A rigorous, hands-on two-day in-person certification for educators, HR and OD professionals, coaches and facilitators in Calgary and southern Alberta. Certified through LSP Method.
Standard CAD $2,500 + GSTBring a Buddy CAD $1,750 each.Schedule a call to receive a Special Discount.
Delivered in partnership with The Fourth Space. Certification issued by LSP Method.
Two or more registering together pay CAD $1,750 each + GST, whichever date you register on.
What You Will Gain
Over two intensive days you experience the LEGO® Serious Play® method as a participant before learning to design and facilitate sessions yourself, so you leave with real capability, your own kit of bricks, and a clear starting point for bringing the method into your own context.
Experience the full build progression as a participant: skills builds and warm-ups, individual builds, group and landscape builds, and either an introduction to systems builds or the method combined with Action Learning. Then practise facilitating within the cohort.
Your certificate is issued by LSP Method, the Australian training organisation founded by Michael Fearne, which has training partners around the world and is recognised by other established LSP training networks. Certifying with us puts you in a community of 2,000+ facilitators certified through LSP Method worldwide.
A LEGO® Serious Play® Starter Kit is yours to take home, along with digital access to Michael Fearne's The LSP Method. You leave able to run a session, not just able to describe one.
Alongside the builds, you talk openly with the cohort about where the method fits in your own work, your proposed strategy behind using it, and possibly an outline of your first workshop.
A small cohort means personalised coaching from master facilitators, real peer dialogue, and strong connections with fellow practitioners.
Your trainers hold LSP Method PRO Trainer certification and bring deep professional practice in education, coaching, and organisational development.
Never underestimate this one. Being a certified LSP facilitator earns you serious standing with the nieces, nephews, and other highly intelligent young people in your life who are obsessed with LEGO.
Certification connects you to the global LSP Method facilitator community, with continued access to peers and resources, and free coaching from us, with no time limit, as you integrate the method into your work.
About the Method
The LEGO® Serious Play® method is a facilitation methodology developed in the late 1990s by Johan Roos and Bart Victor, and further developed by Robert Rasmussen. The LEGO® Group was among the earliest and most prominent organisations to use the method, bringing its power for strategic thinking and team alignment into their own work before it spread globally.
The method uses three-dimensional LEGO models as the basis for dialogue, reflection, and decision making. It is grounded in constructivist learning theory: we think better when we build, and we communicate more richly when we have something to point at.
Build first. The words come easier when your hands have already worked out what you mean.
As you progress through the method, individual builds give way to richer techniques: group builds, landscape builds, which map how people, ideas, or elements relate to one another, and systems builds, a more comprehensive way of modelling a system's relationships and dynamics. It is a serious strategic thinking tool, not a team-building exercise.
Training Agenda
The theory, history and science of the method are covered before you arrive, so both days in the room are spent building, facilitating and practising. You experience the full depth of the method as a participant on Day 1, then shift into the facilitator role on Day 2.
What the two days will ask of you, and who you will be working with.
The core sequence of an LSP session and how the stages build on one another.
The learning theory and research behind why we think better when we build.
What goes into a facilitator kit, and how to build on the starter kit you take home.
The facilitator's job in an LSP session, and how it differs from running a meeting.
Using the LEGO® Serious Play® name properly in your own practice, explaining the method to a client, and the community you join.
Cohort introductions, learning objectives, and a warm-up build that introduces metaphor and storytelling. Your first hands-on experience of building as a way of thinking.
Each participant builds an individual response to a prompt and tells the story of the model, then the group co-creates a single shared model from what emerged.
Building the agents in a situation, then arranging them into a landscape where each model keeps its own identity within a collective view, and the relationships between them become visible.
How a session is brought to a close so that people leave with something they can act on.
The two things that decide whether an LSP session works. Writing the build questions, and sequencing them into a structure that goes somewhere.
An explanation of the two main activities for Day 2, and time with a partner to develop and plan your practice session.
Back into the method quickly, and a look at the warm-ups you will use in your own sessions.
An open discussion about your plans for integrating LSP into your own work: where it fits, the strategy behind any planned sessions, and the questions you might explore. You might share an outline of a planned session, or simply bring some ideas to get feedback from the group.
Depending on the cohort, Day 2 either introduces systems builds, a shared model with agents and connectors used to test scenarios and the impact of change, or combines the LEGO® Serious Play® method with Action Learning. Action Learning is a team-based approach to working on real problems through questioning, reflection and action, and the two methods work very effectively together.
