Liberating Structures Vancouver User GroupBCIT Burnaby Meetup - February 22nd, 2018 - 4:00 - 5:30pm

Endpoint / Goal of Meeting:

Introduce the VLSUG Meetup format (Networking, Getting and giving Help, Learning Together) to BCIT participants and all who attend; help participants reflect and plan next steps for their usage of LS in their own context.

Program Outline

Time & Topic

Goal Activity Technology / Materials?

4:00 PM

Intro

Introduce LS, outline ● Introductions, Leva + Barish, VLSUG, Purpose (10 min)

● Agenda: Impromptu Networking (10 min), 1-2-All (15 min), TRIZ

(20 min), 25/10 (20-30 min), W3 (15 min) Closing (5 min)

PowerPoint Slides, purpose

of our group slide, schedule,

agenda

Design Storyboard for LS activitiesTime & Topic

Goal LS Microstructure

Why this method? Steps / Timing Materials / Technology

NETWORKING4:00 pm – Impromptu Networking (6 min)

Rapidly Share Challenges and Expectations, Build New Connections Impromptu

Networking

Get people on their feet and talking to new faces focused on a purpose.

Done in 3 cycles (three invitations discussed with 3 different people, 2 min each)

Stand up, find a person you are acquainted with yet, 1 minute each to go through each question, then shift to new person. If time allows do in 3 cycles.

Invitations: 1. “What is one big challenge in facilitating groups or teaching that you bring to this gathering?”

2. “What do you hope to get from and give to this group gathering today”

PPT Prompt for invitations, timers, bell/gong for signaling end of sessions

Leva

Liberating Structures Vancouver User GroupBCIT Burnaby Meetup - February 22nd, 2018 - 4:00 - 5:30pm

4:15 pm Engage everyone simultaneously in generating questions/ideas/suggestions

1-2-4-All

1-2-4-All engages all people in the classroom regardless of whether they are introvert or extrovert, shy or wanting to dominate conversation

Invitation: How was the Impromptu Networking

Experience? Could you use it in your context?

Give 1 minutes of silence to reflect; 2 minutes in pairs then groups of 4 All – everyone back in.

PPT Prompt for invitations,

Timer

Barish

Giving and Getting Help

4:30 pm Stop counterproductiveActivities and behaviours to make space for innovation

TRIZ.help a group clear space for innovation and things that limit success by inviting creating destruction

Invitation: How can we be sure that our colleagues/students/participants will feel excluded/left out in the work that we do?

PPT instructions on screen, timer

Rosario

Learning Together

4:55 pm Rapidly generate and sift a group’s most powerful actionable ideas.

25/1025/10 Crowdsourcinggenerate an uncensored set of bold ideas and tap the wisdom of the group to identify the top ten

If we were 10X Bolder

Invitation: How can we transform teaching and learning environments to enhance learner engagement?

PPT instructions on screen, timer

Rosario

5:15 pm Together, look back on progress to date and decide what

W3What? So What? Now

Help a group reflect on a shared experience in a way that builds

PPT instructions on screen, timer

Cathy

Liberating Structures Vancouver User GroupBCIT Burnaby Meetup - February 22nd, 2018 - 4:00 - 5:30pm

adjustments are needed.

What? understanding and spurs coordinated action a while avoiding unproductive conflict

5:25 pm Conclusion ( 5 min)

Wrap-up. Close

Leva Lee/ Barish – Next meetups - schedule, subscribe to blog here;https://vancouverliberatingstructuresusergroup.wordpress.com/, or twitter @VancouverLSUG or FB Page

PPT Schedule, Contact info