Lego Serious Play

I didn't know Lego Serious Play existed until we had a session for our creativity and concept class. And although it sounds silly, university students playing with Lego, it was a really fun, interesting and creative experience. Plato said 'You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation' and the Lego Serious Play workshop is designed to enhance businesses, making their teams more creative and open, especially when it comes to ideas as many are too scared to share as play is a simpler way to express yourself rather than conversation. And so for four hours we sat and played with Lego. But its more serious than that, we were asked to create towers and the only rule was that it had to be on a green base and a Lego man must be on the top. we came to find that the towers we created, represented us as people. I found from mine that I like things to be neat and organised and I like to be able to oversee everything, almost be in control. But I also like to set goals and reach them (represented by the ladder I stuck in the middle of one of my Lego creations)
I really liked the Lego Workshop, it was a fun way to become creative and learn things about ourselves, it felt like a safe environment to express ourselves and once we'd created these pieces we were asked to find a way to link them all together in relation to how a successful team would work, we then found that parts of making a successful team were missing such as the need for communication and so we all created a Lego piece to represent this. Once we were finished we added sticky notes to the models to show what they were to other groups and then went and looked at others, it was fun to see how other peoples minds work!
The experience taught us that not everything has to be literal and we can take whatever meaning we want from things and so the pictures below probably don't make sense to anyone else, but they do to me and my group..