{"id":8573,"date":"2018-07-19T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2018-07-19T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T08:42:09","slug":"facilitating-with-lego-put-in-to-practice-by-louise-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/07\/19\/facilitating-with-lego-put-in-to-practice-by-louise-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating with Lego\u2026 put in to practice- By Louise Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended Susanne and Curie\u2019s \u2018Facilitating with Lego\u2019 workshop in early June and found it really insightful. There are lots of ways it can be used. It\u2019s great for team building events but could also be used for personal development.\u00a0 The workshop gave some really good hints and tips of using Lego in group settings but also on an individual basis; along with ideas of probing questions to get people to open up and share their thoughts and feelings about a particular subject or even themselves in a relaxed, informal and fun environment.<\/p>\n

In the session we used Lego to build a model that represented our personal strengths. It was really interesting to hear everybody\u2019s explanations in the group and look at their weird and wonderful creations.\u00a0 Some included tall towers to illustrate, not a person in power as you might imagine but a person working in a role that requires them to see the bigger picture, having an overview.\u00a0 Other people\u2019s models included propellers which were linked to \u2018leading the way\u2019, also extended \u2018bendy\u2019 arms showing the strength of flexibility.\u00a0 There were also several little pink \u2018creative\u2019 hats to express how some roles require some creativity\u2026 and many little green flags but I can\u2019t recall any \u2019strengths\u2019 from these pieces, I think we all just agreed they were mostly for decoration!\u00a0 Whilst we didn\u2019t all have identical pieces in front of us they were very similar, although I was quite jealous of the person with the Superhero Lego person which had its own cape!<\/p>\n

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This workshop was a great pre curser to BUCRU<\/strong>\u2019s upcoming Festival of Learning interactive session \u2018Demystifying research: helping us make a difference\u2019<\/strong> and really helped with inspiration, which is the reason I signed up to it.<\/p>\n

Our Festival of Learning event was comprised of several interactive sections looking at ways in which members of the public can get involved in clinical research. The Lego was used to demonstrate how complex the research design stage of a project can be.<\/p>\n

The audience were split into 2 teams and asked to examine our ready-made \u2018medical device\u2019.<\/p>\n

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(We had built our own \u2018device\u2019 prior to them entering the room).\u00a0 Their task was to copy the device exactly to the best of their ability within a timeframe.\u00a0 However some bricks\/pieces weren\u2019t quite the same and they had to do some improvisation!<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Afterwards we discussed how successful they felt they were, what problems they may have encountered, what strategies they implemented (if any) and if they would do anything differently in the future.\u00a0 They reported that having the correct resources was essential; that having the model closer would\u2019ve also made life easier, instructions would also have improved the situation\u2026 but we didn\u2019t want to make life too easy for them!\u00a0 All of this illustrated how important it is for someone else to come along, see what you\u2019ve done, replicate it and get the same results that you got.<\/p>\n

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The clearer we can be and the more input we can get from the public, the better \u2013 it is an essential part of designing a study, also referred to as PPI (Patient and Public Involvement).<\/p>\n

We also drew some comparisons with a real life research project team. How each person has something to contribute: statistician, research nurse, patient etc. And how there are often many bumps in the road to a successful research project and sometimes you need to take everything apart and \u2018build\u2019 from scratch again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended Susanne and Curie\u2019s \u2018Facilitating with Lego\u2019 workshop in early June and found it really insightful. There are lots of ways it can be used. It\u2019s great for team building events but could also be used for personal development.\u00a0 The workshop gave some really good hints and tips of using Lego in group settings… Read more » about Facilitating with Lego\u2026 put in to practice- By Louise Ward<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8577,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions\/8577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}