Ready to go all-in with LEGO® Serious Play® and train as a Certified Facilitator?

Want to spend two days learning the advanced techniques of LEGO® Serious Play® to playfully wrangle problems, deepen communication, increase team engagement and bring our your people’s creative, innovative best?

Upcoming Events

Come and play! Here’s my upcoming dates for certification & training and hands-on taster workshops.

For the full calendar of public events and conferences, check out the Upcoming page.

Don’t See One Close to Home?

We want to hear from you! We’d love to see LEGO Serious Play take off in more locations, so if you’re interested in becoming a Certified Facilitator but can’t see a program listed in your city, fill out this form to help us plan future events, and to keep you in the loop about them.

This 2-day LEGO Serious Play Training Program is Pretty Great.

It’s an intensive, coached and mentored process with a small group designed to give you everything you need to succeed in bringing LEGO Serious Play (LSP) to your organisation and maximising it’s impact.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

The research, history, and science behind the method
Templates to plan a range of powerful LSP sessions
Instruction, practice & coaching to facilitate with LSP
Creative ways to capture session insights
Established uses for LSP (Individual, team, organisation)
Customised & Personalised New Applications for LSP
Strategies to turn stakeholders into advocates
Curating your own LEGO Serious Play kits
Connection with the worldwide LSP community

You’ll get lifetime support.

We want you to succeed, and new things take practice, so for as long as we all draw breath, you can

Stressing before your first session?

Check in for feedback.

(But you’ll do great!)

Had a tricky group to work with?

We’ve all had ’em.

Set up a call to debrief.

Ideas to take it somewhere new?

Great! Make it your own.

Reach out.

Who’s this for?

Team Leaders

who are tired of running ordinary meetings, and want to drive innovation and engagement through authentic, powerful communication.

Coaches, Counsellors, and Mentors

who want a gentle, rewarding way to dig deeper with clients for more powerful conversations about better-understood goals.

Educators and Learning Designers

who want to encourage complex thinking and nuanced discussion.

Community Leaders and Catalysts

seeking to break down communication barriers to listen and connect deeply with their networks.

Designers and Strategists

seeking to leave no assumption unchallenged, unearth new ideas, and find elusive connections in the complexity.

Innovative Spirits and Glorious Weirdos

looking to make the status quo itchy and change the conversation in their organisation, their programs, or their life in general.

What about doing this in-house?

If you want to embed this process across your organisation and you’ve got a group of people ready to learn, we can bring the process in-house to fine tune it exactly to your needs.

Design for Purpose

Having a room full of budding facilitators from the same place allows us to focus entirely on the exact needs of your organisation for your first steps with LSP.

Facilitation Support

Two days of customised facilitation and co-facilitation support to get your school and community off to a flying start. Use those two days however it works best.

Strong Foundations

Design your conversations, scope your introductions, and lay your roadmap for how to build fluency and trust in working playfully across your organisation.

Session Capture

We’ll work with your own physical and digital environment to design your LSP experiences in a way that leaves no brick unturned.

Meet your Facilitator

Joel Birch

Joel Birch is a learning designer, facilitator, and conscientious objector to ever fully growing up.

As a Certified Facilitator of LEGO Serious Play, Joel uses the power of play, stories, and solving problems by thinking with our hands to help individuals and teams to craft deep understanding, rich communication, and creative solutions. Why just work on a challenge when you could play with it instead?

Building on a successful career enabling and developing the creativity of children and their teachers in schools in Perth and overseas, he now works across a wide range of industries, with groups ranging from youth to senior leadership.

Why train with me?

Your understanding, application, and expression of the LEGO Serious Play method will take on a character and a life of its own, so you should choose a training partner that fits what you want from that learning experience.

There are many LEGO Serious Play training programs for facilitators around the world. Here are some of the things that are unique to a LSP Method Partner Training:

Personalised Focus

A small-group, coached experience for lots of individual focus

Focused Course

A course tailored to your needs, with flex to work on your unique situation under guidance.

Full-Time Focus

A mentor that works full-time with LEGO Serious Play, in client sessions and on training others in the method.

Bottomless Followup

Unlimited online followup support after the course (seriously, hound me all you want).

Global Community

Access to the LSP Method online course to review material in an easy, bite-sized video format.

The Entire Method

Training in the entire method so you can go and make it your own.

Upcoming Training

If you need a formal invoice issued, or you need to pay via bank transfer, contact us at hello@hunchandlever.com, and we can arrange that for you.

If you want to bring the training in-house and build this capacity within your organisation, reach out so we can talk about what that might look like.