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
Play Is How Children Make Sense of Their World
UNICEF confirms what children already know. Play is not a reward. It is how children build confidence, process emotions, and discover what they are capable of.
Give Them Back the Time
We 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
Play 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.
We Cut Play. Then We Wondered Why Children Struggled.
Between 1995 and 2019 breaktime in UK primary schools was cut by 45 minutes every week. What was cut with it.
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.
