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Marko Rillo replied to the topic VAT? in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 4 months ago

Martin – did you manage to clarify the VAT issue? I believe that inside EU you should be able to import/export according to uniform rules whereby the tax is calculated based on the rules of the target country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax#Intra-Community_acquisition

However, LEGO may have its branches in many…[Read more]
Marko Rillo replied to the topic Master Trainer for LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 4 months ago

Sorry. Per’s post disappeared because of a technical glitch – while removing some spam comments I accidentally deleted it. Uploading it here:
hi Gustavo, the association was formed by Robert Rasmussen and my-self when LEGO launched the community model. Robert and I were the original master trainers in the method for LEGO, we are both former LEG…[Read more]
Marko Rillo replied to the topic The value of the certification in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 4 months ago

Sorry. Per’s post disappeared because of a technical glitch – while removing some spam comments I accidentally deleted it. Uploading it here:

hi Patrizia, just a couple of quick thoughts: this is a bit like coaching, you dont need a coaching certificate to do coaching, ”it is simple, you just have to ask questions”, but those that have app…[Read more]
Marko Rillo wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago

We are looking for new contributors to the Serious Play Pro website. If you want then you can just start or join a discussion easily on our community forum website immediately after registration.

We would also be happy to publish the materials that our readers would find interesting on the blog front page. For example:

Interesting blog posts about play, playfulness, facilitation,
Case studies – stories, videos or photos of your facilitation events,
Reviews about books on facilitation and playful techniques,
Research review posts – covering interesting new avenues that has been studied recently.

We hope that this could bring some new debates to our growing community and provide visibility to new and active bloggers. Just send a message to Marko.
Gustavo started the topic Master Trainer for LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 5 months ago

Hi Guys

I’m new on this but i was reading about the LSP Facilitator training and found that many training companies refers to a Association of Master Trainers in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method but i couldn’t found any url or website about this Association or how the trainers of this certification become trainers that can certified people.

I h…[Read more]
- Per Kristiansen replied 11 years, 4 months ago
  
  hi Gustavo, the assocation was formed by Robert Rasmussen and my-self when LEGO launched the community model. Robert and I were the original master trainers in the method for LEGO, we are both former LEGO and Executive Discovery employees. When the business model became more open, we decided to compete and collaborate. We formed the association,…[Read more]
- Gustavo replied 11 years, 4 months ago
  
  Thanks Per. This really helps. So as far as i understand to become a trainer depends on your collaboration with the community. For now there is no a formal process to become a trainer really?.
  
  Thanks in advance for your help. I have a lot to read and practice. I hope soon ill be sharing how it goes
- Gustavo replied 11 years, 4 months ago
  
  Thanks Per. This really helps. So as far as i understand to become a trainer depends on your collaboration with the community. For now there is no a formal process to become a trainer really?.
  
  Thanks in advance for your help. I have a lot to read and practice. I hope soon ill be sharing how it goes
Gabriel replied to the topic The value of the certification in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 5 months ago

Hello Patrizia,

I am quite new at LSP… but since I obtained my LSP Facilitator certification and started to promote it to potential clients, I observed that those who had an interest began to search the Internet for information on it. And this is where I believe we can probably do a better job: selling the merits of a certified LSP facilitator…[Read more]
Marko Rillo wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago

Serious Play Pro Website Statistics – Number of Annual Visitors July 2013-July 2014Since the introduction of LSP Open Source we are glad to witness that the number of facilitators has grown steadily. The Serious Play Pro community was established just four years ago and today we are a true community which covers all the corners of the globe.

It is fun to observe that the coverage of the visitors (the table below) is really almost global. See the annual statistics table of the different countries and the annual number of unique visits from that country. All the regions are well represented among the people interested in the Lego Serious Play methodology.

In average, 66.1 unique visitors come to our site every day nowadays (up from 44.1 visitors/day in 2013 and 35.4 visitors/day in 2012). Given that 2/3 of those visitors are new visitors, it means that any post published are likely read in a month by 2000 different people.

