exercise · all tools
Helping Heuristics
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Trios practice four escalating patterns of help in rapid rounds: quiet presence, guided questioning, giving advice, and coaching-style inquiry — with a client, a helper, and an observer who names what actually helped. Makes visible how often "helping" serves the helper, and trains asking for and receiving help as skills in their own right.
Practical
- Time
- 15-20 min
- Group
- 3–∞ · triads, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Standing or sitting space for trios; no tables
- Mechanisms
- behavioral-rehearsal, perspective-taking, feedback-mirroring
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/helping-heuristics — 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 (drawing on Edgar Schein's helping research) — Liberating Structures
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status: checked · added 2026-08-25