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LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® For Positive Psychology(groups and 1-1 coaching)

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LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® FOR GROUPS

Copenhagen: January 4-7

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® FOR 1-1 COACHINGLondon: April 12-14

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HOMUNCULUS

By Wilder Penfield (Neurosurgeon 1891 – 1975)

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For an organisation to survive, its rate of learningmust be at least equal to the rate of change in itsexternal environment.

Prof. Reginald Revans (1907 – 2003)

For an human to flourish, its rate of learning must be at least equal to the rate of change in itsexternal environment.

Edited from Prof. Reginald Revans (1907 – 2003)

How might we improve the effect

of positive psychological interventions

by improving the intervention’s

learning potential?

HANDS ON THINKING

THINK + TINKER = THINKERING

The creation and understanding of concepts in the mind while tinkering

with the hands.

Michael Ondaatje in his novel The English Patient

WHAT DO YOU SEE? (PLEASE COMMENT IN CHAT)

Foto: Amol Jadhav

Foto: Amol Jadhav

I had no idea of how to begin to answer the question when you posed it, so I did what you have told us to do when we don't know what to build—I just started building. Suddenly, I realized that I had the answer in the LEGO model right in front of me.

Your a pig farmer with 17 pigs in a country with rather strange pig laws to abide by.

1. You must have exactly 4 pens

2. You must have an odd number of pigs in each pen

How would you do it? (please comment in chat)

Pen and paper Tangible tools

Insight with hands and things” by Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau, Sune Vork Steffensen, Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau, and Miroslav Sirota in Acta Psychologica. Published online October 2016

More likely to solve the puzzle

Davachi, Kiefer, Rock, & Rock, 2010

ASSOCIATIONS

ARROUSAL

FOCUS

TIME ANDDIMENSIONS

Framing & building Sharing Exploring

Warm-up

Combining

HANDS ON THINKINGPROCESS

WARM UP

Build a bridge following three requirements:

1. A mini figure must be able to pass underneath2. It must be able to hold your phone3. Apply one or more aesthetics to the bridge

You have three minutes

LEARNING FROM CHALLENGES

Build a model that helps you answer the question:

Looking back over corona shut-down period– what is one thing that you have learned?

You have 7 minutes to build your model

LEARNING FROM CHALLENGES

LOOKING AT YOUR MODEL

WHICH 1-3 CHARACTER STRENGTHS WERE PRESENT IN YOUR PROCESS OF LEARNING?

Link to Character Strength overview can befound in the chat

LEARNING FROM CHALLENGES

In a minute you will be assigned a group with another person. Please follow one of the three ways to share

1. If you both have LEGO models share your model, story and the spotted strengths. Explore the models using coaching style questions

2. If one of you has a LEGO model that person shares their model, story and spotted strengths. The other person explores the model using coaching style questions

3. If neither of you have LEGO models talk about where you might find it relevant to use LEGO in your work with positive psychology