How to Facilitate the LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) Method Online: New Facilitation Techniques for Shared Models and #Covidsafe Face-To-Face

This is a great book for top tips on Online facilitation, while the focus is on Lego serious play there are also many takeaways relevant for working virtually as a facilitator. If you are planning sessions online or just looking for a bit of post-2020 inspo, would really recommend this book.

Fantastic book, very helpful and informative for running your LSP sessions online. Comes with a lot of additional material, hands-on tips, and worth every Penny!

This is not a book for those new to LEGO Serious Play, but for trained or experienced LEGO Serious Play facilitators looking for the keys to unlock working with the method online. With his characteristic precision and pursuit of excellence, Sean shares the intricate details of what is genuinely the gold standard of online LEGO Serious Play. I had the pleasure of participating in both an early experimental session, as well as Sean’s subsequent two-day training programme, and he really has strived to share everything he knows about online LEGO Serious Play within this book. Having said this, if you are serious about working online, there’s no substitute for the hands-on training (and the ebook is probably included).Within some parts of the LEGO Serious Play facilitator community there is a sense of tribalism and clan loyalty where the purity of the approach is weighed above everything else. With this book Sean has exposed what is the core essence of the method, and honours it with his careful and experienced handling for a COVID and climate sensitive era. His generosity and desire for ALL LEGO Serious Play facilitators to flourish serves as an inspiration for other LSP-ers to pick up the baton of innovation that this beautiful method deserves. #RogueLSP

This is the book that makes what had effectively been considered the exception, both accessible and acceptable. Online LEGO Serious Play, particularly the building of shared models, is possible and should become part of every LSP facilitators toolbox. This much-needed addition sits easily alongside Sean's other excellent contributions to our understanding of the LEGO Serious Play methodology.There has been much debate within LSP circles as to whether LSP could or should be done virtually. LSP emerged in a largely analogue world, designed with the face-to-face environment in mind. The world has changed, and it is time for LSP facilitators to also recognise this shift. Online LSP is valid, not as a comparison to its offline approach, but in its own right with its own dynamics and subtleties. The exciting thing is that we are only at the beginning of this journey, a journey I am sure that will undoubtedly add to the LSP corpus.With his usual rigour and attention to detail Sean has brought together not only his own considerable insights and experience of online LSP, but also gathered together contributions from a wide range of LSP facilitators who generously share practical hints and tips. Like Sean they also have the courage to push and question existing boundaries. We should all be celebrating and encouraging this, and other, bands of 'LSP rogues' to continue to push boundaries and in doing so, help to ensure that LEGO Serious Play continues to be as relevant today as it was ten years ago.

“Facilitation is like landing an aircraft… The approach is the key. It’s not about the moment the wheels hit the tarmac. It’s about all the things that happen BEFORE the wheels hit the runway.”That’s my big takeaway from Sean Blair’s excellent new book, How to Facilitate the LEGO® Serious Play® Method Online.I thought I was big on preparation for online facilitation. Getting yourself and your participants set up for success is absolutely critical to the success of any online gathering.But Sean and his colleagues PREPARE.If you are still stuck in conversations in which participants whine, “But I don’t want to turn my camera on,”prepare to be awed by a world in which participants:- receive little packs of Lego bricks in the post- set up stages on which to show their Lego models to the webcam- get individual preparatory tech-check sessions with their facilitator.Love it!That’s before you check out the facilitator’s workspace. That features multiple camera angles and professional lighting, on a table top large enough to build a shared model for the whole group...I'm impressed.It’s taken work, and it’s taken practice, but Lego Serious Play Online is now working brilliantly – as the case studies in the book attest.