Research Paper: Coaching and LEGO®Serious Play®
Research Paper By Rachel Bloom (Performance Development Coach, AUSTRALIA) Introduction This paper seeks to explore LEGO® Serious Play®(LSP) and its one-on-one coaching application. As Jacqueline Smith and Denise Meyerson state in their book Strategic Play, “Let’s face it, people love to play and have fun and everyone wants to be happy”. Humans are encouraged to play as babies and as small children and it is regularly encouraged through the education years. Then life gets more serious as an adult and a worker and play do not seem to be a major focus for the majority of people. People may then play again when and if they retire but there is often this big gap where play is forgotten and not integrated into adult life. Research suggests that we learn best when we play. We can play and learn and play and reflector both. There is also plenty of research that talks about the fact that play is directly linked to decreasing stress levels and when pe...