1. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
CO-CREATION ON SPEED

2. SCIENCE
THE

3. Constructivism
Constructionism
FLOW
Theory
Hand-bone
Brain-bone
connection
Strategic
Imagination
Yeah! Science bitch!
Jesse Pinkman
“

4. Brainstorming studies since the 1950s show that
groups which brainstorm together
produce far fewer ideas
than when the same number of people
work alone & pool their ideas.
The bigger the group,
the greater the difference.

5. LEAN FORWARD
20% participation 100% participation
A NORMAL MEETING LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®

6. LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
Leaders don’t have all the answers
Anyone can play
Everyone contributes
Threat is removed

7. S
C
A
R
F
TATUS
ERTAINTY
UTONOMY
ELATEDNESS
AIRNESS

8. FLOW THEORY: HARD FUN
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
DIFFICULTY
ANXIOUS
BORED
FLOW
ZONE

9. Play is to the 21st Century
what steam was to the
20th Century Julien Dibbell
“
THE POWER OF PLAY

10. METHOD
THE

11. COMMANDMENTS OF PLAY
Don’t have a meeting with yourself
just START building
Trust your hands
Let them pick the bricks they want
Don’t get bogged down in design
think METAPHORICALLY
Question the model
not the person

12. AUTHENTIC THOUGHT
I will ask you to build a
metaphorical story that
answers my question
CONSTRUCTION SHARING REFLECTIONCHALLENGE
You all tell the group the
story in your model
You all build individually
and give it meaning while
you’re building
Questions, insights and
identification of patterns

13. OPEN >
CLOSED
LOW THRESHOLD
HIGH CEILING
SUFFICIENTLY
UNCLEAR
THE RIGHT QUESTION

14. STORYMAKING
Not until I have said what I thought,
can I think about what I have said.
Gregory Bateson
“

15. STRATEGY
TIME
REAL

16. SKILLS BUILDING1
1. Build a tower
2. Build from instruction
3. Build a story

17. INDIVIDUAL MODELLING2
Think about your current brand identity. Build a model to tell a
story about an element of this core identity as it is today.
Think about your ideal identity a year from now. Build a
model to tell a story an element of this aspirational identity.

18. SHARED MODELLING3

19. LANDSCAPING4
Create the Agents in the landscape
where your identity will live.
Who are they and where do they exist?

20. BUILDING A SYSTEM5
Create connections:
Points of connection
Nature of connection
Response to change

21. PLAYING EMERGENCE6
Write down the event
It happened
Is there an impact?
Where / what does it impact?
Is this an opportunity or threat?
What could you do?

22. GUIDING PRINCIPLES7
Build
Share
Select
Test

23. GUIDING PRINCIPLES7
Stay away from the moguls
Watch out for psycho kids
Know where the lift ends
Don’t push too hard
Are grounded in shared values, identity & aspirations.
Principles not instructions
Are not transferable, they are uniquely yours.
Their meaning transcends the expression.
Emerge from the collective mind.

24. KNOWLEDGE
EMERGENT

25. GO DEEPER
What we know we know
What we don’t know we know
LSP lowers the line
I didn’t know I knew that
5-10%
90-95%

26. JOHARI WINDOW
PUBLIC BLIND
HIDDENUNKNOWN
YOU
KNOWN > UNKNOWN
KNOWN>UNKNOWN
OTHERS PUBLIC

27. Problems can’t be solved by the same
level of consciousness that created them.
Albert Einstein
“

28. THEORY U
OBSERVE
perceive other perceptions
CO-CREATE
new ideas & processes
PURPOSE
Reflect and let the knowing emerge
SENSE
challenge deep assumptions
DEFINE
new thinking & principles
FOCUS
surface current reality
PERFORM
new structures & practices
RE-ACT
SHARED PERCEPTION
discover common will
COLLECTIVE ACTION
put purpose into practice
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
RE-STRUCTURE
RE-DESIGN
RE-FRAME
Downloading
Play the
Macro violin

29. PERCEPTION POSSIBILITY PRACTICALITY
Debating
the old
Co-creating
the future
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

30. From Mission Statements to aligned purpose
SHARED
VISION
GUIDING
PRINCIPLES
TRANSFORMATIONAL
CHANGE

31. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
STRATEGY ON SPEED
@thecatherine
catherine@hexstudios.com.au

32. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
www.seriousplay.com www.seriousplaypro.com
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SCARF: A brain based model for collaborating with and influencing others
NeuroLeadership Journal: Issue one, 2008
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Theory U
Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges, C. Otto Scharmer
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