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What is LEGO® Serious Play®?

Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the innovation partner of NASA of every manned or unmanned mission since the inception of the space program were stumped when their Apollo program inventors began retiring and they simply could not replace their problem-solving skills, despite hiring the best of the best from MIT, Stanford and CalTec. Closer investigation concluded that recent graduates lacked the play history of their predecessors, who had built box carts, taken apart clocks and fixed appliances as children. The lost intelligence was a 2-million-year-old connection between brain and hand that had been relegated to tapping keyboards.

LEGO® Serious Play® is a method that reconnects the hand and brain, activating the whole brain in visualisation, tactile problem solving, metaphor and storytelling, and reconnecting it with our physical faculties in time and space, enabling creative collective responses to complex challenges. It is literally ‘building to think’.

When to use it?

LEGO® Serious Play® is best in settings where complex issues are being explored, especially those that are strategic, cultural and interpersonal in nature. It’s great for developing a collective vision and any form of collaborative innovation when there is no single right answer, or you want everyone’s input.

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Get Certified in LEGO® Serious Play Method

FULL CERTIFICATION

Become a pro and get trained in the amazing LEGO® Serious Play® method! In the 2-day full certification training you’ll learn the key techniques to tackle business problems, improve team communications, increase employee engagement and drive creativity and innovation in your organisation.

LSP Certification Course gives you the full LSP Method. It covers everything from the Foundation Course plus other tools and topics. Complete the course and become a Certified Facilitator of LSP.

COURSE OVERVIEW

These workshops are unlike any other. It is an intensive, small group coaching session where we give you everything you need to succeed in bringing LSP to your organisation and maximising it’s impact:

  • Background theory on why this method works
  • Templates to design a range of awesome LSP sessions
  • Extensive coaching on delivering LSP sessions
  • Innovative new ways to capture the powerful conversations from a session. Most of which aren’t covered in traditional LSP
  • Traditional uses for LSP (Individual, Team, Business)
  • Innovative new uses for LSP (including customising the workshop to include how you will use the method)
  • Key tips and strategies to win over important stakeholders, turning them into advocates and change agents
  • Understand the different kits that are available and how to build your own
  • Connect in to the worldwide LSP community

WHEN

In-person two days on Tuesday, 13 January and Wednesday, 14 January 2026. 9:00am to 4:30pm

WHERE

Sydney, CBD (Venue to be Confirmed)

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Success Story

Mission

Our client, a government health agency, was looking for a collaborative and innovative way to rapidly re-design patient models of care for local needs.

Solution

We invited re-design leads from each of the local health districts to come prepared with a patient model of care they were struggling with, we moved them, experientially, through a LEGO® Serious Play® journey.

The group built skills progressively, from individual, to shared, to systemic care models and were able to conceptualise multiple new potential  patient pathways using storytelling and metaphors to stretch the thinking.

Results

The group added a powerful tool and mental faculty to their repertoire of collaborative innovation methods, building and iterating alternate patient care models in quick succession. The session achieved the highest possible participation and engagement scores.