Strength-4D Career Model With LEGO® Serious Play® And Six Bricks

Payling Harn,Chaochi Hsiao

doi:10.18646/2056.54.18-012

Payling Harn, Chaochi Hsiao

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https://doi.org/10.18646/2056.54.18-012

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Abstract

This study adopted strength-based approach career developments as the core counselling strategy to form the “4D” stages to strengths, integrated LEGO SERIOUS PLAY and Six Bricks to construct a strength-4D LEGO career model for exploring its effect on career hope and the content of change resulting. In this study, 29 Taiwanese college students were recruited to participate in a six-hour workshop. Pre-test and post-test were conducted using Career Hope Scale. One-way analysis of variance was used to explore the change effects. Two additional open-ended questions were included in the post-test questionnaire, and content analysis of the responses was performed to explore the contents of change. The results indicated that the participants’ scores on career agent and career path exhibited significant immediate effects. The proposed model presented the following positive effects: flow ensues after overcoming challenges; connecting with the society for a stronger cohesion; building toward an epiphany that leads to positivity; nourishing strength for a more profound insight; facing fears and accepting the challenges; reigniting passion and establishing an anchor; and broadened thinking leading to a career shift.

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College students are at the exploration stage of Super’s career development theory and Erickson’s psychosocial development stage of identity and role confusion
Research Process This study adapted strength-based approach career development (Schutt, 2007) as the core counselling strategy to form the “4D” stages of discovery, dream, design, and destiny relating to strengths (Figure 1)
Based on the Classification of Strengths developed by Seligman and Peterson (2004), Strength and Empowerment (SE) cards centre on six virtues and 24 advantages

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College students are at the exploration stage of Super’s career development theory and Erickson’s psychosocial development stage of identity and role confusion. LSP and Six Bricks both apply flow, positive emotions, and other mechanisms of positive psychology to assist participants to gain insight into the meaning of their life and unknown facts. These activities involve using LEGO® bricks for storytelling and metaphors to explore the intrinsic meanings that participants are trying to convey (Bab and Boniwell, 2017; Harn, 2016; Harn and Hsiao, 2018)

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