Liberating Macrostructures Studio

Participatory Practices to energise Decisions, Agreements, Strategy and Innovation

Does your team struggle to distribute leadership? Is it hard to get clear with each other about what decisions are made by whom and how? How about your individual and shared accountability? Is your team trying to "flatten" hierarchy... but some things are getting missed, or work is falling through the cracks? Or maybe your team is already succeeding with these challenges, but want to go deeper!?

First cohort starting November 12, 2024 (19:30 CET, 10:30AM PST, 7:30AM NZT)

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First cohort starting November 12, 2024 (19:30 CET, 10:30AM PST, 7:30AM NZT)

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Come learn and experience simple practices to help solve common challenges teams experience when distributing leadership and unlearning hierarchical collaboration patterns.

For years at Greaterthan we’ve been experimenting with and designing what we call “Liberating Macrostructures” - these distribute participation and control just like Liberating Structures do, but they exist in and beyond the singular moment of a well-facilitated meeting. Liberating Macrostructures are both synchronous and asynchronous agreements and methods that include and unleash everyone, enabling them to lead together - from small community groups to large organizations.

Duration

5 Weeks

Cohort Size

up to 20

Live Sessions

2 hours per week

Cost

€399

€299 Early Bird (until October 31)

This course is for you if...

Este curso es para ti si...

You have some hosting and facilitation experience and want to expand your toolkit

You’ve been challenging yourself and your team with alternative ways of working, and are looking for new ways to kick butt ;)

You want to learn by doing with a community of likeminded humans

You have some hosting and facilitation experience and want to expand your toolkit

You’ve been challenging yourself and your team with alternative ways of working, and are looking for new ways to kick butt ;)

You have some hosting and facilitation experience and want to expand your toolkit

Your Hosts

Las facilitadoras

Stefan Morales

Stefan Morales

An open-hearted iconoclast, Stefan loves to include and unleash everyone. His work is driven by a foundational belief in the capacity of humans to co-develop in the face of complexity.

Susan Basterfield

Susan Basterfield

Susan is a catalyst and coach who believes that awareness and discernment is the key to everything. She accompanies leaders and organizations on their transformational journeys.

What You'll Learn

¿Qué vas a aprender?

The big difference between a micro-STRUCTURE and a MACRO-structure is in the staying power: where a microstructure is how we meet in any given moment, a macrostructure extends beyond any single meeting, where we are in the territory of:

  • Developing proposals and forming agreements
  • Wider 'fit-for-purpose' process arcs that involve many different individual stakeholders
  • Organizational design and development
  • Guiding frameworks (like handbooks, policies, etc.)
  • And much more

We're in the territory of what we practice on ourselves at Greaterthan, and what we support our clients with when we are helping them shift their systems to more participatory, dynamic, self-organized ways of working together - beyond the moment of a meeting, and into the very cultural fabric of alt ways of working.

For years, Susan and I and others in GT have been iteratively designing, developing and codifying our practices, and wondering "what if we could add to the LS menu - not just new LS, but also Liberating Macrostructures? All in the same spirit as Liberating Structures: open source, for anyone to try... the simplified "Minimum Specifications" for what "Teal" (or whatever you want to call it), is actually all about, in practice, and in essence..."

Questions? Reach out to us on academy@greaterthan.works

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Schedule & Format

Estructura del curso

  • Sessions are 2 hours, with an additional 1 hour drop in studio space each week for more practice.
  • If you join as a team, you'll get 2 additional 'private' sessions to dive deeper into your unique context.
  • We will begin each session with check-ins and some fun before diving into our work together.
  • During each session, we’ll "learn by doing", experiencing the surprising richness of practice in the virtual setting. Most of this will be fully participatory, working in virtual breakout groups of pairs and other group configurations!
  • Rather than a short intensive, the longer arc of the Studio will provide more capacity building opportunities--student-led initiatives, practice, collaborative work, etc.
  • Annnnnd the best part about this being virtual: you get to bring your own fresh cup of homemade coffee (or tea) :)

We encourage teams!

2 from same team 20%, 3 = 30% 4 = 40% 5+ 50% (applies to everyone on the team) AND you get extra office hours.

If you’re signing up as a team, contact us and we’ll provide you with the appropriate discount codes

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What's next?

Próxima edición

First cohort starting November 12, 2024 (19:30 CET, 10:30AM PST, 7:30AM NZT)

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Greaterthan Academy is facilitated online learning for people, teams and organizations ready to lead towards the future of work.

Greaterthan Academy is facilitated online learning for people, teams and organizations ready to lead towards the future of work.

Our courses are practice-based, intimate and participatory. It's your entry point into the emergent knowledge and practices that Greaterthan has developed and tested over the past decade.

Our courses are practice-based, intimate and participatory. It's your entry point into the emergent knowledge and practices that Greaterthan has developed and tested over the past decade.

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