Who it is for
Facilitators, consultants and leaders who want to work at system level. The first two days are the 2-day course, so no previous training is needed.
What you will be able to do
- Everything in the 2-day course, including your live practice workshop
- Build system models and facilitate the insight stage
- Use frameworks to clarify strategic and operational objectives, measures, actions and learning
- Design new Build Level 3 applications for your own clients
- Bring system-level planning into any meeting
How it runs
Before your training
Day one
- The skills build
- 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
Day three
- 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 four to six hour planning task
Day four
- The four stages of effective meetings
- Scenario design and insight stage practice
- Review of all homework, with your trainer’s written feedback
- Facilitating simple guiding principles and strategic objectives
- Action planning and learning: concluding a systems workshop
Class size and times. Up to 8 people. 9:00 to 17:15 on days one and two. Day three includes a homework planning task from 15:00, so expect some work that evening. Finish about 16:30 on day four.
Included
- Digital copies of our four books: SERIOUSWORK, ONLINE, MASTERING and Building Better Learning
- The course handouts
- A Windows Exploration kit of LEGO® bricks
- A four to six hour planning task, with your trainer’s written feedback
- Certification as a System Level facilitator of the LEGO® Serious Play® method and materials
- Lifetime graduate community access and Advanced graduate-only Lunch and Learns
- Mentoring and coaching on assignments, and co-facilitation of strategic work
Certification
Certified System Level facilitator of the LEGO® Serious Play® method and materials, awarded on facilitating Build Level 3 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.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.
“Liam was a fantastic facilitator who managed to squeeze so much into the four days.”
“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.”
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