exercise · all tools
Min Specs
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Groups draft the maximum list of dos and don'ts for a purpose, then ruthlessly test each item: "if we broke this rule, could we still achieve the purpose?" Everything that survives is a genuine minimum specification; everything else is clutter to release. Yields freedom with responsibility — the shortest rulebook that still protects what matters.
Practical
- Time
- 40-50 min
- Group
- 4–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Tables of 4–7; paper
- Mechanisms
- cognitive-reframing, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/min-specs — 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
Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless (complexity-science lineage: minimum specifications) — Liberating Structures
In this directory via Liberating Structures
status: checked · added 2026-08-25