Beyond Flipcharts and Trust Falls with
LEGO® SeriousPlay®
We help organizations unlock creativity, solve complex problems, and build cohesive teams through engaging, hands-on workshops that deepen connections and cultivate collective insight.
Immersive Collaboration
Creative Problem Solving
Strategic Clarity
Play Always Serves a Purpose
Participants bring ideas to life by constructing LEGO® models rather than relying on discussion alone.
Typical Workshop Design
Work Mode:
Cognitive and deliberate
Focus is on the past and future
Conventional tools
e.g. graphs, dashboards, Excel Workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations
Limited to participants with specific learning, processing, and communication styles
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Lego® Serious Play®
Play Mode:
3D, tactile, emergent, and creative
Focus is on now to inform the future
Lego® bricks are the main tool
All learning styles, processing speeds, and levels of management thrive with this method
We use LEGO® SeriousPlay® like a facilitation Swiss Army knife, applying it with clients for a variety of use cases.
Focus Groups
Program (Re)design
Logic Model Design
Change Management
Team Building
Strategic Planning
How It Works
Brick by Brick: The LEGO® SeriousPlay® Process
A collaborative process where each step sparks creativity, connection, and shared innovation.
Think with Your Hands
Unexpected insights emerge while building. Your fingers discover ideas your mind hasn’t fully formed yet.
Listen with Your Eyes
Studying and asking questions of other’s models reveals details and metaphors that even the builder might not have realized.
By constructing physical representations of their thoughts and experiences, participants reflect on their understanding and assumptions about the topic, beliefs, and values, enhancing self-awareness and critical thinking.
Why it Works
LEGO® SeriousPlay®:
Equalizes voices and participation
Everyone builds, then everyone shares. The process ensures each person is heard and every creation receives equal attention. It naturally breaks down power dynamics—after all, you can't build 'louder' than someone else with LEGO® bricks.
Transforms abstract ideas into actionable insights
With LEGO®, people express ideas that words alone sometimes can't capture, transforming abstract concepts into tangible models. The models become pieces others can see and explore through questions, ensuring genuine understanding of each builder's perspective.
Engages diverse participants and learning styles
'Thinking with your hands' empowers participants by providing time to process thoughts before discussion while engaging kinesthetic, auditory, and visual learning styles that traditional formats often neglect. Like mathematics, building with LEGO® transcends language barriers, making it accessible to everyone.
Accelerates clarity and decision-making
The LEGO® process moves faster because everyone builds at once rather than waiting for turns to speak. When participants transform complex ideas into physical models, understanding happens more quickly as people can literally point to their thinking. Since these models stay visible throughout discussions, important insights don't get lost or forgotten.
Seeing everyone's creations together reveals patterns and connections immediately, while the building process naturally surfaces underlying concerns that might otherwise take multiple meetings to discover.
Physically connecting models can create clear, visual consensus - when you see how ideas fit together, there's less confusion about what's been decided.
You Bring the Vision, We Bring the LEGOS®
Workshop Process
Discovery
We’ll assess your team’s unique needs and challenges to tailor the LEGO® Serious Play® experience.
2. Interactive Workshop
We facilitate a hands-on LEGO® Serious Play session where your team builds, collaborates, and innovates.
3. Final Product
We distill the LEGO® models built and process outputs into a meaningful and actionable report
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Our workshops reveal the hidden potential within your team.
Through guided building activities, participants discover how colleagues process information differently, uncover talents beyond job titles, and appreciate complementary strengths. The physical models make thinking visible, allowing team members to see how diverse approaches create a stronger whole.
As team members build and explain their models, they develop clearer communication skills and deeper appreciation for each other's unique contributions, transforming how your group collaborates and communicates.
Available in convenient formats: 2-hour, 3-hour, half-day, full-day, or multi-day sessions. -
Our change management workshops help teams develop adaptability and resilience. Through carefully designed building activities, participants first explore their natural responses to unexpected situations. They then reflect on successful past experiences with organizational change, identifying personal strengths they contributed.
Using these insights, teams collaboratively build models representing current transitions and visualize strategies for successful implementation. This process reveals patterns in thinking and approach, creating a powerful framework for understanding change dynamics.
Participants leave with practical tools for navigating transitions more effectively and a shared visual language for discussing change within their organization.
Available in convenient formats: 2-hour, 3-hour, half-day, full-day, or multi-day sessions.
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These workshops use hands-on building activities to create a comprehensive landscape analysis. Participants construct visual models representing their program's unique value proposition and desired outcomes.
Through guided building exercises, teams identify external trends and factors that could influence program success, then physically position these elements to demonstrate their potential impact levels.
This tangible approach helps teams develop robust, adaptable strategies grounded in shared understanding of both opportunities and challenges in the program environment.
Available in convenient formats: half-day, full-day, or multi-day.
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Traditional logic model design relies on 2D tools that primarily engage analytical thinkers and quick processors. Our LEGO approach transforms this process, revealing program dynamics that conventional methods often miss.
In our workshop, participants physically construct representations of audiences, outcomes, and activities. They then arrange these elements in an "if-then" framework, creating a three-dimensional relational diagram. By literally connecting program components, teams visualize relationships—revealing both overconnected elements and gaps in program logic.
The resulting 3D model becomes a powerful tool for program refinement, evaluation planning, and stakeholder communication.
Available in convenient formats: full-day or multi-day sessions.
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Our strategic planning workshops bring diverse stakeholders together to explore organizational identity and future direction through hands-on building activities.
Participants first create models representing their perspectives of the organization's current state, external perceptions, and aspirations. Through guided sharing and discussion, individual viewpoints evolve into a collective understanding across each dimension.
Teams then construct a comprehensive landscape analysis, visualizing strengths and opportunities. By physically simulating potential future scenarios, participants identify which organizational elements drive progress and which might create resistance.
The workshop culminates in building implementation frameworks that create a clear pathway forward with shared ownership across stakeholders.
The result: a strategic plan that reflects diverse perspectives and anticipates future challenges, built on consensus rather than compromise.
Available in multi-day session format.
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Don't see what you need on our menu? Let's create something custom! We'll design an experience that addresses your unique organizational challenges or combines elements from different workshops.
Share your team's specific situation with us—whether it's navigating complex dynamics, tackling unusual strategic questions, or something entirely different—and we'll build a hands-on solution together.
Don't Take Our Word For It