Online LEGO Serious Play Training vs In-Person: What to Consider

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LEGO Serious Play for Leadership Development: How It Works and Why It Matters

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LEGO Serious Play Examples: What Happens in a Real Session

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LEGO Serious Play Team Building: What to Expect and How It Works

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LEGO Serious Play Coaching Training: What Coaches Need to Know

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LEGO Serious Play Coaching: How It Works and When to Use It

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LEGO Serious Play Certification: What You Need to Know

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What Does a LEGO Serious Play Facilitator Do?

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Become a LEGO Serious Play Facilitator: Training Guide

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Practice Based Learning: What It Is and Why It Works

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Facilitation Techniques: A Better Approach with LEGO Serious Play

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How to Become a LEGO Serious Play Facilitator

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LEGO Serious Play Workshops: What They Involve and Who They Are For

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What is LEGO Serious Play? An Introduction to the Methodology

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2 Day Foundation v 4 Day Advanced

The 2-day or the 4-day? How to choose the right LEGO® Serious Play® training

The most common question I get asked before people book is simple: which course do I actually need? Here’s an honest answer, including the part of facilitation training that most people underestimate.

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Certified LEGO® Serious Play® Training: Online vs. Face-to-face

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The Six Principles of Purposeful Play

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Exploring the Future of Social Mobility in the UK: Using Systems Thinking and LEGO Serious Play

Exploring the Future of Social Mobility in the UK

A powerful example of how Purposeful Play and systems thinking can be used to explore complex problems: like Social Mobility

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Sense Making using LEGO® Serious Play®, Systems Thinking and the Cynefin Framework

Sense Making with LEGO Serious Play

A case study showcasing how systems thinking and the Cynefin framework are brought to life using LEGO bricks

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Which LEGO® Serious Play® trainer is best?

In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of provide providers offering LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation training. The quality of trainings on offer has also never been wider.

That makes it much harder for people who want to be certified to know who to train with.

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LEGO® Serious Play® for Systems Thinking

LEGO® Serious Play® for Systems Thinking

This post proposes LEGO® Serious Play®, Build Level 3: System Models, it’s better thought of as a system thinking tool than what we consider to be an interesting but not particularly effective application known as ‘Real Time Strategy’

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What is LEGO Serious Play?

What is the LEGO Serious Play Method?

Want to know more about LEGO Serious Play? This is a great place to start…

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Three Ways that LEGO® Serious Play® can Benefit your Business

A Business Case LEGO and Purposeful Play

Poor levels of employee engagement globally cost businesses an estimated $8.9 trillion dollars a year. Discover how the introduction of purposeful play can build engagement, and increase profitability…

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Five Ways that LEGO® Serious Play® Builds Better Learning

LEGO Serious Play for Learning

What is it about LEGO Serious Play that makes it such an outstanding tool for building better learning experiences for learners in your context? Click here to find out…

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Developing an Effective Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy with LEGO Serious Play

A ‘How to’ guide for a playful approach to DEI

How can purposeful play and LEGO bricks be used to co-create a vision for a more inclusive professional environment? Read more here to find out

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How LEGO® Serious Play® Supports Systems Thinking

LEGO® Serious Play® and Systems Thinking

LEGO® Serious Play® is an incredibly valuable tool for systems thinking. While the original Build Level 3 application “Real Time Strategy” is now perceived by leading practitioners as a flawed approach, new Build Level 3 applications are unlocking vital conversations.

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SeriousWork LEGO® Serious Play® Training Schedule

Here is a full list of all trainings scheduled from December 2024 to December 2025.

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The Four C’s: Why LEGO Serious Play in Education… and Why Now?

Building Better Learning

LEGO® Serious Play® is a powerful tool for developing students’ 21st century skills by leveraging on the power of learning through play. Check out this blog to find out why.

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Fostering an Inclusive School Culture using LEGO Serious Play

Last year I was invited to work with students, staff and parents/carers at the Bavarian International School in Munich. Over the course of two days, this whole-school community engaged in workshops focussed on an incredibly powerful – and incredibly relevant – question:

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ONLINE LEGO® Serious Play®

It is fair to say that LEGO Serious Play is a ‘hands-on’ experience. You would be forgiven for thinking that using bricks to build models and tell stories does not lend itself well to ‘being online’ or working remotely. You’d be wrong.

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Podcast / Finding your Facilitator Flow. Presence and Focus.

