Reading the Brick
A Modern Ludomancy Toolkit
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Everyone has a Tarot deck. Nobody else has this.
Reading the Brick gives you a complete psychological reading system built around LEGO — the world's most recognised toy and one of the most disarming objects you can put on a table. Where traditional reading props signal performance, a handful of colourful bricks signals play. That distinction changes everything about how a sitter opens up.
Developed by Dr. Stuart Nolan over sixteen years of LEGO Serious Play facilitation with corporations, universities, and conference audiences worldwide, the system is grounded in legitimate psychological frameworks — the Johari Window, Brian Sutton-Smith's Seven PlayTypes, and Jaak Panksepp's affective neuroscience research — giving you the depth to read convincingly for sceptics and the flexibility to perform warmly for everyone else.
The book covers solo readings and full-room group work, automatic and guided building, cold reading from build behaviour and facial expression, and multiple structured spreads including the Johari Tower and the Themed Build. A bonus chapter details Johari in Your Pocket — a walkabout routine requiring no props beyond four objects borrowed from the sitter, with a clean prediction kicker.
The system rewards layering. Start with shape reading and colour. Add build order, construction speed, and physical handling. Read the face as they build. Every choice they make becomes material. The book uses a particular LEGO kit to explain the methods but any selection of bricks can be used.
This is close-up work, parlour work, and keynote work. It is a session piece, a party opener, and a corporate keynote centrepiece.
It is also, in the right hands, genuinely moving.
Details
- Publication Date
- Nov 18, 2025
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781291786866
- Category
- Entertainment
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Stuart Nolan
Specifications
- Pages
- 114
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Square (8.5 x 8.5 in / 216 x 216 mm)
Keywords
PerformanceLEGO readingbrick readingludomancypsychological readingmentalismcold readingmentalistcorporate mentalismcorporate entertainmentconference performerpersonality testcharacter readingpersonality readingplay psychologyLEGO Serious PlayJohari Windowtrade show entertainmentpeople readingfortune telling