Taking a public position is mild but real exposure — choose questions where honest spread is safe in this group
Practical
- Time
- 15-20 min
- Group
- 10–∞ · pairs, large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Open space for a long line; microphone in large rooms
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/folding-spectrogram — 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
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Nancy White & other LS practitioners (adapted from long-used variations) — Liberating Structures (spectrogram/human-scale family)
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status: checked · added 2026-08-25