November 29, 2011 in Generic Discussion, News and Events, Serious Play Facilitators
Robert Rasmussen and I had a meeting a LEGO today assisting them in pulling together a new Identity and Landscape Kit. There will be marginal changes and all to the better.
They expect that the product will be ready early in 2012
November 15, 2011 in About Serious Play, Generic Discussion, News and Events, Training and Certification
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP) is a facilitated process, and the results and impact of the process are directly tied to the quality of the facilitation. The objective with our LSP facilitator-training program is to provide the facilitator with the insights, confidence and commitments necessary to prepare and facilitate the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY process in a way that gives maximum value to the end-user and has lasting impact.
The training schedule for 2012 currently includes the following sessions:
France, Paris, February 13 – 16: Stage 1 and Stage 2
Spain, Madrid, February 20 – 23: Stage 1 and Stage 2
Central America, Panama City, March 19 – 22: Stage 1 and Stage 2
United States, Boston, March 26 – 29: Stage 1 and Stage 2
Denmark, Odense, May 21 – 24: Stage 1 and Stage 2
Asia, Singapore, September 10 – 13: Stage 1 and Stage 2
United States, Boston, October 15 – 18: Stage 1 and Stage 2
The training content follows the updated program and use the new full facilitator manual developed by Per Kristiansen and myself. The program meets the standards set by the Association of Master Trainers in the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY methodology. Facilitators will receive document of qualification upon completion of the training. The training provides the facilitator with hands-on experiences, theory, facilitation guidelines and application ideas.
For more details please contact me by email: robert@rasmussenconsulting.dk or skype: lego_serious_play
October 24, 2011 in About Serious Play, Generic Discussion, News and Events, Serious Play Facilitators, Training and Certification
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method is a facilitated process, the impact of workshops based on the method are, consequently, directly tied to the quality of the facilitation.
Therefore, purpose with our facilitator training program is to provide the facilitator with the insights, confidence and commitments necessary to prepare and facilitate the workshops in a way that gives maximum value to the end-user and has lasting impact.
February 13-16, London, England: Stage 1 and Stage 2
March 26-29, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Stage 1 and Stage 2
May 21-25, The Hague, The Netherlands: Stage 1 and Stage 2
June 18-21, Toronto, Canada: Stage 1 and Stage 2
December 10-13, Copenhagen, Denmark: Stage 1 and Stage 2 (offered in collaboration with Robert Rasmussen)
More sessions may be added in second half of 2012, expect a session in September (Germany)
We will be following the updated program and use the new full facilitator manual developed by Robert Rasmussen and myself. The program meets the standards set by the Association of Master Trainers in the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY methodology.
Stage 1 gives a strong introduction to the method and how to use it with teams in personal relations. Stage 2 gives an advanced training in the method and on how to use if or business and organisational development
For more details please feel free to contact me by email (per.kristiansen@trivium.dk) or direct message via my profile on seriousplaypro.com
June 7, 2011 in News and Events, Serious Play Facilitators
Update: We will be moving the community meeting into the spring. Hope to see many of you in 2012
Dear all
When some of us met at the LEGO Idea conference earlier this year, the idea of a real (as opposed to virtual) community meeting emerged.
We, Trivium, voluntered to host and drive this conference. Based on the input we got we will be working on a program. Sofar we have settled on some dates:
October 25-26; 2011
Location will be Copenhagen, Denmark
We expect to start with lucnh on the 25th and work untill late afternoon on the 26th. We will post more on the program as it evolves
We hope to see many of you
June 5, 2011 in About Serious Play, Generic Discussion, News and Events
From the earliest days, the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY community was very much a multi-national community. People drawn to the approach shared a global affinity for the core beliefs and values underpinning the process and the outcomes.
Today it is approximately a year since the first T3 session under the new Open Source policy. The
diversity of facilitators joining the training has further confirmed that LSP is indeed a language that transcend many kind of boundaries. The participants in the past 12 month’s T3 sessions represents 26 nationalities that came together to learn how to speak LSP.
TRAINING SCHEDULE for the remaining part of 2011
Singapore (Singapore) November 1 – 4. Stage 1 and 2
December 12 -15, Copenhagen, Denmark: Stage 1 and Stage 2 (offered by Per and me in collaboration)
TRAINING SCHEDULE for first quarter 2012
Atlanta (USA) January 24 – 27. Stage 1 and 2
Odense (Denmark) February 6 – 9. Stage 1 and 2
Boston (USA) March 26 – 29. Stage 1 and 2
The purpose with our T3 facilitator training program is to provide the facilitator with the insights, confidence and commitments necessary to prepare and facilitate the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method in a way that gives maximum value to the end-user and has lasting impact.
The train-the-trainer program for use of the LEGO(r) SERIOUS PLAY(r) method follows the updated program and use the new full facilitator manual developed by Per Kristiansen and myself. The program meets the standards set by the Association of Master Trainers in the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY methodology.
For more information about the training content and other questions regarding the training, please email me at robert@rasmussenconsulting.dk or direct message via my profile.
