Per Kristiansen
Founder, Trainer (Master facilitators & practitioners)
Why they matter for gatherings
Per Kristiansen is a founder and trainer who develops master facilitators and practitioners. He trains professionals in facilitation using hands-on methods and has authored a book. He is associated with LEGO Serious Play.
Facilitators and event designers should know him for his established approaches to creative engagement and structured training in metaphor-based and visual facilitation techniques.
His methods include LEGO Serious Play, Lego/Brick-Free Metaphor Building, and Lego/Visual Scribing Hybrid Templates.
Here is where those methods trace back to.
Where the methods came from
A qualitative sketch, not a dated history: where the practice started, what it produced, and where it stands today.
Those roots feed the methods below.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
LEGO Serious Play
Lego/Brick-Free Metaphor Building (object sculpting)
Lego/Visual Scribing Hybrid Templates (graphic gameboards)
And here is where you can watch them run.
Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
How gatherings across every category score
Authority profile
Six pillars, each scored 0 to 100 from published work and independent verification. A research signal, not an endorsement.
Evidence and receipts
Sources
Grounded in: people_merged, console_people, people_verification.
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