2019 Playing with Professors

The Strategic Play® Group Limited is a registered Canadian Company owned by Lloyd Smith Solutions.  And lucky us, our head office is located in the resort town of Whistler British Columbia Canada.That's right we are a privately held company started by really nice Canadians with friendly licensed partners all over the world.And the name Strategic Play®? Just so you know, that’s a registered trademark.Sometimes we work directly and collaborate with the LEGO® Systems Group and consult with them from time to time. But we are a completely separate company. We are truly honored to be friends and goodwill ambassadors to the LEGO® Group, and specifically to the LEGO® Foundation.  We recognize and continue to learn from the incredible work they are doing globally as they spread the word that we all learn through play, and it's a lifelong process.Our licensed trainers offer all the same training, developed and supervised by one of the original Master Trainers inLEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodsfor the LEGO® Systems Group,Jacqueline Lloyd Smith.Our training is offered globally by amazing facilitator-trainers who speak the local language and understand the regions business culture.And, we are proud to say that we also have a seasoned curriculum designer on our team so all our training is brain-friendly and offered to the highest standards.

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<H2>Playing with Professors: Are you Curious about LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Methods? </H2>
<H3> Get ready to take a deep dive into innovation and growth of LSP! </H3>
This day will start with Strategic Play Founder, Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, MA, MBA, (CMC) welcoming the group and presenting 'Current Trends in Adult Play', are you curious yet..? 
Next, you can expect 15 minute 'Ted Talk Style' inspiring presentations from each professor followed by round table, deep dive discussions, and many moments of playful activities, video clips, and much more. 
Who are the experts presenting this year?  Well lucky us, we have three Canadians and two US experts with global experience and great stories to tell.
We will  keep our minds engaged and hands on the bricks as we build and play with our professors: 
<H4>This day will be full of deep-level learning. So get ready to build on your knowledge.  </H4>
 
<H2>Here is the 2019 line up: </H2>
Richard Perez, General Manager P&G GYM Innovation Center (center photo) 
Richard, a Mechanical Engineer, is an accomplished consumer product innovator with 27-year career leading cross-functional teams in new product development/engineering and marketing in North America (US/Canada), Latin America (Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile) and China.  We first trained Richard at P&G in Venezuela in 2011 and we became fast friends.  We have since worked with him in a multitude of capacities and on numerous projects. Richard and his team use LSP from everything to research and development to the creation of product stories. Are you curious about how one the worlds largest packaged goods companies (who have also named Strategic Play Group Ltd., Best in Class for our LSP training) is utilizing this powerful tool for innovation? 
Belinda Heyne, Professor of Photochemistry and Photobiology University of Calgary (upper right photo)
Belinda graduated with a PhD degree in Science from the University of Liege (Belgium) in 2004. She then moved to Canada as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa. In 2007, she started her independent career at the University of Calgary in the Department of Chemistry and moved to the rank of Associated Professor in 2013. Her research work lies in photochemistry and photobiology, with a particular interest in the production of singlet oxygen to solve societal grand challenges. Belinda is also a passionate instructor who is constantly researching new approaches to teach abstract concepts in a more tangible fashion. In 2018, she discovered Lego® Serious Play®  while attending the Inventors Conference in Calgary and was directly inspired by the power of metaphors. She was trained and certified in August 2018. Since then, she has successfully implemented “Lego® Tuesdays” in her lectures on Introductory Quantum Chemistry, helping undergraduate students grasp abstract knowledge while having fun in one of the most stimulating and demanding courses of their degree.  If you are curious about how LSP can be used in higher education while working with challenging topics, Professor Heyene will have stories to tell. 
Jason M. Trew, Lieutenant Colonel, PhD, United States Air Force (lower left photo)
 Lt Col Trew is the commander, 30th Student Squadron, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, AL.
Lt Col Trew entered the Air Force in 1999 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Area Studies and Legal Studies with minors in Philosophy and Russian language. Following a one-year assignment as a “Gold Bar” recruiter, he completed Undergraduate Pilot Training and then F-15C initial qualification and mission qualification courses.    Lt Col Trew has held various operational and training assignments in the United States and Central Command. While assigned to the 1st Fighter Wing, he was handpicked to fly combat air patrols over the National Capital Region during times of high alert, including the President’s 2004 State of the Union address. Lt Col Trew is a senior pilot with over 1200 flying hours in fighter and trainer aircraft.  He completed Masters of Arts, Humanities (2011), a Master of Military Operational Art and Science, Air Command and Staff College (2012), Master of Philosophy, Military Strategy, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (2015), and a Doctor of Philosophy, History (2018) and a Joint Coalition Warfighting School, Joint Forces Staff College (2019). So what does play have to do with all this?  Jason's keynote will be on his research studies of the intersection between play and airmanship. Trained in LSP in early 2019, Jason has been instrumental in bringing LEGO SERIOUS PLAY into the US Air Force where it is now in play at the Officer Squadron School. Are you curious to learn more about where play and strategy intersect?  And if you are lucky, he might tell us a few "Dad Jokes". 
Kasra Khorasani, Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. ( lower right photo)
Kasra (Kas) is a curious Psychiatrist and fan of LEGO® bricks pondered if LEGO could be used as a tool for therapeutic intervention and so he contracted the LEGO company in Denmark.  LEGO then directed him to call Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, and the rest is history.  He invited Jacquie to speak in Toronto at the Conference for Group and Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts where he was introduced to the world of LSP. Kas took his Certification in 2018. He is interested in empathy, creativity, and interpersonal neurobiology. He is a Psychiatrist, Group Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst and Certified Lego Group Facilitator.  He is on faculty in the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, founder and director of TS Medical Centre in Toronto and past president of Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association.  His current clinical focus is on developing LEGO® Group Therapy, a modification of LEGO® Serious Play, for use in the mental health settings. If you are curious about how LSP can be used as a therapeutic tool, or if you just want to know how your brain works on bricks, you will love this presentation. 
Lois Mahon, Founder & President of L and F Mahon Consulting Services
Lois Mahon has over 40 years of experience in all areas of “Early Learning and Care”. She was the founding Executive Director of Child and Community Resources in Sudbury, Ontario, a multi-service agency supporting children and families, including children with autism and those in the early years. She held this post for 20 years until  2014. She was part of the nine-member transitional Council that set the foundation for the “College of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario”, The College is the first and only self-regulating body for Early Childhood Educators in North America. Lois was elected as the College Council’s first president in February 2009, a position she held for 8 consecutive terms. She was awarded the Andrew Fleck Children’s services award for “100 Most Influential People in Child Care”. She has participated in many Provincial, politically appointed activities including the “Early Year Advisory Committee”, the “Ministry of Education’s, Education Partnership Table” and the “Early Learning Advisory Group”. In 2017 she was appointed by Order in Council to the “Premiers Community Hubs Framework Advisory Group”.  If you are curious about how play shapes the brain and creates the perfect learning pedagogy, you will love to hear her lessons from the field.  Lois has been certified in LSP since 2017 and uses this tool to activate and lead change. ( photo top right). 
Sounds Amazing Right?  
Your ticket includes:   Your ticket to the full day attendance to this event, refreshments, and lunch, and workbooks for notes and other LEGO collectibles and surprises...
Not to be missed!  Register right now! We have limited seats. 
AND don't forget to book your hotel room at the Nita Lake Lodge and use the code: STPLAYNLL for the best available rate:  www.nitalakelodge.com

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