The Essence
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology is a facilitated meeting, communication and problem-solving process in which participants are led through a series of questions, probing deeper and deeper into the subject. Each participant builds their own 3D LEGO® model in response to the facilitator’s questions using specially selected LEGO® elements. These 3D models serve as a basis for group discussion, knowledge sharing, problem solving and decision making.
It’s a technique which improves group problem solving. By utilising visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic skills, the methodology requires participants to learn and listen, and it provides all participants with a voice. The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology serves as a shared language regardless of culture or position.
Committing to a Shared Goal
During the facilitated workshop, you’ll be building landscape models with LEGO® elements, giving them meaning through story-making and playing out various possible scenarios, a process which deepens understanding, sharpens insight and socially ‘bonds’ the group as it ‘plays’ together.
The methodology will guide you into a free and honest exchange of opinion. The physical and tangible construction allows you to have conversations which flow without the fear of hurting anyone’s feelings.
A Tool for Building Results
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology is based on the belief that everyone can contribute to the discussion, the decisions and the outcome.
The LEGO® elements work as a catalyst and when used for building metaphors, they trigger processes that you were probably previously unaware of.
Workshop participants leave with skills to communicate more effectively, to engage their imagination more readily and to approach their work with increased confidence, commitment, and insight.
Why Does it Work?
Thinking with our hands, thinking for ourselves, not overthinking and levelling a room is the main reason this works, using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, everyone builds, everyone shares, regardless of level or position within the team, everyone listens to each other’s opinions or ideas and everyone gets the chance to contribute, its hugely effective.
What Can We Expect?
Prior to the workshop, we will work with you to define a firm goal for the day, the actual workshop starts with understanding how to use the materials as metaphors, how to listen, how to tell the stories of our models, we then build individual models, then a shared model of the goal and then everyone builds a model of what they will need to personally do to ‘make it happen’
After the workshop photo’s taken from the day, of the models built will be provided for referencing after the session and even to rebuild and improve in future workshops as the business evolves.
Prices start from £2000 for a half day workshop and one facilitator.
LEGO® kits can be bought as a take away for the team
Please ask for more details from Penny and she will be more than happy to help.