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
Give Them Back the Time
by: KateWe tell children their voice matters. Then we fill every hour of their day with our agenda and wonder why they have nothing left to say.
What Play Actually Does, and Why Its Absence Is a Wellbeing Crisis
by: KatePlay is one of the first languages through which children tell their stories. We have been taking it away without asking what we are taking with it.
The Environment Shapes the Child. Change the Environment
by: KateChildren do not develop in a vacuum. They develop inside environments. What happens when you change the one they spend most of their day in.
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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