Liberating Structures
Virtual Immersion
Extended Edition
An Immersion to boost your practice in facilitation, education, leadership, and collective transformation
Seven weekly live sessions on Zoom:
Four Facilitated Sessions • 9:00am to 12:30pm Pacific Time
Three Practice Sessions • 9:00 to 11:00am Pacific Time
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If you believe that better conversations lead to better outcomes and you are ready to make that real in practice, you will feel at home here.
This Immersion is for people who:
✅ Work in schools, community initiatives, organizations, networks, or collectives engaging with complex human and social challenges.
✅ Want to turn meetings and gatherings into spaces for genuine connection, participation, and forward movement.
✅ Sense that traditional ways of leading conversations and making decisions do not always serve the realities they face.
✅ Are looking for simple, practical ways to engage diverse groups with clarity and intention.
✅ Are new to Liberating Structures and want to learn through direct experience.
✅ Already use Liberating Structures and want to deepen their confidence and practice.
✅ Are seeking more inclusive ways to engage with important, and sometimes difficult, conversations.
✅ Are not interested in simply collecting another method, but in building a practical foundation they can use in uncertain and complex situations.
Liberating Structures? Immersion?...
Liberating Structures are simple, practical ways to structure conversations and group work so participation is more widely shared, more voices are included, listening is valued, and collective intelligence can emerge.
They can meaningfully transform workplace meetings, classrooms, boards, trainings, assemblies, dialogue circles, collectives, and community projects.
The Immersion is an invitation to experience a different way of meeting, learning, conversing, and making decisions.
Over seven weeks, you will take part in a range of Liberating Structures and explore how they can be adapted to different contexts and formats.
You will not simply learn about the methods. You will experience them, reflect on them, and practise using them with others.
What makes this the Extended Edition?
The Extended Edition alternates between four Facilitated Sessions and three Practice Sessions:
Facilitated Sessions
These 3.5-hour sessions are led by Carolina and Fernando. You will experience Liberating Structures, explore the principles and design-elements behind them, and consider how to apply them in your own work.
Practice Sessions
These two-hour sessions take place between the Facilitated Sessions, offering a lightly structured and supportive space to practise, experiment and learn.
Alumni and other seasoned LS Practitioners will co-host these sessions alongside participants.
The aim is not to perform perfectly. It is to try things out, notice what happens, ask questions, and build confidence through practice.
Why the extended format?
Facilitation is learned through experience. Alternating between learning and practice gives you time to:
- Try the methods while the learning is still fresh
- Reflect on what worked and what felt challenging
- Learn from other participants
- Return with real questions
- Build confidence gradually
- Explore how the methods fit your own context
The Extended Edition is designed to help you move beyond understanding Liberating Structures and begin using them with greater confidence, care, and intention.
Matthew Smith
Manager, Research Infrastructure and Operations - Advanced Research Computing at The University of British Columbia
The mentorship that we at UBC ARC received from Flow Ahead was pivotal in our journey to work more collaboratively. We used their 1:1 mentoring to co-create our team strategic planning retreat. Their deep experience with Liberating Structures, paired with the effort they put into understanding our goals, enabled us to design an event that both met our business needs and energized the team. We would not have been able to achieve this without them.
Diane Walters
Waldorf Educational Mentor, Teacher Education, Evaluator for Teaching Into The Future!
Virtual facilitation with Carolina and Fernando goes beyond the commonplace and into the realm of true community development. The tools of facilitation I learned from participating in several of their workshops are tools I have utilized for my consulting practice with great clarity and success. Their approach is top-notch.
Barish Golland
Senior Learning Technology Specialist, Liberating Structures Facilitator
Carolina and Fernando deliver amazing, engaging and interactive workshops that include everyone in moving forward productively in a fun, safe and meaningful way. I am always surprised how versatile, innovative and technologically savvy they are! Definitely recommend.
