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"How to Facilitate the LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) Method ONLINE New Facilitation Techniques for Shared Models and #Covidsafe Face-To-Face This book was written in response to COVID-19, when we asked, 'How can LEGO(R) Serious Play(R), a tactile face-to-face workshop method, work professionally in the online setting?' Our response was to create and now to share new techniques to make Online LEGO(R) Serious Play(R), including shared model building, work brilliantly. Our innovation to split the shared model building into a new sequence including, disaggregate, rebuild, 'Magic-hands(c)"" and 'Build-along(c)' still results in a shared model that people are proud of and feel ownership over. There have been (and may still be), voices in our community saying Online LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) is not possible. They are wrong. It is. There are some aspects of Online LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) that work better than face-to-face. Online creates a better record of all the ideas generated in a workshop, more dominant voices share better online, and we experience more participant openness and vulnerability as people communicate from the comfort of their own homes. These new techniques enable COVID safe shared model building online AND face-to-face. This is an 'eco friendly' version of LEGO(R) Serious Play(R), with no 'Flygskam' and no travel carbon costs. These new Online LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) techniques will help cut carbon emissions long after the dark days of COVID-19. The book includes: Participant set-up: Harder and more important than it looks. Help your participants set up their online workspace before a workshop. Shared model set-up: Learn how to set up your 'studio' for online shared model building, from basic to pro set-ups. New skills build: See the additional digital platform skills build you can take your participants through. Develop your 'Magic-hands(c)': Learn how to be 'Magic-hands(c)' for online participants, also a COVID safe way to facilitate shared models face-to-face. Facilitate 'Build-along(c)': Learn how everyone in your workshop can create a shared model together, at the same time, in different locations. COVID safe face-to-face: See how the online techniques can be used face-to-face to create shared models with just one pair of hands. Eight graduate stories: See how people trained in these online techniques are using them in online and face-to-face workshops. Additional Resources: Appendices have further resources including a sample workshop plan and a PDF download for participant set-up. This book is intended for trained LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) facilitators. Facilitators who already use LEGO Serious Play know what a 'Windows' kit is, they know the underlying four step process of Challenge> Build> Share> Reflect, and are already clear of the difference between individual model building and shared model building."

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Review by Martin Gilbraith, London UK, October 2020 I am excited to commend to you this book 'How To Facilitate Meetings & Workshops Using The LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) Method Online'. Here are three reasons why. I know Sean, and that he is a competent, experienced and accomplished facilitator. Questions are the primary tool of every facilitator, and I know that he asks good questions and that he asks them well. In an early meetup of IAF England & Wales, in London in perhaps 2013, he posed the question: Is there such a thing as a universal principle of facilitation? It didn't take me long to think and respond that, in my own facilitation at least, there is certainly something approaching that - the 'ORID' model underlies of the ToP Focused Conversation method and the ToP methodology as a whole. I know that Sean has since integrated this approach in his practice, and in his previous book 'Mastering The LEGO Serious Play Method'. I was sufficiently inspired by the metaphor of ORID as a universal principle that I blogged about it then and have used it in my training ever since. Many facilitators have rapidly developed a speciality in working online this year, as Sean and I have as well. Some have done so more quickly and easily than others, and some with greater enthusiasm. Most, in my experience, have had reservations about some of the very real limitations of online facilitation. Only recently I think more of us are becoming belatedly more aware of some equally real limitations of face-to-face, and some real advantages of working online. So, it is not only LEGO Serious Play practitioners that might take heart and find inspiration in the many innovations that Sean shares in this book. There is much here for all of us to learn from - not least, the rigour and creativity with which he has designed 'a digital process that uses bricks' [substitute your preferred tool or method here] 'rather than an analogue process poorly rendered online'. I've heard it said that, in online facilitation, every participant brings their share of the meeting room with them. This is a challenge for LEGO Serious Play practitioners perhaps more than most, and one to which this book rises admirably. As Sean makes clear in his Guiding Principles, success in achieving outcomes rather than just engagement through facilitation comes largely from the planning and preparation, and from the capacity to divert nimbly from the plan when the moment requires improvisation. Finally, we are in the midst of a climate emergency, as well as a public health emergency. I believe that the two are not unrelated, and that they demand new ways of connecting, communicating and collaborating that are less carbon intensive as well as more COVID-19 secure, and that are more creative, compassionate and empowering as well. I believe that facilitation has a central role to play on the latter, with bricks as well as without, and that designing and delivering facilitation well online must play a part on the former. I have witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of creativity and innovation among facilitators in response to the pandemic and lockdown of recent months, and an extraordinary generosity of sharing of it as well - largely, of course, online. I am delighted to see this valuable and timely new book enter the fray, and just in time for International Facilitation Week! I am proud to be able to welcome you to it, and grateful to Sean for sharing it.

"Review by Martin Gilbraith, London UK, October 2020 I am excited to commend to you this book 'How To Facilitate Meetings & Workshops Using The LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) Method Online'. Here are three reasons why. I know Sean, and that he is a competent, experienced and accomplished facilitator. Questions are the primary tool of every facilitator, and I know that he asks good questions and that he asks them well. In an early meetup of IAF England & Wales, in London in perhaps 2013, he posed the question: ""Is there such a thing as a universal principle of facilitation?"" It didn't take me long to think and respond that, in my own facilitation at least, there is certainly something approaching that - the 'ORID' model underlies of the ToP Focused Conversation method and the ToP methodology as a whole. I know that Sean has since integrated this approach in his practice, and in his previous book 'Mastering The LEGO Serious Play Method'. I was sufficiently inspired by the metaphor of ORID as a universal principle that I blogged about it then and have used it in my training ever since. Many facilitators have rapidly developed a speciality in working online this year, as Sean and I have as well. Some have done so more quickly and easily than others, and some with greater enthusiasm. Most, in my experience, have had reservations about some of the very real limitations of online facilitation. Only recently I think more of us are becoming belatedly more aware of some equally real limitations of face-to-face, and some real advantages of working online. So, it is not only LEGO Serious Play practitioners that might take heart and find inspiration in the many innovations that Sean shares in this book. There is much here for all of us to learn from - not least, the rigour and creativity with which he has designed 'a digital process that uses bricks' [substitute your preferred tool or method here] 'rather than an analogue process poorly rendered online'. I've heard it said that, in online facilitation, every participant brings their share of the meeting room with them. This is a challenge for LEGO Serious Play practitioners perhaps more than most, and one to which this book rises admirably. As Sean makes clear in his Guiding Principles, success in achieving outcomes rather than just engagement through facilitation comes largely from the planning and preparation, and from the capacity to divert nimbly from the plan when the moment requires improvisation. Finally, we are in the midst of a climate emergency, as well as a public health emergency. I believe that the two are not unrelated, and that they demand new ways of connecting, communicating and collaborating that are less carbon intensive as well as more COVID-19 secure, and that are more creative, compassionate and empowering as well. I believe that facilitation has a central role to play on the latter, with bricks as well as without, and that designing and delivering facilitation well online must play a part on the former. I have witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of creativity and innovation among facilitators in response to the pandemic and lockdown of recent months, and an extraordinary generosity of sharing of it as well - largely, of course, online. I am delighted to see this valuable and timely new book enter the fray, and just in time for International Facilitation Week! I am proud to be able to welcome you to it, and grateful to Sean for sharing it."

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First and foremost Sean is a professional facilitator. He founded ProMeet an international facilitation business in 2007 where he works with organisations including HSBC, Google, Cisco, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Denso Automotive, UKTI, the InterAmerican Development Bank and many many more!

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