Lego®Serious Play® MethodA Hands-on Introduction

Tony R. Harper

6/22/2016

Leaning Out

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Leaning In

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Lego Serious Play

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LSP Core Process

•Pose a question

•Construction

• Sharing

•Reflecting

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Metaphor

• A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract

• Example: All the world’s a stage – William Shakespeare

• Metaphors• facilitates learning and overcomes resistance to otherwise difficult subjects

• facilitates growth and development of the group

• enables the group to construct its own social reality

http://www.un-intelligible.org/projects/metaphor/15siggen.php

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+metaphor

Achieving flow

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LSP Application Techniques

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1. Building Individual Models and Stories

2. Building Shared Models and Stories

3. Creating a Landscape

4. Making Connections

5. Building a System

6. Playing Emergence and Decisions

7. Extracting Simple Guiding Principles

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…One Last Time…

Play

“Play is our natural way of adapting and developing new skills.

It prepares us for emergence, andkeeps us open to serendipity,

to new opportunities.

It prepares us for ambiguity.”

Dr. Stuart Brown, National Institute of Play

Building a Better Business with Lego Serious Play, pg.40 and http://www.nifplay.org/

Serious Play

• Intentional gathering to apply the imagination

• Exploring and preparing, not implementing

• Follows a specific set of rules or language

Building a Better Business with Lego Serious Play, pg.40

“When you build in the world, it helps you build in the mind”

Robert Rasmussen

For More Information

• Contact Info: Tony Harper, trharper@gmail.com; @AgileExplorer

• Book: Build a Better Business – Using the Lego Serious Play Method by Per Kristiansen, Robert Rasmussen

• Lego Website: http://www.lego.com/en-us/seriousplay/

• Facilitator Training: http://www.rasmussenconsulting.dk

• Serious Play Kits: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Serious-Play-ByTheme