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  • Profile picture of Arjan Passenier MSc

    Arjan Passenier MSc replied to the topic Introduction exercise in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Hi Alison,

    Thanks for you reply… could you tell me how you kept control of the process? How did you manage to let the participants share their story? I am very curious about your approach… at first sight this would be great to use here.

    Regards,
    Arjan

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    Alison Rex replied to the topic Introduction exercise in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Hi Arjan

    I have used LSP with a group of regional directors/managers, each in satellite locations, with different priorities, departments etc. LSP worked very well for them to explain about roles, issues, priorities, how they felt. The outcome was very successful – resulting in a great deal of deeper understanding and respect. I often use an…[Read more]

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    Arjan Passenier started the topic Introduction exercise in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Hi all,

    I am currently working as a business integration manager for a company that has bought two smaller companies… now they asked me (because they know I am a LSP facilitator as well) to design a way of getting to know each other. I am a bit reluctant about this, because I won’t have any control over the way it will be used once…[Read more]

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    Scott Simmerman, Ph.D. CPF, CPT replied to the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    It is REALLY EASY to engage people if you are doing things WITH THEM rather than TO them. And general metaphors work great if you allow the participants to reframe them into something personal to the individual or tabletop.

    Show someone a Rorschach (inkblot) image and they will see things. Show them a construct from something like a Thematic…[Read more]

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    Sebastian replied to the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Eli had a very good explanation of how humans (kids and adults) process metaphors. Incidentally I also do workshops with children from ages 4 (speaking age) to early teens and I have found that their grasp of understanding, modelling and explaining metaphors through LEGO (or any other physical object) is generally the same as adults. It is just a…[Read more]

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    Joy Sasser replied to the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Please don’t think I was suggesting that I doubted adults could learn this way. I am trying to wrap my head around how to walk through some of these steps and looking for tips that you have found helpful in moving first time users from physical concepts to more abstract. It is easier to show for examples a theme of generosity than to show a theme…[Read more]

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    Eli De Friend replied to the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    I won’t bother to repeat what Sebastian has already said, but will be a bit more rhetorical. How did we learn that the shapes (that we call letters) “d” “o” “g” represent a four legged mammal with a tail that it wags when it’s happy and that those same shapes/letters in a different sequence represent the supreme element of our belief system? As…[Read more]

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    Ed Chester replied to the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    fully agree. the idea of make a physical metaphor is the easy part. everyone i’ve worked with has been fully on board with putting abstract concepts onto bricks after about 45mins, 3/4 of the way through the standard skills building. if you don’t do the skills building, you can’t expect the method to work.

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    Sebastian replied to the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Hi Joy,

    In answer to you questions “..how do you in corporate settings get adults who haven’t played with LEGO before or not in 30 years to figure out how to convey ideas into bricks?”;

    I have been doing LEGO SP in corporate settings for several years now with thousands of participants.. staff level, middle managers, Board of Directors, M…[Read more]

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    Mirian Fávaro started the topic Reference of Law Firms Names in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Hello everybody,
    Could you help me giving references of companies – law firms – where the methodology was already used around the world? Does anyone have clients in this segment?
    Thanks in advance!

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    Joy Sasser replied to the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Koen,

    Thank you for the link. I have downloaded it and have begun to look through it for ideas. I have to admit that looking at the challenges I wasn’t sure I knew how I would respond or what I would build. The questions were good, but how do you in corporate settings get adults who haven’t played with LEGO before or not in 30 years to figure…[Read more]

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    Koen van Sabben replied to the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Hi Joy,
    The classroom version of LSP was: buildtoexpress (indeed discontinued also)

    But the material / guides is still available :
    https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/buildtoexpress/curriculum-download-support

    This could be a good starting point.
    Good luck.

    Koen

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    Joy Sasser started the topic LSP for the classroom in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    It seems much of LSP is geared to adults which is awesome. One problem I have found with LEGO Ed geared toward kids is that it is all STEM oriented. Hopefully we will eventually get there but we are at the starting block of problem solving. Years ago I had an early addition of Story Starter Set (discontinued) which is more along the lines of LSP.…[Read more]

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    Chad Habel replied to the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Thanks everyone, and Alan especially for raising the question. I agree with Eli that it’s all about the objective and purpose of LSP. For me this topic relates to the concrete/abstract trajectory of LSP: as discussed Duplo pieces (including animals and human figures) can be really helpful if they are taken metaphorically and enrich the…[Read more]

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    Lee Button replied to the topic Slack Channel in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Sounds great, please may I join?
    lee@leebutton.co.uk

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    Sebastian replied to the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    I also use the Blue transparent DUPLO brick at the start of every session to explain the concept of metaphors. I always state “This brick represents my Mother in Law…. Why?” They then have a good time guessing size, transparency, wisdom, eight kids, calm, peacemaker, loves jewelry, etc. Its amusing and they get the point very quickly that youre…[Read more]

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    Ed Chester replied to the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    the single brick that i see most used that brings meaning without any other bricks is the transparent blue duplo 2×4 brick. i don’t know why you wouldn’t want that piece. you know – the one that says: trust, ice, transparency, fear, lightness, cold, hope, openness, regulation, clarity, imagination, far future — and so on ;)

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    Stephen Dann replied to the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    The only time I drop the duplo out of the set is entirely to do with the space and baseplates I’ll be using – if I’m dropping people down to a smaller baseplate, or we’re likely to have less elbow room, I’ll pull out the bigger pieces. Otherwise it’s all in, and everything counts – I’ve added the Duplo Numbers Train to my kit for the…[Read more]

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    Beth Davis replied to the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Absolutely include the Duplo elements! You will notice that they are included in the LSP kits. People like variety. Also, I have never had a participant actually use a cow, let’s say, to represent a cow. The use of these elements does not, in my experience, take away from the metaphorical representations in the models.

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    Scott Simmerman, Ph.D. CPF, CPT replied to the topic Stop-Motion Videos in a session in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    I got StopMotion for my iPhone and there are others in the App store.

    In a conversation Thursday with a high-tech colleague in Mumbai, he popped me two other alternatives (one not apparently available in the US). So there ARE a variety of apps out there that require no additional hardware. And my son-in-law has one on his Android and it was said…[Read more]

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