- Written by
- Sean Blair and Marko Rillo
- Length
- 255 pages
- Formats
- PDF and ePub here · paperback on Amazon
- Publisher
- ProMeet, 2016
- Paperback ISBN
- 0995664706
- Published in
- English, Deutsch, Español, 中文
SERIOUSWORK
How to facilitate meetings and workshops using the LEGO® Serious Play® method. Our beginners’ how-to book.
SERIOUSWORK explains what the LEGO® Serious Play® method is and shows you how meetings and workshops using it are facilitated.
It covers the foundations, with a focus on Build Level 1, facilitating individual model building. Five detailed applications show the method in use, and you can download Word documents of the workshop plans in the book, with other resources to get you going.
Now in its fourth edition (October 2020), with a new preface and new typesetting throughout, and published in English, German, Spanish, Chinese and Korean.
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Inside the book
What it covers.
An introduction to the method
What the LEGO® Serious Play® method is, and where it is typically used.
Participatory leadership
Facilitation as a leadership mindset, and how to be a participatory leader with the method.
Five applications, with detailed workshop plans
Skills building, then plans for goal setting, idea generation, team building, team vision, and values and behaviours.
Case studies and stories
Practical advice, tips and stories from eleven professional facilitators around the world.
How to learn more
The skills unique to the LEGO® Serious Play® method, and how to develop them.
Additional downloads
Links to download example plans, explainer boards and other useful resources.
Three key takeaways
Facilitation is a leadership mindset. The LEGO® Serious Play® method is a tool that facilitative leaders can use with great effect.
Learn from five detailed applications of the method in use.
Download free of charge a chunky set of resources: sample workshop plans, explainer boards, templates, method cards and guides.
What readers say
From Amazon reviews.
“Fantastically practical field guide to the Lego Serious Play method: a must read for beginners and practitioners alike.”
“A practical book that will have you heading for your box of bricks.”
“Really well presented book, lots of great photos of workshops.”
Quoted from reviews of the paperback on Amazon. Read every review on Amazon ↗
Who it is for
Professionals who meet: executives, consultants, managers, designers and leaders of every kind of meeting, and anyone starting out as a facilitator of the method. No training needed to start.
Written by
SeriousWork 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.
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