Become a Lego® Serious Play® Facilitator with our training

In our Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator Training or in our LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Basics Training you can learn the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method. The training provides you with the necessary basics and methods and trains you to develop and facilitate your own workshops based on the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method. 

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Lego® Serious Play® is versatile in its use

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With the Lego® Serious Play® process, you develop a new understanding of your project together, whether it is a new business model, a new culture, strategy or innovation.

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Ideas, thought models and visions are brought to life with LEGO models and remain in memory.

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Lego is not a toy here, but a prototyping material, so that ideas are discussed and developed in a comprehensible way on the model.

What is Lego® Serious Play®?

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) is used in companies, teams and also with individuals to promote new ideas, improve communication and accelerate problem solving. In the workshops customised by StrategicPlay® for the clients, the participants work out, for example:

  • New business strategies
  • You develop and optimise cooperation in the team
  • You analyse crisis situations
  • They develop solution concepts for this

With the innovative LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® process, unique, sustainable and practical solutions to complex issues are developed and immediately implemented. Major international companies such as EBAY, NOKIA and MICROSOFT already use it to authentically formulate their brand identity, develop innovative ideas and strategies, support the formation of high-performance teams or effectively accompany change processes.

There are two main LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® processes: 

  • Real Time Strategy for the Enterprise: Strategy Development
  • Real Time Identity for the Team: Optimising Teams

StrategicPlay® has adapted and further developed these basic processes for a wide range of applications:

  • Diversity: Diversity as a strategic success factor
  • Brand Identity: Developing a clear and unique brand identity
  • Project management: starting projects quickly and effectively
  • Project teams: Creating effective project teams and motivating them sustainably
  • Risk management: Identify risks and develop alternative strategies
  • Product development: Designing innovative products and services
  • Change management: starting change processes and implementing them effectively
  • Networking: design conferences full of energy and actively involve participants

In addition, StrategicPlay® specialises in developing new applications for your individual goals.

The Benefits of Lego® Serious Play®

LEGO® is fun and anyone can build with LEGO®. You don't need any artistic or craft talent to express yourself (as with painting, for example). LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® materials are particularly versatile and stimulate the imagination. And with LEGO® three-dimensional representations are possible and everything that is built is reversible, restorable and adaptable.

Where does the Lego® Serious Play® method come from?

Developed by LEGO® in collaboration with the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne (IMD), the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method offers unique solutions to unlock the full potential and creativity of a team or an entire organisation. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is based on the latest knowledge in systems thinking, brain research, strategy and game development.

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Lego® Serious Play® at a glance

Fast and efficient solutions

The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® process uses LEGO® bricks and makes it possible to get to the heart of the matter quickly. Using LEGO® models as condensed but information-rich metaphors, even complex issues are presented in a clear, understandable and memorable way. And the safe - because playful - environment of the workshops makes it easy to discuss even critical points. Through the in-depth dialogue of the participants, better decisions are made in less time. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® shortens the development of innovative strategies to a few days of intensive joint work by the management team.

Team building and team cohesion

A LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop not only helps to develop innovative ideas and strategies, but also serves team building. Because here the team gets to know each other again in a different environment and atmosphere. The playful, creative exchange gives the individual team members a different insight into their respective ways of thinking and approaches. This makes it even easier to respond to each other and to complement each other's ideas. In addition, joint activities and a sense of achievement strengthen the feeling of togetherness.

Co-creative strategy development process

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a co-creative strategy development process that teams use to prototype visions and business models. During a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop, all participants are 100% engaged and attentive for the entire duration. This is not comparable to normal meetings that define everyday managerial life. The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® concept uses the human imagination to gain deep insight into existing challenges and to develop new solutions. This taps into a creativity that is all too often deeply buried. This also makes radically new things possible.

Lego® Serious Play® is unbeatable for

  • Develop common visions, values and principles
  • Making complexity visible and comprehensible
  • Shape a new, clear and shared vision of the future of the product, brand or company
  • Reposition teams or divisions within the company
  • To develop a common language and a common identity
  • Effectively improve teamwork
  • Finding effective solutions and ensuring their sustainable success

Our training contents at a glance

Corona security measures

Due to Corona, our trainings will soon take place exclusively with 4 instead of 8 maximum participants. There will then also be several dates for this. Our large workshop room offers enough space to maintain the safety distance and we provide sufficient safety measures to bridge the time until Corona. 

Our Training Offer - Your Lego® Serious Play® Training

Lego® Serious Play® Basic Training

1 day training

Would you like to get started with LEGO® Serious Play® and use it to facilitate workshops, but don't want to get certified at first?

Learn the key principles and process steps and how to facilitate a workshop of up to three hours.

Lego® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training

Intensive 3 days training

Would you like to be fully trained and certified in LEGO® Serious Play®?

