A passionate and practical process for building
confidence, commitment and insight.
Models, metaphors
and imagination at work.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is an innovative, experiential
process designed to enhance business performance. Based on research
that shows that this kind of hands-on, minds-on learning produces
a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the world and its possibilities,
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is an efficient, practical and effective process
that works for everyone within an organization. Participants come
away with skills to communicate more effectively, to engage their
imaginations more readily, and to approach their work with increased
confidence, commitment and insight.
The hand is connected
to the brain.
When personal desire drives you to learn something
using your hands, a complicated process takes over that generates
a powerful emotional charge. Using your hands "releases"
thoughts that are stuck in your head. What you learn in the process
of creating 3-D -- even 4-D -- metaphors sinks much deeper into
your mind than what you would learn through mere words or two-dimensional
imagery. Thoughts that are "built" tend to be expressed
in greater detail and are more easily understood.
Constructing and communicating through LEGO SERIOUS
PLAY allows you to address complex issues in an engaging way where
ideas and scenarios are expressed and explored through the shared
language of metaphors. The 3-D landscape you build using LEGO bricks
and the LEGO language provides valuable insight into how your company
works and how it connects to the outside world.
It's play with a
purpose.
The purpose of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is to explore
the relationships and connections between people and their world,
to observe the dynamics both internal and external, to explore various
hypothetical scenarios, and to gain awareness of the possibilities.
Building landscape models with LEGO bricks, giving them meaning
through storymaking, and playing-out various possible scenarios,
deepens understanding, sharpens insight, and socially "bonds"
together the group who "plays" together.
Why does work need
play?
Play helps release thoughts that are locked in the head and
the heart.
You see things differently. Ideas come to life with more concrete
detail than ideas expressed through just talking.
Discussion during play happens on a more level playing field.
The group at play thrives only when everybody participates,
so frustrations are reduced, team coherence and direction is more
solid.
Play lets you experiment, explore and take risks with ideas
without fearing consequences that might happen in "real life."
You generate a wider and more imaginative range of possibilities
during play than you would during a traditional business meeting.
People at play are more present, more engaged, more passionate
and better performers.
Why does play work?
Play is special: if it's routine it's not play.
Play is voluntary: it can't be coerced or mandated.
Play is imaginative: you can suspend the rules of the real world.
Play isn't explicitly productive: direct consequences don't
matter.
Play is unlimited and delimited: play exists for its own sake
and is different from work.
Play happens at an agreed upon location: but it can be anywhere.
Play has its own rules: it is not constrained by the rules of
work.
For More Information...
To find out more about how InsightFactory can help
you orgainsation utilise LEGO SERIOUS PLAY® please contact
us or download the brochure.
For more information about LEGO SERIOUS PLAY®
please visit
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