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These are the things I know about imagination, trust, and the worlds people build when you stop correcting them, at eight or at eighty.

Thoughts and Evidence

The Habits We Lost Without Noticing

The Habits We Lost Without Noticingby: Kate

Children do not lose their stories when habits change. They lose the daily moments in which those stories find their way out.

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The Habits We Lost Without Noticing

No One Has a Crystal Ball. Act Accordingly

No One Has a Crystal Ball. Act Accordinglyby: Kate

No one who has ever been surprised by a child should believe they can forecast the story that child will eventually tell. What the prediction research actually shows.

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No One Has a Crystal Ball. Act Accordingly

She Is Not Addicted. She Is Understimulated

She Is Not Addicted. She Is Understimulatedby: Kate

The child who cannot put the phone down is not addicted. She is waiting for someone to ask the right question.

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She Is Not Addicted. She Is Understimulated

Play Is How Children Make Sense of Their World

Play Is How Children Make Sense of Their Worldby: Kate

UNICEF confirms what children already know. Play is not a reward. It is how children build confidence, process emotions, and discover what they are capable of.

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Play Is How Children Make Sense of Their World

BOOK KATE TO SPEAK

Build a world together, and trust follows.

Your people are being asked to trust each other across distance, across generations and through constant change. Most have never been shown how.

Kate Markland has. For a time she had one hour a week with her son Gabriel, on a FaceTime call. They spent it building a world. She asked one question, wrote down everything he said and corrected nothing. That world became three books and a method tested in nine UK schools.

In her keynote, Create the World You Want, Kate shows your audience how trust is really built, and gives them a method they can use the same evening.

For leadership, education and family audiences.

Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary

STORYQUEST

StoryQuest gives children the freedom to imagine, speak and be heard without being corrected, guided or rushed. It begins with a story. But what families create together is something much bigger: connection.

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