LEARN THE LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® METHOD
LEGO Serious Play Facilitation Training USA Chicago
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitation Training and Certification
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Next Training Date

Our next face-to-face training in Chicago, USA is September 2024.

2 Day Foundation 16-17. | 2 Day Advanced 18-19. | 4 Day Full Level 16-19.

Book your place at the bottom of this page

Certified LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator Training USA Chicago

ProLevel. Gold standard.

You're a professional and want to learn from respected peers. This class will give you the facilitation skills to create outcomes in face-to-face workshops using LEGO Serious Play. Get certified by the team who train leaders at Google, Cathay Pacific, IBM, Accenture, Microsoft and even the LEGO corporation and the LEGO Foundation.

This is the gold standard of LEGO Serious Play facilitation training and teaches so much more than just working with bricks. It gives you additional facilitation skills, real practice and the confidence to work at a whole new level, including senior teams on strategic assignments.

Certified Facilitator of LEGO Serious Play

£1665 - 2 Day Foundation Training | £1665 - 2 Day Advanced Only Training
£3120 - 4 Day Full Level Training

#Practice Based Learning

We didn't invent the car, but we have electrified the way people learn.
Practice based learning rules LEGO Serious Play

LEGO Serious Play is a 20 year old method, and for most of that period classes have been taught by a master who facilitates larger groups for up to a week. SeriousGlobal is the Tesla of the LEGO Serious Play world. We didn't invent the car, but we have electrified the way people learn and evolved the traditional way the method is taught.

The fundamental difference is that our training is powered by learners facilitating. This is akin to training 'from the back of the room'. You can only learn so much by watching a seasoned master trainer facilitate. You learn to facilitate by facilitating. This class is for professionals who want to deliver gold standard workshops. Be part of the future. Learn with the practitioners at the cutting edge.
See the course outline and flow >
Before, during and after training >
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2 Day Foundation Training

Course outline and flow

Before training
+ Get joining instructions, share dietary needs
+ Get access to Circle (more on that below)
+ Optionally download books and pre-read

During Day 1
+ The LEGO Serious Play skills build
+ The LEGO Serious Play facilitation fundamentals
+ Practice facilitating the LEGO Serious Play skills build
+ Experience the shared model build process
+ Practice cycle #1 shared model build facilitation
+ Build Level 3: System Models overview
+ LEGO Serious Play and team building

During Day 2
+ Vital steps in workshop design and prep
+ Learning from case studies of LEGO Serious Play
+ Practice cycle #2 shared model build facilitation
+ Designing a workshop session
+ Key lessons in preparing a successful online workshop
+ Facilitate your first 2 hour workshop. Practice all skills learnt
+ Questions that remain
+ Course learning, certification, next steps and close


2 Day Advanced Training

Course outline and flow

During Day 1
+ The system thinking context - what is a system?
+ Building a system model build: participants co-facilitate
+ Introduction to Build Level 3 frameworks
+ Scenario design
+ Facilitating the insight stage
+ Homework task - design and plan your own Build Level 3 workshop

During Day 2
+ The four stages of effective meetings
+ Facilitating the insight stage practice
+ Vital steps in workshop design and prep
+ 'Catalytic Mechanisms' and 'New Metrics'
+ Review homework task
+ Learning from case studies of LEGO Serious Play
+ Simple guiding principles of systems workshops
+ What follows? Strategic Planning frameworks
+ Action planning and learning
+ Questions that remain
+ Course learning, certification, next steps and close

After training
+ Lifetime access to our 'graduate only' Circle group
+ A one to one session with your trainer before your first big workshop
LEGO Serious Play Facilitation Training USA. New York. East Coast
Practice-based learning, applied

After training

What will you do after?
Online LEGO SERIOUS PLAY
After training - a short video
In this short video our graduates talk about their experiences after training
Training is only useful when you apply the skills you have learnt. Rather than read our claims about our training, in this short video (3:18), made by graduates of our training, you can hear what they have done after learning with us. Enjoy.
In the words of our graduates

#With Gratitude

'Engaging, emotive, fun'
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Read customers words
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Edward Mackle
Global Innovation Director at Accenture
"Myself and 3 other colleagues from the LEGO Foundation attended Sean's LEGO Serious Play Facilitator training. I can't recommend the training enough - it was hands-on, engaging and highly enjoyable. Crucially, the training encouraged us to hone our LSP facilitation skills. Highly recommend".
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Julian King
International Leadership Development, Executive Coach & Facilitator
"A couple of weeks ago, Sean skillfully took us - a team of 8 experienced, seen-it-all facilitators - through Levels 1&2 LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. I cannot think of a better role model as a facilitator, and the tool is simply awesome:)"
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Adela Barrio
Knowledge, Innovation and Communication team
Inter American Development Bank
"SeriousWork was a Google discovery, literally. And we cannot be happier with the results! After a long online research, we realized that SeriousWork had the perfect profile to train 24 staff as facilitators of LEGO Serious Play and facilitate two strategic planning sessions.

