tl;dr – The hands-on, playful techniques of LEGO Serious Play are really good at taking coaching and development conversations deeper than they can go with talk alone, for coaches, for coachees, or for both.

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

-Richard Lingard, 1670 (not Plato!)

Coaching is a space for emergence and discovery where we explore ideas, draw on experience beyond our own, and reimagine the day-to-day through a lens of possibility.

The exact same things can be said of the children in our schools when they’re hard at play.

Play helps all of us – students and adults alike to process the world around us, make sense of relationships, and express who we are. When we invite playfulness into coaching, we open wide the doors to imagination, empathy, and potential.

The LEGO® Serious Play® method offers a powerful, hands-on structure for bringing that sense of possibility into your coaching conversations. It creates a safe, creative space where thinking becomes visible, meaning is co-constructed, and people connect on a deeper level, often while building literal models of their ideas. Whether you’re exploring professional goals, surfacing challenges, or framing new paths forward, this method builds insight and trust, one brick at a time.

In this session, you’ll experience a fully facilitated coaching conversation using LEGO Serious Play. The approach is model-agnostic; it complements a wide range of coaching frameworks and philosophies, making it a flexible tool for both coaches and coachees.

This workshop is ideal for aspiring or experienced instructional coaches, leaders looking to foster better communication, or anyone interested in more creative and empathetic ways of supporting others’ growth.

You’ll walk away from this session with two things.

First, you’ll get to have a hands-on experience of a coaching session using the LEGO Serious Play method.

Second (and more importantly), insights on how to bring playfulness, creativity, and depth into the coaching conversations happening across your school.

(You’ll also have a lot of fun.)