Clarifying Purpose in Your Current Academic Project w/ Liberating Structures

When the pandemic hit, many of you set aside academic projects to respond to campus and community needs. This pair of free, virtual Liberating Structures workshops invited participants to consider how you might carry hard won knowledge from this year into your current arts or scholarly project as we re-emerge and reconnect.

In this pair of virtual workshops with Liberating Structures leaders Anna Jackson and Fisher Qua (read an interview with them here), participants worked together to take a fresh look at commitments, projects, and responsibilities. Participants will scope out and strategically prepare for transformations in work for the coming year. By the end of the workshops, you should have a values-driven action plan as you return to your project—whether it’s an article, a dissertation, a work of art, public scholarship, digital scholarship, or a new collaboration, whatever format compels you as a means of digging into and sharing your discoveries.

Register for either or both sessions! Our one request is that you fully commit to any session for which you sign up. We encourage you to come with a project in mind that you know you want to re-engage with in the light of your hard won knowledge and perspectives from the past year. We also encourage teams or pairs of collaborators to use these sessions to examine and reinvigorate a shared project or goal.