5 Ways to Build Strong Consortia
Experience five Liberating Structures that you can use to build strong coalitions at your next event.
The 75 minute course is free for newsletter subscribers.
Please note: this is a no-show-sensitive event. If you register, we kindly expect your attendance.
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 11.00 – 12.15 CEST
What this course will bring you
There are many powerful ways to guide groups in integrating several initiatives into one effective programme. You might be familiar with methods like Theory of Change, Impact Pathways, Design Thinking, Theory U, or Deep Democracy.
The five Liberating Structures that you will experience in this course don’t replace those methods. Instead, they serve as building blocks. You can plug them into any of these approaches to make your meetings more participatory, more energising, and more effective. This course will help you to design and host events to build strong, impact-oriented consortia.
Course Content
Liberating Structures
- Impromptu Networking
- 1-2-4-all
- Troika Consulting
- Mad Tea Party
- What, So What, Now What
How to Build Strong Consortia
- As a group, you will focus your conversations on how to build strong, impact-oriented consortia
- When experiencing the Liberating Structures you will meet inspiring people
Your Hosts
Jobien Hekking
Facilitator
Elena Zurli
Facilitator
Carlijn de Waard
Tech host
What People Say
Brainy Bunch has been running this workshop for five years now. Over 200 people joined. The responses have been consistently positive. One participant told us, years after attending:
I am using the Liberating Structures that I learnt in your training at least twice a month
Anything Else?
During the session, we will share more about the work of Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz, who developed the Liberating Structures. The full repertoire of 43 Liberating Structures works equally well online and in physical settings.
- If you log in by ten minutes early, you will get to experience an extra creative method you can use in your own online meetings.
- Throughout the session, you will work individually, in small breakout groups, and we all use the chat a lot.
- After the workshop, you will receive a handout summarizing all five Liberating Structures we used, so you can easily revisit and apply them in the future.
