When we hear voices…

When we hear voices…

When we are parenting our children or educating our students, we greatly influence their development, sometimes consciously, sometimes involuntarily. We take on the role of people who know and think we know what to do with the methodology whereas if we put these...
How are the adults doing?

How are the adults doing?

We asked students if they think their parents had a good balance between responsibilities and having fun? Quite unanimously, the shaking of the heads and “No way” being called out gave us the answer. There were ah-ha moments when students realised that making a choice...
Balancing out polarities

Balancing out polarities

It does spark joy when young children are grasping concepts, sharing mature responses and can add ‘Polarity’ to their vocabulary – and actually know what it means. Their LEGO builds during this lesson embodied the multiple perspectives of polarities.  Unexpectedly the...
Lego Serious Play Addiction

Lego Serious Play Addiction

Whilst our Life Lab program was going to use LEGO® Serious Play® every now and then as a tool for students to debrief and further understand their learning, it’s apparent now if I don’t bring the LEGO® to my next session, there may well be a mutiny. We had planned an...
I Promise not to break my Promise

I Promise not to break my Promise

The Problem Henchmen presented an example in class this week, when our junior students learned and used Clarifying skills to define what a problem is and is there anything we can do about it? Their shared and agreed problem to use as an example was; When people break...