LEGO Serious Play

UCO Downtown

131 Dean A McGee Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73102

Parking Code #4770

 LEGO Serious Play

 Misty Engelbrecht | Director of Academic Outreach & Adult Education, Rose State College

January 8, 2019 

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Teambuilding isn’t often associated with playing with toys. Most of the time, teambuilding exercises involve lengthy lectures, complicated activities, and awkward conversations. It’s difficult to cultivate sincere, beneficial discussions between coworkers, but it’s an important part of fostering a good group culture.
To break down some of those uncomfortable barriers, LEGO® unveiled its SERIOUS PLAY® methodology, a teambuilding exercise that uses a mountain of LEGO bricks to create meaningful dialogue between coworkers. Everyone learns and communicates in different ways, which can be an asset on a team. Constructing models allows everyone — from the most outgoing to the shiest — a chance to engage with one another.   Lego Serious Play is not a game - it is a hands-on, experiential process designed to encourage your team's creative thinking, collaboration, and communication using Legos to build models. Lego Serious Play is a playful approach that can inspire serious results.

Misty Engelbrecht is the Director of Academic Outreach and Adult Learning at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma, where she oversees the academic partnerships between Rose State College and area technology centers, Tinker Air Force Base education, and concurrent enrollment. Previous roles include Director of Corporate Education and Workforce Development, Director of the Downtown Innovation Station, Professor of Education Programs, and Academic Advisor Social Sciences Division. Misty holds an Associate of Science degree from Rose State, a bachelor of Business Administration from UCO, an MBA from OCU, a Master of Education from OU and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, with an emphasis on adult learning, career development and community college leadership and administration.

She is a recipient of the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges Great Ideas for Teaching (GIFT) award in 2014, recipient of the Oklahoma Women in Higher Education, Dr. Debbie Blanke Scholarship award in 2015, and recipient of the Memorial Scholarship award from the Association of Continuing Higher Education in 2016, and was recognized by the Journal Record as a 2017 “Achiever Under 40”.

Misty has presented at several regional, state, and national conferences, including Oklahoma Association of Academic Advisors, Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges, Oklahoma Women in Higher Education, Women in the Academy (Baylor University), College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, and Achieving the Dream.

Misty is actively involved in the John Rex Elementary PTA, Midtown Rotary, Urban Neighbors, the Downtown YMCA Council, and the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges.

Competencies: training delivery, interpersonal skills

UCO Downtown

Parking Code #4770