The Impact of Relationship and Play on Resilience

Private Event

The Impact of Relationship and Play on Resilience

Geared to: Primary Educators pre-K to grade 7

This full-day workshop brings together two of Hannah’s most popular workshops as a one-day experience.

In the morning, participants will explore:

• • What’s behind the challenging behaviours we see in our students? What’s the emotion behind
    aggression? What are some ways we can reduce outbursts of aggression in our classrooms?
  • How to become the leader our students need and build relationships so our students want to follow us
  • The type of leadership that helps kids feel safe and attach to us
  • How to build, feed, and protect the student-teacher relationship, even for the students we find the
    most challenging to reach
  • Dr. Gordon Neufeld’s attachment practices of collecting, bridging, and matchmaking

Followed by an afternoon workshop where participants will learn about:

• • The link between the loss of free play and the increase in behavioural problems
  • How play has been replaced with entertainment and structured activities and the implications this
    has on children’s emotional health and our education systems
  • How play specifically works to lower anxiety and aggression
  • Why play isn’t always fun: the role of ‘frustrating’ play in development
  • What play is (and what it isn’t)
  • How children use play to deal with the hard things in life
  • Why play helps kids learn: understanding play and the defense system
  • The importance of not inadvertently turning play into performance