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Podcast / Facilitating with and without LEGO® Serious Play®

Myriam Hadnes runs the Workshops Work Podcast. In her own words…

“Three (soon to be four) books on the subject, decades of experience facilitating workshops, and experience of training facilitators in it… Sean Blair is a LEGO SeriousPlay oracle! I was hoping to uncover some new insights and ideas from our conversation, but I actually found a great deal more.”

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乐高 工作法 实战手册 – SERIOUSWORK Book In Mandarin

Well this is exciting news, our first book SERIOUSWORK, first published in English in 2016, is available for readers in China.

This translation been the work of Vicky Qu and Xiaotsing Ma who have also bought Cheers Publishing onboard as our publisher in China. We are incredibly grateful to Vicky and Xiaotsing for all their hard work in bringing these ideas to readers in China.

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Back to School: LEGO Serious Play @ United World College South East Asia

From the moment I heard about LEGO Serious Play, I knew that it was something that I wanted to learn more about and – thanks to a fantastic online course run by Sean Blair – last February, whilst on a ‘cruise to nowhere’, I was lucky enough to complete the LEGO Serious Play Online Build Level 1 and 2 workshop.

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The key skills you need to facilitate LEGO® Serious Play®

Watch videos of a shared models built by participants on SeriousWork LEGO® Serious Play® training courses to explain the fundamental skills needed to facilitate LEGO® Serious Play® .

The process was also facilitated by the course participants. (The build question was “Build a model to show the fundamental or key skills you need to facilitate LEGO® Serious Play®”.)

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What do graduates of our training say?

“Literally seven days after our training, I facilitated my first LEGO® Serious Play® strategic workshop. I can’t imagine any other training program that would’ve given me the skills, resources and confidence to run my own session (with a fully fledged paying client!) within such a short timeframe.”

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My first workshop: 3 days after training. Report by Jesse Lui

Jesse works at Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong and flew to London in October 2018 with his colleague Christina. A couple of days after completing his training and certification (and flying back to Hong Kong!) Jesse ran his first workshop.

Jesse has kindly allowed us to share the email he wrote to the other graduates of his class, reporting on his first workshop.

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What happened after training in London? By Philipp Rosenthal

Phillipp works at a large consulting firm in Abu Dhabi. He flew to London in October 2018. A week after completing his training and certification Phillipp ran his first workshop. His objective was “to understand different meanings of ‘identity’ and create a common, group understanding”.

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LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Reflection Questions – a cheatsheet!

The 4th stage of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® process is reflection. This note sets out guidance about how to use this stage effectively and offers questions you might ask when you facilitate.

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Observations. A Graduate’s perspective on a live workshop

SeriousWork training graduate Rebecca Godfrey shares her observations from a live workshop

I had the great pleasure of joining Sean for a full day event bringing together a large team (approximately 45 people) to look at their vision for the future. I was invited to observe and to serve as general helper for the day.

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How a pointy stick became a magic stick

In shared model building we teach our students to: “Lead the discussion through the brick” or “Mediate the conversation through the model”.

At last weeks LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator training in Stuttgart, this idea all-of-a-sudden developed to the next level!

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Virtual LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® – Is Online Shared Model Building possible?

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My First Workshops – by Dr Tammy Watchorn

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What would you do if you had all the free time in the world?

This is a (brilliant) guest blog post from SeriousWork graduate Stella Kasdagli, Co-Founder Women On Top

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Report from Build Level 3 System Model ONLINE training pilot

In March 2021 we ran our second pilot of our online build level 3 – systems models class. Below you can read a detailed write up from LSPConnect co-founder Guy Stephens.

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Podcast / The LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitation Method with Sean Blai‪r‬

William Corless from YellowWood recently made a podcast with Sean.

“Sean Blair author and co-author of three books on the Lego Serious Play (LSP) facilitation method, joins fellow LSP facilitator on the podcast. Sean provides an understanding of this facilitation method, the surprising benefits and the importance of play.

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#FacWeek and #Book launch. Martin Gilbraith’s introduces ‘How to Facilitate the LEGO® Serious Play® Method ONLINE’

#FacWeek and #Book launch. Martin Gilbraith’s introduces ‘How to Facilitate the LEGO® Serious Play® Method ONLINE’

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How COVID-19 created our ONLINE book

Here’s the back story to our book about how to facilitate LEGO® Serious Play® Online…

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Learning to facilitate LEGO Serious Play Online – By Dr Rebekah Wilson

The blog post below was written by SeriousWork graduate Dr Rebekah Wilson who works at Exeter University. Rebekah first published this post on the Exeter University Incubator website and we are grateful for her permission to re-post it here.

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