by Hannah Beach | Mar 25, 2020 | Anxiety, Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Emotional Safety, Feelings, Hands-on Activities, Play
Whether we are a parent, a teacher or a child-care provider, many of us are asking ourselves how we can best support the children in our care during this stressful time of uncertainty around the COVID-19 virus. There are universal strategies that we can use to help...
by Hannah Beach | Mar 11, 2020 | Attachment, Building Relationship, Community Building, Connection, Emotional Safety
In my past two blogs, I have shared about the attachment rituals of collecting (creating a conscious invitation into relationship) and bridging (keeping relationship alive even while disciplining). This blog is about the art of matchmaking and how we can use it to...
by Hannah Beach | Feb 20, 2020 | Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Discipline, Emotional Safety, Feelings
In my last blog about collecting, I spoke about how creating a conscious invitation into relationship is a vital part of creating emotionally safe learning communities. It is relationship that helps children to feel safe with us. It is through relationship that their...
by Hannah Beach | Feb 13, 2020 | Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Discipline, Emotional Safety
There is a lot of discussion about the importance of relationship in education – for good reason! Building relationships with our students is a vital part of creating emotionally safe learning communities. I am so grateful to Dr. Gordon Neufeld for developing an...
by Hannah Beach | Jan 30, 2020 | Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Discipline, Emotional Safety, Nature, Play
Most of us already recognize the benefits of creating a classroom which feels enjoyable. We understand that humans flourish when we feel liked, enjoyed by others, and comfortable in our environment. In knowing this, we might show up to our classrooms every morning,...
by Hannah Beach | Jan 15, 2020 | Aggression, Anxiety, Arts, Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Emotional Health, Emotional Safety, Expression, Feelings, Play
Our kids are experiencing an emotional crisis. Children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever. We are seeing clear evidence of this in our schools, our homes, our neighbourhoods and our community spaces. The situation has become so dire that our...
