Adapted from the Liberating Structures website:

Announce the anti-goal and the process to students, and let them know where to find the Google doc for their room (you can have a Google Drive folder with Google docs by room number, or some other way to organize). Ask group members to assign a scribe. Or they can share screen and edit together.

Round 1. Individually for 2 minutes, then in groups (around 4) in breakout rooms for 5 minutes: “Make a list of all you can do to make sure that you achieve the worst result imaginable with respect to your top strategy or objective.” Take notes in the Google doc for their breakout room.

Optional: regroup in the main room to share out main takeaways in the chat

Round 2. Individually for 2 minutes, then in the same groups (around 4) in breakout rooms for 5 minutes:  “Go down this list item by item and ask yourselves, ‘Is there anything that we are currently doing that in any way, shape, or form resembles this item?’ Be brutally honest to make a second list of all your counterproductive activities/programs/procedures.” Take notes in the Google doc for their breakout room.

Optional: regroup in the main room to share out main takeaways in the chat

Round 3. Individually for 2 minutes, then in groups (around 4) in breakout rooms for 3-5 minutes:  “Go through the items on your second list and decide what first steps will help you stop what you know creates undesirable results?”. Take notes in the Google doc for their breakout room.

Regroup in the main room to share out main takeaways in the chat for 1-2 minutes or more if needed.