
Workshops
Designed to Unlock Your Team's Hidden Insights and Collective Intelligence
Our in-person and virtual workshops harness the power of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology to create engaging, hands-on experiences for teams of all kinds.
Whether you're energizing a corporate team, aligning an organization, or maximizing an offsite retreat, our approach delivers meaningful results through meticulously designed sessions.
We offer pre-built workshops addressing common challenges that can be customized to your specific needs—or we can build something entirely from scratch. Browse the sections below to find your perfect fit, or reach out for custom solutions.
Team Collaboration & Performance
Even with talented individuals, teams often operate in silos rather than as a unified force, resulting in communication breakdowns, cultural divides, and misaligned efforts. These collaboration gaps lead to inconsistent performance, delayed deliverables, and unrealized potential
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More impactful than team happy hour and more enjoyable than typical ‘get to know you’ activities, Building Connections is where creativity and imagination meet growth.
Over 90 minutes, participants will build stories and share parts of themselves in an environment that feels both playful and productive.
Together, your team will participate, contribute, and learn - all while building on skills like better listening, and embracing curiosity.
Unlock the full potential of your employees. No previous LEGO experience required.
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This half-day workshop uses LEGO® Serious Play® to establish genuine human connections essential for high-performing teams.
Participants first build models representing their backgrounds, talents, and experiences outside work, sharing stories that reveal the person behind the professional. The team then collaboratively constructs a unified model that visualizes what trust and respect look like in practice.
Through guided exploration, members identify common barriers to trust—such as miscommunication, competing priorities, and unconscious assumptions—and develop strategies to overcome these challenges. Participants leave with deeper interpersonal understanding, practical approaches to building psychological safety, and a shared language that transforms how team members collaborate
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This half-day workshop transforms abstract personality differences into tangible models your team can see and understand. Using insights from the Principles Assessment and LEGO® Serious Play®, participants build representations of their working styles, thinking processes, and professional strengths. Through facilitated sharing, teams create a visual models of their collective capabilities and potential blind spots.
The session helps members recognize how diverse approaches combine to create a unique team identity. Participants leave with practical strategies for leveraging complementary traits, improved understanding of team dynamics, and a shared vocabulary for discussing work preferences
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This half-day workshop guides teams to discover their fundamental agreements using LEGO® Serious Play®. Participants first build models representing dysfunctional and world-class team characteristics, then explore critical elements like communication, trust, and accountability. The team combines these insights into a unified model—their "Core Constants."
These constants serve as unchanging operational standards that remain stable despite changing projects or personnel. Teams identify potential challenges to these constants and develop mitigation strategies.
Participants leave with clearly defined team principles and practical ways to maintain them when facing obstacles
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This half-day workshop expands your team's perspective beyond internal dynamics to examine how you interface with broader systems
Using LEGO® Serious Play®, participants build models representing connections to adjacent teams, stakeholders, and systems. Through guided exploration, teams identify friction points and opportunities for enhanced collaboration across organizational boundaries.
The session helps teams evolve from team-centric thinking to systems-level perspective. Participants leave with strategies to maximize collective impact, reduce dependencies that create bottlenecks, and align team priorities with organizational goals for improved execution.
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This half-day workshop uses LEGO® Serious Play® to improve team communication. Participants build models representing their communication ideals, then combine perspectives into a shared framework the entire team understands. Through guided activities, members identify potential barriers and develop practical solutions. The session concludes with clear approaches teams can immediately apply to enhance collaboration and reduce misunderstandings in their daily work
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This half-day workshop uses LEGO® Serious Play® to transform abstract company values into tangible, meaningful practices. Participants begin by building models that represent how core values manifest in their specific roles and teams.
These individual perspectives are then combined into collaborative models that showcase how values connect across different functions. Teams develop compelling stories about their models, revealing the diverse ways values appear throughout the organization.
Through facilitated discussion, members identify practical approaches to champion and maintain a values-based culture during rapid growth.
This workshop is ideal for growing organizations seeking to cement their identity while expanding, ensuring cultural consistency as new team members join.
Leadership Effectiveness
Leaders often struggle to translate their vision and guidance across different levels of the organization. Communication gaps between leadership and teams can lead to misaligned efforts, resistance to initiatives, and missed opportunities for growth.
