KATE MARKLAND | THE JOURNAL
Reflections on imagination, trust and the power of being heard, at eight or at eighty.

The average lawyer sits at the clinical threshold for burnout. Who is qualified to make decisions about a child's future and on what grounds.

The 2025 Teacher Wellbeing Index produced the worst scores since measurement began. A teacher who has nothing left cannot hold space for a child's story.
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.

Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.