Regarding the training, the outcome was better than we expected. It was hands-on, and thoroughly enjoyable; Sean gave us examples that were relevant to our corporate mission. And most importantly, he not only demonstrated complete mastery in the use of the methodology, but also provided powerful insights beyond his book and material".
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Paul Brown
Coach
I have had the pleasure of being instructed by Sean on two different Lego Serious Play courses now and I have to say, both times I spent a fantastic couple of days learning and doing the practices with him and the other wonderful people who shared the training experience with me.

I am a huge fan of what and how Sean does what he does - I have learned SO much from him. He is the kind of mentor / teacher everyone wants and deserves; thoughtful, strong, hugely knowledgeable, empathetic and with a level of technical and interpersonal skill that I have rarely seen.
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Xiao Zhang
Discovering the Joy of Work
It is very rare to see one person exhibits all the attributes of a great trainer, and Sean is one of those “unicorns”! I could say the same for the two days online LSP course - well designed for adult learning, adapted to the online delivery environment, brilliantly executed! These two days have made the lockdown all worth it for me!
Some companies talk trash, make untrue claims about themselves. We don't, but what our clients say about us, what they think or feel, is of more value. There's a reason our founder Sean has over 50 recommendations on LinkedIn. With huge gratitude to all who we have taught.
We wrote the books, you can now own them

Instructions included

Price includes our three books
450 pages of LEGO Serious Play wisdom, in three full colour books coming your way.
We are the only trainers in the world to have written three books on the method. SERIOUSWORK is now a 3rd edition and has 88 global ratings on Amazon plus average review score of 4.5.

MASTERING and ONLINE, both published in 2020 have over 30 global ratings on Amazon and an average score of 4.9. Did we mention we're the pioneers of ONLINE LEGO Serious Play? You will get a copy of that too.
Serious Work Book: HOW TO FACILITATE LEGO SERIOUS PLAY MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS ISBN 0995664706
MASTERING THE LEGO SERIOUS PLAY METHOD Sean Blair
HOW TO FACILITATE THE LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® METHOD ONLINE
Focused and intensive
15 hours
This class is two full days, 09.00-18:00. 18 hours classroom time and 15 hours learning. High quality venues and food included.
Small groups of 8 - max
Practice based learning means small class sizes, so every person can take a turn to facilitate the group on both days
Your certificate will look a bit like…
As the only practice-based trainings these certificates are the highest value on offer. Click to see a big one.
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Did someone say library? community? database?

Graduates level Circle access

Helping you become a better facilitator
Graduates get graduate level access to our *new *online Circle community, where people communicate, share knowledge and learn together.

This is a meeting space for our new series of events, a library of knowledge for trained LEGO Serious Play facilitators and a new Micro-modules learning space to learn latest techniques. This is a golden goose of a resource where we post far more than just tips on LEGO Serious Play, but help you a become better facilitator able to deliver gold standard workshops. Your fee includes lifetime access to graduate level access of our Circle community.
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Master every part of the 4 step process

Process mastery

Learn the 4th step
The fourth step of the LSP process is no secret. What's weird is how little credence other trainers give to what we consider is the facilitator 'masterstroke': an elegant reflection stage. We'll teach you how we've combined other effective facilitation tools with the reflection stage to guide groups to real breakthrough.
LEGO Serious Play 4 step process - reflection stage
Design and planning, a key skill

Design is the key

Learn to plan like a pro
As we said in technique #1 of our second book, "Success, by design, during preparation". Oddly the part of our training we like teaching the best, and that most students find the most powerful has nothing to do with LEGO bricks. Let us show you how to the a professional LEGO Serious Play facilitator.
LEGO Serious Play 4 step process

Book your place

When do you want to attend?

Each course has maximum of 8 people. Book a 2 day Foundation, or if you are already trained and want to learn advanced system level workshop facilitation, you may attend our 2 day advanced only.

Or cover the whole course in 4 days learning all build levels. To book your spot please choose your location and date by using the drop down menus

2 Day Foundation
Build Level 1 & 2

£1665

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2 Day Advanced
Build Level 3 Only

£1665

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4 Day Full Training
Build Level 1, 2 & 3

£3120

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Or Visit the shop to see all SERIOUSWORK trainings

More payment options. To pay a 50% deposit, use a different currency or pay by bank transfer, please email your chosen course / date to the lovely Helen@Serious.Global who will organise your payment the way you want.

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