This training is scheduled to suit GMT

If these dates don't suit you, we can schedule training for your institution. A minimum of four playful learners is required :)

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Do you want your students to amplify their creativity and engagement with LEGO Serious Play?

How about learning to use the LEGO method with some key tools, such as design thinking, service design, and systems thinking? (Regardless of whether you teach those subjects or not)

Yes, and yes??

Well then.....we're glad you found us!

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Hello there,

We're D r Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We're Co-founders of How Might We, an Irish-based Service Design studio that has blended the Lego Serious Play method with Design Thinking, Service Design and Systems Thinking practices

We started exploring the LEGO Serious Play method in 2016, and, we were surprised it wasn't being utilised within the learning environment or the design and innovation space. At the time, Jane was Head of a Business Faculty, and Ronan was working as a Facilitator, plus lectured in Design Thinking and Service Design

For two years, we researched and tinkered with the method, and in 2018, we Co-founded How Might We with the intention of pushing the boundaries of how the method was being applied

Since then, we've used the Lego method to:

1) facilitate Strategic Foresight workshops for billion-euro transformation programs

2) coach departments and entire organisations to embed Service Design practices (during a 12-month program)

3 ) bring clients and their customers/citizens together to co-create better relationships and service delivery

4 ) help design teams struggling with inter-personal tensions to work better together to deliver more human-centred products and services

5 ) help new and under-resourced design teams design better stakeholder management practices...dare we say we even helped them gain the capability and confidence to "push back" on their stakeholders

6 ) help academic departments better understand and articulate the value proposition of its new courses and the various segments of learners they need to communicate to

We've also helped thousands of students learn Design Thinking and Service Design through the LEGO Serious Play method. We've done this as we've been Creative Partners for:

The Big Idea - www.thebigidea.ie

Playful Designers - www.playfuldesigners.school

Generation Innovation - www.generationinnovation.co

Plus, we're continuously working with other not-for-profits and community-focused for-profits that wish to teach learners about Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking and Service Design through the LEGO method

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So what does that mean for you?

We're bringing you a suite of LEGO Serious Play practices that have been tested in the real world and refined further within the education space

We will cover the LEGO Serious Play method plus teach you how to also use the method with key tools within Design Thinking, Service Design and Systems Thinking

"But I don't lecture in design or systems thinking"

We hear ya, but these problem-structuring tools can be used for any subject where your students need to take an empathetic, human-centred perspective on a customer, citizen, patient, user, etc. (not forgetting Mother Nature, too!)

Our belief is that

"It's not about doing creativity subjects. It's about doing subjects creatively."

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Price - €900 (+23% Vat)

Additional VAT details are at the end of this page

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Training Details

Pretraining

1) Three weeks before training, we grant you access to our learning platform, where you learn how to facilitate two 30-minute workshops with friends, colleagues or students. This ensures that you are familiar with the LEGO Serious Play method before we meet online

2 ) Two weeks prior, we also provide access to video content that will give you a much better understanding of two vitally important questions, "What is Play?" and "Why do we Play?". These two questions have been a fascination for the How Might We team, and we're confident will fascinate you too

During training

3) We cover a lot of ground over the two days, plus severalplenty of breaks. We're big proponents of learning by doing, so have provided you with a ton of support to get "hands-on" as soon as training finishes

Post-training

4) We provide you with a slide deck for each practice so you can easily integrate them into your class

5) We also show you how to structure your own workshop so you can integrate the tools that we cover, such as:

Rich Pictures, Root Definitions, Feasibility and Acceptability Analysis, Stakeholder Maps, Personas, How Might We Statements, Empathy Maps, Journey Maps, Service Blueprint, plus several ideation methods

6) To ensure you're confident to facilitate your first workshop, we provide an hour of online, one-to-one coaching

7 ) To ensure you can confidently persuade students or academic stakeholders that this LEGO method isn't non-sense (busy adults can be cynical, ya' know!), we provide you with a slide deck that outlines the value of the method

8) We hold a bi-monthly, online, one-hour chat to help you connect and learn with a global community of LEGO Serious Play Facilitators

We're also very intentionally not using an online platform like Slack or Mighty Networks. We're in waaaaaaaay too many of them that have little to no activity

Plato said it best,

"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than a lifetime.... in a disengaged Slack community."

He, he....see what we did there. We've got jokes :)

Meaningful conversations in the classroom

We've also designed and refined additional practices that we're really proud of as we know they will help learners:

1. get to know you more personally

2. significantly boost their creative confidence

3. connect deeply with the subject and the problem they're solving

4. maintain a strong team bond so they successfully deliver their project (which is especially important if their project is for a real organisation)

The video linked to this page gives insight into how students felt about these meaningful conversations. Lecturers were equally impressed, particularly at how engaged the students were with each other and with their subject

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Who should attend?

Higher Education Lecturers or, as we like to say, "Facilitators of learning"

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Your Trainers

Dr Jane Hession is the co-founder of How Might We. Jane is the author of Women In The Modern Workplace, which examines how family, finance, networking and mentoring affect a woman’s decision to establish a business. Before How Might We, Jane consulted with various public service bodies and, for five years, was Head of the business faculty of a college based in Sydney and Melbourne. Jane has a PhD in the field of ethnic entrepreneurship, a business degree and a Masters in Entrepreneurial Management

Ronan Healy is also Co-founder of How Might We....but isn't a doctor or hasn't written a book :( However, Ronan does have over twenty years of director and senior leadership experience and has worked internationally with various creative design studios. He lectured in Design Thinking and Service Design and won an award for his innovative teaching practices in the learning environment. Ronan has a politics degree and a Masters in Entrepreneurial Management

We're also co-hosts of the SEEKING PLAY podcast (on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon Music).

We've also been guests on a number of podcasts, such as:

1. This is HCD
2. Design Thinking 101
3. The Product Quest Podcast
4. The Future Learning Design Podcast
5. The Systems Innovation Community

All interviews are available on our website - www.howmightwe.design

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Booking requirements

The maximum group size is set to 6 people

A minimum of 4 people are required to run this online training program. We will send you a confirmation email once the minimum number is met. Should the minimum number not be fulfilled within one week before the date, we will notify you with an option to reschedule to a later date or offer you a full refund. Participants will be offered a full refund if we need to cancel due to unforeseen events

In-house training

Please contact us should your university/college wish to build an in-house capability. We deliver this remote or in-house if your institution is within the EU

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Cookie-Cutter Learning

We don't do standardised, cookie-cutter training. Once you've booked with us, we will send you a questionnaire so we can understand your requirements better

Based on your answers, we will do our best to tailor the training to the common patterns within your learning cohort

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VAT

Our customers are liable to pay 23% VAT

If you have an EU VAT number, the transaction will be subject to VAT (which should then be recouped/off-set during your organisation's tax filings)

If you are outside the EU, then VAT will not apply

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For more information, please contact Jane on

jane@howmightwe.design