method · all tools
Strategy Knotworking (SKW)
A whole strategy process as one composed arc (~6 hours, or split over days): the group works through six questions — purpose, honest baseline, shifting context, competing challenges (paradox), ambition, and next steps with evaluation — each powered by embedded Liberating Structures, moving 1-2-4-All style from individual reflection to shared ownership. Strategy everyone wrote is strategy everyone carries.
Practical
- Time
- 360 min
- Group
- 1–∞ · individual, pairs, small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Wall SKW template; embedded-structure handouts
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, systems-sensing, values-clarification
- Change scope
- state · one-off
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/strategy-knotworking — 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
Keith McCandless, Johannes Schartau, Fisher Qua & Nancy White — Liberating Structures (composed sequence)
In this directory via Liberating Structures
The repertoire's own answer to the model's program question: a designed sequence of tools, recorded here as a single schedulable unit.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25