Joel Birch

Creative Learning • Strategy • LEGO® Serious Play®, Firebird Learning

Joel Birch is an experienced K-12 educator, professional learning designer, facilitator, and conscientious objector to ever fully growing up.

As a certified facilitator of LEGO Serious Play, Joel uses the power of play, stories, and thinking with our hands to solve problems to help individuals, teams, and whole organisations to leave their “outer grownup” at the door – letting the instincts and insight of their inner child do the important work.

Building on a successful career using constructivist and constructionist learning to enable and develop the creativity of children and their teachers in schools in Australia and overseas, he now works across a wide range of industries, with groups ranging from youth to senior leadership.

Upcoming Presentations

LEGO® Serious Play® for Recruitment: Meet the Entire Person (not just their CV and Interview Persona)

Stressful for applicants - many of whom might be far more natural working on a team or in the classroom than they are in an interview. Exhausting for schools and school leaders - interview after interview, the blurring is real.

LEGO® Serious Play® for Strategy, Culture, and Community Engagement: Play Your Way to Better Conversations that Matter

LEGO Serious Play is a powerful method for harnessing the full range of expertise, creativity and perspectives in your organisation to solve complex problems.

LEGO® Serious Play®: What It Is, What It Could Be, and How I Constantly Disappoint STEM Teachers

Want a fast-paced, hands-on workshop to make sense of some of the big challenges facing your profession? One that drives you to do your very best thinking, generates deep and memorable conversation, and also happens to be a lot of genuine, playful fun?

Pre conference: Lego Serious Play® Deep Dive

7 Mar (Thursday) - -

Past Presentations

Build a Bold Future with LEGO Serious Play

Pre conference: Lego Serious Play® Deep Dive

19 May (Friday) - 08:00 - 15:00