In 2010, Lego open-sourced the basic parts of their 'Serious Play' methodology. Even though it's now 'open', it's quite hard to find the open-sourced parts online. I've therefore decided to make them available on GitHub, the home of open-source.
Click here to view or download the PDF with open source materials.
Following is Lego's official anouncement regarding the release:
This document outlines the basic principles of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. It has been made available by the LEGO Group under a Creative Commons licence (‘Attribution Share Alike’: see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for licence details).
Over the past decade, the LEGO Group has supported the rigorous and careful development of three types of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® resources:
- The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® basic principles and philosophy, upon which everything else is built;
- The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® materials – sets of specially selected LEGO bricks and pieces;
- LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® ‘applications’ – detailed roadmaps of different workshops which make use of the principles and philosophy, and the materials.
In the past, all three of these were only available to trained and certificated consultancy professionals. From June 2010, however, the first two of these have been made ‘open source’. This document outlines the basic principles and philosophy; and LEGO® SE- RIOUS PLAY® boxes (large sets of LEGO bricks and pieces) are now on sale from the www.seriousplay.com website.
It does not include detailed applications, because LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is entering a new phase. New applications will be developed by the international community of users, and may be shared online. In this new phase, we welcome creative uses of these tools, and innovation in the community. This document introduces users to the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® approach, so that good use can be made of the materials. However, in order to make the best use of these methods it is likely that you would benefit from the help of a trained LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator.