Pacifying children with the theory of constraints

Pacifying children with the theory of constraints

I went for a bicycle ride with the children and it turned out we had a wonderful illustration of the theory of constraints. The children had great fun in towing each other with a strap and when the youngest was towing the oldest, we avoided all the drama of being...
World Economic Forum and LifeLab

World Economic Forum and LifeLab

At LifeLab, we are aware that the children of today will shape the world of tomorrow, hence our motto “Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s World”. We teach children to think for themselves by enriching their life skills at problem solving, whatever the nature of the problem....
Everything Starts Now

Everything Starts Now

For the international Appreciate a Dragon Day, I’d like to introduce you to Tiny Dragon. If like him, • You haven’t created any resolutions for 2021, • You haven’t refreshed your 5 year vision, • You haven’t decided on your strategic axis for 2021, • You haven’t taken...
Gemba clothes

Gemba clothes

When I come to visit your shopfloor, your factory, your production unit, my work as a consultant is about understanding your problems, difficulties, and challenges, and helping you to solve them. It isn’t at all an abstract exercise at all but grounded in the reality...
Gratitude

Gratitude

The celebrations are over, the decorations have been put away, the house and the office seem a little drab now. Suddenly, you capture something in the corner of your eye. It’s a houseplant! Maybe with all the excitement, you’ve forgotten about them a little? January...
A Universal Language

A Universal Language

When you don’t have you Lego Serious Play kit, you just draw the Lego! Some wonderful discussions with the student designers of the International Masters Program from L’École de design Nantes Atlantique. We worked on creative questions around finding your...
LifeLab©: Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s World

LifeLab©: Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s World

LifeLab©, an outstanding in-school program, teaches youth to listen to self and others, taking responsibility for their actions, learning critical and creative thinking, social and emotional capabilities. The program develops essential self-management skills. It helps...
Growing turtles

Growing turtles

As our students finished Term 3, we asked them to think back to the start of the year. One of our first lessons had them building a little turtle with their LifeLab© LEGO® kit by following the instructions that we had given to them. 7 months later, the students are...
Empathy Busy Bees

Empathy Busy Bees

Angela Pezzano and I have been keeping busy in the LifeLab©, developing and delivering this program to Primary School aged children. It aims to build skills of resilience in children, help them to find strategies to solve the problems they have in their daily lives,...
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...