What is
Lego Serious Play?
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is a communication tool that facilitates an innovative, hands on process designed to encourage creative thinking, learning, enhanced innovation, and performance.
Using LEGO® bricks, participants are led through a series of builds, exploring the topic deeper as they share their 3D models and reflect on them as they progress through the workshop exploring metaphors and story telling to communicate their meaning.
LSP is Visual: You look at the model your building and others. Auditory: listening to the story of the model. Kinaesthetic - building with your hands using igniting the brain in a different way.
LEGO® Serious Play®
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is a facilitated methodology that uses LEGO® bricks as a tool to help individuals express their thoughts, ideas, and feelings in a tangible and visual way. It's a way to safely enable deep reflection, fosters creativity, and promotes effective communication in a collaborative environment.
"I've attended many workshops, but nothing quite like this. The hands-on approach made complex concepts so much more accessible."
Joel M, Team Leader
Individual Models
Team members build models independently.
Coaching
Values & Behaviours
Idea Development
Individual Development
Leadership Development
Shared Models
Team members build models independently and then bring them together, or the team builds a model collectively.
Team Alignment
Team Building
Team Mission/Purpose
Ideation & Innovation
Team Process Improvement
Brainstorming/Problem Solving
Value Stream Mapping
Agility Coaching/Training
System Models
Team members build a large model made up of multiple interconnected parts.
Strategy Development
Organisation Process Improvement
Organisational Change
Disaster Planning
Future Scenario Mapping
"LEGO, SERIOUS PLAY, the Minifigure and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this website”.
The LEGO Group developed the LEGO® Serious Play® method and now allow anyone to use it under a creative commons licence. The training material on this site uses, modifies and extends the LEGO® Serious Play® method as outlined in the The LEGO Group Open Source Guide.
LEGO encourage people to get trained in the LEGO® Serious Play® method to ensure sessions are delivered to a high standard. They don’t run any official LSP training programs themselves and have chosen not to endorse any particular external training provider. As such the training material on this site is not sponsored or endorsed by The LEGO Group.
Workshops & Group Sessions
Tailored Workshops
Every workshop is a unique blend of my experience and understanding of you as a client. All my workshops are crafted to align precisely with your goals, outcomes and needs.
My approach involves designing customised workshops tailored specifically for a diverse range of clients using the appropriate techniques including (LSP) and tools that is best suited to the client.
This includes businesses of various sizes, non-profit organisations, government entities, educational institutions, associations, and groups organizing events that gather people together such as quarterly / annual team and company days, conferences and exhibitions.
Workshop design will vary depending on topic, number of participants and duration, and can be in person or virtual.
Workshop Co-Creation
Are you a trainer, a consultant, a practitioner or anyone that could or wants to deliver a workshop to other people looking for a workshop co creation partner, get in touch, I have built over 50 bespoke workshops that are being used to teach, engage and share knowledge for others.
LSP can be used at three levels:
Individual Models
Built at a individual level to answer the build question
Shared Models
Built together, combining existing models, building to find consensus
System Models
Represent an ecosystem, or something greater that allows complex connections, forces and dynamics to be explored
Why use LSP?
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Better Communication: Breaks down barriers and improves understanding within teams. Gives people space to speak, listen and share.
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Ignites Creativity and Innovation: Encourages thinking outside the box and generates fresh ideas.
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Facilitates Ability to Visualise and Abstract: Helps in exploring complex scenarios.
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Resolves Complex Challenges: Provides a neutral platform to discuss and resolve challenges that aren't easy to talk about.
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Encourages Forward Thinking: Allows people to future think.
Value For Your Teams and Organisation
LEGO® Serious Play® encourages collaborative thinking and collective problem-solving by engaging multiple perspectives for more comprehensive solutions. It has the ability to create a shared language and understanding.
Meetings and workshops are more engaging and productive and everyone participates. LEGO® Serious Play® allows teams to simulate situations or environments so you can visualise what moving forwards looks like and anticipate all the impacts of decisions.
LEGO® Serious Play® is most effective for...
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Team Building and Leadership Development
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Strategic Planning and Visioning
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Bringing people together who have opposite views on a topic / subject
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Solving complex problems, or problems that seem to only ever get talked about for hours without any progress
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Innovation, Ideation and Product Development
