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
No One Has a Crystal Ball. Act Accordingly
by: KateNo one who has ever been surprised by a child should believe they can forecast the story that child will eventually tell. What the prediction research actually shows.
The Teacher Who Never Left School
by: KateA child's story needs an adult who has lived enough of their own to know how to hold it. What happens when the institution shapes the professional before the professional can shape the institution.
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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