Joseph Snyder

Playing for Survival In his book “Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul”, Stuart Brown, M.D., explains that not only have scientist proven that play is needed and used within the animal kingdom for survival, but that play allows the player to gain new insights, test new behaviours, and

For years many innovative management consultants, who pondered the value of play within organizations, conducted their work in isolation.  After all, the idea of ‘play at work’ in Western society seemed a bit eccentric and not widely valued.  However, when a handful of consultants met in Denmark in 2006, and began to collaborate, we recognized

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

A kind reminder was sent to our community by Helle Borup Friberg, Head of LEGO Education Operations & Development. With the open source model the guidelines have changed on how trained LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitators can market their services. So in order to ensure compliance with LEGO protected trademarks we have added a new section to

A few months ago when I was doing my preparations for TEDxTartu talk about play@work I started reviewing popular sources for materials that cover connections between playfulness and work. I found out vast literature. In two extremes mostly – either related to developmental psychology or about (what Plato calls) “frivolous play”: play as a pastime. However,

Strategic Playroom Fundamentals certification training based on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ methodology and materials is planned for: North America: August 16, 17, 18 and 19th in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  Please visit:  http://www.lloydsmith.com Europe: September 22, 23, 24 in Hamburg (Deutschland), Germany. Please visit:   http://www.strategicplay.de For more information on training offered in Australia, New Zealand and / or Asia Pacific please visit: http://www.mci.edu.au/ Training will soon

The ability to think creatively is now more important than ever, as the world is changing rapidly and we are all asked to do more with less. Many corporations are outsourcing skilled labour such as engineering, accounting, and software writing.  North Americans watch as left brain jobs go to countries asking for lower incomes.  Innovation is