Show Notes
What if the most challenging behaviour you've ever seen in a classroom or at home wasn't a problem to be managed, but a message to be understood? 🧠
In this compelling and hopeful episode, Mireia sits down with Yvonne Power, Director of the Irish Play Therapy Community Association, accredited play therapist, certified Sand Play therapist, NLP practitioner, clinical creative supervisor, and Amazon number one best-selling author. With years of experience supporting children, families, teachers, and therapists, Yvonne brings a perspective that is both grounded in neuroscience and deeply human.
This is one of those conversations that will make you stop, reflect, and see children, and yourself, completely differently.💛
In this episode you'll discover:
• 🧠 Why behaviour is always communication, and what children are really trying to tell us • 👩🏫 What is genuinely missing from teacher training, and why it urgently needs to change • 💛 Why connection must always come before correction, and how to alter that today • 🌿 How a teacher's own nervous system directly impacts every child in the room • 🎯 Simple, practical tools you can bring into your classroom or home starting right now This episode is not about adding more to your already full plate. It's about rethinking how you show up, and discovering that small, intentional shifts in connection can transform everything. 🌟
🎧 Listen now and share with a parent, teacher, or school leader who needs to hear this.
This episode is proudly sponsored by: Little Vista, a tablet-based childcare tool that simplifies activity recording, eliminates paperwork, connects parents, and frees childcare professionals up to do what they do best…care for children! Find out more by clicking the links below.
🌟 Website - littlevista.ie 💼 LinkedIN - https://www.linkedin.com/company/crechecom/ 👥 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LittleVista/
Connect with Yvonne Power:
📸 Instagram - @seedsofgrowthtraining 💼 LinkedIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-power-250405212/
Rediscovering Childhood is hosted by Mireia Lopez,founder of Discovery Playtime.
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