Unleashing Potential Through Playful, Tailored Workshops
Minti Minds delivers fun, interactive workshops expertly crafted to resonate with your specific audience. We believe learning should be an engaging and memorable experience, not a passive one. Our dynamic sessions are designed to spark curiosity, foster collaboration, and empower participants to discover new insights and skills through hands-on activities, lively discussions, and creative problem-solving.
Every Minti Minds workshop is meticulously tailored to your group's unique needs, ensuring relevant content, appropriate challenges, and maximum impact, making every moment of learning enjoyable and effective.
Tailored Workshops: Building Insights Brick by Brick
I design and deliver highly interactive workshops that go beyond traditional approaches, using the tactile, engaging nature of LEGO® bricks & creativity to explore complex topics. These aren't just fun sessions; they're strategically crafted experiences that lead to tangible outcomes and lasting insights.
Here's how we can build solutions together:
Unlocking Creative Problem-Solving: Through guided LEGO® Serious Play® exercises, individuals and teams can visually construct their challenges, explore different perspectives, and collaboratively build innovative solutions. This hands-on approach bypasses verbal biases and taps directly into intuitive thinking.
Supercharging Communication & Collaboration: Imagine expressing abstract concepts or complex team dynamics not just with words, but with physical models. LEGO® Serious Play® provides a shared language and a safe space for participants to articulate ideas, give constructive feedback, and develop a deeper understanding of each other's perspectives, leading to stronger teamwork.
Fostering Deeper Learning & Emotional Intelligence: My workshops can be specifically tailored to delve into more nuanced areas, including emotions and interpersonal dynamics. Participants can use LEGO® bricks to:
Externalise and understand emotions: Build models representing feelings like stress, joy, frustration, or empathy, allowing for a safe and tangible way to explore their impact.
Map emotional landscapes: Create shared models that illustrate team morale, customer experiences, or the emotional journey within a project, fostering collective awareness.
Develop empathy and perspective-taking: Construct scenarios from different viewpoints, literally seeing and feeling how others might perceive a situation.
Explore identity and values: Build models that represent personal strengths, core values, or desired future states, leading to powerful self-reflection and alignment.
My approach leverages the power of metaphor and storytelling inherent in LEGO® Serious Play®, enabling participants to construct shared meanings and develop actionable strategies that resonate deeply. Whether you're looking to spark innovation, improve team cohesion, or navigate complex emotional landscapes within your organisation, we can design a workshop that builds the insights you need, brick by brick.
what is lego serious play?
Build Your Ideas, Transform Your Thinking
Ever wished you could build a solution to a complex problem? Or make abstract ideas tangible enough to truly understand them? At Minti Studios, we believe in the power of play to unlock serious insights, and that's where LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) comes in!
As a Certified LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator, I guide individuals and teams through a unique, hands-on methodology that uses LEGO bricks to foster deep thinking, enhance communication, and accelerate problem-solving. It's not just about building models; it's about building metaphors, exploring challenges from new perspectives, and collectively constructing shared understandings.
Why does it work? Rooted in established theories of learning and cognition, LSP leverages the brain's ability to connect hands-on experience with cognitive processing (Heller et al., 2012). It's built upon principles such as:
Constructionism (Papert, 1980): The idea that people learn most effectively when they are actively constructing something external, tangible, and shareable. Building with LEGO bricks provides a concrete way to materialise thoughts and ideas.
Embodied Cognition: The theory that our thoughts and cognitive processes are deeply influenced by our bodily experiences and interactions with the environment (Barsalou, 2008). The tactile engagement with bricks helps to externalise and process complex thoughts.
The Power of Play: Play is a fundamental human activity that fosters creativity, problem-solving, and emotional processing (Piaget, 1962; Vygotsky, 1978). LSP creates a psychologically safe space for experimentation and exploration.
Metaphor and Storytelling: Participants use LEGO models as metaphors, allowing for richer, more nuanced communication and the exploration of complex issues from multiple perspectives.
This theoretical grounding allows LSP to encourage:
Creative Problem-Solving: By building, participants can externalise thoughts, explore scenarios, and visualise solutions in a way words alone often can't.
Enhanced Communication: Everyone builds and shares their perspective, ensuring all voices are heard and understood, leading to richer dialogue.
Deeper Learning: The tactile, immersive process creates memorable experiences that foster profound insights and a strong sense of ownership over solutions.
Unlocking Hidden Knowledge: It's a powerful tool for surfacing unconscious assumptions, breaking down silos, and fostering genuine collaboration.
LSP also offers significant potential in educational settings and classrooms, providing a dynamic approach for students to engage with complex topics, express abstract ideas, and collaborate on projects, fostering critical thinking and creative expression in a highly interactive environment.
Whether you're looking to spark innovation, navigate complex challenges, develop shared strategies, or simply foster a more engaged and creative team environment, LEGO® Serious Play® offers a surprisingly powerful path forward.
Ready to play your way to breakthrough solutions? Let's explore how LSP can transform your next workshop or project!