exercise · all tools
Positive Gossip
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Pairs "gossip" about colleagues — strictly positively: telling stories of what someone did well, as if the person weren't listening. Rounds rotate so everyone gossips and is gossiped about. A fifteen-minute pattern interrupt that starts reversing a culture of corridor negativity by using its own channel.
Practical
- Time
- 15 min
- Group
- 12–∞ · pairs, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Standing space for pairs; nothing else
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/positive-gossip — 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
Neil McCarthy & Keith McCandless (inspired by the Strozzi Institute for Somatics via Tracy Rekart) — Liberating Structures
In this directory via Liberating Structures · Transition Makers Toolbox
status: checked · added 2026-08-25