The International LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Advanced Trainings

INTRODUCING LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®  – Real Time Reframing

Experience the transformative power of real-time reframing through our innovative LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® application. Engage in hands-on exploration to reframe ‘intelligent failures,’ harnessing their potential as stepping stones for growth and breakthrough innovation.

• Unequal failures:
• Basic, complex, and intelligent.
• Thoughtful preparation:
• New territory, meaningful opportunities, and being informed.
• As small as possible.
• Necessary systems thinking:
• Here and now, elsewhere and later.
• Making mistakes differently:
• Checklist, playful experimentation, avoiding blame games.

What is to be gained from this process?

• This LSP tool is grounded in validated theories and models by Harvard Professor Amy C. Edmondson and other thought leaders.
• Participants get to explore examples from their own business and/or organization.
• Participants are trained in a new and research-based LSP tool that can create much value for clients.

Introducing advanced training 2: facilitation lab – short workshops

This advanced training is your training lab in which you will gain practical experience in planning and facilitating short LSP workshops.

Focus areas for planning and facilitating short LSP workshops:

• LSP workshops between 2.0 hrs and 3.5 hrs – number of participants between 6 and 250.
• How to create the best possible LSP experience based on the overall theme of the workshop.
• How to introduce LSP and ensure the right skills level amongst participants.
• How to maintain flow in short workshops with a large number of participants.
• How to standardize the output of the workshop and document the outcome.
• LEGO® materials and logistics and how to prepare in general.

What is to be gained from this process?

PART 1

What will you gain?

• Two ‘plug and play’ formats for short LSP workshops (2.0 and 3.5 hrs) and hands on experience by trying them out.
• Tips and tricks to standardize output and to document the outcome.
• Best practices regarding planning, LEGO® materials and logistics.
• Reflection on design and facilitation with a focus on flow.

PART 2

What will you gain?

• Practical experience on planning and facilitating short LSP workshops.
• Peer learning and feedback on planning short workshops, based on cases brought by the participants and group work.
• Tips and tricks to plan and facilitate short, fun, creative and impactful workshops.

PRE-WORK

In part 2 of this advanced training, we work on cases brought by the participants, to apply what the participants learned in part 1, hence maximizing the learning.

Prior to the advanced training, we will ask you what exciting case you want to bring to the table.

INTRODUCING LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®  – Real Time Purpose® 

A new approach to explore and challenge the purpose of a business and/or an organization leading to a revised and improved value proposition and operating model.

• • The big WHY
  • Why do we exist?
  • Why are we unique?
  • The big WHAT
  • What needs are we going to fulfill?
  • What are we going to offer?
  • The big HOW
  • How are we going to position us?
  • How are we going to deliver?
  • Our future value proposition.
  • Our operating model of the future.

What is to be gained from this process?

The approach is grounded in validated theories and models.

Participants get to explore their own business and/or organization.

Participant are trained in a new LSP approach and application that can be used internally and/or externally at clients.

Introducing advanced training 4: play and lego® serious play® in higher education

This advanced training provides an in-depth exploration of play-related and playful practices in Higher Education through LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.

We will use a mixture of approaches – building, discussion, presentation, coaching and reflection           – to explore why learning through play is valuable in higher education.

We will use these approaches as the bedrock for examining present and possible uses of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in HE.

Throughout the day you will be able to consider how different examples may apply in your context, and examine your own use of, and ideas concerning, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in HE.

We will engage in many practical activities, all of which have roots in the theory and literature of education and play across the disciplines.

What is to be gained from this process?

• Deepen your understanding of play-based and playful learning in HE.
• Expand your awareness of current uses of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in HE.
• Develop your own skills and insights in using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in HE.
• Gain knowledge and insights into designing LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® activities for HE contexts.
• Refresh and practice your facilitator skills and the etiquette and principles of LSP in a higher education setting.

All previous trained facilitators in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method are welcome at this training; whether you are new to the use of play and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in HE, or if you already have experience with both.

If you are interested in supporting advanced adult learning in formal settings and how you can use play/LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to add meaning and value to these, this advanced training is for you.

Introducing the micro certification for higher education

This totally new programme presents the core concept and elements of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in a new way, with a focus on working in higher education, so that you can bring your own educational context into view.

THE LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® MICRO CERTIFICATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION PROVIDES A VERSATILE TOOLBOX FOR TUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS.

With our Micro Certification, you will be able to design and facilitate short sample sessions as well as extensive workshops or classes using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method.

YOUR LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® TOOLBOX WILL ALLOW YOU:

• to improve learning by boosting student motivation and engagement;
• to make learning experiences memorable;
• to cater for a diverse cohort including students who learn better using multisensory approaches; ​
• to provide alternatives to the use of writing and text, where other media are more effective or relevant;​
• to maximise the ability of all students to  participate and progress, irrespective of social, cultural, work-related or educational backgrounds​.
• or from an institution point of view, to be able to review how the institution operates and finding imaginative, resourceful and creative solutions, both short term fixes and long-term measures.​

Target Group:

Our training is targeted towards people who work in higher education, irrespective of role, seniority or experience.

Read more about this certification in our brochure here!

Introducing the lego® serious play® – Real time change® certification

Talking about the change is easy. Facilitating conversations that increase readiness for change is demanding. Wisely striking the right balances to increase chances of successful implementation is a real challenge.

Inthrface exclusively offers a new LSP method (the first one in two decades) designed to help people in organizations constructively getting ready for change:

• Real Time Change® is based on proven theories about human development, sensemaking, crises management, and practical wisdom.
• Real Time Change® is designed to help groups and organizations to initiate, plan and execute change in their unique internal and external eco-systems.
• Real Time Change® incorporates a dynamic set of research-based exercises that cultivate drivers of readiness for change among groups.

What is to be gained from this process?

The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Real Time Change® facilitator training consists of four intense days focusing on the foundation of this new LSP method, necessary warm-up exercises, effective group work and debriefing, and how you can apply it to create value.

You will be trained thoroughly in two new cool concepts – which will give you a competitive advantage and new offerings to your clients: Readiness for Change and Real Time Change®.

Read about the Real Time Change® certification in this brochure!