Then come to our three-day Lego® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training. Here you will learn intensively the different Lego® Serious Play® processes and everything you need to know about designing and facilitating with Lego® Serious Play®.

Lego® Serious Play® Basic Training (1 day)

 1. what awaits the participants? An intensive training day:

For the participants, this means a dynamic alternation between theory, practical implementation and reflection on what they have learned. Our promise: The essence is so vivid and the learning success so great that each participant can design and facilitate their own short 30-minute or even up to 3-hour workshop based on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® afterwards.

This one-day training teaches you the basic steps necessary to develop and facilitate your own workshops based on the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ method. You will learn how a warm-up familiarises participants with the method and how they then individually prototype and present their thinking models on complex problems.

If you want to go deeper into the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology and learn complete strategy and team development processes: attend the 3-day training to become a Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator.

2. that's why you can after an intense day of training:

Use Lego® Serious Play® to support teams in team building, retrospectives, strategy definition or innovation.
Design and facilitate workshops based on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® as a facilitator - from a short 30-minute to a 3-hour format!

3. who is the training for?

For all interested people and experts with team leadership and group facilitation experience who want to learn in one day how "rapid prototyping" of thought models with Lego® works! Also for beginners with and without team leadership experience.

4. our training content

  • Warm Up steps to prepare participants for the unfamiliar work with Lego®.
  • Visualise and actively design thinking models with Lego®.
  • Principles of the Lego® Serious Play® Method
  • 4 basic steps of the Lego® Serious Play™ basic process: building, giving meaning, storytelling and reflection.
  • Scientific background on how Lego® Serious Play® works
  • Difference between Lego® Serious Play® Facilitation and "normal" facilitation
  • You will get to know all processes and principles from the participant's perspective as well as from the facilitator's perspective!

Training schedule

Day 1 (9.00 to approx. 18.00)

  • Focus on warm up steps to prepare participants for the unfamiliar work with LEGO
  • Focus on LEGO® Serious Play® for teams
  • Workshop design and preparation of the first own Lego® Serious Play® workshop
  • The role of the Lego® Serious Play® Facilitator
  • Complementary methods for Lego® Serious Play® workshops

Small groups up to max. 8 people

Lego® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training (3 days)

 1. what awaits the participants? Three days of intensive training:

You will learn intensively in small teams of up to 8 participants
You will experience and learn the complete Lego® Serious Play® processes for team and strategy on each of the first two training days
You will test and complete what you have learned on the third day by designing and leading your own first Lego® Serious Play® workshop.
You will learn more about theoretical background knowledge, complementary methods and get numerous tips & tricks from us about Lego® Serious Play®.
And this from the original: StrategicPlay®, the official German-speaking training provider and lead partner for LEGO® SERIOUS LAY®.

Participants in our training can expect a dynamic alternation between theory, practical implementation and reflection on what they have learned.

2. after three successful training days you will:

Use Lego® Serious Play® to support teams in team building, retrospectives, strategy definition or innovation.
Design and facilitate workshops based on Lego® Serious Play® as a facilitator - from a short 45-minute to an extensive 1-2-day format!

3. who is the training for?

For all interested people and experts with team leadership and group facilitation experience.

4. our training content

  • Visualise and actively design thinking models with Lego®.
  • Principles of the Lego® Serious Play® Method
  • 4 basic steps of the Lego® Serious Play® basic process: building, giving meaning, storytelling and reflection.
  • Lego® Serious Play® processes for strategy and team development
  • Scientific background on how Lego® Serious Play® works
  • Difference between Lego® Serious Play® Facilitation and "normal" facilitation
  • You will learn about all processes and principles from the participant's perspective as well as from the facilitator's perspective.

Training schedule

Day 1 (9.00 to approx. 18.00)

  • Focus on Lego® Serious Play® for teams
  • The Lego® Serious Play®
  • Real Time Identity for the Team" process
  • The role of the Lego® Serious Play® Facilitator
  • Complementary methods for Lego® Serious Play® workshops

Day 2 (9.00 to approx. 19.00)

Plan more time for the second training day in the evening: Here you and your training team will prepare the facilitation of your first own workshop with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.

  • Focus on Lego® Serious Play® in strategy and innovation development
  • The Lego® Serious Play® Process "Real Time Strategy for the Enterprise
  • "Thinking from within" with Lego® Serious Play®"
  • Workshop design and preparation of the first own Lego® Serious Play® workshop

Day 3 (9.00 to approx. 18.00)

  • Focus on Lego® Serious Play® practice: implementation of a strategy workshop by the participants
  • Retrospective, feedback and final tips and tricks to enhance learning after the practice session.

