Kate's Blog

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

*My US Radio Debut

*My US Radio Debutby: Kate

Twenty years of clinical listening applied to children's storytelling. What Kate told a US radio audience about the methodology behind StoryQuest.

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*My US Radio Debut

BBC News: The Therapeutic Storytelling Method

BBC News: The Therapeutic Storytelling Methodby: Kate

What began as a storytelling routine between Kate and her son is now in classrooms across the UK. BBC News covers the story.

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BBC News: The Therapeutic Storytelling Method

BBC Radio Gloucestershire: Platy Becomes a Mascot

BBC Radio Gloucestershire: Platy Becomes a Mascotby: Kate

Kate joins Nicky Price on BBC Radio Gloucestershire to share the story behind The Adventures of Gabriel.

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BBC Radio Gloucestershire: Platy Becomes a Mascot

Live on BCB Radio with Tom Hirst

Live on BCB Radio with Tom Hirstby: Kate

Kate and Tom Hirst join BCB Radio to talk about The Adventures of Bradford and what happened when StoryQuest entered Dixons Manningham.

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Live on BCB Radio with Tom Hirst

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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