Interaction Imagination

After attending the Nobel Week Dialogues today in Stockholm - listening to various Nobel laureates talk about "The Future of Life" - I...

When my youngest got his autism/ADHD diagnosis it made me rethink everything I thought I knew - not so much about my son, I met him every...

The last few weeks have been busy - I was in Glasgow to participate and listen to speakers at the EECERA conference (European Early...

Yesterday I started to write about my week of exploring playgrounds in the Stockholm area with a focus on the 8 categories of risky play....

During the last week I have been going round a variety of play-spaces in Stockholm together with my 18 year old son to evaluate them,...

As part of an outdoor play and learning workshop we created bottles of nature. Since I had a focus on bringing magic, imagination and...

On my social media I recently shared this image... with these words... "As I write about risk, play and teaching I keep thinking of ways...

I am researching, writing and observing about all things risky play at the moment and it is really making me aware of just how controlled...

There are times we meet a child that cries and cries when they start their life as a member of an early year's group. No matter how much...

Discombobulated means being confused or being uncomfortable or not feeling together. I think it is a state many of us experience from...

I keep thinking about how much STUFF educators are buying to teach the children through play instead of permitting the play to teach them...

On Sunday 17th April I was featured in Kathimerini national newspaper in Greece, interviewed by Lina Giannarou who then wrote an article...

The Unique Child - first written in 2017 I love social media, I love the fact that we can share ideas online no matter where we are in...

The more I learn about play the more I feel that the whole truth about play is not being shared. Recently, I have been enjoying looking...

Original Learning is a reflective approach to view the roles of play, learning, teaching and understanding, and how adults can become...

A toddler is a descriptive name of a period in our lives when we are very young.. to toddle basically means - to move with short and...

As many of you might already know, during the last 18 months I have been listening to the forest to see what I can learn. It has been...

For me, being respectful of other people, their feelings, their needs etc is essential. It is a core element of Original Learning. Being...

Taking the time to reflect... it should be one of the simplest things to do, and yet often it feels impossible... as where do we get that...

Over the weekend I held two presentations for educators in Turkey (the marvels of digital connections) and as I talked something struck...