The largest part of Day 2. You facilitate a portion of a workshop for your cohort peers and guests. You are invited to bring one or two people as guests for the afternoon, who take part as genuine participants, not observers. Feedback and coaching follow at the end.
Group reflection on the training, next steps for bringing the method into your work, certification, and access to the global LSP Method community.
Detailed timings, including breaks and lunch, are confirmed with registered participants closer to the dates.
Included in Your Registration
Certification is the credential. These are the things that decide whether you actually run your first workshop in the weeks after, rather than in the someday after that.
You go home with bricks, not just notes. It is enough to run your first sessions with a small group, and it is the base you build a full facilitator kit on.
Michael Fearne's book, the reference text for the method, in digital form. It is the thing you go back to when you are designing a session six months from now.
Your facilitator certificate, issued by LSP Method, plus a digital credential you can add to your LinkedIn profile, and a place in a community of 2,000+ facilitators certified through LSP Method worldwide.
We are available to advise before your practice session. Once all the practice workshops are done, there is a group debrief where everyone gives feedback, with more specific coaching guidance from the master facilitators.
As you start bringing the method into your own work, you can come back to us for coaching at no extra cost. There is no time limit on the offer.
Is This for You?
The cohort works best when the room holds a mix of contexts, so people leave with ideas they would not have found on their own.
Instructors, curriculum designers, student services professionals, and academic leaders looking to bring participatory methodologies into classrooms, strategic planning, and institutional processes.
People and culture leaders, organisational development practitioners, and learning and development specialists who facilitate teams, lead change, or design learning experiences.
Executive coaches, team coaches, and independent consultants wanting to add a distinctive 3D sense-making and systems thinking method to their client work.
Practising facilitators who already run workshops and want a structured, well-evidenced methodology that changes what a group is able to say to itself.
People who run planning sessions, retrospectives and cross-team work inside their own organisation rather than as external consultants. We invoice against a purchase order where your procurement process requires it.
Hobbyists, those looking for a general LEGO-building experience, or individuals without a professional facilitation context. The certification is a professional credential and the cohort engages seriously with its application in real-world practice.
Your Trainers
This Calgary cohort is delivered by two LSP Method Certified PRO Trainers from Serious Play Methods, based in British Columbia, Canada.
David is a seasoned educator and facilitator in creativity, having taught and facilitated workshops in Canada, USA, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. He has used LSP in his teaching at the University of British Columbia and Solvay Business School Vietnam. As well as being a Certified PRO Trainer of Facilitators in the LEGO® Serious Play® Method through LSP Method, David is a Master Facilitator in Team Psychological Safety, holds ACC and ITCA-P coaching credentials, is a certified Hands-On Thinking Coach, has a facilitator certification through Voltage Control, and is a certified Metalog® Tools Trainer.
Lan Anh has more than 20 years of leadership experience across both Vietnamese and international organisations including Big C, Hanesbrands Inc., Muong Thanh Hospitality, and Südwolle Group. She is a Certified PRO Trainer of Facilitators in the LEGO® Serious Play® Method through LSP Method, a Certified Action Learning Coach (CALC), a Master Facilitator in Team Psychological Safety, and holds a Master Trainer designation from the Association for Talent Development (ATD).
Pricing
All prices are in Canadian dollars, before GST. The Early Bird rate closed on Sunday 18 October. The Standard rate now applies until the cohort is full, and if you schedule a call with David before you register, we will offer you a Special Discount. Every option includes the same two days, the same kit and the same book.
Book a call before you register and we will offer you a Special Discount. Same training, same inclusions.
Schedule a CallIncludes your LEGO® Serious Play® Starter Kit and digital access to The LSP Method.
The final rate, open until the cohort is full.
Includes your LEGO® Serious Play® Starter Kit and digital access to The LSP Method.
Register with a colleague, or a whole team, and each person pays CAD $1,750 whenever you register. Note the other names on the registration form.
Includes a LEGO® Serious Play® Starter Kit each, and digital access to The LSP Method.
After you complete the registration form we follow up by email within one to two business days with confirmation and payment details. We can issue an invoice against a purchase order where your organisation's procurement process requires one.
Special Discount
A 20-minute Zoom call with David to answer your questions, understand your context, and help you decide whether this certification is the right next step for your practice. Book a call before you register and we will offer you a Special Discount.
