Serious Play Training

Check the price of the training and potential group or non-profit discounts with your chosen trainer. The cost of training sessions varies between EUR 2000-3000 ($2500-3500), plus travel and accommodation.

However, given that you will probably be using LEGO Serious Play for your professional work, we suggest you to be inventive and identify the ways of making business with the method already prior to attending the seminar. Post on social media about your planned training session and see if you can pre-sell your LEGO Serious Play workshops to your friends, family or clients. Find a champion who would like to introduce the method to their company. Sell this idea to your boss.

One of the ways of making it affordable is to host a training event in your area. If you can find a group of 5-10 other people who are interested in training on LEGO Serious Play in your area then perhaps as a contribution of your skillful hosting you may either enjoy the event for free or even profit yourself.

If you find it very difficult to raise funds for the training we suggest you to start self-educating. There are many wonderful books that you can read about facilitation.

There are more than 30 trainers providing public LEGO Serious Play training courses globally. Some provide custom training courses that focus on particular aspects of LEGO Serious Play methodology or in-house training using LEGO Serious Play.

1. We first suggest you to first think WHY are you going to use your skills for. LEGO® Serious Play® for coaching does not necessarily need strategy applications, and vice versa. So prior to joining a training group, ask your trainer to send you a layout of the training sessions and explain you what skills will you acquire by attending their training.
2. Different trainers have different styles. Some are academic. Others practical. Some traditional. Others innovative. Some emotional. Others distant. Some have experience in certain cultures. Others have a global view. We suggest you get in touch with them in person and ask them send you training videos where you can see them in action.
3. Ask your trainers whether they have actual tasks where you need to practice and demonstrate your skills of running a workshop. Ask if they will also coach you after the training session is over.
   
4. Some trainers restrict you and do not allow you use the acquired methodology in training setting. Make sure that you ask them first about any legal implications of training with them before signing up.
   

​Yes! Of course! LEGO Serious Play methodology is Open-source. This means that anybody who wants can train the others. If you feel that you do have the necessary experience and feel qualified to do so then please get in touch with us. Please send us your references and write a few words about what is your Unique Sales Proposition as a trainer and we will give you the right to post your training events in our community Events section.

If you are just starting out and think that you would like to train others in the future, then be aware that some training providers may not allow you do that. Please make sure that you understand your obligations well before you sign up with a training provider and choose somebody with terms suitable to you.

In the 2010 LEGO® Open Source Guide LEGO® said, 'New applications will be developed by the international community of users, and may be shared online. In this new phase, we welcome creative uses of these tools, and innovation in the community.'

Applications are different blueprints for facilitation sessions. Some trainers are rigid about their applications, asking their trainees to follow their applications closely. Others provide more flexible roadmaps that given you a generic direction on how to facilitate e.g. a strategy session, a teambuilding event or an ideation workshop.

We suggest you to get in touch with your chosen facilitator and ask what applications does their training programme cover. If they say that it covers "everything" then do not believe them and ask them kindly be more precise on what example workshop uses will their trainees be able to start working on the next day once the training session finishes. :-)

If anything is still unclear about the training then just get in touch with us and send your question: http://seriousplaypro.com/contact/

You may also post your question in our forum: http://seriousplaypro.com/forum/