Small groups up to max. 8 people

Training costs

Lego® Serious Play® Basic Training (1 day)

(For early bookers there is also our Earliest & Early Bird offer.) You can book the training via our event platform Eventbrite or by using our booking form.

Costs included:

  • Catering: snacks, lunch, drinks
  • Writing material
  • Comprehensive seminar documentation
  • and lots of personal tips and tricks
  • Certificate of attendance (no certificate)

Lego® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training (3 days)

(Early bird bookers can also take advantage of our Earliest & Early Bird offer.) You can book the training via our event platform Eventbrite or by filling out our booking form.

Costs included:

  • Catering: snacks, lunch, drinks
  • Writing material
  • Comprehensive seminar documentation
  • Official certificate of participation
  • 3 Lego® Serious Play® Starter Kits
  • and lots of personal tips and tricks 
Meike Christiansen
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - January 2023
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"The practical relevance and the tips concerning the concrete application are worth their weight in gold! :-)"
Peter Mayr - Trainer in the field of management development and sales
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - January 2023
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"Totally hands-on, lots of examples, competent trainer."
Uwe Sliwke - Systemic Leadership Coach
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - November 2022
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"Very good mix of theory and practice including feedback rounds."
Kristin - Chapter Lead
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - September 2022
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Highlights, learnings, specifics, insights, etc.: "Taking time to understand things but also to really do them. Also to fall together over the odd stumbling block and laugh! And experiencing facilitation from the back of the room with a lightness yet seriousness."
Verena Sammer
CoCreACT® Certified Facilitator Training - September 2022
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"A great recommendation for all those who want to explore a lack of clarity and use it co-creatively. The training offers confidence, methodological safety, and a jam-packed toolbox to guide teams step by step in ambiguity."
Pamela - Senior Consultant, Teamlead Customer Experience
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - October 2021
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"Very vivid knowledge transfer, open for every question, high experience value was transported in the instructions."
Daniela - Organisational Developer and Human Resources Manager
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - September 2021
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"Highlight: Our highly motivated trainer, who really managed to get everything out of us and gave us great support the whole time. Learning: Even if the participants don't know it yet - there's still something to be done! Special features: Small group of open-minded people who shaped the future together - Futur2! Findings: It always goes on somehow in the training - even if it feels completely different (for the facilitator) at the moment."
Petra Keiten - Dipl.-Psychologin
LEGO® Serious Play® Online Basic Training - September 2021
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"Dear Katrin, this excellent training is worth more than 5 stars: it was short, yet very clear, always concrete, understandable and so inspiring. I feel excellently picked up through the introduction and the further structure, with an eye on the flow. Everything was just right: in terms of content, method and people. You created an online space where everything was possible. I was able to experience how the power of creativity emerged from thinking with my hands. Many thanks for that! The time went by incredibly fast and I had so much fun. The Basic Training makes me want to do more."
Chris - ERP Consultant
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - June 2021
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"Super space, great trainer, hands-on-learning, got into the (positive) shallows of LSP; learning means making mistakes and there was an open and safe atmosphere for that."
Training Participant - HR Business Partner
LEGO® Serious Play® Online Basic Training - May 2021
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"The training was very entertaining and a lot of fun. The content was conveyed very well. I liked the mix with Zoom and Miro. In addition to LSP, I was also able to learn more about Miro's methods.
Sven - Digital Strategist
LEGO® Serious Play® Online Basic Training - January 2021
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"Very good moderation, top preparation and implementation (Miro Boards, Zoom, etc.), content on point. Simply very good."
Tanja Laudinski - Independent Trainer & Coach
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - December 2020
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"It was a successful three days all round. Professionally conveyed contents. Clear and direct communication. All accompanied by lightness and a good dose of fun. They were very exhausting and challenging days, but they gave me a high learning curve. Permanent "Flow with the Glow". Many AHA moments and Katrin is right... on the last day all the pieces of the puzzle really fall into place and form a complete picture :-)"
Juliane - Organisational Developer
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - December 2020
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"It was incredibly fun to develop visions and strategies with Lego, the training was varied, challenging and extremely professional."
Florian Leiss
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - July 2020
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"The process was well organised before, during and after the training, as well as the whole surrounding. The training was always first doing and then meaningful theory. The mood and flow were consistently good. The content of the talks was challenging and inspiring. The method and the workshops help me in my work as a trainer to approach topics differently with new techniques and to achieve better results."
Training participants
LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - June 2020
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"I give the training full marks because it was a small group, the level was very high and challenging from the first moment. I was well challenged throughout and Katrin made it so that it didn't break down ... just in the flow :) In addition, we got on really well as a team and had a lot of respect.
Katja Summer
CoCreACT® Get Curious about your Ambiguity Workshop - May 2020
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"I left very uplifted. The co-facilitation between Katrin and Tamara was very conducive to the retreat. Also the play list really helped me enjoy the exercises. And I moved forward with an issue that was more in the back of my head. Now I can grab it better and have ideas for the next iteration. THANK YOU!"
Hans-Jochen
CoCreACT® Acting in Ambiguity Workshop - May 2020
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"Great experience to work remotely with a bunch of people from across the globe in one tool, the ambiguity principles are very well thought through and thus extremely helpful in applying to an ambiguous challenge".
Vivien
CoCreACT® Acting in Ambiguity Workshop - May 2020
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"So much insights. CoCreAct is a very good model to work with. Inspired by all the different people who take part in the course and share their experience, situations and are very open-minded. And it is much fun. Thanks a LOT! :)"
Workshop participants
CoCreACT® Acting in Ambiguity Workshop - May 2020
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"Engaging activities, great group dynamics, lots of content".
Workshop participants
CoCreACT® Acting in Ambiguity Workshop - May 2020
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"Interactive, good nudges for personal challenge, light and warm facilitation".
Training participants
Lego® Serious Play® Online Taster Training - April 2020
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"Fun, super timing, very good facilitation, took away a lot of new things and got curious."
Training participants
Lego® Serious Play® Online Taster Training - April 2020
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"Technically no problems, small group, intensive, good instruction, pleasant learning environment."
Eberhard
CoCreACT® Acting in Ambiguity Workshop - April 2020
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"The course was amazing. Beneath the perfect technical setup, the moderation from Katrin and Tamara transported a lot of positive vibes over the virtual environment. It was well structured, focused and very inspiring. I got really some eye-opener regarding content and roles of how people handle ambiguity. I guess I should say, feel some eye opener, which is the best way of learning."
Anthony Billoni
CoCreACT® Acting in Ambiguity Workshop - March 2020
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"No wasted time space or distracting info in 90 minutes. Used 1 engaging activity to illustrate the teaching and followed up with an easy to follow lesson on what we did."
Meike Christiansen
Lego® Serious Play® BASIC Training - December 2019
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"An all-round successful training: pure inspiration and a lot of attention to detail. I was able to take away a lot and can wholeheartedly recommend the training!
Catrin Schreiber
Lego® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - October 2019
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"Thank you again for the great training, the comprehensive documents and the starter kit! Since I was so enthusiastic about the well-structured process and your training concept, I immediately followed the impulse and registered for the CoCreACT® training in January. My colleague (..) was a bit "jealous" after our last exchange or brainstorming on a workshop design. She had done her LSP Certified Facilitator training elsewhere and noticed that your training input (including the great document) is much more substantial, especially with regard to the background information, the workshop design and the facilitator tips, and that the insights from the training are obviously clearly noticeable! Now that's praise :-). By the way, I am especially grateful for the tip that the warm-ups can also be used in the context of clarifying the assignment - that really kills several birds with one stone!"
Oliver Winter
Lego® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training - October 2019
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"I can recommend the Lego® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator Training to anyone who is engaged in developing visions and strategies in a playful yet very serious way. Personally, the training gave me many new, surprising insights for my work with product teams. I'm already very excited to see how it works live, so I'm especially happy about your offer of the coaching session!"
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Closed group training

