Patricia Kistenmacher

One of the recent members of the Serious Play Pro community asked me privately about whether it pays off to quit his day job and starting working as a facilitator full time.

He wrote: “I want to pick your mind

Braden Kelley wrote the following blog post on play and innovation.

A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play

Meet Mollie, aged 7, a Key Stage 2 pupil from Surrey who has really struggled with literacy for a couple of years, resulting in a lack of all-round confidence and anxiety about going to school.

Ever After

A short video about the Sydney Opera House on the Lego Education wall, which was part of the “Summer in the House” initiative.

Creativity is one of the most important competencies of the 21st Century. Yet, the puzzling question is how to nurture it? Children are creative from the day they are born and the film describes how to support

Andrew Masterson wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald how Lego moves from the toybox to serious science.

Recent studies have deployed Lego bricks in fields as diverse as biology, surgery, oceanography, computer

Simon Usherwood from the University of Surrey has written a humorous yet contemplative blog post about his attempts to use Lego Serious Play to creatively distract his students in the classroom. Any comments – add

Pocket-lint is the portal which analyses different cool gadgets. Yesterday Peter Jenkinson wrote a blog post about “Lego Serious Play is the grown-up office toy you’ll always wish you had” where he introduced the basic package of Lego Serious Play starter kit.

Lego Serious Play Starter Kit

Some of the sparkly new offices on the start-up scene have their fun foibles installed, such as mini foosball and ping-pong tables (table tennis if you like). Some have slides and swings, fun is positively promoted, and yet these outfits continue to get the work done. No longer does a Newtons Cradle suffice in the workplace, more inspiration is needed and who better to support this process of play at work than the world’s biggest toy maker: Lego.

The Danish outfit trumped sales of Mattel last week to take number one slot, and its constant innovation of its brick system and finding new markets will likely keep them there for some time. The latest target is the boardroom and bricks for businesses could be a winner.

Under the Serious Play branding, there are several team-building and workplace sets available.

The Starter Set for one worker contains an eclectic mix of standard bricks, a few Duplo bits and elements including wheels, tires, windows, trees, mini figure parts, tubes, globes and small base plates. There are 214 pieces in total – enough to let creativity bloom.

Its aimed at training a boardroom brain to think a tad differently, although we’ll avoid using the phrase “out of the box” for fear of mass retribution.

And once the board is convinced that this Lego stuff is like the best accelerant for unleashing imagination across the workforce then its onto the Connections Kit with 2,455 pieces designed for workers to collaborate together with spiral tubes, ladders, fences, bridges and strings – all manner of connectors to create a single model with everyone’s individual efforts combining. Sorting trays are supplied too.

The Landscape and Identity set is the one the boss will need sign off on next. It features 2,631 pieces of randomness in a box; baseplates, Duplo animals, Technics-type cogs and all manner of studded beauty in the Smorgasbord of Lego sets.

No surprise there are no instructions with these but an Imaginopedia booklet, which is about the only thing not to like here. Imaginopedia? Please!

Newtons cradle

Mini Foosball

Meg Wildrick has written a post about The Serious Benefits of Productive Play for Business 2 Community website.

Play has become a powerful word in leadership circles. It’s been touted in the press as “the

Andy Klaus wrote a post about Team-Building Games Using Legos on eHow.

Few factors in the workplace have more impact on productivity than the ability of co-workers to perform as a team. However, not every

Team Building Activities With Lego Bricks David Weedmark has written a good and simple post about Team Building Activities With Lego Bricks on eHow where he has summarised well the core essence

As a recent International Association of Facilitator’s member I finished a truly impressive book that the IAF is using as its core collection of ideas that form the “how to” for a professional facilitator – <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/078797160X/?tag=seriousplay-20&quot;

I recently read a book about Storydoing™ written by Ty Montague. It was called “True Story: How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business”. The book created the concept of storydoing and

International Association of Facilitators will feature a workshop on Lego Serious Play that will be delivered by Camilla Nørregaard this October

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