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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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Lawyers, Mental Health and the Advice Nobody Should Have to Follow

Lawyers, Mental Health and the Advice Nobody Should Have to Followby: Kate

Do not raise the domestic abuse. It will be used against you. The advice thousands of women have been given by their own legal representatives in family court.

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Lawyers, Mental Health and the Advice Nobody Should Have to Follow

Who Is Fit to Judge?

Who Is Fit to Judge?by: Kate

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.

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Who Is Fit to Judge?

What I Submitted to Parliament, and What They Concluded

What I Submitted to Parliament, and What They Concludedby: Kate

In June 2025 Kate submitted evidence to the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee. The submission was accepted. What it said and what Parliament concluded.

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What I Submitted to Parliament, and What They Concluded

What the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Found in 2023

What the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Found in 2023by: Kate

The system has been told three times by its own institutions. The Domestic Abuse Commissioner's 2023 report and what it confirmed about the family court.

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What the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Found in 2023

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

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