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Dear Jeff,

I also agree with Massimo and Gabriel that your design sounds to ambitious for two hours. My comment might arrive too late as I undertand your workshop is sometime today. However, in my experience when you budget the time you need to keep in mind that the sharing usually takes anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes per participant. If you have…[Read more]

Hello Jeff,

I support 100% Massimo’s suggestions as in my last workshop I made the mistake of underestimating the time it takes for just the skills building. Remember that the time you allocate is a factor of the # of exercises, the time you give them to build, the time you give them to share, the time for reflection, and of course the # of…[Read more]

Hi Jesus,

muchísimas gracias. I’ll send you an email.

Gabriel

http://www.stattys.com/ do deliver those cards as well, no reason to wait for it being backed first. ;-)

Thanks all, for sharing you’re experiences, a must read for all facilitators – imho.

Voila: http://seriousplaypro.com/2015/03/30/video-of-lego-serious-play-session-at-uvm-aguascalientes-university/

:)

I think that skills building is an absolute must but from what I have learned, the time allocated for it depends highly on the number of participants and the type of participants, as well as, as Marko stated, the session design. I also think that as I build experience, I will become better at time management.

Marko I like your suggestion about…[Read more]

Hi Marko,
To be honest, I never do the full two hours, but to give you an idea about how the time can be allocated.

Construction:
Instructions 1 minute + building 3 minutes + debrief 2 minutes + deconstructing models 1 minute = 8 minutes

Metaphor:
Instructions 2 minutes, building 10 minutes, explaining 10 minutes, debrief 2 minutes +…[Read more]

Sean – love your gridcards concept, thank you for sharing! You might have seen that Tesla Amazing has come up with a novel idea about cards of different sizes that can be written-erased and that stick with static charge to just about any walls: http://teslaamazing.com/

Planning your day looks good. Given that thinking with your hands may be…[Read more]

Gabriel – thanks for your open description of your success and lessons learned. This is always the challenge for a facilitator – how to be well prepared, but still be ready to be flexible to changes during the session.

While you seem to be very critical about the process I would focus to what you have said – the client was happy about the…[Read more]

Hi Eli,

thanks for your comments, they are all so very valuable. I’ll make sure to take into account your suggestions for my next workshop.

Thanks again Eli…

Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for posting your experiences. Everyone should read your story.

I’m surprised that you recommend an hour skill-building. I’m sure I was told in training that it should be 2 hours!

Handling the talkative ones is just part of the job of being a facilitator. Doing the skills building right won’t get your participants obeying…[Read more]

Sean – sure. Please let us know what kind of exercise you have in mind and what is the type of group that you have in mind.

There are lots of interesting case studies of running LSP sessions in large groups. You have probably already seen this:…[Read more]

Luc,

Just to confirm what the others have already said. I have used Lego Serious Play for nearly a decade now – in average 20-40 LSP sessions a year, but i have never gone to the client selling LSP. In most cases I even do not write LSP into my proposals. Clients find out about the bricks only at the last minute.

Usually the client describes me…[Read more]

Balint, I think we all understand the challenge; we have all met people who are shortsighted and don’t want to invest. Believe me, Eastern Europe does not have a monopoly on shortsightedness. Wall Street in New York has proven time and again that it cannot see beyond the end of its next 3-month nose. So these are the people whose careers are going…[Read more]