KATE MARKLAND | THE JOURNAL

The Answers Are in the White Space.

Reflections on imagination, trust and the power of being heard, at eight or at eighty.

Thoughts and Evidence

*"Mum, Use All Your Skills"
19 4 min
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*"Mum, Use All Your Skills"

Adapted from the Smash Your Own Ceiling podcast. How a small boy in Gloucester trying to solve the Middle East conflict in his story became the beginning of everything.

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Kate
How It All Started: Stories at the Kitchen Table
16 2 min
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How It All Started: Stories at the Kitchen Table

Kate joins Bradford Community Radio at the Bingley Festival to tell the story of how The Adventures of Gabriel began

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Kate
When Constraint Becomes Gift: The Story Behind StoryQuest
6 3 min
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When Constraint Becomes Gift: The Story Behind StoryQuest

Two years ago everything changed. One hour a week on FaceTime. What was built inside that constraint and what it proved.

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Kate
A Mother and The Adventures of Gabriel
17 4 min
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A Mother and The Adventures of Gabriel

Adapted from the UK Column interview. Gabriel was taken by armed police the week before he turned ten. What happened in the months that followed and what was built inside it.

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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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