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THE HATCHERY - VIDEOS FOR THE HEART

Nest Eggs are short videos that elevate and inspire you to new levels. They concentrate on one topic and dive deep into its meaning so that you see and feel the topic. All illustrated with practical know-how's and how-to's.

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Heart learning, not hard learning to create beautiful environments and elevate your practice.

Do you want to follow the heart in your practice, rather than following a guidebook or the latest craze? How about knowledge, skills, and attitudes that help YOU to achieve your teaching outcomes and goals? Get the tools, ideas, and inspiration you need to strengthen the relationship with your children, teachers, and families and prepare a beautiful environment for, from, and with heart.

Content built around YOU.

Talking the heart talk is one thing, but walking the heart walk, and for the long haul, is quite another. We know how important it is to find the right tools and inspiration that help you STAY on the heart path and create beautiful environments for our youngest children. It's our goal to provide the most concise, effective tools that you can apply to your own heart-centered teaching practice and care.

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We are hatching Nest eggs all the time. Sometimes an egg cracks, and we need to start again.
You will find the hatched Nest Eggs that are available here in The Hatchery.

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Create beautiful environments and heart felt practices. Our webinars, videos, toolkits and heart guides are full of goodies to give you practical ideas, stories and inspiration on how to grow your heart-centred teaching practices and environment. They are beautifully presented with videos, photos and text. The price is in USD$. If you are in NZ and want to pay in NZ$ click on the buttons above or contact us.

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PUT LOVE ON THE MENU

More than a career, for most of us this work with children is a calling. And we get to do what we love (teaching - the big picture). That’s important. But we also want to love what we do. There might be a lot to do in our roles, but we miss so much if we are always rushing. So how do you do that?

Put yourself on the ‘care-for’ list ♥︎ It isn’t about having time, it’s about making it. This work is worth it. Just a little time for a big ‘return’. Make it a ritual: pour a cuppa and listen to our heart-words. Sit, soak, simmer.

See below what's currently in the hatchery, what's been hatched and what is ready to hatch...

Preparation Head, Heart and Hand

The importance of being prepared in the fullest sense - as teachers AND as people, in the heads AND hearts, is too important to be left to chance.

The Sensory Banquet

A beautiful and homely environment provides children with a multi-sensory banquet where they can choose from a smorgasbord of offerings.

The Queen of Quotes

Quotes miss the head and hit the heart. They are medicine for the soul and the perfect bite sized chunk that may help with making your philosophy alive.

The Christmas Fairies

Our children, parents, families, our team, our community - we could all use some Christmas cheer. Let’s make this festive season a HEART time.

Pottering and tinkering

Say a huge yes to: the child's agenda and no-pressured playing, limitless ideas and possibilities, and being hands-on, hearts-in with the physical environment.

The Nest maker

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.

Play memoirs

How can you use the lens of the heart to create a more authentic ‘system’ of documenting the child’s learning?

Urge or Interest?

Play is universal. Do we need to plan for it? What do we REALLY need to observe and look for? What IS the child's interest?

Shine the Light

How authentic is your appraisal? Do you find it easier to write a peer review and assessment or to write through the lens of love?

Love letters

Children start in the heart, and they depart in the heart. But it's also the family that starts and departs in the heart. A love letter is shining the light on them, written intuitively, through the lens of the heart.

Heart meetings

Heart meetings are the meat of meetings. If you feel bogged down by the meetings you attend already, the last thing you need is another meeting on your schedule... unless it's a HEART MEET.

Real life work

We want our children to 'download' adults who love life. Who potter and tinker, and who love and care for their patch. We need to make the children's time in our care as homely and real as possible.

The Heart bank

As much as young minds need nurturing, so do young hearts. When we practice from the heart our focus is on making deposits in the heart bank, experiences that speak to the children and touch their hearts.

Growing a vision

Are you and your team on autopilot, without a compass, and running out of fuel? What is your vision for your setting? Is your team fully on board with it? How is it being communicated and implemented?

Team or Unit?

Ask yourself, is your group a team or a unit? Is your team knitted together with a cohesive set of beliefs, values and philosophy? How do you create a team that is a unit, keeps it meaningfull and keeps their identity?

The gift of animals

Are you, or want to, keeping animals at your place? Just like the children, our animals need us to provide love and care. That goes beyong a cage and some food.

Slowing it down

Are we ‘hurrying’ children’s childhood? Is what’s next really that important? Do you children have time for ‘want nothing time’? Do we give time to our children to rest, restore and rejuvenate?

Enrich or distract?

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?

Zeal and Zest

Do you wake up in the morning excited and refreshed to go to work or do you feel exhausted and are dragging yourself to get there? Are you tired of hearing yet another idea, stretched for time and about to snap? How full and topped up are you?

Stretched for time?

If we focus too much on what we have to do or should be doing, we are not present and the child doesn’t get the gift of connection. What and how do we slow down to keep up with the children.

Creating flow

Do your children have an authentic flow they can go with? Is that flow meaningful, and predictable and does it bring security? Do your children feel nourished and nurtured and are they in flow to play freely and imaginatively?

Harmonious or hurried?

We are in a busy environment, how much harmony are you cultivating as an individual and as a team? How can you bring more simplicity and be more harmonious, in your place and in your practice?

Feeling overwhelmed?

How can you balance what has and needs to be done and what you’d like to do as part of a calm, heart-centred environment? How can you manage the reality and take power over what you can and can’t do?

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