May 11, 2011 in About Serious Play, Generic Discussion, News and Events
Hi,
Came across a rather interesting article on play, check it here . Personally, found it reather difficult to disagree with the author. Enjoy
by Marko Rillo
March 22, 2011 in Lego
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
February 3, 2011 in Pro Community Rulebook
The Seriousplaypro Community Governance Task Force made a draft proposal for a governance structure and decision-making process (one might consider this to be a “Constitution”) that was amended and adopted at the meeting in Paris on 28th January 2011. The decision was taken to move forward with the implementation of this governance system for as long as it seems appropriate and that the system or constitution may be developed as needs demand.
Members of the Seriousplaypro.com community who are interested in becoming involved in the community’s ongoing construction are invited to do so from now on, in a first instance, by leaving a comment to that effect at the bottom of this page.
To ensure a division of roles and responsibilities that allows a largely self-organising, healthy and vibrant community to function at an optimal level.
Key activities will be split between teams. Members of these teams are elected (at an annual event or in a virtual election process).
Finally, activities between these teams will be coordinated by the community Forum, which includes all the members of the teams, and is led by the “Forum Chair”.
Members are elected for two years; half the team are up for election every year. As the community evolves a constraint may be imposed on length of tenure. For example, members may be permitted to serve two consecutive periods in the same team, after which they may continue on another team (if elected, obviously). Thus, as a minimum, a two-year “break” would be observed between being a member of a given team for two periods of two years and a return to that team. Another limit may be the restriction of only only being a member of one team at a given point in time.
For the time being, no such constraints will be imposed on the Governance teams.
What: This team keeps the site up to date with information and events and highlights community members’ contributions, proactively posts articles of interest, refers to other blogs or books.
Why: The more information that the website holds, the more attractive it will be to others. The more new information that is posted, the higher the site moves up in Google searches
Who: Any community members who are signed up on the seriousplaypro.com web site. In the future it may be pertinent to limit the number of members, but for the time being there will be no limit. Click here to join the Infrastructure and Website maintenance team.
What: A team that welcomes all new members to the site with a “hello” email. Also keeps out people trying to spam or scam. This team manages and builds relationships with external stakeholders and interested parties through responses to questions and by posing questions. This team is also the team that helps set the standard, and guards our code of conduct
Why: It is essential that there is a lively dialogue, and that the code of conducted is not only “observed” but actively alive (ref the elephants, the circle of people, and the “we always meet twice” elements from the Vision model)
Who: Any community members who are signed up on the seriousplaypro.com web site. In the future it may be pertinent to limit the number of members, but for the time being there will be no limit. Click here to join the External Communications team.
What: Create live events such as the kick-off meeting in Lausanne, and other face-to-face meetings and conferences. This team manages and builds relationships with members through responses to questions and by posing questions. The team may create webinars and other types of conference call events on topics of interest. The team may invite guest speakers to do seminars or talks. It may organise virtual “show days” for members to showcase their skills and expertise
Why: To build the members competences (the bridges in the mission model from Lausanne)
Who: Any community members who are signed up on the seriousplaypro.com web site. In the future it may be pertinent to limit the number of members, but for the time being there will be no limit. Click here to join the Internal Communications and Events team.
What: The Forum is the driving force of the community and the place where strategic decisions are made and where major projects are initiated. The Forum provides and ongoing operational role by coordinating activities between the three teams. Coordination may happen virtually. The Forum team may take on a rather loose structure. This team may also take upon it self to act as a “formal” liaison role in relation to LEGO. It is also this team that may suggest that new teams are introduced as part of the community structure. Such a proposal has to be approved by a majority of the community members.
Why: Help to keep the teams’ work aligned with a shared agenda, and for them to share ideas. The liaison role would be in order that the community is kept abreast of developments within LEGO, and possibly that insights from the community is fed into LEGO.
Who: Members from the above teams. The Forum elects a Chair, this person can hold the role for a year. It is possibly to be re-elected twice, after which a break of at least one year has to be observed.
A qualified majority makes decisions. If a team is split evenly, the Forum can be solicited to vote on the question.
We are a self-organising, learning network; consequently all interactions are based on trust. We will harness trust by:
Making knowledge accessible to everybody
Operating in internal honesty and transparency (integrity)
Respecting our elders and peers
Being courteous with our fellow members
When entering a dialogue, whether virtually or ”in person” we will observe the world café etiquette:
October 10, 2010 in About Serious Play, Pro Community Rulebook
This description of the vision and mission of the evolving SeriousPlayPro community was developed through the collective work of a group of LEGO Serious Play practitioners who gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland during 27-28 September 2010, as a follow-up to the initial work carried out in Billund, Denmark, on 14 April 2010
The Full Story of SeriousPlayPro Community Vision and Mission:
This is our common understanding of the vision for the open, broad community of facilitators using the LEGO Serious Play methodology. It falls into different elements. Over here, it’s really about what this community is and the difference that it makes. So in a sense, we are the wake-up call about the way business works and the way organisations function.
Through the love of the brick, it takes organisations on a journey to a platform where they’re looking through a gate into a better future, the so-called “pax ludens” (the “pax romana” of play, so to speak). The community enables that transition to take place so that the world becomes a better place through play in organisations.
by Marko Rillo
June 26, 2010 in Pro Community Rulebook
A kind reminder was sent to our community by Helle Borup Friberg, Head of LEGO Education Operations & Development. With the open source model the guidelines have changed on how trained LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitators can market their services. So in order to ensure compliance with LEGO protected trademarks we have added a new section to our community website called LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ Trademark Guidelines. We kindly ask you to follow them when posting your news and events on our website and preparing your own marketing materials.
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