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
Origin & where it lives
Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless (complexity-science lineage: minimum specifications) — Liberating Structures
Instructions: open online · CC BY-SA 4.0
In this directory via Liberating Structures
status: checked · added 2026-08-25