LEGO® Serious Play® certification training brought directly to you or your organization. Train to facilitate powerful, hands-on sessions that unlock thinking, deepen collaboration, and create the kind of conversations most meetings never reach.
LEGO® Serious Play® Training
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LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator Training & Certification
June 5–6, 2025 (Friday & Saturday) Gather Midlothian, VA
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Daily · 1-Hour Lunch · Short Breaks Throughout
Cost: $1,540 Other Accepted Payments: Square Invoice, Bank Transfer, or Checks. Please email cael@playthospro.com
Certification in the LEGO® Serious Play® Method
June 5–6, 2025 (Friday & Saturday) Gather Midlothian, VA
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Daily · 1-Hour Lunch · Short Breaks Throughout
Other Accepted Payments: Square Invoice, Bank Transfer, or Checks. Please email cael@playthospro.com
What This Training Is About
Most professionals were never taught to think with their hands. Somewhere between school and the boardroom, we stopped building things and started just talking about them and something got lost in the translation.
LEGO® Serious Play® gives it back.
This two-day immersive training is your introduction to one of the most powerful facilitation methodologies in the world and your certification to facilitate it. Over two full days, you'll experience LSP as a participant, learn it as a practitioner, and leave as a Playthos Pro Certified LSP Facilitator ready to bring it into your own work.
Why LEGO® Serious Play®?
When you build something with your hands, your brain works differently. Research shows that 70% of the brain's sensory neurons connect to the hands, meaning physical construction activates thinking that sitting and talking simply can't reach. LSP leverages this to create sessions where:
Every voice is heard: no dominant personalities, no quiet corners
Complex ideas become visible: built in 3D utilizing LEGO® Bricks
Insights stick: because you made them to share them
Rooted in constructivist learning theory and co-developed with the LEGO® Group in the late 1990s, LSP has been used by Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, startups, and coaches worldwide. It works because it's built on how human beings actually learn.
What You'll Walk Away With
Playthos Pro Certified: LSP Facilitator credential recognized for your professional practice
A deep understanding of the Core Process and how to apply it
Hands-on experience across all LSP applications
Real practice facilitating live with feedback from peers and your trainer
Ready-to-use session designs for ideation, retrospectives, team alignment, and learning tools
The confidence to walk into any room and lead an LSP session independently
A peer network of certified facilitators and continued support from the Playthos Pro community
Who Should Attend
This training is for anyone who works with people and wants to do it more powerfully. If you solve complex problems, lead teams, coach individuals, or facilitate groups, LSP will change how you work.
Coaches · Consultants · L&D & HR Professionals · Educators · Team Leaders & Managers · Project Managers · Innovation Practitioners · Mental Health Professionals
Ready to Get Certified?
Space is intentionally small, 12 participants maximum so every person gets real practice time, real feedback, and real preparation to facilitate on their own.
Registration closes May 16, 2025.
Playthos Pro Certified programs are built on the belief that the best learning happens when you're fully in it — hands busy, imagination open, whole self present. This training is no exception.
Certification in the LEGO® Serious Play® Method
June 5–6, 2025 (Friday & Saturday) Gather Midlothian, VA
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Daily · 1-Hour Lunch · Short Breaks Throughout
Other Accepted Payments: Square Invoice, Bank Transfer, or Checks. Please email cael@playthospro.com
What This Training Is About
Most professionals were never taught to think with their hands. Somewhere between school and the boardroom, we stopped building things and started just talking about them and something got lost in the translation.
LEGO® Serious Play® gives it back.
This two-day immersive training is your introduction to one of the most powerful facilitation methodologies in the world and your certification to facilitate it. Over two full days, you'll experience LSP as a participant, learn it as a practitioner, and leave as a Playthos Pro Certified LSP Facilitator ready to bring it into your own work.
Why LEGO® Serious Play®?
When you build something with your hands, your brain works differently. Research shows that 70% of the brain's sensory neurons connect to the hands, meaning physical construction activates thinking that sitting and talking simply can't reach. LSP leverages this to create sessions where:
Every voice is heard: no dominant personalities, no quiet corners
Complex ideas become visible: built in 3D utilizing LEGO® Bricks
Insights stick: because you made them to share them
Rooted in constructivist learning theory and co-developed with the LEGO® Group in the late 1990s, LSP has been used by Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, startups, and coaches worldwide. It works because it's built on how human beings actually learn.