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Registration
Complete the registration form and we will follow up with confirmation and payment details within one to two business days.
Takes about two minutes. You will be asked for your details, your rate, and anything you would like us to know about your context. Payment details follow by email, so nothing is charged on the form.
Open the Registration FormJoin the waitlist and tell us which city and which months suit you. We run cohorts across Canada and we plan the next dates around where the interest actually is. No obligation, and we will not add you to a general mailing list.
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Frequently Asked Questions
By training with an experienced trainer, and ideally by facilitating the method for real before you finish. There is no single official route, so it is worth checking how much hands-on practice a programme includes. Ours starts with short pre-training videos, then two full days in person in Calgary. On Day 1 you experience the method as a participant. On Day 2 you facilitate part of a workshop with live participants, followed by a group debrief and coaching. You leave certified, with your own Starter Kit, and with free follow-up coaching from us as you start using LSP in your own work.
Register for a cohort, watch the pre-training videos (about 90 minutes, sent about a week before), then take part in both days in person, including your practice session on Day 2. Your certificate is issued by LSP Method, which has training partners around the world, and it comes with a digital credential you can add to your LinkedIn profile.
No prior LSP experience is required. The training is designed for professionals who already facilitate in some capacity, whether in education, HR, OD, or coaching, and want to add a structured 3D methodology to their practice. General facilitation experience is helpful but not a prerequisite.
No. There is no central certification body for the method. Different organisations train and certify facilitators to their own standards, which is why it is worth looking at what a particular programme actually asks of you. Ours is two full days in person with preparatory material (videos) beforehand, and Day 2 is given over largely to facilitating a real session with live participants. We provide a debrief and coaching guidance as part of this. Your certificate is issued by LSP Method, which has training partners around the world and is recognised by other established LSP training networks.
No. Everything you need is provided for the two days, and a LEGO® Serious Play® Starter Kit is included in your registration for you to take home. That kit is enough to run your first sessions with a small group, and the pre-training material covers how to build it out into a full facilitator kit over time.
Your facilitator certification through LSP Method and a digital credential for your LinkedIn profile, a LEGO® Serious Play® Starter Kit, digital access to Michael Fearne's The LSP Method, the experience of having facilitated part of a workshop with live participants and been through the debrief, membership of the global LSP Method facilitator community, and free coaching from us afterwards, with no time limit.
Your certificate is issued by LSP Method, the Australian training organisation founded by Michael Fearne, with whom Serious Play Methods is a training partner. It comes with a digital credential you can add to your LinkedIn profile, and it connects you to a community of 2,000+ facilitators certified through LSP Method worldwide.
Each participant facilitates a portion of a workshop. Your cohort peers take part as genuine participants, and you can invite one or two guests to join for this part of the day, so you are facilitating a real group rather than a simulated exercise. The master facilitators observe and provide debriefing and coaching at the end.
We provide access to a series of short videos covering the theory and background to LSP. This means the two days in the room can be spent building and facilitating. The videos currently have about 90 minutes of content, and the link will be sent to you about a week ahead of the training.
The training is in person at the YWCA Community Hub, 1715 17 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 5J1. Joining instructions go to registered participants ahead of the training.
If you and a colleague register together, each of you pays CAD $1,750, and the same rate applies to larger groups from one organisation. It is the lowest rate on offer and it does not change with the date, so it is worth asking a colleague even late on. Note the other names on the registration form so the registrations can be matched.
The Early Bird rate of CAD $1,950 closed on Sunday 18 October, and the Standard rate of CAD $2,500 applies from Monday 19 October. If you schedule a 20-minute Zoom call with David before you register, we will offer you a Special Discount. The training, the kit and the book are identical at any rate. If two or more of you register together the rate is CAD $1,750 each at any point.
No. All prices listed are before GST, which applies to in-person training delivered in Alberta. GST is added when your registration is confirmed.
Yes. Note it on the registration form and we will issue an invoice with whatever reference or PO number your finance team needs, rather than asking you to pay by card.
Please contact us directly at seriousplaymethods@gmail.com to discuss cancellation or transfer options. We will do our best to accommodate your circumstances. Full details are confirmed when your registration is processed.
Yes. We run cohorts across Canada, and Calgary is one of several this season. If a different city or a different set of dates would suit you better, join the waitlist and tell us where you are. We plan the next round of dates around where the interest actually is.