How do we take care of each other, and the environment so that our children feel loved, are in relationship, and can play freely, wildly, creatively and imaginatively.

Children and their family start in the heart, and they depart in the heart. A love letter is shining the light on them, written intuitively, through the lens of the heart.

Does your talking enrich or distract? When you talk with the children, do you speak from the head or from the heart? Are you in tune or is your talking a distraction to their absorption? 

Christmas is the season to create memories and shared sacred moments as part of the curriculum of life.Regardless of religious beliefs, we can focus on the spirit of Christmas - love, family, and togetherness.

Be you and be true. Think about how your journey of being a professional can lead you either towards your heart or towards your head. What’s real? What’s fake ? We are in the business of creating an authentic appraisal.

Be the change you wish to see. Gain awareness of all the creative and authentic ways of BEING sustainable opposed to DOING sustainability.

Follow your bliss and be the first rate version of who you are not the second rate version that sometimes we feel we need to be. The biggest gift we can give children is our authentic selves. How do you stay true to your own convictions?

There are certain universal urges that can be witnessed in children’s play – things they just feel compelled to do and driven to repeat, in many ways and with many objects. How do you set up your play space for the play urges/schema to unfold?

What are the core things that allow children to engage in truly imaginative play?

Feeling overwhelmed? Maybe it’s time to bring more simplicity into your space, pace, and place. 

Are you providing a literary feast for your children? How can you help children to build their authentic imagination?

Every parent wants to be seen, heard, and understood. How can you build authentic connections and be an anchor for your parents? 

What is play? Do you provide a rich environment that caters for children's self chosen free play or are you merely providing entertainment to keep them occupied?

What is the role of the adult in the child's play? Is your child an empty vessel to be filled? Who is in the driver seat? What is your role in the child's play?

Pottering and tinkering, real life work, how important are these to the child to witness, observe and witness. Do they interfere with the child's play or are they part of their play?

How do you set the scene, seen and unseen, and invite the child to participate to and engage in the programme and actively play, explore and discover?

Rituals are the fuel for play. In a nutshell, what is a ritual and how can we use it to make mealtimes ‘heart moments’, rather than ‘hard’ moments?

How can we develop children's oral language when they are spending less time in an over protected real world and more time in an under protected virtual world? Are our ‘chats’ there to transmit knowledge or are we chatting to connect?

Love languages, what are they, and how can we identify them and use them to connect and support the children AND the adults?

How can you be the person who consistently advocates for children's rights, needs, and optimal development. Your advocacy impacts not just individual children but families, communities, and future generations. 

When a team works in synchronized harmony, fully engaged and energised by their collective work with children, we will have an increased job satisfaction, reduced burnout, better quality interactions with children, and more creative problem-solving.

Do you have the mindset to see multiple uses in an object, and be creative in collecting and re-using materials? Where and how can you find, collect, store and preserve materials, loose parts items and other materials that have an open-ended use? 

Children are naturally musical beings - they respond to rhythm before birth. Following children's natural curiosity and responses to sound, nurturing listening, experimenting, and expressing is the heart of music experiences.

Art as another way children communicate thoughts and feelings. Is your space inviting and inspiring creativity and does it value exploration and expression rather than predetermined outcomes?

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