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Since this year I’m a registered Lego® Serious Play® Facilitator. In May 2017 I completed a 3 day certified facilitator training with StrategicPlay® in Hamburg. I can only recommend the course and especially Katrin Elster who facilitated it.
What is Lego® Serious Play®?
Basically speaking it’s a playful method to explore either team related questions or strategic questions. The goal is to solve problems with a group in a facilitated process. Building little Lego models visualizes the state of the group discussion, so that everybody has the full picture as it evolves over the day.
Follow the link and you will find a short slideshow of LSP in a nutshell.
Where can it help?
You know the Cenefin sensemaking framework, wright!? As you remember it has four sectors. In most organizations with either a lot of people or/and dealing with totally new inviroments you’re probalbyl in the complex zone. This means, that the relationship between cause and effect can only be perceived in retrospect. You need an emergent practice to probe, sense and respond. That is why you want to try something with a safe to fail mechanism first, before you put your assumption to the test in the real world.
How many participants does such a workshop have?
Ideal is 5 to 8 people.
How long does it take?
The identity workshop might take 2-3 hours. The full blown strategy or team process takes at least one day.
How to start?
I ‚m able to facilitate workshops for identity or full blown strategy or team processes. The first step is to clarify together with you – the client – the questions needed to design a customized workshop. That will take 1-2 hours and is to be charged separately. Should you book a workshop after that, you will get a discount on the workshop.
Some impressions of the training that I attended:
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