On 31 May 2023, together with a group of LEGO(R) Six Bricks Level 1 and 2 facilitators that I have trained and certified and the trainers from Rainbow Center (a Not for Profit organization who provided education to more than 900 children with moderate to profound disabilities in Singapore), we made an ambitious attempt to organise a super large scale 1.5 hrs session to introduce LEGO(R) Six Bricks to more than 800 of their centre’s staff, caregivers and teachers on their Learning Day.
The event was filled with challenges and uncertainties.
First, what activities would be suitable to help these heroes (the staff, caregivers and teachers) gain a deep appreciation of what LEGO(R) Six Bricks can offer to the children that they selflessly serving? The design went through multiple iterations of painstaking prototyping with the subject matter experts.
Second, how to ensure >800 participants are fully engaged when we are constrained by the number of certified LEGO(R) Six Bricks facilitators that can be deployed on the ground. Luckily for us, Rainbow Center provided us with their team of seasoned trainers to serve as a secondary support to our facilitators.
Third, briefing all of them well especially my certified facilitators who 2 of them, Alvin Ananthan and Jocelyn Chua took on the important role of leading the facilitation of hundreds. It took on every ounces of my expertise of conducting large scale LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) sessions through my SG75 competition works (www.sg75.sg) to pull this through with the experienced team Dr Gary Tsu 朱青山 , Catherine Ineke Nauli, Tina Wong, Raymond, Dyah Oetari. I have to conduct 3 briefing to different groups of people, while adjusting my design based on the feedback I received.
Finally, actual day deployment was a complex logistic challenge that requires close coordination among all involved teams. Through steer determination and our never day die spirit, we managed to deliver a great result. Here is a quote from our sponsor, Eric Lee
“[The event is a] Great success. Very good feedback all around. Many of the teachers took the bricks to use in their classrooms.”
The success is the results of a whole village of people working hard to make a seemingly impossible task possible. I cannot be more proud of what we have achieved as a team!
This is coddiwompling at its best … and I am looking forward to having more opportunities to serve the children in the Rainbow Centre in the future.