Serious Play

The newsletter, in all its glory.

First off, I just wanted to show you all part of the email newsletter I designed (which I was essentially told to "make pretty"), because it is finally done and I am a tad too proud of it. Also, if anyone ever needs to make an email newsletter, I highly recommend using Microsoft publisher if you have it - it's lovely.

Now on to more serious matters, or rather, Lego Serious Play.
I had never heard of this technique until a week ago and the name is the first thing that struck me: yes, it's oxymoronic, but, yes, it does sum up the idea of the technique. Lego Serious Play is essentially using legos help people more effectively explain, show, and discover their feelings about certain things, usually through metaphors.
In fact, the whole idea revolves around metaphors and abstract thinking and tends to work very well with adults. But we were trying to use Lego Serious Play to get the Kids Team children to show and describe specific feelings.
Which was a little more difficult.
The children didn't really like the idea of using legos to build metaphors for feelings. They wanted to build something more exciting, like robots or motorcycles.
But overall, the children were better at Lego Serious Play than many of us expected.

The next two weeks are spring break for Kids Team, so I apoligize ahead of time for any possible lulls in discoing animals and random rainbows. Although, we are putting on a booth at a SciTech festival next Friday and half of the children will be there, so that should be exciting.

Anyway, hope you all have a lovely week!