Please join the Wellness Center and the Center for Student Involvement for a FUN, FREE hands-on workshop with LSP Facilitator Loretta Veney. Our theme will be OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY.

For most of us, the colorful, plastic LEGO® bricks were a staple of childhood, and maybe they still play a relevant role in your life. LEGO® bricks 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

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 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY.

DATE: Wednesday, October 22

TWO SESSIONS:

• 11 am to 12:30 pm
• 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

PLACE: Shepard Student Center, Fireplace Lounge

This program is open to students, faculty and staff.

Reserve your seat here: https://machform.sunyorange.edu/view.php?id=945906

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® was created to help people listen and communicate more effectively. Ms. Veney says, “LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® 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.”

Ms. Veney is a LSP Facilitator traveling the world over to show others what they can accomplish with LEGO® bricks.  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 using LEGO® bricks as a communication tool 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® and sharing the many unexpected ways these colorful little bricks can empower people in various settings.

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

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