Your team has the answer. Your meetings keep burying it
The same voices dominate, the decision slides to next week, and the fix is always another meeting. Brick Spark runs facilitated LEGO® Serious Play® sessions where every person builds their answer before anyone speaks, so the room leaves with a decision, owners and dates.
Sessions from AU$2,995 (+GST). Facilitated end to end by Chris Pepper, with The Ignite Report (your written action list) in your inbox within 48 hours.
Certified LSP facilitator · 21 years in L&D · 10,000+ people trained
Think about the question, create your answer in bricks, ignite the discussion. Click through to the method.
Where Chris spent 21 years in learning & development (past employers, not Brick Spark clients)
It shows up in the meeting. It costs you everywhere else.
Most teams have plenty of ideas and too few rooms where everyone's thinking gets on the table at once. Until that changes, the same problems keep coming back, in meetings, workshops and planning days alike.
What you see in the room
The same two or three voices run it
Everyone else quietly checks out, and the best thinking never makes it onto the table. The most senior person speaks first, and everyone else adjusts their answer to match.
Everyone builds their answer before anyone speaks, so nobody has a senior opinion to match.
It ends without a decision
Plenty of discussion, no outcome. Another meeting gets booked to pick it up next week, and the cycle repeats.
The room leaves with a decision, an owner for each action and a date to go with it.
The sharpest read goes unheard
The person who sees the problem most clearly is often the one who never gets the airtime to say it.
Their model sits on the table next to everyone else’s, and it gets explained like everyone else’s.
What it costs the business
A strategy nobody can repeat back
Everyone nodded at the direction. Ask five people what it means and you'll get five answers, so the funding call never really gets made.
The people who have to deliver the strategy build it, so they can explain it in their own words.
Teams blaming each other's process
Two teams, each sure the other is the problem. Every meeting about it turns into polite blame with an agenda attached.
Both teams build how the work really moves between them, and the gap shows up in the bricks instead of in the blame.
Change that never really lands
The org chart changed, or the new system went live, but how people actually work didn't. The old way quietly survives.
People build what the new way of working looks like for them, and the first actions have owners before anyone goes back to their desk.
You've tried the tighter agenda, the timer, the round-robin and the "no laptops" rule. They tidy the structure. They don't change who gets heard.
You don't need another meeting. You need everyone building the answer.
Worth a read before you book anything: seven signs a workshop would pay off, and a retro format you can run yourself this week.
Three steps. Nobody dominates the room.
LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation uses a 3D model building method instead, where everyone answers with their hands before anyone answers out loud, which fixes participation directly, in one session. More on how the method works.
Pick a brick up — each one is a step
The question comes first
Before a single brick comes out, the room agrees the one question the session has to answer, designed with you on the discovery call. A vague question only ever gets a vague model, so no workshop starts without it.
The steps are simple on paper. The craft is in the facilitation: reading the room, keeping the loudest voices from steering, and knowing which question opens up the model someone is hiding behind.
Came looking for team building or a team day? Here’s what you get.
People find Brick Spark through different searches: workshop facilitation, corporate workshops, team building, a team day. Whichever brought you here, the session underneath is the same: everyone builds, everyone speaks, and the room leaves with a decision it can act on.
Workshop facilitation
Strategy days, project kickoffs, reviews and planning sessions, professionally facilitated so every voice gets heard, including the people who don't usually get a word in. You set the objective, the facilitation gets the room there, and the session ends with decisions and actions rather than another meeting booked.
Booked as team building?
You get a working session on something that matters, like culture, ways of working or a project reset, and the connection and the laughs come along as a by-product. You leave with decisions made and actions owned. If a good day out is all you’re after, standard team building is cheaper, and Chris will say so.
Planning a team day?
Your people spend the day thinking, building and deciding together instead of bowling or trust falls, and walk out with a plan they made themselves. Anywhere in Australia, and no LEGO® experience needed.
How a session compares with what you might book instead.
| What you get | Brick Spark session | A usual meeting | A team-building day | A facilitated discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everyone answers before the discussion starts | Yes | No | No | No |
| The quiet people get the same airtime | Yes | No | No | Partly |
| Works on a real business question | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Ends with a decision, owners and dates | Yes | Sometimes | No | Often |
| Connection and a few laughs | Yes | No | Yes | No |
The full LEGO® Serious Play® vs team building comparison covers cost, format and when each one is the right call.
Whichever you book, it runs the same method at the same pricing. See the LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation formats for what each session covers.
Made for the meetings with the most at stake.
Executive strategy formulation, a project kickoff, a team reset: if the session matters enough that you can't afford it ending in silence and a follow-up invite, it's a fit for LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation.
