Introduction to LEGO Serious Play: Half-Day Workshop
Are you a courageous leader with some complex and challenging issues to address? Are you looking to take a different approach to solving these issues which is innovative, insightful and fully inclusive?
If so, LEGO Serious Play (LSP) could help you to move towards your goal.
LSP is a facilitated meeting, communication and problem-solving methodology that uses LEGO bricks to engage participants in creative thinking, reflection and dialogue.
This is a standard, off-the-shelf half-day workshop that will give you an insight into how LEGO can help your organisation and what it can potentially be used for, such as creation of new organisational values and developing a business strategy.
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Course Overview
What is LEGO Serious Play?
LEGO Serious Play (LSP) is a facilitated thinking, communication, and problem-solving technique for use with organisations, teams and individuals. It draws on extensive research from the fields of business, organisational development, psychology, and learning. It uses LEGO bricks to engage participants in creative thinking, reflection and dialogue.
LSP taps into the human ability to imagine, to describe and to make sense of a situation at hand, to initiate change and improvement, and even to create something radically new. It is a great way to handle challenging situations, for teams who can be open-minded and willing to try a totally different approach for problem-solving.
What you will learn
During this half-day introductory workshop, you will experience the power of LSP through various exercises. You will then spend time reflecting on how you could apply it to various scenarios and challenges in your organisation.
By the end of this one-day workshop you will:
- Recognise the difference between just ‘having fun with bricks’ and LSP
- Understand the benefits of LSP
- Appreciate the structure and process that is an integral part of LSP
- Use LEGO bricks as metaphors to unlock ideas and meaning
- Experience building individual models
- Experience using individual models to create a shared model
- Debate and discuss the possible applications of LSP to your organisation
- Have the opportunity to ask questions of the LSP facilitator
Please note that this is not an accreditation workshop to train to be an LSP facilitator.
Looking for a bespoke workshop using LSP to explore or solve a challenge, for strategic planning or to improve team collaboration? We offer bespoke LEGO Serious Play workshops that are tailored to your requirements.
About the workshop delivery style
Because of the nature of LSP, these workshops can only be held in the classroom. It's currently only available for private groups with a minimum of six people. It's ideal for teams who want to work together to solve a problem or challenge.
Please get in touch with our team for a free, no obligation chat to learn more and find out if LSP is right for you.
Group Learning Events
Looking for a private group event for your team, or even your whole organisation?
We can organise a date that works for you, and we can tailor the content to your team. Our private workshops can be held online, inhouse at your workplace or here at Happy's HQ in London.
The Small Print
For Face-to-Face Live Online Learning
All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.
You should reserve out 10am to 4.30pm in your diary for the learning. This will allow you to join the interactive workshops and have time to reflect and do the assignments in between. We believe immersing yourself in the content for a whole day will create deep learning and lasting impact.
Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.
Your active participation is expected: everyone will be heard and seen throughout, just as they would be if we were in a room together. To be heard, hear and seen you will need a microphone, speakers and camera — if you have a modern laptop that’s all you will need. Remember, you’ll need a quiet place to call from and a decent internet connection is a must.
Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.
For classroom sessions
All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.
The course will run from 10am to 4:30pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9.45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.
Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.
The happy Guarantee
We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.
If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.
If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with our friendly team.
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