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
The Habits We Lost Without Noticing
by: KateChildren do not lose their stories when habits change. They lose the daily moments in which those stories find their way out.
Why Children's Stories Should Be Written by Children
by: KateAlmost every book a child reads was written by an adult. What is lost when a child never sees themselves as the author.
We Cannot Pour From an Empty Cup, and We Have Been Emptying It for Years
by: KateThe 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.
The Classroom Is an Environment Too
by: KateA child cannot tell their story freely in an environment that was never designed with them in mind. What the classroom environment does before any lesson begins.
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.
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
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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