Greetings, Welcome to a New Year. For sure it will be a better one than 2020 and we will have more LSP hands-on activities. Also welcome to a new layout for the TOF Gazette.

New on seriousplay.training/facilitator-community

The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY etiquette We have revised this document, which sets the boundaries for how to facilitate LSP and also maintain the integrity of the method. The document is part your manual #2 and will be posted on the site in multiple languages. We have also posted a tutorial video about the purpose and use of the etiquette. Coffee Chats 2021 The schedule for the first half of 2021 is available. Registration for coffee chats always happens via the community section Facilitating Simple Guiding Principles We have earlier shared with you the new approach using the WEK for introducing SGPs. Facilitator manual #2 has now been updated in multiple languages for this approach. You will find the documents under "Manual Updates".

Remote facilitation of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY

LSP stater kit from IKEA? It is now an established fact that we can facilitate LSP remotely with good results AS LONG as we stay within the limits/scale of skills building and simple AT1. One of the logistical challenges are getting the bricks to the participants in the remote workshops. Check out this new product from IKEA produced in cooperation with the LEGO Company. I have played around with the kit and it is definitely usable for LSP. You can do usable 2.0 instruction models and there are more pieces than in the WEK, but less than in the Starter Kit. Another challenge when facilitating remotely is "technical skills building" regarding how to best show an image of your LEGO model enabling good sharing for all and good opportunities for asking questions to the model. Here is an instruction sheet I use.

To articulate or not articulate Simple Guiding Principles?

..."the Real-Time Strategy concept is about intentional (real-time) decision-making when the unforeseen happens. We call it a 'learned strategy'; it emerges from the pattern of decisions we make/play to move towards our aspirations and learn how to act in real-time..... .....if, after a full process of practice, of seeing ahead and behind, building and playing, we can say participants learn a more 'intuitive' and committed way to make real-time decisions in their complex adaptive system, why are we articulating SGPs? Or select them? Isn't the building and sharing process enough? If you are interested in the answer to this question please read Jack Reimon's Experience Exchange blog, where he gives the reason WHY we should articulate the SGPs.

"LSP at a Glance" videos

We have made the links to our YouTube channel videos more graphically visible on the public part of www.seriousplay.training. We hope it can give more views this way. Here is one of the examples.

Sincerely and Best Wishes for the New Year