exercise · all tools
Impromptu Networking
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Three rapid rounds of paired conversation (4–5 minutes each) on two questions: "what big challenge do you bring?" and "what do you hope to give and get?" Participants mill and re-pair each round. Loosens the room, seeds connections, and surfaces the group's real agenda in twenty minutes.
Practical
- Time
- 20-25 min
- Group
- 4–∞ · pairs, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Open space to stand and mill; no furniture
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/impromptu-networking — 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