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by Eli De Friend

Mission and Vision of the SeriousPlayPro.com Community

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.

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by Eli De Friend

LSP Community-Building Workshop

August 5, 2010 in News and Events

As many of you know, the first open LSP Community of Practice workshop is being held in Switzerland on 27-28 September 2010. It is already listed in the Events section of this web site; however, many of you may not have noticed or received the June 29th email that was sent out by Helle Friberg of LEGO.

The objective of this workshop is to follow-up on a number of questions raised in Billund in April 2010, including:

  • Purpose and Scope of the Community or Communities of Practice
  • Rules of the Game; Operating Principles

If anyone (particulary those of you who will not be able to attend in person) would like to submit additional suggestions for the agenda, please feel free to do so. Denise Meyerson has already  suggested setting up a video-conference via Skype to provide an interactive medium with interested parties who are unable to attend. We are looking into the technical feasibility of this.

We have reserved a workshop room for 2 days ( September 27-28) at the Hotel Mövenpick in Lausanne, right next to IMD . CAPRESE will cover the cost for renting the room, as we recognise that you will be covering the cost of your flights and accommodation. We propose to share the cost of refreshments and lunch and will come back to you nearer the time with some ideas for the catering.

If you are interested in participating and have not yet done so, please inform me (Eli De Friend). Please organise your own accommodation (we can provide suggestions). For the logistics, it would help to eventually know where you have chosen to stay.

In the meantime, wishing you all a lovely summer.

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by Marko Rillo

Impact of Open Source to Your Business

June 30, 2010 in Generic Discussion

When LEGO informed the former licensed partners about their plans to “go open source” with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ methodology – most of us did not have a faintest idea what this would mean to our activities.

Obviously – setting up from scratch a new community to deal with training activities of the future facilitators, building its backoffice, setting up technological platform, handling its internal communication and member management is already a challenge that we need to face during the coming months and even years.

But so far we have had to deal with petty practicalities that are despite their pettiness sometimes rather cumbersome and time consuming. Hence – two months down the line, can you comment about the extent of change that the recent changes have had upon your business:

  • How much you have had to upgrade your marketing materials: websites, sales brochures, handouts, slides.
  • How have you adapted to new ordering system via LEGO Shipping & Handling (incl. some of us – how have you solved the situation that your country might no longer be supported as a delivery destination).
  • Etc.

Can you share your experiences and lessons learned at our group forum page … how have you managed so far?

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by Eli De Friend

Upcoming LSP Community Face-2-Face in September 2010

May 31, 2010 in News and Events, Pro Community Rulebook

What are the rules of the Game?

On 14th April 2010, a number of future ex-Certified LEGO SERIOUS PLAY partners met with LEGO management and then amongst themselves to discuss the feasibility of creating a community. From LEGO’s side, it was made clear that LEGO would in future only refer, be it in person or on the web, to open communities of parties interested in LEGO SERIOUS PLAY.

Even prior to the April 14th meeting, some interested parties were already feeling that the community would have to establish the rules of the game, before it could function effectively and before any other decisions could be made.

Others felt that before deciding on the rules, the objectives of the community should be established.

Others again felt that we should just get out there and do business together and the objectives and rules would work themselves out.

If anyone reading this article is interested in contributing to the establishment of this community, please comment below…

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by Marko Rillo

Lego to Establish Open Serious Play Community

May 1, 2010 in About Serious Play

LEGO has announced today the following:

As of May 1st 2010 LEGO has decided to allow everyone – including facilitators outside of our previous partner network – to use LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. LEGO will no longer be sustaining a network of licensed partners offering LEGO SERIOUS PLAY and as a result LEGO SERIOUS PLAY can be obtained through a wide community of facilitators using the method as part of their toolbox.

As a client looking for an experienced LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitator to run a workshop or as a professional facilitator or consultant looking for training in order to apply LEGO SERIOUS PLAY to your toolbox, we encourage you to search the internet for LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitators within your country.

Groups of facilitators are currently in the process of setting up online community platforms. You will be able to find links to those communities on this site when they are established.

A description of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® core method will be offered as open source to all facilitators, who wish to benefit from using the method. The description is currently under development and will be made public on this site later this year.

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