Every reorganisation feels like the last one — only the logo is new.
Recognize this situation? Below are the Liberating Structures that change it — a concrete example, and the reason this one fits here. New to Liberating Structures? Here's what it is.
Grief Walking makes room for the exhaustion of yet another reorganisation, before moving on.
For example: The third reorganization in four years gets announced. The slides show a new logo and a new org chart. At the coffee machine, someone says out loud what many are thinking: "we've already done this twice, and it felt exactly like this then too."
Liberating Structures for this situation:
Ecocycle Planning
Ecocycle Planning tests whether this is genuinely renewal: the group places the reorganization on a four-phase map — birth, growth, decline, creative destruction — next to the previous reorganizations.
Does it keep landing in the same phase, with the same actions? That makes it visible that this is repetition, not something new — a conclusion a logo alone never reveals.
Grief Walking
Grief Walking first acknowledges what's simply there: the exhaustion of yet another reorganization. Participants silently complete four open sentences about what they're losing or leaving behind, and whoever's ready shares that with the group while others can join in as companions.
That acknowledgment doesn't hold back the change — it's the room a group needs before it can move forward again, instead of silently dragging that exhaustion into the next reorganization.
No certification, no lengthy prep — read the steps and try it at your next meeting.
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