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Looking to spend some quality time with like-minded folks? Come join us for this free event where we can spend time with the community.
We might:
Anyone who is interested is welcome to join. All levels of experience will find value here.
About Your Host
Justin Navetski, PNODN Director of Community, will be your host. Learn more about him here!
COST:
No charge
AGENDA:
12:25 pm Zoom Room opens
12:30 pm Session begins
1:30 pm Zoom Room closes
Online registration is encouraged so we can plan for the gathering accordingly. Walk ins are also welcome.
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When expanding your network, having a clear, confident way to describe what you do—and how to connect with you—can make all the difference. Whether you're a consultant, professional, or searching for your next role, join us to learn (and start using) the authentic 3-sentence strategy that turns new connections into lifelong relationships - just like magic! If you’d love a personalized resource to help you follow up fast, connect with confidence, and make your networking matter today and every day after - this is the session for you.
Your Facilitator:
Annie Franceschi is a former Disney storyteller, branding expert of 12+ years, and host of the Establish Yourself® podcast. Since 2013, Annie has helped more than 400 coaches and consultants clarify their brand message, package their offers, and grow businesses with confidence through her practice, Greatest Story Creative®. Along the way, she's spoken for thousands, been featured in Forbes, and written 3 bestselling books: "Establish Yourself," "Permission to Try," and "Small Biz for Kids." A Duke University graduate and major Muppets fan, Annie lives in Durham, NC with her husband, Gus, and their favorite Muppet, their son - Leo.
8:45pm - 9:00 AM: Join meeting 9:00 - 10:00 AM: Workshop
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Your team is under pressure. The old meeting formats won't cut it.
Budget cuts. Layoffs. Reorgs. AI making every decision messier. Your team is being asked to do more with less, make harder calls faster, and stay aligned while the ground keeps shifting.
This is exactly when most teams schedule even more ineffective meetings: one person talks, everyone else waits, side conversations burble, and nothing gets decided.
Liberating Structures fixes the meeting architecture. Instead of one person driving while everyone else rides, every voice contributes, ideas build on each other, and the group's collective intelligence comes out in the room. Full engagement. Full participation. Energetic. Stuff gets done.
It works for a team meeting, a stakeholder session, a planning offsite, or those difficult conversations you've been postponing.
Liberating Structures has 30 years of field-tested practice behind it, a robust practitioner community, and a fieldbook so new the ink is still drying. This is a toolkit you can count on.
Ready to change how your team works? Join us September 9–10 in Portland at the beautiful World Forestry Center for a two-day immersion where you’ll experience Liberating Structures firsthand and leave ready to use them the following week. What you’ll walk away with
You’ll spend two days inside the structures themselves, experiencing them as a participant, then learning to design and facilitate them for your own context.
Hands-on practice with a wide range of the 43! Liberating Structures
Skill to design “strings” — sequences of structures built for your specific challenges
Real problems worked on — not fabricated case studies
Liberating Structures supporting materials
Lunch both days, beverages throughout, and time with good people you’ll actually get to know
Free admission to the World Forestry Center Museum
No prior LS experience required. If you’ve encountered these methods before, you’ll go deeper into design and application.
If you lead, facilitate, or participate in groups and want those groups to work better, this workshop is for you. In practice, that means team leaders and managers, change managers, L&D and OD professionals, scrum masters, design thinkers, facilitators, and nonprofit leaders working in complex stakeholder environments.
Bringing a team of 3 or more? Contact us about group pricing.
Elise Keith liberally applies Liberating Structures to every session she designs as the founder of Lucid Teams, the New Rules for Work Labs, and the open Ways of Working initiative. A leading voice in modern collaboration, she helps teams reinvent their meetings, decision making, and ways of working. She’s the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings that Make or Break Your Organization, and a fifth-generation Oregonian.
Stephanie Fleming is the founder of Viri Group, where she helps organizations close the gap between strategy and execution. With 30 years leading teams across Fortune 500 companies, startups, and nonprofits, she's learned that team dynamics is the biggest predictor of whether a strategy will succeed or fail, which is why she brings psychological safety and Liberating Structures into every engagement she designs. In a board retreat she facilitated, that combination enabled a leadership team to make decisions and align on priorities they'd been unable to resolve for years. An unabashed tree hugger, she jumped at the chance to co-host this intensive at the World Forestry Center.
Do I need prior experience with Liberating Structures?
No. We design for the room we have. If you’ve used Liberating Structures before, you’ll go deeper into design and practice. If it’s your first time, you’ll leave with a solid foundation and the confidence to use it.
What’s the refund policy?
If you can’t attend, you may transfer your registration to someone else. Just let us know. Refunds are available until August 15, minus any payment processing fees.
Can my organization send multiple people?
Yes! Shared experience accelerates adoption back at work. Contact us for group pricing for teams of 3 or more.
Are professional development credits available?
This intensive includes 14 hours of professional development. Participants holding Scrum Alliance, PMI, or other credentials that allow self-reporting may be eligible to log these hours toward their renewal requirements. We provide a certificate of attendance upon request. Check with your credentialing body for eligibility. --- The structures, illustrations, and icons used in this session are part of the Liberating Structures Fieldbook (2026). We believe in open-source social innovation. This material is adapted from the original work by Keith McCandless and Nancy White and is licensed for your further use and adaptation under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0."
Location
World Forestry Center
4033 SW Canyon Rd, Portland, OR 97221, USA
Paid parking on site via Parking Kitty. MAX accessible via Washington Park station (3 minute walk).
OD professionals know better than anyone that you can't script transformation. But when AI is reshaping work, roles are shifting, and organizations are under pressure, even seasoned practitioners can find themselves frozen or overextended. In this session, Jordana Cole draws on her TEDx talk and two decades of leadership and well-being research to help OD practitioners recharge their inner improvisers and find the clarity, creativity, and confidence to lead themselves and others through whatever comes next.
By the end of this session, participants will:
About your Facilitator:
Combining her rich background and expertise in psychology and leadership development, alongside her authentic blend of energy, humor, and strategic questions, Jordana enables leaders to ignite behavioral change and spark transformation that not only sticks, it spreads.
As an organizational consultant, workshop facilitator, and leadership coach, Jordana has designed and led talent strategy and leadership programs for thousands of individuals across all levels and roles around the globe. Prior to launching her consulting and coaching practice, Jordana led enterprise learning and development functions for a decade within technology, financial services, e-commerce, and nonprofit industries. Jordana’s worked with a number of Fortune 100 companies and companies on the Best Companies to Work For list.
Jordana is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology program and has served as an instructor for undergraduate and graduate courses related to positive organizations and human strengths & resilience. She is also certified as a PCC level coach from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Gallup Strengths Coach, with experience coaching more than 250 leaders worldwide. As a lead faculty member for the Center for Human Potential's Self-Actualization Coaching Program, Jordana equips cohorts of professional coaches with research-backed tools to help clients surface their needs and embrace their whole selves.
Jordana believes that leadership is the most needed and most durable skillset in our changing world, and the one that AI can't replace. She's been featured on a variety of podcasts and webinars discussing the connections between leadership, well-being, AI, and organizational success. She's on a mission to help everyone lead themselves and others better through uncertainty. Her TEDx talk on this topic: "What to Do When You Don't Know What's Next" currently ranks in the top 10% of views for all TEDx talks globally.
9:15 am - 9:30 am - Join meeting 9:30 am - 11:00 am - Workshop
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