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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.

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Unlocking Hero Status: The Simple Truth About Engaging the iPad Generation

Unlocking Hero Status: The Simple Truth About Engaging the iPad Generationby: Kate

How do we engage the iPad generation? The answer is deceptively simple: stop being the hero. Give the role to the child.

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Unlocking Hero Status: The Simple Truth About Engaging the iPad Generation

It Is About the Way Things Are Done

It Is About the Way Things Are Doneby: Kate

Every child notices how things are done. Those memories become part of the story they carry about whether the world is trustworthy. What procedural justice research shows.

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It Is About the Way Things Are Done

What is Therapeutic Storytelling?

What is Therapeutic Storytelling?by: Kate

People expect a teaching methodology. What they get is something closer to what Kate practised for twenty years in physiotherapy clinics: therapeutic listening applied to creative expression.

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What is Therapeutic Storytelling?

Why Children's Stories Should Be Written by Children

Why Children's Stories Should Be Written by Childrenby: Kate

Almost every book a child reads was written by an adult. What is lost when a child never sees themselves as the author.

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Why Children's Stories Should Be Written by Children

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

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