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Principles Walk-Around
The ten Liberating Structures principles — or a group's own espoused principles — are posted around the room; people walk, stand by one, and examine honestly where daily habits live up to it and where they quietly contradict it, posting evidence on sticky notes before a full-group harvest. A mirror held up to the gap between professed values and routine behaviour.
- Naming where 'we' fall short lands on someones — keep evidence about patterns and habits, not persons
Practical
- Time
- 25 min
- Group
- 10–∞ · individual, small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Principles posted around the room; sticky notes
- Mechanisms
- values-clarification, feedback-mirroring
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/principles-walkaround — 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
Fisher Qua & Keith McCandless with the Seattle LS User Group — Liberating Structures
In this directory via Liberating Structures
Related: Values Check-in (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25