We offer closed trainings, individually tailored to the requirements and challenges of your team or organisation. Contact us for an individual offer. Please feel free to contact us. We may be able to answer some of your questions in advance:

  • We can hold closed trainings at a location of your choice. We don't need much for this: daylight, moveable tables, chairs, free walls and lots of space.
  • The classic training price includes the implementation of the training, training documents, break catering and lunch on the three training days. The special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® material is provided by us for the duration of the training. These contents may vary when booking a closed training. In this case, the respective offer conditions apply.
  • StrategicPlay® trainings are very intensive and have a high practical component, therefore the group size in the open trainings is limited to a maximum of 8 participants. We can also offer company-specific (closed) trainings with several trainers and thus for larger groups. Due to the high interactivity of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method, we need at least three participants to ensure learning success.
  • The classic training price includes the implementation of the training, training documents, break catering and lunch on the three training days. The special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® material is provided by us for the duration of the training. These contents may vary when booking a closed training. In this case, the respective offer conditions apply.

Your trainer - Katrin Elster

Founder of StrategicPlay® and CoCreACT® and expert in playful co-creativity.
Building the future together, playing with visions and business models, unleashing the full potential of diverse teams - that's what moves Katrin Elster. With StrategicPlay® she is an expert in the skills that determine the future: Solving complex problems and co-creatively shaping new things.

Since 2006, she has been a Master Trainer for LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, a co-creative strategy development process that teams use to prototype visions and business models. In addition, she organises playful un-conferences such as play4agile and play4innovation. In 2016, she co-founded the association Crea Germany e.V. to promote creative design skills in schools and society.

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