Playing well with others is how humans survived. Our stone-age ancestors survived by learning to play well with others, to cooperate and work together toward shared goals. It requires skills of perceiving, thinking, and understanding, and, like any skill set, it improves with practice.
We still need those skills. You might think those skills are in short supply as you eye the current social and political scene—there’s no sabre-tooth tigers, but we’ve got fractious politics with grownups and mental health challenges for our kids from social media and the pandemic, to name a few things. We have getting-along problems.
You can practice playing well with others by…playing. Play is a shortcut to engaging with others and ideas and starting conversations that go somewhere. Play—our kind of play—is freeing, fair, fast, and fun.
We have a way to play and practice those valuable skills. Our workshops are based on the social science of cooperation and conflict and use the LEGO® Serious Play® method. The social science tells us what to practice—cognitive empathy, sense-making, self-regulation and monitoring. The LEGO® Serious Play® method is how to practice—building with bricks, using the hand-brain connection and object-mediated communication.
Playing well with others—it’s just as important for helping humans survive and flourish today as it was 10,000 years ago.
Lastly, a word: because we use the LEGO® Serious Play® methodology and materials--we're trained facilitators in it--people sometimes think we work for LEGO®. Not so. We do NOT work for LEGO® and LEGO® does NOT endorse or sponsor us and we show our respect for LEGO® with all those registered trademark signs.
We do, however, have a boatload of LEGO® bricks we use in our workshops, so give a shout, try us out.