LEGO Serious Play Training
Bring the power of LEGO® Serious Play® right into the heart of your school with a tailored in-house training program.
LEGO Serious Play training Asia
Every school and school community is full of potentially challenging conversations. Some of them are rich with possibility. Some of them are fraught with difficulty. Some are right at the surface, and some sit undiscovered for years. What they all have in common is a need for everyone to be heard, and an appetite to challenge the status quo in the name of making sure everyone’s needs are met.
Not to mention the fact that the questions raised in challenging conversations often demand creative solutions.
Bringing in an external facilitator can work wonders for the big, highly visible, pressing topics. Building the skills and expertise amongst your own people opens up a world of possibility to build it into the culture of how your school and community shares and communicates. For the smaller conversations that might be less immediately visible but no less pressing, you’ll need a gentler, more familiar hand, and the ability to respond when the moment calls for it.
With this expertise in-house, you’ll be equipped to deepen communication, playfully wrangle problems, and bring out your people’s authentic, creative and compassionate best. Break down communication barriers, make more well-rounded decisions, understand each other with nuance – and do it in a way that’s tailored to your context and your people.
Every day.
Build a Strong Foundation in Four Days
This program is designed to give schools the power to use LEGO Serious Play to bring its unique mix of creativity, authentic communication, and connected insight into every level of their school and community. We do this with a mix of hands-on training, demonstration, co-design, and guided co-facilitation.
Day 1
FacilitationFirst Steps
Bring your people together to experience the process – workshops, coaching, parent engagement…
Days 2-3
Hands-on intensive training in the LSP Method.LEGO Serious Play Training
This two-day training program is hands-on and experiential to give budding facilitators a solid grounding in the background knowledge, theory, practice, and facilitation techniques to design, conduct, and move forward from LEGO Serious Play conversations of their own.
Day 4
Guided Co-FacilitationStep Out
Your new facilitators step out and facilitate their first LSP sessions in the wild with experienced support.
an in-house LEGO Serious Play training & certification program also includes the following:
Private Followup Mentoring Calls
Four online followup sessions for your team to share, pose questions, and focus their practice – in addition to the on-call individual support.
Fit-for-Purpose Workshop Design
From coaching to strategy and community engagement, we’ll bring your first wave of session designs into sharp focus.
Customised Session Capture
Streamline your workflow to capture the details unearthed in your LSP sessions in a way that fits seamlessly with your tech stack.
Custom LSP Kit Curation
Design the LEGO kits you’ll use to best serve, illuminate, and capture the way your people naturally communicate.
Momentum and Culture
Generate the quick wins, and play the long game to build deep trust in play as a way to get the important things done.
Public Course Discount
Got started, and realised you missed someone? Enrol up to two new facilitators in a public training program anywhere in the world for a 20% discount for a year after the program.
Coaches
coaches
who need to listen deeply and explore nuanced conversations about goals, purpose, and ambition.
Middle Leaders
middle leaders
who need to listen deeply, ask big questions, invite authentic discourse, and enrich professional conversation.
Innovation Catalysts
innovation catalysts
seeking to unearth new ideas, empower connected thinking, and bring diverse groups together develop strategy.
Community Anchors
community anchors
seeking to break down conventional communication barriers and connect deeply with families, & community.
Teachers
teachers
who want to encourage complex thinking and nuanced discussion, wrangle epistemology, and challenge assumptions.
Creative Spirits
creative spirits
looking to prod the status quo and gently challenge assumptions to change and deepen the conversation in their school.
how might we play this out?
Your school, your course.
Along with the intensive two day course for your small group of LEGO Serious Play facilitators-in-training, you’ll also get two full and flexible days of my time as a facilitator, co-designer, co-facilitator, and consultant to help you build the strongest foundation possible.
We’ll design these days to fit exactly what your school needs, but here’s a couple of suggestions.
Teaching Staff Team Development Workshop
Informal Staff Introduction
Trainee Pre-Brief
Work with Student Leaders
Parent Engagement Sessions
Trainee Debrief
Workflow Customisation
Practice Facilitation Coaching & Feedback
LSP Kit Design
Background & Foundations
The LSP Method’s Component Techniques
Questioncraft
meet your facilitator
Hi! I’m Joel Birch.
I’m a longtime K-12 educator, and I spent a long time as an instructional coach and strategic consultant with a focus on the creative and critical use of learning technologies. These days I work with leaders across education, business, government, and community to help them conduct the big, important conversations that help them to steer their worlds towards their preferred vision of the future. Conversations that invite everyone at the table’s unique perspective, graciously facilitated to help the ideas that connect to find their right place.
(I’m also a conscientious objector to ever fully growing up.)
As a Certified Facilitator and Pro Trainer of LEGO Serious Play, and LSP Method Partner, I rely wholeheartedly upon the power of play, stories, and solving problems by thinking with our hands. In doing this I help individuals, teams, and communities to begin from an honest and authentic place to craft deep understanding, rich communication, and creative solutions. I also train and certify others to design and facilitate those conversations by themselves. Why work on a challenge when we could play with it instead?
I’ve been living and breathing LEGO Serious Play since 2018. I’ve worked with over 60 schools and a huge range of businesses and other agencies in the last decade, so I’ve seen firsthand how every context is unique, all tied together by the things that make us human.
