Method guide · Arrange people and ideas
Shift & Share
Visit practice stations in six rounds, using questions and proposals to refine examples and identify what to take back.
- People
- 12–100
- Base procedure time
- 75 minutes
- Recording
- Shared record
Purpose: Explore through dialogue; Generate ideas.
English guide
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How this method works
A method for touring several practice stations, asking questions about examples, and developing takeaways. Use it where presenters do most of the talking, people only look at displays and leave, or practical know-how stays with the person responsible. Each station's host presents one practice through its evidence and conditions. Across six rounds, visitor groups leave questions, improvement proposals, and possible connections for collaboration. When smaller groups revisit a station, they change their perspective so repeating the explanation leads to improvement. The result is practical knowledge from each station, conditions for applying it, unresolved questions, and participants' takeaways. Do not use it for demonstrations of safety procedures or for confidential cases brought in without checking the scope of sharing.
Phase schedule
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- Prepare practice stations0–10 minutes from the start (10 minutes)
Action: Prepare. Participation: Everyone.
Shared record
- Visit in six rounds10–58 minutes from the start (48 minutes)
Action: Visit. Participation: Visitor groups of 5–9.
Shared record
- Refine practical knowledge58–65 minutes from the start (7 minutes)
Action: Refine. Participation: Station hosts.
Shared record
- Connect the takeaways65–75 minutes from the start (10 minutes)
Action: Connect. Participation: Everyone.
Shared record
Facilitation steps
- For 10 minutes, choose one host per station and write on the panel the evidence for the practice, the conditions that make it work, and points on which the host wants consultation.
- For 48 minutes, complete six rounds of 8 minutes: 4 minutes for the host's example, 3 for visitors' questions and proposals, and 1 for moving in station-number order.
- For 7 minutes, each host reads the six question strips and adds one revision to the explanation and one opportunity for collaboration.
- For 10 minutes, visitors write one practice they want to try on their takeaway slips, and leave one contribution from each station on the whole-group surface.
If something changes
If
One minute after the tour starts, a station has 10 or more visitors or none.
Then
Return to the rotation table that offsets station and group numbers by one at each step, and move any surplus group to the next-numbered station.
If
Five minutes after a round starts, visitors have offered no question or proposal.
Then
Stop the host's explanation and have each visitor write on a question strip one condition under which the evidence shown would not hold.
Preparation
Materials
- One practice panel per station, with evidence, conditions, and questions for consultation
- One station-number sign per station
- One tour-record booklet per visitor, with six fields
- Six question strips per station
- One takeaway slip per person
- One dark-coloured writing implement per person
Room and setup
- At least 2 practice stations according to the participant range, each with one host and a 3 m-diameter standing conversation area
- The same number of visitor groups as stations, with 5–9 people per group
- One one-way route that cycles through station numbers in order
- One whole-group surface collecting practical knowledge from all stations
Adjust for people and time
Use 2 stations for 12–20 people and 3 for 21–30, then add one station for every further 10 people. Place one host at each station and divide the remaining participants into as many groups as there are stations, giving 5–9 people per group. With 6 or fewer stations, visit them in order. With 7 or more, each group visits six stations and reads the key points from unvisited stations on the whole-group surface.
Safety and non-applicable situations
Do not use the format for demonstrations of safety procedures, or introduce confidential cases without checking what may be shared. Follow the numbered one-way rotation and the visitor-group sizes, and change the perspective when revisiting a station rather than only repeating its explanation.
Manuscript's recorded references
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- Liberating Structures Fieldbook (2026): Shift & Share — Henri Lipmanowicz / Keith McCandless / Nancy White
https://www.liberatingstructures.com/shift-and-share
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- Developed by: Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless
Source page checked on 2026-10-17: Shift & Share.
Source lineage
- Original repertoire (2013): Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless
- 2026 Fieldbook: Keith McCandless, Nancy White
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