The decisions these rooms produce: which of three competing priorities gets funded this quarter. What the team stops doing after the restructure. Who owns each workstream from day one. What really went wrong on the last project, agreed by the people who lived it. The ground rules a newly merged team holds each other to. How the team actually works on day one of the new system, agreed before go-live rather than discovered after it. What next year's priorities are, decided by the people who'll be accountable for them.
Built for heads of people & culture · L&D directors · HR managers · strategy & innovation managers · business owners · project leads · change managers
Each of these rooms is a different build, and the cross-team ones exist to break down communication silos two teams have stopped noticing. See the six LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation formats Chris runs in Melbourne and what each one walks out with.
Three ways to run it.
Every session is designed and facilitated end to end by Chris, a certified facilitator. Pricing scales with the size of the decision rather than bells and whistles. The pricing page has what’s in each tier and the four things that move the number.
The Big Build
From AU$7,995 (+GST)
When one room isn’t enough · whole-of-business questions- Several sessions across a day, or rooms running side by side
- Custom question design with your leadership team
- Leadership debrief and written report
- Scoped one job at a time. If it can’t be run properly at that size, you’ll hear that instead
Spark Session
From AU$2,995 (+GST)
Single or multiple tables · one to two focus questions- Facilitated think–create–ignite cycles
- Diagnose-then-design question arc for deeper sessions
- The Ignite Report (a photographed model summary and written action list) within 48 hours
- Every participant keeps a LEGO® Serious Play® mini bag
- Scoped up front: if your decision is bigger than one session, you'll hear it before you book
Taster Session
AU$1,295 (+GST)
Under an hour · one focus question- One facilitated think–create–ignite round
- A light recap of what came up, shorter than the full Ignite Report
- A low-risk way to try the method before committing to a full session
Included in Spark Session and The Big Build.
- A pre-workshop discovery call to design the session around your challenge
- All LEGO® materials, with nothing to buy or prepare
- A certified facilitator, Victoria-based, guiding every step from start to finish
- A written summary of decisions, owners, and deadlines
- A 30-day follow-up call to check the actions landed
- Weekend sessions if that's what your calendar needs
Every participant takes home their own LEGO® Serious Play® mini bag.
Everyone leaves with their own kit in hand, so your team can run their own brainstorm, planning and analysis sessions long after the workshop ends. Spark Session and The Big Build only.
What people have said after a session with Chris.
On the facilitation"The quality of the presenters! Best I have seen in a very long time! Brilliant, knowledgeable and engaging."
Workshop participant, session feedback
On the energy"Very professional and energetic presenter."
Workshop participant, session feedback
On the clarity"The presentation was straightforward and easy to understand."
Workshop participant, session feedback
Coming in skeptical is normal. Most people assume it's an afternoon of playing with toys, until the session ends with a decision the room made itself.
From the certification room.
Builds from Chris’s LEGO® Serious Play® certification course with Pivotal Play: real models and sticky notes from a real training group, not Brick Spark client sessions. Photos used with permission.
If the room doesn't decide, Chris comes back and runs another one, free.
Every session is designed around one or two focus questions agreed in your discovery call, and built so the room leaves with a decision it can act on immediately. If your team can't reach a resolution in that first workshop, Chris comes back and runs a second one at no charge to finish the job. Applies to Spark Session and The Big Build. The Taster Session doesn't carry this guarantee.
Context: 65% of Australian workers have sat through meetings where the goal was never stated (Atlassian, 2024). These sessions start from the question you agree up front, which is why a decision is a fair thing to guarantee.
Three steps from enquiry to outcome.
Booking LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation in Melbourne runs to three steps, and Chris handles all three himself.
Discovery call
Chris maps your objective and designs the questions the session is built around. You bring the challenge; Chris brings the method.
The session
Facilitated end to end. Everyone builds, everyone speaks, and the room works toward a decision it can act on.
Actions & 30-day follow-up
You leave with The Ignite Report, a written action list against names, and a follow-up call to check the actions landed.
You're booking Chris, not an agency.
Brick Spark is run by Chris Pepper, a certified facilitator in Victoria with 21 years in Australian learning and development, running LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation across Melbourne. He moved from sales into training in 2005 because getting the best out of people beat closing them, and he's been building rooms where everyone gets heard ever since.
Every session is designed and facilitated by Chris personally, so the person you talk to before the workshop is the person standing at the table. More about Chris and how he got here.
Chris, and what he builds from
Questions worth asking before you book.
Isn't this just an excuse to play with toys?
What if nobody on our team has done this before?
We've already tried agendas and outside facilitators — why would this be different?
Where in Melbourne do you run LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation?
Is Chris a certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator?
What's included, and how is it priced?
Why book Brick Spark over another certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator?
Tell Chris about the room you need to fix.
Give Chris the team size, the decision you're trying to make, and a date that works. He runs LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation in Melbourne and right across Victoria, and will come back with a session plan within one business day.
Not ready to send this yet? The free fit assessment gives you an answer in about five minutes.