Site-Wide Activity

Albina Zalilova from Training Group in Russia has been kind enough to translate the complete Lego Serious Play Open Source Brochure to Russian language.

I received today a question from Jeff about how to choose proper alternatives in situation where the LSP kits are out of stock or unavailable:
Was reading through the DIY LSP kit for 10 and most of it involved

A blog post by by Jacqueline Gunn, @tinkgunn about Storymaking

We were really grateful to join the workshop hosted at Clore to explore both our own leadership techniques and learn some broad structures of

Akihiro Mizuuchi has molded chocolate Lego Bricks and built a number of nice bears and bricksets. Something to consider – eat your buildings after your Lego Serious Play session.

David Gauntlett has written an interesting blog post about Micro Lego Serious Play

LEGO Serious Play is a way of using LEGO bricks to express feelings and ideas. It is used by adults (mostly), to

A webinar on Lego Serious Play will be held by Elisabetta Frick and Lorenzo Cantoni on August, 28th. The webinar is organized by Eduhub, the community for new learning technologies at Swiss institutions of higher education.

Lego Serious Play USI Lugano

Since 2006, some researchers at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI, Lugano) have been interested in the use of LSP. In particular, two applications of the LSP methodology have been developed:

URL (User Requirements with Lego), which helps to elicit user requirements for online communication applications.
LLED (LEGO Learning Design Experience), which helps to design teaching and learning experiences.

In this webinar the Lego Serious Play is first introduced, in which context and for which aims it could be used. Then, it will mainly focus on LLED, a specific application of LSP, which allows teams to design learning experiences creatively and collaboratively, involving all the stakeholders of the project.

Organization:

Presenters: Elisabetta Frick & Lorenzo Cantoni, Università della Svizzera italiana
Moderator: Nathalie Roth, SWITCH
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2014
Time: 11h00 – 12h00 (Central European Time)
Place: online with SWITCHinteract

Registration is open until August 21, 2014

Tom De Castella has written for BBC News Magazine a story about Lego’s moves on gender stereotypes.

!–more–Three new Lego figures – all female scientists – have been unveiled. But why does the toy maker’s

Lego Serious Play, a three-dimensional thinking and communication process, helps teams gel. You take a group of individual “people silos” and weave them into a cohesive team.

By Donna Denio from Team Dynamics Boston

Lego Serious Play session

100 PERCENT PARTICIPATION GUARANTEED – The highly structured LSP process design guarantees that every person in the workshop participates equally.
GIVES SHY PEOPLE CONFIDENCE – Having time to think during the building process, a model for reference, and a specific time to speak builds confidence.
FRESH PERSPECTIVE GUARANTEED – The number of options and solutions generated and the fact that each model is an original expression (instead of building on an idea that has already been voiced) guarantees that fresh perspective emerge.
GETS TO CORE BELIEFS AND VALUES – You learn everyone’s REAL fears, areas of disagreement, hopes and dreams (instead of the sanitized, politically correct business-speak or lips-sealed-shut silence we have come to accept).
AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION (NO LIES) – It is difficult to misrepresent or inflate your reality when using LSP to express ideas.
CREATES A COMMON LANGUAGE – Professional training and cultural norms inform each person’s verbal expression so words can mean different things to different people. Some words or phases are only understood by people with similar professional training. The LSP models each person builds creates a common language that can be seen, questioned and understood without challenging the model builder.
CLARIFIES COMPLEXITY – The process supports creating a landscape which makes connections and relationships among and between components clear, concrete, and easy to understand.
GROUP ALIGNMENT GUARANTEED – The highly structured LSP process in combination with skilled facilitation assures that every person’s core ideas, values and concerns are incorporated in the final solutions.
MEMORABLE RESULTS – It has been said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Three-dimensional LSP models, stored in your memory as pictures of recognizable objects (such as a gear, globe or tiger) trigger access to the workshop’s key insights.
SAVES TIME – In post workshop surveys and interviews, participants agree that LSP workshops accelerate trust and consensus building at two-to-three times the speed of other traditional methods for group decision-making or strategy development.

Handy ideas on how to improve your Lego Serious Play sessions.

In some Lego Serious Play sessions you might want to place your bricks in a large heap so that the participants would have a part of the fun