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LEGO® Serious Play® Skills Build | 1 August 2016 | Timing 14:00 - 15:00 | Venue: Room 4

Objective
To give participants LEGO® Serious Play® skills

Time Session Facilitation Objectives Process/Notes

30 mins Set Up To get the room ready Equipment:


to deliver the
The workshop - Facilitation notes
timing - LEGO® Bricks - comfortably accessible, either in bags, in pile, in
here is horseshoe shape or in circle
based on - Timer or stopwatch (use a phone app)
6 people - 'Explain this' cards
- A3 Explainer Boards
- Optionally, music

1 min Welcome To make participants A 'from the heart' welcome that's right for the culture of the group.
feel comfortable, and Sometimes its useful to explicitly 'make it OK' for participants to feel unsure
legitimise any or even skeptical about being confronted with LEGO®.
scepticism
Ask people to trust the process and have an open mind about LEGO®
Serious Play® for the next hour.

2 mins Objectives To clarify the Begin by establishing the workshop objectives, and workshop plan or
workshop objectives roadmap

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LEGO® Serious Play® Skills Build | 1 August 2016 | Timing 14:00 - 15:00 | Venue: Room 4

Objective
To give participants LEGO® Serious Play® skills

Time Session Facilitation Objectives Process/Notes

c.12 Skills 1: To give participants 1. Challenge: Frame the task. The first task is simple, to get used to
mins Technical technical skills and connecting the bricks.
(1 min confidence to use the TASK: "You have 2 minutes to Build a Tower".
frame bricks Start timer and or play music

Music: Elvis v JXL, A Little Less Conversation

2 min Tower Build 2. Build: After 1 minute say to the participants 'you have 60 seconds
build + remaining'. After 2 minutes ask if anyone needs more time, and invite
people to stop building.

2 min Tower Share 3. Share: Tell participants: 'It's hard to listen to what others are saying
boards if you are still building, so are you all ready to hear each other's
1 min stories?'
share
each) > Facilitator Instructions:
Encourage people to tell the story of the model - pick it up - point and touch
to each part. Encourage all to listen with eyes as and ears

Tower Reflect 4. Reflect: 'What reflections do you have?' You might want to offer these
additional reflections: Simple build, every model is different. No wrong
answers

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LEGO® Serious Play® Skills Build | 1 August 2016 | Timing 14:00 - 15:00 | Venue: Room 4

Objective
To give participants LEGO® Serious Play® skills

Time Session Facilitation Objectives Process/Notes

c.10 Skills 2: To enable participants 1. Challenge: Frame the task. The second skills build helps us learn
mins Metaphor to use the bricks as how to use the bricks as metaphors. You can think of it as a game
(1 min Explain This! metaphors called Explain This!
frame
To begin let me set the challenge.
1 min
build + 2. Build TASK: "You have 30 seconds to connect 5 bricks together in
a random and meaningless way. Any bricks, any connections just a
random 5 brick model."

Start timer

2 min When everyone has a 5 brick model explain bricks as metaphors


explain Introduce 'Explain This!'

30 secs 3. Share: One by one, give people a card and invite them to explain
share their models
each)
> Facilitator: Validate the stories people tell

4. Reflect: 'What reflections do you have?'

Offer additional reflection:You can make a brick mean anything

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LEGO® Serious Play® Skills Build | 1 August 2016 | Timing 14:00 - 15:00 | Venue: Room 4

Objective
To give participants LEGO® Serious Play® skills

Time Session Facilitation Objectives Process/Notes

c.20 Skills 3: Story To enable participants 1. Challenge: Frame the task. The final skills build helps us learn how to
mins Telling to use models to tell use our models to tell stories.
(1 min stories and embed the
frame enhanced 2. Build TASK: "You have 3 minutes to build a model to tell a story
3 min communication about...
build + techniques
Start timer and or play music: Pharrell Williams - Happy.

Count down... 2 mins remaining... 1 min remaining... does anyone


need more time?
2 min
explain 3. Share: Ask people to share the stories of their models

1-2 mins > Facilitator Instructions:


share Encourage people to be curious about each others models
each
4. Reflect: 'What reflections do you have?' Trust and think with your
hands, tell the story of the model> Be interested in each others models

5 mins Reflections To invite participants After the final skills build, ask people what reflections they have. What can
to share reflections they think about LEGO® Serious Play® now? What worked well or was
from the skills build hard?

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