Course Description
LEGO® Serious Play® is an effective method of supporting personal development through a unique combination of action, reflection, and creativity. Key areas of its application in individual growth include:Personal development workshops can be applied individually as coaching, consultations, or self-development, but also in groups – providing additional feedback and inspiration from other participants. The method is also used in leadership development, career advancement, and work-life balance processes.
Sample Scenario
Workshop “Your Strengths”
- Metaphorical warm-up (building simple model metaphors)
- Building individual models representing one’s strengths
- Presenting models in the group and storytelling
- Building a “common landscape” showing what team strengths resources exist
- Reflection and noting conclusions: how these strengths can be used in daily work
Details:
- Deep self-reflection and self-understanding: Building LEGO® models translates abstract thoughts, values, or motivations into tangible, visual structures. Responding to questions of the facilitator through model-building provides a deeper insight into emotions, needs, and goals. This “thinking through action” allows for seeing oneself from a new perspective and facilitates developmental conclusions.
- Developing creativity and unconventional thinking: The method stimulates a creative approach to personal and professional challenges, encouraging new solutions and the breaking of patterns. It allows for testing scenarios and visualizing ideas without the fear of errors or judgment.
- Breaking communication barriers: LEGO® models serve as tools for telling a personal story. Even those who are more on the shy side can express themselves, share thoughts and experiences using metaphors and symbols instead of traditional conversation, which facilitates authentic, non-judgmental exchange.
- Setting goals and planning development: The building process helps with visualizing courses of action and challenges, as well as considering which resources and skills are key for achieving one’s goals. In the model, the participants can see what life or career elements to change, develop, or strengthen.
- Strengthening motivation and engagement: Play and visualization elements reduce stress and anxiety when confronting personal topics. Participants feel more motivated to act and experiment, as the process is naturally engaging and gives them a feeling of agency.
