LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a process that enhances innovation and business performance by deepening reflection and supporting effective dialogue for everyone. It is a method that helps participants imagine, describe, and make sense of the work at hand, and can be used in a variety of contexts in organizations, teams, and with individuals. Essentially, it’s a different way to think, and a different way to have a conversation.
The Power of Play
Play is particularly powerful when people need to be creative, collaborate, and learn. Especially when they face complex and unpredictable challenges. Playing makes us free to take risks, imagine the unthinkable, and take on new roles that we otherwise wouldn’t explore. With limits in place and structured rules and agreements, play provides enough boundaries within play to create an environment that promotes creative thinking and learning through flow (Cskszenmihalyi, M). Working with metaphors with LEGO pulls on the imagination, and always has a purpose.
Drivers of LEGO® Serious Play®
- Construction (of knowledge): Learning happens when we think through our hands, creating something outside of ourselves. Building helps create new theories and knowledge.
- Metaphors: A form of thinking and language through which we understand or experience one thing in terms of another.
- Story Making: Lets you imagine and describe what might happen before it happens. Used to invent, discover, explore, decide, and tell the truth.
- Imagination: The resource we all have that allows us to explore, conceptualize, and test new possible realities. Considering what has not yet been, but could be.
Applications
- Strategy: strategy-making and refining process
- Innovation: providing a different lens to open up insights and approaches
- Culture: Diagnosing challenges and establishing principles at the team or organizational level
- Team Collaboration: Developing a framework for better collaboration within the team and between teams
- Coaching: Helping clients visualize the current issue, goals, and the path forward
- Identity: Constructing a clear and shared identity
Who is this for?
- New Teams: Establishing roles, culture, and a vision for the team
- Established Teams: Developing strategies to become high-performing teams
- Individuals: Clarifying and learning more about who they are and how they can uniquely contribute in their context
Doubleknot Works and LEGO® Serious Play®
Doubleknot Works combines LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® concepts with Dr. Norm Amundson’s internationally recognized writing and research on Metaphors in Career Development. Working with metaphors provides clients with the opportunity to gain new perspectives, insights, and understanding to complex challenges. Connecting LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® with Metaphors provides us with a strong foundation from which we create customized in-person and virtual workshops and coaching sessions. Each session is tailored to suit client needs, and supports team development and growth, while also providing a facilitated thinking, communication, and problem-solving technique, specific to the topic at hand. Most importantly, sessions are fun, hands-on, and engaging!
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