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Wise Crowds
Peer consultation at any scale: a client presents a challenge and question, answers clarifying questions, then turns away while their consultants — a quartet or a whole ringed room — advise, riff, and disagree freely. The client harvests aloud what they take. Rapid cycles give everyone a turn at asking for and giving help.
- Asking for help in front of many is quietly courageous — protect clients from evaluation creep in the advice round
Practical
- Time
- 25-55 min
- Group
- 10–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Central chairs ringed by satellite clusters; no tables
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, feedback-mirroring, perspective-taking
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/wise-crowds — 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
Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless — Liberating Structures (peer-consultation family)
In this directory via Liberating Structures
Related: Case Clinic (alternative-to) · Troika Consulting (variant-of)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25