Who it is for
Facilitators, trainers, coaches, consultants, educators and leaders who want meetings and workshops where everyone contributes. No previous experience is needed.
What you will be able to do
- Facilitate individual and shared models with any group
- Write questions that get to the real issue
- Plan, contract and sell workshops that use the method
- Run a two-hour introduction to the LEGO® Serious Play® method for a group you have never met
- Use SeriousWork’s latest improvements to the method in your own practice
How it runs
Before your training
Day one
- Facilitating the skills build, plus our hacks
- Facilitating individual model builds
- The shared model build process
- Facilitating Build Levels 1 and 2, with feedback
- The method and team building
Day two
- Workshop design and preparation
- Case studies from your trainers’ own client work
- Facilitating Build Levels 1 and 2, with feedback
- Designing workshops through practice
- Facilitating your first two-hour workshop
Class size and times. Up to 8 people, so everyone takes turns as the group’s facilitator. 9:00 to 17:30 on both days.
Included
- Digital copies of our four books: SERIOUSWORK, ONLINE, MASTERING and Building Better Learning
- The course handouts
- A Windows Exploration kit of LEGO® bricks
- Certification as a facilitator of the LEGO® Serious Play® method and materials
- Lifetime access to the graduate community
- Graduate-only Lunch and Learns, preferential access and discounts
- Promotion of your work and profile on the register
Certification
Certified facilitator of the LEGO® Serious Play® method and materials, awarded on facilitating in class. Your certificate is issued digitally through Certifier, with its own ID that anyone can verify.
Your trainers
Sean BlairFounder and Master TrainerSeriousWork founder and an award-winning IAF Certified Professional Facilitator. Works with senior leaders on strategy, culture and organisational change, helping them see and shift the whole system. Author of four books, including The Systems Synergy (2026), and developer of the SeriousWork Systems Thinking Model©. His global network has trained nearly 3,000 facilitators.
Liam IsaacMaster Trainer, Director of Learning and InnovationLearning designer and strategic facilitator with 20 years of experience. Works with C-suites and leadership teams to navigate complexity through visible thinking and purposeful play. Author of Building Better Learning: Using the LEGO® Serious Play® Method in Education. Has trained hundreds of SeriousWork graduates in the UK, US and Middle East.
Johnny WongAssociate TrainerDelivers SeriousWork 2-day facilitation training in Hong Kong and China.Trainers vary by date and city.
After your course
You learn more after the course than in it.
Certification is the start. Every graduate keeps learning with us, at no extra cost.
- The graduate community
- Lifetime access to our community on Circle, with more than 3,200 members: sample workshop plans, templates, the course materials and recordings of past sessions.
- Lunch and Learns
- Free graduate-only webinars where our trainers share new case studies, workshop plans and improvements to the method, and answer your questions.
- All our books
- Your course includes our books. Read them after the course and they make far more sense: everything you practised, in detail.
- First to hear
- Preferential access and graduate discounts on new courses, books, mentoring and coaching.
- Your profile on the register
- A place on our public register of certified facilitators, so clients can check your certificate and find you.
In the room
Hands on from the first hour.


Workshops led by SeriousWork trainers.
The book that comes with it
Look inside Mastering the LEGO® Serious Play® Method.
A digital copy of Mastering comes with this course, with our other three books, in our graduates’ community. About the book

The full book is 180 pages.
Graduates
Five-star rated on Google.
“Highly recommend this training for anyone who facilitates learning experiences.”
“Sean Blair was a masterful facilitator. He created a safe and highly interactive learning environment.”
“Sean is a true class act in the way he shares his craft and knowledge in an inclusive environment.”
Go further: 2 Day Advanced Only adds Build Level 3 system models.
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