Donald Kerper
Executive Coach, Certified Professional Facilitator
The Virtual Facilitation / Flow Ahead group offered a great course. It is a "hands-on" course; no books, no manuals, no rules and regulations. Instead, you jump in and see what it can do while being guided by three professionals who do know the intricacies of each tool and platform they share with their students.
DJ King
Performance Optimization and Leadership Consulting
For anyone who needs to design and/or facilitate workshops, classes, teambuilding...any virtual event, this course will provide you with the tools, skills and knowledge to do it well. I highly recommend Fernando and his team. They are generous facilitators with a wealth of knowledge.
Neil Pretty
Co-Founder and CEO of Aristotle Performance
I didn’t think that meaningful dialogue and collaboration could be accomplished as well in the virtual space. To see the online space in a new way that can be more engaging and more effective when facilitated by a skilled practitioner has completely changed my view of what is possible.
Suzanne Gagnon
Management Consultant
Fernando and Carolina's events are well designed and dynamic. Active participation is supported and encouraged. Reasonable time is allocated for each activity and is respected.
I learn something new every time I participate to any given event and I have lots of fun while connecting with other international Facilitators.
Bronwyn Murray
HR Coordinator at Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice
Carolina and Fernando have a compendium of tools paired with fun and engaging delivery. The majority of our team has taken their workshop, which has advanced and improved our meetings and events tremendously in this virtual world. Highly recommend!
Liberating Structures
Virtual Immersion
Extended Edition
Dates and Schedule
Facilitated Sessions
September 10 and 24, October 8 and 22
9:00am to 12:30pm Pacific Time
Practice Sessions
September 17, October 1 and 15
9:00 to 11:00am Pacific Time
🌱 Sustaining Rate
CAD$ 700 - 780
This contribution helps sustain the full seven-week experience, and the care involved in designing and hosting the program well. Payment plans are available.
Register Now!🤝 Community Inclusion
CAD$ 350 + Pay What You Can
An accessible contribution for students, teachers, non-profit and community leaders, or anyone for whom the Sustaining Rate would be a stretch.
Register Now!Your registration for the Immersion includes:
🖥️ Unlimited access to our digital platform
Extra resources and materials, including ready-to-use slides, selected videos, and curated articles and podcasts.
✅ Two 1:1 Backstage Sessions after Immersion
To support you in applying the LS into your own practice and context.
✳️ Seven weeks of learning and supported practice
Four Facilitated Sessions, three Practice Sessions, and time between gatherings to reflect, experiment, and integrate what you are learning.
We know this is often a personal investment, and we take care to ensure the experience is practical, thoughtful, and worth carrying into your work beyond the Immersion.
Refunds, Transfers, and Credits
You may request a full refund up to 7 days before the Immersion begins. After that, you may request a 50% refund, transfer your registration to another person, or receive a 100% credit toward a future cohort.
Prerequisites
To make the most of the Immersion, it is important to have:
✅ A good internet connection and access to a computer or laptop;
✅ Basic comfort using Zoom;
✅ Basic comfort using Google Drive, including Google Docs and Slides;
✅ At least 1 hour per week for practice or study between the live sessions.
No previous experience with Liberating Structures is required.
If you are not fully comfortable with the platforms listed above, you can still participate. You will have the support of the facilitators and fellow participants throughout the journey. 😉
Facilitators
CAROLINA ALMEIDA and FERNANDO MURRAY have been infusing Liberating Structures into their facilitation practice since 2015.
In 2016, they coordinated the translation of Liberating Structures into Portuguese and since 2018 started offering Liberating Structures Immersions in Canada, USA, Brazil and Portugal bringing more than 2,000 Practitioners into this global Community.
In regular contact with authors Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz, Carolina and Fernando recently published the book 'The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures' in Brazil, and are developing an online Self-Guide Course to help spread the practice globally.
Both live in Nelson, a ski-town nested in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, and work as Process Designers and Facilitators with clients across the globe, leading workshops in person and online.
Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures were developed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
