Serious Play Pro

Again for this year LEGO has extended an invitation to the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY community for their annual Idea Conference, which is April 17 in Billund, Denmark. The invitation goes to those of you, who are trained and certified LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitators – either by LEGO before April 2010 or after by a master trainer delivering a certification at a similar level as LEGO did before the open source was implemented.

In combination with the Idea Conference we will arrange an events for the LSP participants. On April 16th we will arrange and lead a “LSP facilitation refresher/update session”. Here we will among other share best practices from the field and from the train-the-trainer sessions. The exact content will be determined based on input from the registered facilitators.

Participation in the LEGO Idea Conference requires registration. You do that by downloading the registration form (Registration_2012) and email it to Per Kristiansen or Robert Rasmussen. We will
then send you a confirmation with any further details. In the event the interest is higher than the number of invitations, then we will work with the “first come first serve” principle”

Participation in the Idea Conference and the “LSP facilitation refresher/update session” is free of charge. You pay for your own travel, food and accommodation.

Best Regards

Per Kristiansen and Robert Rasmussen

About the LEGO IDEA Conference:
For the last five years, the LEGO Idea House and The LEGO Foundation have jointly hosted the annual LEGO Idea Conference in Billund, Denmark. Through a horizon-broadening program featuring ‘Hands-On, Minds-On workshops, this one-day event shows how the LEGO brand is so much more than a toy brand.
This year’s speakers include John Maeda, Nicolai Moltke-Leth. Sugata Mitra, Peter Madsen, Christian Stadil and Kiran Bir Sethi (Conference Program)

The LEGO Foundation has taken over the responsibility for LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method. This change will help create the platform for the continued development and growth of the method.

The President of The LEGO Foundation, Morten Aagaard has long been a great supporter and fan of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method, and was trained as a facilitator in 2004. Morten has asked Per Kristiansen to chair an advisory board. Per has invited Robert Rasmussen to join the board (an invitation he accepted).

The LEGO Foundation will be supported by the Board in the continued development of the method, in accrediting training programs, supporting research, updating the products and raising the awareness of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method.

On behalf of Morten Aaagard
Jette Orduna (Director, Kirkbi) & Per Kristiansen

The following message arrived from Tracy Suff from LEGO:

Dear community members

Thank you for welcoming me onto this platform. I’m here to invite you to join me in estimating the quantity of Serious Play products you think you will need in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

As you know, the fiddle bags (window exploration bag art.2000409) ran out unexpectedly earlier this year and we are producing more of these now, so fresh stock will be available from 25th April. This happened because there has been a significant increase in order activity for LEGO Serious Play products since the start of the year and the stock we had forecasted would last us a great deal longer, than it did. In order to try to prevent this from happening again, and to forecast how demand is likely to develop in the coming years we have put a simple survey together which I hope as many of you will take in the coming days as possible.

This survey asks you to estimate the number of products you think you will need this year, in 2012, and in 2013.  (I know 2013 is nigh on impossible to do, but I include the question anyway so give me your best guess). I know some of you have also asked about shipping to countries not represented by Shop@Home so also I wanted to canvas your sense of how this might be developing in the future.

You can find the survey here – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/J9FVCKX

I will need your responses by Thursday the 24th of March the very latest as I need to plug in the results into a forecast for production to be delivered on Friday the 25th. Short notice I know, but I hope you are able to help and please alert as many of your colleagues to this as possible. Based on the forecasting findings we will take a decision on approaches to production and relevant fulfilment options that would make the most sense to ensure continued support of the open source model.

Thanks in advance,

Tracy Suff on behalf of Cecilia Weckstrom,

The LEGO Group