LEGO® Serious Play® Labs
Team workshops that help you think better, talk honestly, and move forward.
This is more than building with bricks. It's a smarter way to connect and solve problems together.
LEGO® Serious Play® labs are hands on, high trust engagement sessions that get valuable outcomes in a creative way.
Using the research backed facilitation method of LEGO® Serious Play®, I facilitate teams to work through challenges by building, sharing and reflecting with LEGO. It sounds simple, but it transforms the conversation.
In most meetings, the loudest voice wins. But in my LEGO® Serious Play® labs, everyone builds. This means that everyone contributes and hierarchy is flattened. Allowing for better ideas to be raised, and more honest conversations to unfold.
It's a practical, fast, and incredibly effective way for getting teams to open their mind, get unstuck and re-energised.
Designed for teams who are scaling, shifting, or want a unique way to approach outcomes:
Leadership teams needing focus, trust, or alignment.
Product, ops, or innovation teams solving messy or complex challenges.
Cross-functional teams struggling to communicate clearly.
People teams working on vision, values, or ways of working.
Creative teams who thrive on exploring new concepts and sparking off each other.
Designed for teams who are scaling, shifting, or want a unique way to approach outcomes.
Before we run a Lab, teams often tell me:
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Its usually the most senior person in the room doing the talking and setting the direction
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Meetings get political and personal.
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We talk about abstract ideas and concepts that can be difficult to understand and follow.
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We don’t communicate well, and people with good ideas and inputs don’t always get heard
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We have a neuro diverse team and we don’t know how to engage them
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We don’t have enough collaboration in the team because of a lack of trust
A LEGO® Serious Play® Lab gives you the clarity, energy, and engagement to get to the outcomes.
Real life transformations
We asked Safinity to run a workshop for our teachers and mentors as part of our start-of-year training. With so many new staff joining, and teams spread out across the UK, we needed something that would help people connect quickly, feel part of a team, and start the year on the same page.
The sessions were really engaging. Everyone was involved from the start, and the LEGO Serious Play approach gave people a different way of sharing their strengths and ideas. What stood out was how quickly staff who had barely met before opened up, talked about what they bring to the team, and began to find common ground.
By the end of each session, every team had built a shared model of what their “ideal team environment” should look like. This sparked useful discussions about what success means for them and how they can support each other, especially when working remotely.
The feedback from staff has been very positive. They came away knowing more about their colleagues, clearer on their team identity, and more confident about working together. It was a high-output, energising start to the year, and we’ve got something tangible to refer back to as the term unfolds
EK Outreach Services
"The planning and research Chris put into our workshop is second to none. From our very first call, Chris took the time to understand our business, our people, our values and our goals, helping us to build a future-proof workshop that engaged the whole team and provided a fun activity with an opportunity to learn more about ourselves and each other."
JGA Recruitment Group
"Myself and my two co founders came to Chris to reflect on the first year of building Una, with the aim of assessing how we worked together, a review of the key projects and an overall assessment of how we performed. Chris ran two brilliant workshops with us, expertly facilitating enabling us to get to the core of the issues that mattered, and crucially, helping us line up a clear list of priorities to focus on. It was not only a really fun process, but we all feel more confident in setting ourselves up for the best possible chance of success."
Una Health
Better conversations build better teams
LEGO® Serious Play® gets people talking, listening, and thinking in ways they usually don’t. It creates space for teams to be honest, break through stuck thinking, and find the clarity to move forward together. This is so much for than playing with LEGO.
Choose a format that fits, or let's shape one together
Lab Type | Outcome | Time |
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Re-Energising Teams | Rebuild team morale and connection after change | 4 hours |
Innovation Sprint | Break out of stale thinking and move fast | 4 hours |
Vision & Values Lab | Reconnect to what matters most and how you channel this | 4 hours |
Strategy Lab | Turn big ideas into practical next steps | 4 hours |
Leadership Alignment Lab | Rebuild trust and direction with honest conversations | 4 hours |
Facilitated to create real outcomes
Define what you are exploring and solving.
Use LEGO to surface ideas, thoughts, and possibilities. Then the creativity and divergent thinking happens.
Using metaphors and story telling, sharing leads to individual and group reflection.
Need notes, visuals, or next steps captured? We’ll make sure the work lives on beyond the session.
What makes this work different when you do it with me?
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I’ve spent 18 years leading product and project delivery , aligning strategies and continuously improving team performance in fast-moving tech and product orgs, and the teams that support them.
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I’m a facilitator and a certified coach trained to navigate stuck thinking and improve collaboration
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I don’t do tick-the-box workshops. This work gets under the surface and delivers real outcomes in an engaging way.
LEGO, SERIOUS PLAY, the Minifigure and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this website.
The LEGO Group developed the LEGO® Serious Play® method and now allow anyone to use it under a creative commons licence. The training material on this site uses, modifies and extends the LEGO® Serious Play® method as outlined in the The LEGO Group Open Source Guide.
LEGO encourage people to get trained in the LEGO® Serious Play® method to ensure sessions are delivered to a high standard. They don’t run any official LSP training programs themselves and have chosen not to endorse any particular external training provider. As such the training material on this site is not sponsored or endorsed by The LEGO Group.
LEGO® Serious Play® Labs FAQ's
Nope. In fact, the less you overthink it, the better. The bricks are there to help you externalise your thinking, not build sculptures.
Yes. I regularly run Labs with exec teams. It works well because it cuts through formalities and invites honesty.
Labs are usually half-day or full-day. We’ll work around what’s realistic for your team.
Yes. It works best in person, but I’ve run powerful Labs online too. We just ship LEGO kits and plan for a little extra structure.
This isn’t sticky notes and breakout groups. It’s hands-on, fast-paced, and feels more real than most sessions they’ve been to.
Pricing depends on the format and scope. Book a quick call and I’ll talk you through options.