{"id":56,"date":"2011-12-02T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proessler.wordpress.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-12-02T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:06:59","slug":"lego-serious-play-modeling-story-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/lego-serious-play-modeling-story-telling\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Serious Play: Modeling &amp; Story-Telling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some weeks ago I attended the &#8220;StrategicPlay\u00ae Fundamentals Facilitator Training&#8221; at the <a title=\"Strategic Play\" href=\"www.strategicplay.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StrategicPlay\u00ae<\/a> headquarters and have used elements of <a title=\"LEGO Serious Play\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousplay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEGO Serious Play\u2122 (LSP)<\/a> quite some time with teams since then. <a title=\"Playmobil Pete &amp; Rob\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peteandrob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As a  Playmobil\u00ae fan<\/a> it is &#8220;shocking&#8221; to see how easy you can use LSP for solving complex problems or helping team members to understand each other better. \ud83d\ude09 And additionally it is fun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58 alignleft\" title=\"LEGO Serious Play Session\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dscn0309.jpg\" alt=\"LEGO Serious Play Session\" width=\"500\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dscn0309.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dscn0309-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LSP&#8217;s theoretical background consists of four key elements:<br \/>\nConstructionism, Play, Imagination and Identity. You can dig into the science of LSP by reading <a title=\"The Science of LSP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussen-and-associates.com\/downloads\/science_of_LSP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this wonderful PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A LSP session can have the following acitivities:<br \/>\n<em>Building a model &gt;&gt; Presenting others your model by telling your story &gt;&gt; Watching and hearing the others presenting their model &gt;&gt; Deconstructing and then building a new model or rebuilding your model&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57\" title=\"LEGO Serious Play Session 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dscn0253.jpg\" alt=\"LEGO Serious Play Session 2\" width=\"250\" height=\"180\" \/>By iterating this sequence you are becoming more and more confident about your modeling and story-telling skills. As all participants are building a model about the same subject, you are at the same time sharing knowledge, ideas or problems with the others. After starting with straight-forward subjects (like &#8220;Build a tower as high as possible.&#8221;) it feels easy to deal with methaphorical subjects (like &#8220;Build your perfect team process.&#8221;) after some iterations.<br \/>\nI have just started to use LSP with teams, but am convinced, that an experienced StrategicPlay\u00ae facillitator can help any team to reveal the true essence of a problem and then find sustainable solutions.<\/p>\n<p>By now I have used LSP in a couple of 2 hour team sessions mainly to discuss their process and their roles within the team. This is only the start. LSP seems to allow infinite options for working with (agile) teams. I am very lucky to have our management sponsoring the LSP Landscape and Identity Set (not available at the moment&#8230;), which you definitely need for larger workshops (&#8220;We are building our company vision.&#8221;). I&#8217;m planning to have a Sprint Retrospective with LSP before Christmas and will let you know about my experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some weeks ago I attended the &#8220;StrategicPlay\u00ae Fundamentals Facilitator Training&#8221; at the StrategicPlay\u00ae headquarters and have used elements of LEGO Serious Play\u2122 (LSP) quite some time with teams since then. As a Playmobil\u00ae fan it is &#8220;shocking&#8221; to see how easy you can use LSP for solving complex problems or helping team members to understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[51,75],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-coaching","category-meeting-facilitation","tag-lego-serious-play","tag-strategicplay","post_format-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}