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Country
Visitors

1
United States
5,739

2
Spain
2,257

3
Netherlands
2,168

4
United Kingdom
2,035

5
Germany
1,907

6
Mexico
1,843

7
Canada
1,369

8
Estonia
1,326

9
Colombia
1,210

10
France
1,177

11
Denmark
1,161

12
Australia
852

13
Singapore
752

14
Chile
750

15
Italy
648

16
Turkey
572

17
South Korea
569

18
Belgium
563

19
Switzerland
507

20
Brazil
481

21
Japan
462

22
Peru
414

23
Russia
369

24
South Africa
335

25
India
321

26
Argentina
313

27
China
307

28
Malaysia
294

29
Hong Kong
273

30
Sweden
238

31
Ecuador
229

32
Philippines
228

33
Thailand
217

34
Venezuela
207

35
Austria
201

36
Finland
196

37
Portugal
188

38
Poland
183

39
Indonesia
176

40
New Zealand
169

41
Taiwan
168

42
Greece
143

43
Israel
135

44
Ireland
127

45
Norway
124

46
Costa Rica
112

47
United Arab Emirates
106

48
Czech Republic
93

49
Slovenia
92

50
Romania
89

51
Hungary
88

52
Kosovo
88

53
Lithuania
87

54
Saudi Arabia
83

55
Guatemala
80

56
Bolivia
76

57
Egypt
68

58
Panama
65

59
Ukraine
51

60
Slovakia
44

61
Croatia
42

62
Vietnam
42

63
Kazakhstan
40

64
Serbia
34

65
Cyprus
30

66
Iran
28

67
Jordan
28

68
Pakistan
26

69
Puerto Rico
25

70
Luxembourg
21

71
Bulgaria
20

72
Uruguay
20

73
Latvia
19

74
Qatar
19

75
Belarus
15

76
Dominican Republic
15

77
Kenya
15

78
Macedonia (FYROM)
13

79
El Salvador
13

80
Lebanon
12

81
Trinidad and Tobago
12

82
Paraguay
10

83
Bahrain
9

84
Honduras
9

85
Mauritius
9

86
Nigeria
9

87
Tunisia
9

88
Morocco
8

89
Macau
8

90
Albania
7

91
Cote d’Ivoire
7

92
Ghana
7

93
Jamaica
7

94
Malta
7

95
Nicaragua
7

96
Iceland
6

97
Kuwait
6

98
Sri Lanka
5

99
Moldova
5
Patrizia Bertini started the topic The value of the certification in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 5 months ago

Hello all,

Something odd is happening to me… I keep meeting people who runs LSP workshops.
I always get thrilled when I meet someone who is into LSP, but then it happened already 2 times in 2 weeks, that these people actually tell me that ‘you don’t need a certification to play with LEGO!”.
I understand that the method is powerful and there…[Read more]
- Per Kristiansen replied 11 years, 4 months ago
  
  hi Patrizia, just a couple of quick thoughts: this is a bit like coaching, you dont need a coaching certificate to do coaching, “it is simple, you just have to ask questions”, but those that have approved certifications somehow do it better. There are probably many viable paths, one of the ones that Robert and I work on is that LEGO makes it clear…[Read more]
Marko Rillo wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago

I have today revised the layout of the community website to make it better readable by mobile devices. Please leave your comments on any issues that you notice on the website functionality.
- Patrizia Bertini replied 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  Great Job Mark!
  Love it! Much faster and nicer, thank you for your work!
Marko Rillo wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago

Laura Seargeant Richardson has published an inspiring video about how the rules of the play can be modified and left to the player’s own devices to achieve more proactive results. Something to also contemplate
Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, MA, MBA, (ATR), (CMC) wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago

Join us in beautiful Whistler, British Columbia, Canada for 3 days of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY training.
For more information, please email: info@strategicplay.ca or visit our site to get a full colour brochure and registration form. Limited seats available so book early.
http://www.strategicplay.ca/article/facilitator-training-with-lego-bricks-119.asp

Join us in Whistler, BC, CanadaAug 26, 27, & 29th
Gabriel posted an update in the group Serious Play Forum 11 years, 5 months ago

Hello everyone, I am about to give my first ever LSP workshop next week and had a question: anyone know if LSP was used in the financial sector (banking or other)? My client is a state-owned development bank and I am sure they would be thrilled to know if that were the case!

