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This description of the vision and mission of the evolving SeriousPlayPro community was developed through the collective work of a group of LEGO Serious Play practitioners who gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland during 27-28 September 2010, as a follow-up to the initial work carried out in Billund, Denmark, on 14 April 2010 The Full Story of SeriousPlayPro Community

Seriousplay.com website has published Open Source document outlining the basic guiding principles of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and its philosophy.

You can purchase and download it from clicking on the image. It is a

For the first time in South Africa!  I will be delivering a 2 day introductory program on the 30 and 31 August in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Please email denise.meyerson@mci.edu.au for more details.

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,