Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures [LS] are twenty-five (and growing) easy-to-learn, adaptable methods that make it quick and simple for groups of people of any size to radically change how they interact and work together, and thus how they address issues, solve problems and develop opportunities. These methods are easy to learn, spread quickly peer-to-peer, and require minimal coaching. Liberating Structures have received the same positive response in a wide range of cultural environments in Latin America, Europe and the US. Some of the methods will be very familiar to many practitioners - such as Open Space and Appreciative Interviews. Others, like Positive Deviance and TRIZ, may be new to you. View a Plexus Institute webinar by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless hosted on ULiveandLearn.
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Cognition and Complexity in the Work of Nursing: Implications for Safety and Quality
Presentation made by Patricia Ebright, Associate Professor, Indiana University, at Plexus conference, On the Edge: Nursing in the Age of Complexity, July 2009.
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Healthcare and Open Space Technology
OST inspires creative self-organization and new solutions in healthcare organizations.
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How Improving Practice Relationships Among Clinicians and Nonclinicians Can Improve Quality in Primary Care
Quality is explored as an emergent property arising from relationships within healthcare organiztions.
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Letting Go, Gaining Control: Positive Deviance and MRSA Prevention
This article, from the December 2009 of the journal Clinical Leader, reports on the first significant application of positive deviance in healthcare, notably on the issue of MRSA prevention.
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Liberating Structures: Innovating by Including and Unleashing Everyone
Learn new ways to inspire leadership, improve employee engagement and morale, and foster discovery of creative solutions to organizational issues.
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Webinars from Plexus Institute
View recent webinars in an on-going series from Plexus Institute.
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Ruth Anderson Wins Distinguished Professorship at Duke University School of Nursing
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Dr. Anderson, a professor, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Aging and Human Development, and a Plexus Institute science advisor, has been named Virginia Stone Professor of Nursing. Distinguished professorships are the highest honor Duke awards its faculty.
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Larry Lievovitch Named Dean of Math and Natural Sciences at Queens College
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Dr. Liebovitch, multidisciplinary scholar and Plexus Institute Science Advisor, has assumed his new post at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was graduate programs director of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science of Florida Atlantic University and professor at FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Science.
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Disover Your Creative Power: An AIC Workshop in Alexandria, VA
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Sep 17 2010 to Sep 19 2010
AIC stands for Appreciation, Influence, and Control. It’s a transformational and developmental roadmap, a process that enables you to embrace more leadership, power, and purpose in your thinking and you actions.
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Positive Deviance and Better Health
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Sep 22 2010 to Sep 24 2010
All the parts of a healthcare system—or any system—are interconnected and continuously changing, visibly and invisibly. This exciting conference will let you discover how Positive Deviance can help liberate the hidden forces that bring out the best in your community.
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Innovation and Complexity Science Workshop
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Sep 27 2010 to Sep 28 2010
Presented by Ernst & Young in cooperation with Plexus Institute, in Stuttgart, Germany. Complexity scholars and practitioners share insights on complexity, management, business, change, and the liberating structures that spark collaboration and innovation.
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PlexusCalls: Complexity, Leadership and the Ecologies of Innovation
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Oct 1 2010
Guests Jeffrey Goldstein, James Hazy, and Benyamin Lichtenstein talk about their new book, Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership
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Inviting Everyone: Healing Healthcare through Positive Deviance tells the remarkable story of a people-centered approach to organizational and social change.
On the Edge: Nursing in the Age of Complexity presents the first comprehensive examination of issues important to nursing from the perspective of Complexity Science.
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Gene Dankbar
Gene has been thinking, learning and attempting to practice principles of complexity for over a decade. He had the fortunate opportunity to have Kevin Dooley as a graduate advisor at the University of Minnesota where he first became familiar with the principles of complexity. These principles were reinforced and expanded through attendance at early complexity meetings through VHA and subsequently Plexus Institute. Gene is proud to say he was at the Plexus organizing meeting in Chicago and very pleased to see the growth of the organization. Gene, along with Dr. Steve Hagedorn of Mayo Clinic and other Plexus colleagues, was proud to host two Plexus Summits at Mayo Clinic in 2003 and 2004.
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