Thanks
- Sebastian replied 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  Ive done bank of tokyo mitsubishi japan’s largest bank for last 1.5 years. 1 to 2 two day sessions per month.
  Also 10 sessions for bank mandiri indonesia’s largest bank which is also state owned.
  Also AXA insurance one if worlds largest for 2 sessions last 2 months.
  - Gabriel replied 11 years, 5 months ago
    
    Hi Sebastian,
    
    thank you very much. This is very helpful. I’d like to know more about it. Would you be open to a skype call to share with me your experience?
    
    Cheers
    - Sebastian replied 11 years, 5 months ago
      
      Sure. We just need to set up a time taking into account the time difference. Im in jakarta
      
      Gabriel replied 11 years, 5 months ago
      
      Since there’s 11 hour difference, would you be available July 16 at 5pm your time?
      
      Sebastian replied 11 years, 5 months ago
      
      what time is it at your end if 5 PM with me?
      You can email me at sebastian@sjbradford.com
- Per Kristiansen replied 11 years, 4 months ago
  
  hi, I have used it with two major UK banks, one large bank in Southern Europe. I have not personally used it with banks in Scandinavia (where I live), but believe it has happened
Juan Carlos Campos posted an update 11 years, 5 months ago

Espacio Empresarial México cuenta con una red de facilitadores Lego Serious Play en todo México así como en Estados Unidos, Argentina y Chile. En días Pasados durante la celebración de los 15 años de Espacio Empresarial se entregaron varios reconocimientos y yo tuve el honor de recibir uno como el facilitador mas destacado por el mayor numer…[Read more]
Marko Rillo wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago

Audioboo.FM has published a Radio Interview with Andy Priestner on Lego Serious Play. You may follow him over twitter at @PriestLib
listen to ‘Andy Priestner on LEGO Serious Play (Week 8)’ on Audioboo
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Marko Rillo wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago

During recent days, a couple of new Slideshares have been created on Lego Serious Play methodology. The first one is created by the Assistant Professor Arindam Basu of University of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand. In his presentation he combines design thinking with Lego Serious Play approach and demonstrates how the combination can be used in order to achieve flow in solution finding process.

Another Slideshare is in French language. Published by a SlideShare user “Chinkie75” – it shows some photos of tower and bridge building exercise and a number of metaphors as well.
Marko Rillo wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago

The following article was published on the website of Independent Free Press Canada.

Chances are you grew up with LEGO. Perhaps it was your favourite toy, or a building tool that invoked your imagination to
Marko Rillo replied to the topic In search for THE definition in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 5 months ago

Patrizia and Per,

Thanks to both of you for a great discussion. It might be indeed a good idea to gather in September and even spend some time on definition building. However, if we are unable to define the LSP for our purpose more precisely then I would say that there is nothing wrong with that either. If we are not too strict in our expression…[Read more]
- Patrizia Bertini replied 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  Hi Mark,
  
  sorry for the late reply!
  I would make a distinction between LSP core and its derivative applications. Legoviews (which I have been doing in several context different from the initial experiments in Palestine) in NOT LSP, it’s a derivation as it lacks many elements of a workshop.
  
  Perhaps we don’t need a definition, but perhaps defining…[Read more]
Jim Hwang posted an update in the group Serious Play Forum 11 years, 5 months ago

May I have your experience if I want to use LSP starter kit only for 25-30 people in 1-1.5 hr to make group describe current team profile and ideal vision? It is part of full day team building or leasership workshop.
Martin van Dijken replied to the topic VAT? in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 5 months ago

Ah, 1 question sort of answered. I just received an invoice from Lego Denmark. The strange thing is that the invoice is in Dutch, with the Dutch VAT percentage (21%, DK apparently has 25%) and the bank that is listed is a Dutch bank.

Getting more and more confused :-)
Martin van Dijken started the topic VAT? in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 11 years, 5 months ago

Hey all,

After receiving my certification from Per, I am now every excited to get started on my first workshop. I ordered 10 starter kits and a box of exploration kits from the Lego online store. It has been shipped, so happy about that.

Question though: how does it work with VAT? There is no VAT mentioned on the invoice and I can’t even tell…[Read more]
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