Liberating Structures for Managers and Team Leads: June 16

Presented by: 
Jessica Earle-Meadows and Lynda Gerty
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 1:00pm
Zoom Meeting Platform
Creating Engaging Online Experiences
Focus Area: Fostering Community

Program Summary

Join AAPS and APSA colleagues to connect and explore engaging practices that can be used for meetings, conversations, consultations, and presentations online.

After 13 months and counting since COVID-19 work from home began, many of us may be feeling screen fatigue. Yet, working online has become part of our "new normal" and will be a platform that we continue to use.

Over the past year, we have experienced webinars where participants are not required to actively interact with the content or each other. Or, sometimes meetings and workshops that are intended to be interactive can unintentionally end up feeling like a webinar! This information delivery style is often appropriate, but when you want a team to connect or stakeholders to weigh in──engagement matters.

Enter Liberating Structures. While some of you might not be familiar with the term, you've likely encountered them over the course of your career.

Liberating Structures are facilitation tools, practices, and "games" that can help groups work better together. They can shift established group norms and patterns for better results and provide different methods for new groups to come together and generate ideas. They can help each group member contribute to a solution or a planning process. They are easy to learn and can be lots of fun to use.

Strategically, Liberating Structures can provide improved project outcomes and decision-making by intentionally soliciting diverse thought, inclusion, and, at times, deep listening.

To really experience these tools, we will be using Liberating Structures in idea sharing and community building scenarios with AAPS and APSA (SFU) colleagues.

Audience

To help focus our sessions, we will be offering separate opportunities for Professional, Managers and Team Leads, and Directors and Senior Leaders.The Managers and Team Leads session is designed for AAPS and APSA members who have direct staff reports or have positional authority over a team. If you have questions, please contact aaps.pd@ubc.ca.

What You Will Learn:

  • Network with peers and share your engagement challenges and experiences over the last year
  • Try a few Liberating Structures that serve participant and team engagement well in an online environment
  • Compare your experience of the structures with their intended purposes
  • Reflect on the applicability of Liberating Structures for your and your team's context

How You Will Learn:

  • Hands-on practise
  • Group discussion
  • Theory Bursts

About Your Facilitators

Jessica Earle-Meadows is Owner + Principal Consultant of an organizational change, team, and leadership development firm operating across Canada, and located in BC.

Jessica knows firsthand the challenges that people face in large institutions, start-up cultures, and not-for-profits. She's worked with 3 major Canadian universities and knows the realities of the higher education context well. She's been the Director of a not-for-profit, as well as Manager of Process Design and Facilitation at UBC's Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT).

Jessica holds an MA in Human Systems Intervention, a holistic degree in organizational development and group dynamics through Concordia University, and is a Certified Integral Professional Coach™ with Integral Coaching Canada.

She has created and led:

  • Multi-year large-scale organizational culture change initiatives in higher education
  • Leadership coaching for CEOs, presidents, directors, managers, and entrepreneurs
  • Year-long culture change or culture creation projects for socially conscious start-ups, not-for-profits, and higher education units
  • Leadership development programs in both a Canadian university and national social change network
  • Team development programs (including conflict resolution/group dynamics processes) across multiple sectors
  • A national conference for entrepreneurs and leaders in social change
  • Customized staff professional development in learning and change, including multiple professional development series for AAPS and APSA

 

Lynda Gerty is a collaborative process consultant, accomplished group facilitator, and Certified Executive Coach. She specializes in catalyzing individual learning and leading participatory group processes that increase the health and effectiveness of human systems.

Lynda collaborates with individuals, groups, and organizations to increase their capacity and effectiveness through executive coaching, group facilitation, and process consulting. She designs and leads high impact strategic visioning and planning sessions, team-building retreats, and community gatherings. Lynda is known for finding the strengths in others so that they may see and build upon them. She is personally committed to excellence, lifelong learning, and continually exceeding expectations. 

Lynda has previously served as the Public Engagement Manager at the David Suzuki Foundation, Engagement Director at Vantage Point, and President of the Board at ArtStarts in Schools. She draws inspiration from this professional experience as well as participatory research and engagement methodologies such as Art of Hosting, ULab, Deep Democracy, Emergent Strategy, and Liberating Structures. Lynda is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation, and a Certified Executive Coach (CEC) through Royal Roads University. She holds a Master of Human Systems Intervention through Concordia University and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and women's studies from Simon Fraser University.

Event Details

  • This session will run from 1:00pm - 3:30pm
  • This session will be held on the Zoom Meeting Platform
  • We will be using breakout rooms
  • We will be not be recording these sessions
  • We strongly encourage participants, where possible, to use video and speak your questions. It helps streamline the process and makes it easier for the facilitator to get clarification
  • Captions will be available in the main room either by a live-captioner or Zoom auto-captions, depending on requests
  • There will be a 10 minute break part-way through the session
  • There will be a Q&A at the end of the session

Registration

Please follow this link to register.

Please select the session that best suits your current role at UBC or SFU. Please only register for one session. Multiple registrations may be deleted.

  • Professionals: Thursday, June 10, 1pm - 3:30pm
  • Managers and Team Leads: Friday, June 11, 1pm -3:30pm
  • Directors and Senior Managers: Tuesday, June 15, 1pm -3:30pm
  • Managers and Team Leads: Wednesday, June 16, 1pm -3:30pm
  • Professionals: Thursday, June 17, 1pm -3:30pm

Kindly remember that the AAPS PD Program is available to members of AAPS only and our APSA invited guests, at no cost.

Your confirmation and the meeting link will be sent from the AAPS Zoom account within a few days. If you do not receive the meeting link, please contact AAPS PD.

Please kindly consider your schedule and your ability to participate before you register. It is difficult to fill spaces when there are cancellations a day or two before the event.

Questions about the session, accessibility, registration? Please contact AAPS PD