Was an absolute pleasure designing and delivering these workshops with EK Outreach Services to support their growth journey Truly the most caring and inspiring tutors and mentors - so to design team building and team vision workshops for them delivered to over 80 people in multiple smaller groups was an absolute pleasure! There was alot of laughter in these groups! Blown away by the feedback too - cue cheesy bit - its actually what makes doing it really worth it. hashtag#legoseriousplay hashtag#lsp hashtag#teambuilding hashtag#teamalignment

Mate, grow up, playing with LEGO isn't a job… Below is pretty much a chat I had with someone about LEGO® Serious Play® the other day when I told them what I did for work, here's how it went So what do you do? take LEGO to companies and play? No 😁 I facilitate sessions using LEGO® Serious Play® as a tool to enhance communication, creativity, and collaboration among teams and people. Isn't LEGO just for kids? No. LSP is used by adults in lot of professional settings, proving it's a valuable tool for really engaging workshops and meetings Does anyone actually take this stuff seriously? So many companies use LSP regularly, and its value is being more and widely recognized across industries. So, you get there and just make models all day long? No, LSP involves much more. It's about using the models as a way to abstract the thinking on the topic  to facilitate deeper understanding, communication, and problem-solving. How does it work? You make models then what? There's a bit more to it than that -  its a structured process that includes: CHALLENGE: Question or challenge to build to, BUILD: You build it using the LEGO SHARE: Share the meaning of your model, focusing on using metaphors REFLECT: Reflect on what you've built and its meaning in the context So what do you build? Anything and Everything, and you can build in different ways for different reasons/outcomes, from individual builds to shared or system builds, each serving unique purposes. Like what would you use it for? LSP can be used for meetings, workshops, team building, 1 to 1 conversations, problem solving, facilitation, planning, testing out potential scenarios, innovation, and much more. It is a versatile communication tool. What if you're not the creative type? You don’t need to be the creative type to participate. It's not a LEGO building competition but a method to unlock new ways of thinking. Does LEGO know you're doing this? Yes, LEGO® Serious Play® has been open source since 2010, and I operate within the community guidelines. Do you work for LEGO? No, I do not work for LEGO sadly, but I am a facilitator of the LSP method. Do you think you will be doing a lot of it? Yeah, I have been for the last 9 months, and it really works well with the other work I do, with the Agility / Continuous Improvement Consulting  and 1 to 1 coaching. It's a brilliant addition to the tools and approaches I can offer to clients. Sounds like it's just for creative companies? Not at all. It’s about the mindset, not the industry. I've delivered workshops in tech, education, banking, startup accelerators, hospitality, health tech, global food companies, recruitment, creative agencies, financial services, and more. If you, or anyone in your network, is interested in learning more about LSP and how it can be used or its benefits, drop me a DM. Let's talk bricks! 😎

Well Friday was a bucket list tick ✅ 1) Co Facilitating a lecture alongside Kent Valentine - watching him in full flow is indeed a treat 2)Delivering a LEGO Serious Play workshop as a lecture to 28 Masters students at University of the Arts London Communication School The students got creative with LSP using it explore different approaches to building a brief for their approach to creating a valuable strategy for a Digital Marketing client 3 hours 28 people 19 countries represented in the room 1 on the fly decision to tweak an exercise to deliver more value to the students 60+ models built individually, shared and reflected on 100s of metaphors used to explain the models 5 shared models built with a strong story and shared to the wider group Thanks University of Arts London for having us, cant wait to do it again!

A pleasure going to Denmark to the Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus to facilitate a few workshops using LEGO Serious Play for a team delivering research in Diabetes using AI. Adam Hulman and his team were incredibly receptive, attentive and engaged during the hybrid workshop where we did some self reflection on , growth areas, team alignment in form of a retrospective and then some team value and goal setting. If you work in research and want to know more about how LEGO Serious play can be used in to explore, innovate and enhance the work your doingfor research, get in touch and we can have a discussion about the value it can bring to your organisation

Combining my two favourite things. LEGO Serious Play and explaining Agile to a client of Stable Teams for the day! Post from Stable Teams Chris Charalambous and LEGO Serious Play injected an element of fun and a hands-on exploration into our client workshop. Our latest session took a dynamic approach to grasp the core principles of Scrum. Immerse yourself in the interactive world of LEGO Serious Play and unlock a deeper understanding of key concepts! 🧠💡 #Innovation #LearningExperience #AgileLearning #Scrum

Preparing for tomorrow's Leadership Agility day using Lego Serious Play. This is me before each workshop convincing myself I need more LEGO because I think one tiny piece I dont have will make the workshop better.... But, less is more. The metaphors are the key part of the LEGO Serious Play, and each brick meaning something is so much more impactful than building for the sake of it, and really gets people thinking differently. To find out what a leadership team can achieve with 50 bricks, message me and we can do a 1 to 1 exercise to explore the metaphors using LEGO Serious Play

Nick Drage wargaming designer and myself LEGO Serious Play Facilitator ran an experiment using two  traditionally “in person” facilitation techniques virtually! We experimented with Wargaming & LEGO Serious Play to see how effective they were online with a small group of willing participants. Why? Because Nick and I were talking, and we are both curious on each others facilitation techniques and how they translate virtually and where they can be used for the best outcomes. What did we do? We collected a few gaming and gamified learning enthusiasts and facilitators, and created 2 workshops one for wargaming and one for LEGO Serious Play and played out some hypotheses. Key Takeaways – there's definitely value and reward in doing these sessions virtually, yet lots more to explore and refine in the approach. Prep is key. What wargame format or LSP activity would you like to see in the next experiment? Thanks to Aimee Smith Kent Valentine Ben Saich Jemma 🦸‍♀️ for participating hashtag#legoseriousplay hashtag#lsp hashtag#wargaming hashtag#facilitation

Working with a C Suite Leader last week on their personal goals around their approach to their next steps with their business, LSP was part of the session followed by some mapping out to get to clarity The feedback was positive and clear :

Workshop ready! ish…. Delivery of 100 LEGO® Serious Play Window Exploration Bag kits (and a few freebies too) for all the upcoming workshops from now and up to Christmas. There’s: 3 Team building workshops A strategy session exploring options for a established agency Exploring AI workshop using LSP A large project kick off And even a LEGO® Serious Play vs wargaming remote experiment that I’m facilitating If you want to have a chat about how you can use LEGO® Serious Play to add more value to what your doing book a call in and we can build to explore https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrischaralambous/recent-activity/all/

This took me years to comprehend, and be ok with. I learn best through doing and being hands on ,visual and in the moment. I also didn’t know there was a word that described learning from doing “Kinaesthetic” learning, but finding this out made me feel so much better that I wasn’t in the minority! Thinking about this in my daily work with clients and the workshops I run and how I am always making my workshops as interactive as possible (maybe for my own benefit) I decided it was time to finally to do what I have been thinking about for years.. get trained to deliver LEGO® Serious Play® workshops! Big thanks to Inthrface for the incredible 4 days learning in Billund the home of LEGO®, and all of the other great people I had the privilege of learning with in June this year to become a LEGO® Serious Play® Certified Facilitator. Yeah yeah I know I’m a bit late. But now that I have delivered a few of these workshops, I have to say I’m super excited to experiment with the value it can add. If youre tired of boring workshops and want to unleash your creative side to build, and story tell in a fully engaging workshop to get to your desired outcome and exploring LEGO® Serious Play® in the process - let's have a chat about using LSP !