Building Your Practice

Five steps to building LS muscles

•       Read and Embody: Read and Embody

Before your first session, read the structure through until you can see yourself leading it. Know it well enough that you can focus on the group, not the steps.

•       Follow the Specs:

Run each structure as written before you adapt it. Use a timer. Resist the urge to tinker until you've felt the rhythm.

•       Work Together:

Don't host alone. Find a guide on the side—observe them, cohost with them, then pay it forward by guiding others.

•       Immerse Yourself:

Attend a workshop or join a local LS User Group. There's no substitute for watching these structures move in a live setting.

•       Grow Your Repertoire:

Take small risks. Add one new structure to a familiar string. As confidence grows, so does your ability to address complex challenges.

Building an LS practice is less about learning techniques and more about developing a new way of hosting. It happens gradually—one structure, one debrief, one cohost at a time.

Five steps to building LS muscles

•       Read and Embody: Read and Embody

Before your first session, read the structure through until you can see yourself leading it. Know it well enough that you can focus on the group, not the steps.

•       Follow the Specs:

Run each structure as written before you adapt it. Use a timer. Resist the urge to tinker until you've felt the rhythm.

•       Work Together:

Don't host alone. Find a guide on the side—observe them, cohost with them, then pay it forward by guiding others.

•       Immerse Yourself:

Attend a workshop or join a local LS User Group. There's no substitute for watching these structures move in a live setting.

•       Grow Your Repertoire:

Take small risks. Add one new structure to a familiar string. As confidence grows, so does your ability to address complex challenges.

The path from Novice to Virtuoso

Your practice will evolve. Here's what that progression looks like:

TABLE
Novice

Virtuoso

Focuses on the Script: carefully follows steps and timing.

Focuses on the Flow: senses when to stretch or pivot based on the group's energy.

Seeks Correctness: "doing it right" and adhering to the rules.

Seeks Vitality: uses the rules to keep progress alive, sensing when structure needs to shift.

Manages the Method: acts as a helpful coach, ensuring steps are clear.

Holds the Space: acts as an improv coach, grounded even when the path turns.

Learns the Patterns: recognizes how individual structures work.

Composes the Patterns: weaves structures together to address deep, higher-order goals.

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Go Deeper & Explore

•       Creative Adaptability: the group flow state that LS reliably produces (LNK)

•       Supercharging Dynamics: Fast & Slow Velocity, Maximum Mixing, Artful Layering (LINK)

•       Make Your Own LS: adapting and inventing structures for your context (LINK)