Who it is for
Graduates of a 2-day facilitation course covering Build Levels 1 and 2, from us or elsewhere, who want to run system-level work.
Requires a 2-day facilitation course covering Build Levels 1 and 2.
What you will be able to do
- Build and facilitate system models
- Facilitate the insight stage
- Clarify objectives, measures, actions and learning with a group
- Design Build Level 3 applications for your own clients
How it runs
Before your training
We contact you about the venue, times, and any dietary or access needs, and sign you up to Circle, our learning platform, where you can read our books ahead of class if that suits you. You can also meet your trainer beforehand.
Day one
- Thinking in systems: an introduction
- Facilitating a system model build
- Build Level 3 frameworks, including our Systems Thinking Model©
- Insight stage facilitation
- Designing your own systems workshop: a planning task
Day two
- The four stages of effective meetings
- Scenario design and insight stage practice
- Review of your plan, with your trainer’s feedback
- Facilitating simple guiding principles and strategic objectives
- Action planning and learning: concluding a systems workshop
Class size and times. Covers days three and four of the Advanced course, for people who have completed the 2-day course.
The full course brochureOutline, inclusions, prices in GBP, EUR and USD, and FAQs
Included
- LEGO® kits and a course handout
- Certification as a System Level facilitator of the LEGO® Serious Play® method and materials
- Advanced graduate-only Lunch and Learns
- Mentoring and co-facilitation opportunities
Certification
Certified System Level facilitator of the LEGO® Serious Play® method and materials. 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.
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: the Systems Synergy Facilitator Pathway, by application.
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