This is my presentation at Lego Serious Play Conference/ Facilitator Community Meeting at 10/2018 at Billund, which talks about coaching program "Creating and coaching self-directed learning organization" for Chinese Teachers in Guangzhou, China in August 2018

1. LSP IN CHINA: BUILDING
MENTAL MODELS OF LEARNING
Phil.Lic., Senior Team Coach (Lecturer) Juha Ruuska

2. ”Imagine a business school
without professors. Imagine a
business school with students
learning business by doing
business.” Peter Senge

3. LSP IN CHINA: BUILDING
MENTAL MODELS OF LEARNING
”Juga”, LEGO© SERIOUS PLAY© Facilitator

5. Service Design Strategist Senior Team Coach (Senior Lecturer)

6. What does learning look like?

7. What does learning look like?

9. This is how learning
looks like in
Team Academy

14. HOW DO WE
BUILD TEAMS
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96
%
Starts or continues as entrepreneurs
Elämystuotanto Ltd (2013)
Employed or Master studies
When graduating

15. DESIGNING THE TRAINING CONCEPT
➤ Need: To train the teachers new self-
motivated methods and tools
➤ The training title ”Creating and Coaching
Self-Motivated Learning Organisation”
➤ Goal for the training: Ignite learners in
real experiental team learning process,
chaos and dialogue. Help learning self-
motivated learning concepts and tools
➤ Give a model of authentic experiental
learning process - coaching adapts to the
learning process of the learners
➤ 5-day training
➤ 70 local teachers from different vocational
schools
➤ 2 coaches, 1 interpreter

17. LSP IN THE CONCEPT
➤ LSP as a part of the training,
the goals for the LSP
workshop on Mon & Tue
➤ Skills building
➤ Building individual learning
contracts
➤ Building team learning
contracts for the week
➤ Team Building
➤ Building Base, ”Cosmos”
and Landscape for the
whole process
70 window explorer kits

18. What is Learning Contract ?
• WHAT: A personal development plan for
examining your development in light of your
history, the present moment, and the future
• WHEN: At the onset of any process, e.g.
Studying, a new vocation, or a life-style
change
• HOW: 1) Emphasize that it is a CONTRACT,
where the person agrees with him or herself
and the group on achieving the set goals and
overcoming any challenges that may come
their way
2) Guide them to make the contract in free
form: everyone chooses method that feels
natural.
3) The following questions can make
it easier to write the contract. Choose a
suitable period of time. The contract should
at least include the goal, how to achieve
it,
and how to monitor progress.
Where have I been ?
Where am I now ?
Where do I want to
go ?
How will I get there ?
How will I know when
I get there ?

19. Learning as
continuous
and
deepening
process

20. Training sessions培训课程
From “The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-
Making”《参与决策的促进者指南》 by Dr. Sam Kaner
集合思维发散思维
想法的多样性
新话
题
熟悉的
想法 不不同视⻆角 统⼀一思想
完善 决策点
时间
Groan
zone

21. STARTING THE PROCESS
➤ Laying Weak Foundation - to
change direction of knowledge
and to activate teams to take
ownership of the learning
➤ Setting up 11 teams of 5

22. Setup change -
Remaking learning architecture

23. Individual learning
contracts

24. Themes & Quotes of 1st day’s Learnings
• ”Happiness & Joy in Learning” (Emotion in learning)
• ”Playing LSP”
• ”Try/Do first, then think” (Experimental mindset)
• ”Use your hands to think” (Learning styles)
• impressed of divergent thinking” (Potential of the class)
• ”Learning upside down - students take lead” (Student-led process)
• ”Teacher is a partner who should grow with you” (Coaching)
• ”Wisdom and collaboration with your team” (Team Learning)
• ”A Bit Broken”

25. Shared models

26. Shared models: Future School:
Openness, Happy Learning, Self-motivation, Creativity, Team Learning, Diversity

27. Shared models: ”Bad Headmaster”, Hierarchy,
”Right or wrong answers”

28. Changing Interpreters’ mental model: No clear instructions! We prefer FOGGY

29. CONFLICT, CONFUSION AND
CONTROLLED CHAOS
➤ On Day 2, after LSP
Workshops we gave a birth-
giving challenge for the teams
➤ Without Legos, at first they
didn’t know what to do..
➤ No directions, too little
information from the coaches
➤ They couldn’t deliver any
solutions to given challenges

30. Conflict is a win for
the learning process

31. SOME NEW CLUES
➤ Day 3 Coaches threw few
more concepts: workshop on
motivation, coaches role,
design thinking, experiental/
experimental process
➤ Experimentation on new
coaching role and having an
independent training for the
teams
➤ Teams evolve
➤ 2nd try for a Birth-giving on
Day 4.

32. Teams solve the challenge and shareTeam resolve the challenge

33. Teams solve the challenge and share
”Colourful Tree”7 branches
1. Prepared coach
2. Engaging methods
3. Dialogue classrooms
4. Brave communication
5. Experiences
6. Summarizing
7. Results (evaluation, encouraging)

34. Teams solve the challenge and share
You can tell a lot about meaning and emotion without understanding the language
INSIGHTS
If something is broken, it is the learners need to fix it
many times it is a sign of learning if the answer is wrong
you can’t change mental models by telling what is the right answer
LSP helped to ignite the experiental and experimental learning process
Learning architecture and communication IS THE KEY
Like Kimi could say..THEY GOT IT AND FEEDBACK WAS GREAT
The (mental) model the coach is setting of the whole experience is crucial

35. THANK YOU! Connect me on Linkedin!
Phil. Lic. Senior Team Coach (Lecturer) Juha
Ruuska
juha.ruuska@jamk.fi
+358 40 595 0482
Tiimiakatemia
JAMK University of Applied Sciences
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