Remember LEGO®s? For most of us, the colorful, plastic bricks were a staple of childhood, and maybe they still play a relevant role in your life. LEGO®s are fun! But did you know they can also be building blocks to developing important skills, such as:

• creative thinking
• communication
• team building
• strategy development
• creating a collaborative mindset
• understanding alternative points of view
• finding solutions to shared challenges

Please join the Wellness Center and the Center for Student Involvement for a FREE hands-on workshop with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Ambassador Loretta Veney. Our theme will be BUILDING RESILIENCE.

Ms. Veney is a LEGO® expert, traveling the world over to show others what they can accomplish with LEGO®.  Much of her work has been in the corporate world specializing in security management, but she has also worked in higher education at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, George Washington University in Washington DC, and Webster University in St Louis. She has appeared on Good Morning America, and in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Psychology Today, and in a PBS documentary. She is the author of several books based on her personal experience with her late mother who had dementia, including her memoir, “Becoming My Mom’s Mom.” Post-retirement, she is dedicated to working with people living with dementia and their caregivers using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.

In this program, you will learn how to express yourself using 3D LEGO models, metaphors, and storytelling. Students will build up to three things, including themselves as RESILIENT people.

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® was created to help people listen and communicate more effectively. Ms. Veney says, “LSP helps people to think with their hands, as opposed to their brain, resulting in new and different ways to see themselves and others.” She uses security principles, leadership, and decision-making skills in her program.

She says, “If you look at the methodology of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, it was designed for the corporate world, but it’s even better for students.”

Previous participants say she is inspiring, knowledgeable, charismatic, energetic, and "the best speaker ever."

DATE: Tuesday, November 7

TIME: 3:30-5:00

PLACE: Forum, Rowley Center, room 010

This program is open to students, faculty and staff.

Reserve your seat here: https://machform.sunyorange.edu/view.php?id=838080

Questions? Call the Wellness Center at (845) 341-4870 or email wellnesscenter@sunyorange.edu.