This Lego Serious Play training initiates you to a worldwide recognized facilitation method that mobilizes hands to think differently. Over two days, you experiment with the complete process, animate sub group sequences and learn to design a tailor made workshop. A useful approach to unblock a complex topic, align a team or imagine together a shared future.
When hands build, the mind frees and the team moves
For facilitators, managers and consultants in French speaking Switzerland, Lego Serious Play offers a rigorous and playful framework to address topics often stuck in classic meetings: vision, values, conflict, transformation. The course relies on guided practice with a kit provided and work on your real professional contexts. You leave with a workshop ready to animate.
Warm-up
The basics of the Lego® Serious Play® model
Listening with your eyes
The Power of Metaphors
Individual models
My individual response
Questioning and clarification
Group models
Pooling and adjustments
Our group history
Action Plan
Lego Serious Play is a facilitation method developed by the Lego Group and popularized by researchers like Johan Roos. It rests on the principle that thinking goes through the hand. This course offers a structured initiation for those who want to add this tool to their facilitator palette without diluting it. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes managers, HR and consultants who want to professionalize their facilitation posture.
The method rests on cognitive science and active pedagogy research. The course details these foundations accessibly, so you can defend your tool choice to a skeptical sponsor. An often neglected step in quick initiations, that distinguishes solid use from a gimmick.
Lego Serious Play follows a precise process: pose the question, build individually, tell, listen, question, share meaning, anchor. The course makes you practice each step with a clear frame, until the sequence becomes fluid. You successively embody participant and facilitator roles.
The method protects each voice with precise rules (each builds, each tells, we question the model not the person). The course works on facilitator posture, handling dominant or withdrawn participants and common pitfalls. A rigor that distinguishes a successful workshop from a playful but hollow one.
Lego Serious Play adapts to many objectives: team vision, shared values, conflict management, three-year projection, post-merger alignment. The course provides a design grid and several ready-to-adapt workshop canvases. You leave with a complete workshop designed for your real context.
A successful workshop starts with clear sponsor framing and ends with a debrief that anchors learnings. The course details these two pivotal moments, often decisive for intervention success. With concrete canvases for each step.
Internal or external facilitators, team managers, HR, transformation consultants, internal trainers, seminar animators. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, industry, public services and consulting firms. Group animation experience is a plus but not required.
You animate the seven steps of the official process without hesitation, design a tailor-made workshop for a specific objective (vision, values, conflict, alignment), frame a request with a sponsor and lead a useful debrief. You leave with a complete workshop designed for your context, reuse canvases and an action plan for your first interventions.
Many strategic workshops or team seminars struggle to produce real alignment: too much oral, too many dominant personalities, too little materialization. Lego Serious Play offers a robust alternative, where each builds before telling. The course shows how to position this method in your animation palette, without making it a gimmick but a foundational tool.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs over two days with a certified Lego Serious Play facilitator. Format with theory inputs, sub-group workshops, personalized design, final demo and structured feedback on your facilitator posture.
A management team clarifying its three-year vision in a half-day workshop. A steering committee unblocking a sensitive subject through metaphor. A post-merger seminar producing shared values instead of imposed slogans. The course works on these three cases in simulation, with a participant in sponsor posture and another as facilitator.
This training combines well with creative potential development (course 14289) for the ideation dimension, design thinking (course 14290) for user-centered approaches, and Belbin assessment (course 14357) for team role dynamics. Many facilitators enroll in one of these courses.
Many strategic conversations happen through screens, slides and abstract debates that fail to produce real alignment. Lego Serious Play offers a tactile, embodied alternative that produces visible, shareable artifacts. In a world saturated with screen-based exchanges, this physical method has paradoxically gained relevance.
Lego Serious Play workshops gather varied profiles: introverts and extroverts, technical and creative, junior and senior. The course details how to design exercises that work across this diversity, with calibrations for group size, time available and cultural context. A finesse that distinguishes a workshop that engages everyone from one that engages a few.
Is material provided?
Yes, each participant uses a kit during the course. For later workshops, official kit purchase is documented at the end.
Am I certified at the end?
This is an in-depth professional initiation, not an official Lego Group certification. A dedicated path exists for full certification.
Need facilitator experience?
No, the course welcomes varied profiles: managers, HR, consultants, trainers. Group animation experience is a plus but not required.
Typical uses?
Team vision, values, conflict management, transformation, post-merger integration, exec team seminar, strategic project launch.
Does it integrate remote facilitation?
Yes, emerging remote practices (kits sent in advance, video animation) are briefly addressed, without replacing in-person format.
How does the method handle resistance from skeptical participants?
The course addresses this common situation: participants who view the method as childish or non-serious. Specific techniques to open the workshop and frame the rationale neutralize most resistance within the first hour.
Can the method be combined with other approaches?
Yes, integration with design thinking, agile retrospectives or strategic planning workshops is addressed, with concrete recipes for combination.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Côtes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom for the theoretical part.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