What You'll Walk Away With
Playthos Pro Certified: LSP Facilitator credential recognized for your professional practice
A deep understanding of the Core Process and how to apply it
Hands-on experience across all LSP applications
Real practice facilitating live with feedback from peers and your trainer
Ready-to-use session designs for ideation, retrospectives, team alignment, and learning tools
The confidence to walk into any room and lead an LSP session independently
A peer network of certified facilitators and continued support from the Playthos Pro community
Who Should Attend
This training is for anyone who works with people and wants to do it more powerfully. If you solve complex problems, lead teams, coach individuals, or facilitate groups, LSP will change how you work.
Coaches · Consultants · L&D & HR Professionals · Educators · Team Leaders & Managers · Project Managers · Innovation Practitioners · Mental Health Professionals
Ready to Get Certified?
Space is intentionally small, 12 participants maximum so every person gets real practice time, real feedback, and real preparation to facilitate on their own.
Registration closes May 16, 2025.
Playthos Pro Certified programs are built on the belief that the best learning happens when you're fully in it — hands busy, imagination open, whole self present. This training is no exception.
LSP is a methodology developed through decades of research into how people think, learn, and communicate. It uses LEGO® bricks as a medium for building ideas. Participants construct physical models that represent their thinking, their challenges, and their vision. When you build something with your hands, you make your thinking visible. And when thinking is visible, real conversation can begin.
The results are consistent: fuller participation, deeper insight, and decisions that actually stick.
What is LEGO® Serious Play®?
THE METHOD
Practitioner vs. Facilitator
WHICH PATH IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Both tracks are delivered on-site, hands-on, and grounded in the Playthos approach to active learning.
The difference is in scope, depth, and what participants will be able to do independently when the training ends.
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LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Practitioner
Format: 1 Day · On-Site
The Practitioner track is designed for professionals who want to understand, experience, and apply LEGO® Serious Play® within their existing role without building a full facilitation practice around it.
Participants will:
Experience LSP from the inside as a participant first, then as an emerging facilitator.
Learn the core principles and philosophy behind the methodology.
Understand the four core application techniques that form the foundation of every LSP session.
Practice facilitating simple LSP sequences in a safe, supportive environment.
Leave with the language, the confidence, and the foundational skills to begin integrating LSP into their work.
This is the right track for:
The curious individual who wants to dip their toes into the methodology and experience LSP.
Teams and organizations who want a shared foundation in LSP thinking.
Professionals who want to use the methodology as a tool within their current role.
Leaders, managers, educators, and coaches who want to unlock a more active, engaging way of leading their people.
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LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator
Format: 2 Days · On-Site
The Facilitator track is the full certification experience designed for professionals who will independently design, plan, and lead LEGO® Serious Play® sessions for teams, departments, or organizations.
Participants will:
Develop a deep understanding of the LSP methodology, its origins, and the research behind why it works.
Master the four core application techniques and learn how to sequence them for different outcomes.
Practice facilitating real LSP sessions with live feedback, iteration, and growing confidence.
Learn how to design custom LSP experiences for specific organizational challenges.
Understand how to read a room, manage group dynamics, and create the psychological safety that makes real thinking possible.
Leave with ready-to-run session templates, a facilitator toolkit, and the certification to use them.
This is the right track for:
Professionals, coaches, consultants, team leads, educators, and organizational development practitioners who want to build a sustained LSP practice inside their organization or with external clients.
The Training Experience
WHAT TO EXPECT
Hands-On Learning for Hands-On Facilitation The following reflects the Facilitator track. The Practitioner track covers Day 1.
Day 1: Foundation & Discovery
We start where all good learning starts: by doing. Before participants learn to facilitate LSP, they experience it as participants, building, reflecting, and discovering firsthand why the methodology works. The first day covers the foundations of LSP, the research behind it, and the four core application techniques. By the end of Day 1, participants have moved from curious to genuinely convinced.
Day 2: Practice & Mastery
Day 2 is where confidence is built. Participants move into the facilitator seat, designing and running real LSP sequences, receiving feedback, and iterating in real time. We cover session design, reading the room, managing dynamics, and adapting in the moment. By the end of Day 2, participants leave certified, equipped, and ready.
What to bring: Curiosity, openness, and a willingness to get your hands in it. Everything else is provided.
What we bring: LEGO® bricks, facilitation materials, session templates, and a training environment designed to model the exact experience your participants will create for others.
I come from a background in fine art and product design, a world where thinking with your hands isn't a methodology, it's just how things get made. When I encountered LEGO® Serious Play® and the Design Thinking Process in 2019, it didn't introduce a new way of working, it gave me the language for what I was already deeply living.
That experience is the foundation of the Playthos philosophy and it's what makes learning with me different. You're not learning from someone who completed a course and started teaching it (though I did get officially certified in 2023). You're learning from someone who believes in play in their bones and has seen firsthand what opens up when professionals give themselves permission to do the same.
Hi, I'm Cael Parker
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