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Generative Relationships STAR
Working groups assess their own interaction pattern on the STAR compass — Separateness (diversity of perspective), Tuning (listening and reflecting), Action (joint activity), and Reason (shared purpose) — first alone, then in quartets, plotting where the group actually sits and agreeing what to shift. A team looking honestly at how it generates (or kills) value together.
- Self-assessing the team's own pattern in front of each other requires enough safety that low scores can be said aloud
Practical
- Time
- 25 min
- Group
- 4–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- STAR compass template on an open wall
- Mechanisms
- feedback-mirroring, systems-sensing, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/generative-relationships-star — 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
Brenda Zimmerman (STAR model, with Bryan Hayday); adapted by Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless — Liberating Structures / complexity science
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status: checked · added 2026-08-25