Philippe MacClenahan

Thank you for your thoughts Camilla. They are very encouraging!

My wife once took a diversity training through Nike based on the book “The Diversity Factor” by Elsie Y. Cross and Margaret Blackburn White. It was life-changing for all participants!

Van Jones’ “The Messy Truth” is also meaningful for such an endeavor.

Build challenges will need…[Read more]

What kind of “setting the stage” spiel would you recommend at the beginning of a LSP session like this?

What kinds of prompts would you have participants build in response to?

Hi Dieter and LSP community!

I love that video too : )
The short answer to your question is YES. I suggested it at the LSP conference in Whistler, which was just a couple of days after the election. Since it was before the protests, the suggestion was more minded on getting the parties together to find common ground and bridge the gap between…[Read more]

Hi Rodrigo,

I believe their not related. I´ll explore Gallups offer and let you know!
best,
Pedro Miguel

Hi Pedro,
This looks really good, thank you for this note.
Are you aware if this cards are related to the Gallups Strenghts Finder basics?
Have fun,
Rodrigo

Karen and Rodrigo,

take a look at positran.fr. Ilona Boniwel is exploring positive psychology and LSP with the use of strength cards deck

https://www.positran.fr/produit-199303-cartes_des_forces.html
https://www.positran.fr/en/

Pedro Miguel

I’m not aware of how Strengths Finders Trainings are delivered. I have used the tool on my previos work at Hewlett Packard and it’s very powerful.
Since the tool i used was 100% online, I would like to hear on how to get the same learnings on LSP! :)

@guidow “I’ve used explorer kits and asked folks to build the shared model in a way they can recover the kit. ”

Please share your method, I’m curious about how you structured this, sounds great.

M

I’m using the Starter Kits for the sessions. I’ve been avoiding group builds with those kits because of the nightmares I have about splitting the 291 pieces back out at the end. (I have 11 kits. One kit is missing a 1×1 round piece. I am dreading looking through all kits to find it). I also emphasize to my cohorts that that for group builds, you…[Read more]

Thank you Stephen,

This is very affirming. I agree that the basic skills actually accelerates later builds. I’ve seen some try to skip it thinking they’ll jump to the good stuff, but it seldom happens without the orientation.

What size kits are you using? I’m thinking I can do the orientation, individual build and then group build off the…[Read more]

I’ve been running LSP sessions on a two hour window – using the first “half” as a skills training, (construction, metaphor, story making), and then using a custom piece for the second “half”. The current custom piece is a “Past, Future, Present” make a model in 3 minutes (done three times), then explain the combined three piece model to the other…[Read more]

Greetings Massimo (et al),

I am working on a 2.5 hour LSP session for my org and saw in a thread you had a script that might offer some wisdom. If you are willing to share I would appreciate learning from you how you handled LSP in such a tight window of time

Many thanks!

Mark

It it is in our best interests to seek out an align ourselves with facilitators in our regions that have disabilities. There is an under tapped group of experts that would be able to weigh-in on making inclusive sessions for everyone. Perhaps we would all discover alternative building options and strategies for our clients by listening to LSP…[Read more]

Rob,
Did have 1 kit per participant?

Regards,
Guy

Following up on the article HOW LEGO CAN HELP BLIND PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE WORLD, I just received this:

http://legofortheblind.com/

This site hosts text instruction to help blind people build LEGO Models.

On http://legoduckchallenge.tumblr.com/ they found 195 ducks.

Hi Rob,

I’ve used the Build to Express Kits. They’re great. In some respects they’re better than the starter kits. They have more of the little pieces like tools and a big base plate. But they don’t have the big duplo blocks that the starter kit does.

Overall they are a fine substitute when the starter kits aren’t available.

Cheers

Michael