Play for Professionals

A Facilitation Methodology.
Delivered Through Play.
For Serious Outcomes.

Play for Professionals is a structured facilitation methodology where people learn, solve problems, and build shared understanding; by doing, not by listening. Built on LEGO® Serious Play®; a globally validated approach grounded in 25+ years of research and developed with IMD Business School, Switzerland; it creates the conditions for every participant to think more clearly, communicate more honestly, and contribute meaningfully; regardless of their role or seniority.

Binal Kamdar has been designing and delivering these sessions for over 20 years for corporate teams, leadership groups, educators, students, and professional communities across India, Singapore, Indonesia, and beyond.

How a Session is Designed?
Every session begins long before the room is set up.
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Discovery

A conversation about your organisation: what you're working on, who will be in the room, and what a successful outcome looks like from where you sit.

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Custom Design

Every activity, every question, and every build prompt is designed specifically for your context - built entirely around your challenge, your people, and your outcome.

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In the Room

Every participant is hands-on from the first minute, everyone participates and discussions bring light to nuanced insights!

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After the Session

Participants leave with tangible outputs: models, metaphors, and shared language they built themselves. Reference points that come back in meetings and conversations are true long-term impact!

What happens in a Play for Professionals session?

A question is posed, and everyone builds an answer using LEGO® bricks, individually with no discussion. Every build is then shared and every perspective enters the room. Next, individual models become collective ones, stories are built together, and what the group knows collectively becomes visible for the first time.

The result is something conventional training rarely achieves: a room where the senior leader and the newest team member are equally heard, where abstract problems become tangible and where insights stay because they were built by hand, not received by ear.

The facilitator’s role is to design the conditions in which people surface what they already know and discover what to do with it together.

Trusted globally.
Used by organisations including:
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Developed with IMD Business School, Switzerland. 25+ years of research and global application
The methodology is globally proven. Every session Binal designs is entirely your own.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
One methodology. Three distinct experiences.

Every session is designed around a specific audience and a specific goal. Choose the path that’s built for you.

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For Teams & Organisations

For HR & L&D professionals, founders, leadership teams, and department heads working on collaboration, communication, creativity, ownership, or getting everyone aligned on where you're going. Every session is designed around your team's specific challenge.

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For Academic Institutes

For school principals, university program heads, and faculty leads seeking facilitated experiences for their educators and students. From year-beginning goal setting to year-end reflection, built around the rhythms of academic life.

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For Networks
& Events

For convenors of professional networks, industry bodies, women's groups, conferences, summits, and corporate offsites. Sessions that transform a standard event slot into the moment participants talk about long afterward.

FORMATS & DURATIONS

From 90 minutes to a multi-session program.

The right format depends on your goal, your group, and your timeline; something Binal works through with you before anything is designed.

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Every session is custom-designed and quoted based on group size, duration, location, and scope. Travel and accommodation for outstation engagements are billed separately at actuals.

Not sure which format is right for your situation?

Tell Binal what you’re working on!