exercise · all tools
Options Place
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
A meeting without a preset agenda: participants post the topics they care about on a breakout board, sessions run in parallel stations, and people move freely to wherever they contribute or learn most. Liberating Structures' compact successor to Open Space thinking for ordinary meeting lengths, distributing control of content and process to the room.
Practical
- Time
- 55-85 min
- Group
- 10–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Open wall breakout board; station flip charts
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Origin & where it lives
Nancy White & Keith McCandless; building on Open Space Technology (Harrison Owen) and Lean Coffee (Benson/Lightsmith) — Liberating Structures
Instructions: open online · CC BY-SA 4.0
In this directory via Liberating Structures
Related: open space technology (variant-of)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25