What happens when an idea becomes physical

Loose Builds is a monthly online session for systems thinkers. Each session takes a single systems concept and puts it in your hands instead of leaving it in your head.
We’ll use LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to work through that week’s concept. No LSP experience needed. 

How it works

60 minutes, once a month.
We open with 10 to 15 minutes of light theory on that month's concept. Then you build. Then we talk about what came up.
No teaching. No fixed outcome. Just a room of people exploring the same idea from different angles.

Who this is for

This is for people who think in systems and want to feel a concept rather than just describe it. LSP practitioners and facilitators are welcome, but this isn't a session on how to run systems-level LSP yourself. That's a different conversation.

The full programme

Eight sessions a year, each one a different lens:
  • Below the surface. What's visible in a situation versus what's structurally hidden beneath it
  • Loops and leverage. How a single reinforcing or balancing loop drives a pattern, and where a small change might shift it
  • Complex or just complicated. Telling genuine unpredictability apart from a situation that just needs more expertise
  • The ladder and the model. How quickly we leap from a single observation to a firm conclusion
  • Emergence. What happens when simple rules produce outcomes no one individually designed
  • Holding paradox. Sitting with a tension that can't be resolved, only managed
  • Enough variety to cope. Whether your response to a situation has enough range to match it
  • Redrawing the boundary. How the edge you draw around "the system" changes what you can see

Price

£27.00 per session. Book one at a time, or come to all eight.

Where this might lead

Some of what surfaces in these sessions points toward something deeper. If enough people want to go further with a specific concept, that's the seed for a future in-depth offering for systems thinkers. Nothing to sign up for yet. Just worth knowing the door's there.