“RESILIENCE THROUGH PLAY” – THE INTERNATIONAL LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® CONFERENCE 2023

Resilience exercises using LEGO ® SERIOUS PLAY ®

Inspiration for designing and facilitating workshops about resilience for individuals, teams and organizations using the LEGO®
SERIOUS PLAY® method.

All the following exercises were co-created by the participants at the 2023 LSP Conference in Billund.
We hope you find them inspirational. Enjoy!
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Group work – exercise #1

Please work with the following tasks in your designated groups:

1. Share your experiences and insights about resilience from the presentation about
“how to build personal and team resilience”.
2. Transform some of these experiences and insights into a tailor-made LEGO®
SERIOUS PLAY® exercise about resilience. Please design the exercise!
3. Select one person in the group to present your exercise and potentially facilitate
it.

Guidelines:
• It must be possible to perform the exercise with 1 – 2 window bags per. participants.
• The building time for the exercise cannot exceed 10 minutes (some exercises do).
• The exercise is to focus on resilience either in its content/focus and/or process wise.
• Write your exercise on a flip over.

Deadline: 45 minutes
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Group work – exercise #1

Group 1
“Feeling the team”

This exercise is for teams who know each other

well and where they have a high level of
psychological safety.

Challenge 1: Challenge 2:
1. Individually build a stressor that has had a 1. Switch models.
high impact on the team. You may only use 2. Build assets or tools your team member can
10 bricks. use to change how they feel about their
2. How did this stressor make you feel? Write it stressor. You may only use 6 bricks per
down on a sticky note. asset/tool.

Deadline: 5 minutes Deadline: 5 minutes

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Group work – exercise #1

Group 2
“The Stress Container”

This exercise is both for individuals or groups.

Challenge 1:
Challenge 3 (only for teams):
1. Build a model that represents a container for
1. Pick 1 or more pieces from your model and
something that stresses you. The purpose of
build a shared team container that will show
this challenge is to let you put stressors in or
how you as a team handle stress and/or
take stressors out of the container.
stressors.
2. Write down 2-3 coping skills you as a team
Deadline: 5 minutes
can use during stressful situations.

Deadline: 10 minutes
Challenge 2:
1. Modify your model to show how you can
relieve the stressors (ask yourself: how do I
practice self-care?).

Deadline: 5 minutes
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Group work – exercise #2

Please work with the following tasks in your designated groups:
1. Share your experiences and insights about resilience from the presentation about
“what do resilient organisations do?”

2. Transform some of these experiences and insights into a tailor-made LEGO®

SERIOUS PLAY® exercise about resilience. Please design the exercise!

3. Select one person in the group to present your exercise and potentially facilitate it.

Guidelines:
• It must be possible to perform the exercise with 1 – 2 window bags per. participants.
• The building time for the exercise cannot exceed 10 minutes.
• The exercise is to focus on resilience either in its content/focus and/or process wise.
• Write your exercise on a flip over.

Deadline: 45 minutes
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Group work – exercise #2

Group 1
“Diva Dinosaur”

Participants are divided into groups of different

generations.

Challenge 1:
1. Build a model of what you see as the
biggest challenge the organization is facing.
2. Share your story at your table.

Deadline: 5 minutes

Challenge 2:
1. Share your table’s perspectives with the
other groups.
2. Reflect on the challenges, your organization
is facing in terms of the different
generational groups.

Deadline: 5 minutes
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Group work – exercise #2

Group 2
“[No name]”

Challenge 1: Challenge 3:
1. Build a model that represents a resilience 1. Make connections to a shared model using
agent/factor that has helped the organization proximity.
thrive in the past.
Deadline: 5 minutes
Deadline: 3 minutes

Challenge 2:
1. Share your story.
2. On a sticky note, write down the theme of
your resilience agent/factor.

Deadline: 2 minutes
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Feedback and reflections

Think about:

• What are your thoughts about the exercises, you have just
been presented with?
• Have you got any inputs or ideas on how you would design
and facilitate workshops about resilience in organizations?
• Have you got any experience with resilience workshops you
would like to share with other facilitators from the Brickmind
Community?

Please share your ideas, inputs and feedback with the rest of us!