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Explore the foundations of exceptional leadership communication through hands-on LEGO® Serious Play® exploration. Participants will first build models representing both world-class communication practices and their ineffective counterparts, creating a tangible spectrum of leadership communication behaviors.
Teams then collaborate to construct collective models identifying the most critical elements of outstanding communication, before building and analyzing potential threats that might undermine these practices.
The workshop concludes with a facilitated discussion that synthesizes all insights, equipping leaders with a shared understanding to elevate their communication effectiveness.
Leaders leave with clear strategies for recognizing and overcoming communication barriers while consistently demonstrating communication excellence that inspires trust and drives results
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Uncover the fundamental elements of exceptional leadership through collaborative LEGO® Serious Play® exploration. Participants build models representing their personal experiences with both effective and ineffective leadership, creating a rich foundation for discussion and insight.
The group then constructs collective models identifying core leadership principles, while also examining potential threats that can undermine leadership effectiveness. Through this hands-on process, leaders develop a systemic understanding of leadership impacts and leave with concrete strategies to embody these principles in their daily interactions.
This workshop transforms abstract leadership concepts into tangible, actionable frameworks that drive team performance and organizational success.
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Master the art of navigating difficult discussions through experiential LEGO® Serious Play® methodology. Participants build models representing both constructive and destructive conflict scenarios, exploring the elements that determine conversation outcomes.
Through collaborative building exercises, teams identify critical factors in successful difficult conversations and construct models of potential barriers that typically derail productive dialogue. This immersive process helps participants develop concrete strategies for addressing sensitive topics, managing emotions, and maintaining psychological safety when stakes are high.
Leaders leave equipped with practical frameworks to transform challenging interactions into opportunities for understanding, resolution, and strengthened relationships.
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Experience the power of scenario-based exploration through dynamic LEGO® Serious Play® business simulations. Participants construct and test potential business scenarios around products, decisions, or initiatives, visualizing how different outcomes might unfold across the organization.
Teams build models representing various stakeholder perspectives, then collaboratively identify threats, opportunities, risks, and rewards through hands-on premortem type exercises. This immersive approach transforms abstract business concepts into tangible models that reveal hidden interdependencies and potential blind spots.
Leaders leave with enhanced strategic foresight, a deeper understanding of system-wide impacts, and practical frameworks for more effective decision-making in complex environments.
Chaos, Change, & Innovation
Organizations and individuals face constant pressure to evolve, but implementation of new initiatives often encounters resistance or uncertainty. Teams may struggle to balance innovation with execution, leading to missed opportunities or failed change efforts.
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Our AI Adoption Workshop uses the power of LEGO® Serious Play methodology to reveal what's really holding your team back from embracing AI. Through guided hands-on building exercises, participants externalize their hidden fears and resistance points - concerns about job security, skill obsolescence, ethical dilemmas - transforming abstract anxieties into tangible models you can address together. By creating a psychologically safe environment where these concerns become discussable objects rather than personal vulnerabilities, your team will develop a shared language for navigating AI's complexities while establishing clear boundaries for its implementation.
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Develop resilience and adaptive strategies for uncertain environments through structured LEGO® Serious Play® exploration.
Participants build models representing both controllable and uncontrollable elements during periods of change, creating visual distinctions between actionable areas and external factors. Through guided building exercises, teams externalize perspectives and concerns, making hidden fears tangible and discussable in a psychologically safe environment.
Collaborative models then identify specific approaches for maintaining stability amid uncertainty, managing stress responses, and supporting team members through transitions. Participants leave equipped with practical frameworks to transform chaotic situations into opportunities for growth, innovation, and stronger team cohesion despite challenging circumstances.
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Reverse-engineer project outcomes to identify critical success factors and hidden risks before they emerge.
Teams first build scenarios representing what failure looks like, then construct contrasting models of successful implementation, creating a comprehensive view of potential project trajectories.
Through facilitated discussion, participants identify specific behaviors, decision points, and team dynamics that influence outcomes in both directions. This practical approach transforms abstract concerns into concrete action plans, helping teams proactively address vulnerabilities while reinforcing practices that lead to success.
Participants leave with enhanced risk awareness and a shared commitment to specific behaviors that increase project success likelihood.
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Identify and address hidden risks in your existing strategy.
Participants first build individual models representing potential strategy vulnerabilities, creating a diverse landscape of risk perspectives based on their unique insights and expertise.
Teams then collaborate to construct an integrated risk mega-model that visualizes interconnections and potential cascading effects across the organization.
The workshop culminates as participants develop tangible solution models targeting the highest-impact risks, revealing powerful leverage points for risk mitigation. By making abstract strategic challenges physically visible on the table, teams experience breakthrough moments of clarity and alignment around both risks and practical approaches to safeguard strategic success.
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Experience the power of scenario-based exploration through dynamic LEGO® Serious Play® business simulations. Participants construct and test potential business scenarios around products, decisions, or initiatives, visualizing how different outcomes might unfold across the organization.
Teams build models representing various stakeholder perspectives, then collaboratively identify threats, opportunities, risks, and rewards through hands-on premortem type exercises. This immersive approach transforms abstract business concepts into tangible models that reveal hidden interdependencies and potential blind spots.
Leaders leave with enhanced strategic foresight, a deeper understanding of system-wide impacts, and practical frameworks for more effective decision-making in complex environments.
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Transform creative potential into practical innovation through an engaging LEGO® Serious Play® exploration of possibilities.
Teams work through a structured process that begins with thorough problem definition, then moves into expansive ideation using versatile building elements to represent concepts that might otherwise remain unexpressed. The workshop facilitates collaborative building exercises where ideas are combined, enhanced, and refined through physical modeling and storytelling.
This approach unlocks unexpected connections and perspectives while making abstract concepts tangible for deeper analysis and development. Participants leave energized with fresh solutions to persistent challenges and a shared visual framework for continued innovation beyond the workshop.
Employee Wellbeing and Sustainability
Even with talented individuals, teams often operate in silos rather than as a unified force, resulting in communication breakdowns, cultural divides, and misaligned efforts. These collaboration gaps lead to inconsistent performance, delayed deliverables, and unrealized potential
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Explore the sources and solutions to workplace exhaustion in this engaging 90-minute workshop.
Participants first identify personal burnout triggers by constructing models that represent their specific workplace stressors and energy depleters. The session progresses as teams build representations of how burnout feels, creating a shared vocabulary around this often invisible experience.
Through guided facilitation, participants then develop solution models that visualize potential approaches to restore balance and resilience.
The workshop concludes with action-focused builds where each person commits to specific, manageable steps to protect their wellbeing while maintaining performance
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Discover your team’s optimal professional growth trajectory in this hands-on 90-minute workshop focused on actionable career planning.
Participants begin by building models that represent their current skills and strengths, creating a tangible vision of their professional capabilities. The session progresses as teams construct representations of desired career destinations or roles, clarifying aspirations through physical metaphors.
Through guided facilitation, participants then develop models highlighting specific skill gaps between their current state and desired future, making development needs concrete. The workshop concludes with action-focused builds where each person creates a practical roadmap of steps and resources needed to acquire these critical skills, transforming career aspirations into achievable development plans.
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Develop healthier workplace limits in this interactive 90-minute workshop focused on personal and professional boundaries.
Participants begin by constructing models that represent boundary challenges they currently face, making abstract issues tangible for meaningful discussion. The session deepens as teams build representations of how boundary violations impact their wellbeing and effectiveness, creating powerful visual metaphors.
Guided building exercises then help participants visualize ideal boundary states that balance accessibility with necessary protection.
The workshop concludes with each person creating action models representing specific, practical boundaries they commit to implementing in their daily work life
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Create sustainable balance between professional demands and personal wellbeing in this practical 90-minute workshop.
Participants start by building models that identify current imbalances and pressure points in their work/life integration. The session progresses as teams construct representations of how these imbalances affect their relationships, health, and performance, making hidden impacts visible. Guided building exercises then help participants visualize their ideal harmonious state where work and personal priorities support rather than compete with each other.
The workshop concludes with action models where each person commits to implementing specific, realistic changes to enhance their overall wellbeing and effectiveness