• 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]

  • 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]

    • 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]

  • Gabriel posted an update in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Forum 10 years, 4 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

    • 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.

    • 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

  • 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]

    • 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 Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Forum 10 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.

  • 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 :-)

  • 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]

  • I was thinking exactly the same thing :)
    It could be a very interesting experience, given the different and divergent applications we comply LSP for.
    So, trying to converge may be an interesting exercise!

    Cheers,
    Pat

  • Thanks Per!

    Well, the moment you ways it’s a process, you define it, yet it’s vague.
    I feel LSP is a kind of elephant – hard to describe but easy to recognise when experienced.

    LEGO is not enough to define it in its essence, application varies. core values receive different emphasis…
    It’s like the tower/bridge exercise: we all know what those o…[Read more]

  • Hello everyone!

    The premise: I recently went to a workshop that encouraged people to ask stupid questions. So, I have been starting asking stupid questions and build on them.

    So, despite being engaged with the bricks by 5 years already, I have just realised that I could not find THE official definition of LSP.

    There are amazing definition out…[Read more]

  • Simon Horan posted an update in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Forum 10 years, 5 months ago

    Looking to use LSP in an international conference of 150 to 200 people in China – any previous experience of do’s, don’ts, avoids, musts etc. gratefully received

    • Hi Simon, I am curious about your challenge. Here are some of my questions: Is this a conference or a workshop? If it’s a conference, how will you be using LSP? Will you be demonstrating the methodology or do you have specific business objectives to address? Will all 150 conference participants be taking part in the LSP activity? How many…[Read more]

    • Hi Simon. I agree with Eli. Its very important to understand the overall output desired. If it is a reasonably complex question then you need a trained facilitator and assistant facilitators for every 8 to 12 pax. Alternatively train a person at each table as a facilitator for the day. I have done both. Just did a workshop on collaboration and…[Read more]

    • Simon, adding to the above (with which I am perfectly aligned), my experience with large groups, whether it is an intro to LSP or an actual delivery, is that music should be avoided, relatively small groups (6 per table) makes it easier to align, that sharing rounds are shorter, skills building is as always important, and finally that each…[Read more]

  • How would you deliver LSP taster session in 3 hours? anyone had similar experience?

    • hi Dr. Abeer,

      How many participants will be there? Depending on the number and your goal, you can try different exercises.

      Always begin with the tower/bridge challenge. And then move towards discovering the metaphore.

      You can try with the duck building if you want them to understand the particularity of each participant. Or you can try the…[Read more]

    • As Patricia has already pointed out – there are lots of different applications out there for short interventions. It depends greatly on your location, the type and size of your group. If you would fill us in about whom do you plan to deliver the taster session then we would be happy to brainstorm with you how to make it work.

      • Many thanks Marko
        I will have about 25-30 people for 1 hour
        any ideas?
        thanks for the reply

        • Hi, Dr. Abeer. Not too much time. It’s always important to help the group get used to the bricks, through building the tower or the bridge. Then, you might make them build a free model and one of the models from the booklet. And that’s almost it, with an hour.

          Good luck!

        • With this size of a group and this amount of time I would give a short introduction and make every person play with the contents of a window exploration bag. You can choose to put people in groups of 4/5 and make them do some small excercises like building a tower to experience ownership, building small metaphors using a same starting point and do…[Read more]

          • Am with Wiro on this. in one hour, do a quick tower, followed by the explain this, and then something a bit personal or relevant to the theme. Make certain you have time, 15 min or so for a bit of discussion and sharing of how LSP works in companies

    • The Think With Your Hands workshop was designed to be a 3-hour experience, based on seeing groups get a lot out of the smaller format:
      http://www.thinkwithyourhands.com .

      but in one hour, there are more impactful LEGO interventions (not really LSP) – the innovation ducks are always a winner; and I have heard great reviews of Per’s presentations at the…[Read more]

    • Quick reply, the approach I have used at Pegasus and other conferences is a robust skills building followed by a relevant AT1 challenge, and then a bit of supporting theory and finally case examples.
      It is very much following the experience – explain principle
      Happy to share more, if or when needed

  • Per, I am in Taiwan now. I am afraid I can’t join your workshop in Korea. I heard from Peisan you are very expert in LSP. Is there any resource(book or article) you may suggest me to read about designing workshop by LSP?

  • I just did a back-end upgrade of the SeriousPlayPro.com groups and forums with a revised software that provides additional forum functionality. I would appreciate your replies – if you find it intuitive and useful. If there are some troubles then kindly let me know.

    About the community popularity – during the past month the SeriousPlayPro.com…[Read more]

  • In February?
    Per, you mean the Feb-2014/Seoul T3 training? Then…

    Jim,
    mind if I ask where you are? When you’re in Korea, you can ask me more detailed information if you want.

    I’m now living in Seoul,

  • hi Jim
    LEGO does not as such authorize any programs, they have looked into how they could, but have not yet found the right approach. The program that I offer is the one endorsed and developed by the Association

  • To close this one out …. In the end – for all the reasons above – I avoided the change decision and the process already underway and instead looked at desired and undesired behavior when faced with difficult

  • Thank for all your greeting to me, as freshman in this community. I have used puzzle for years when I conduct training program about Team Building and Project Management in corporate. I am interested Serious Play

  • Hi Jim

    Adding my voice to the great posts by Pete and Marko: If you are to dive into some of Johans writing then see if you can find “The next common sense”, he wrote it together with Michael Lissack, or

  • Jim
    I would like to add that I see the role of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in business strategy formulation as adding necessary understanding to traditional approaches. So, we’re not dismissing Michael Porter and his

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