Play Events

Puppet Wonder

In this engaging virtual session, discover how puppetry can be used as a powerful relational tool to spark connection, support emotional regulation, and create meaningful opportunities for communication in early learning environments. Prioritizing play is difficult in most early learning environments, and can be challenging for
adults to comfortably and confidently engage in. Learn practical strategies to integrate puppets into your practice in ways that strengthen relationships and nurture children’s social-emotional development.

📅 Wednesday, March 25, 2026
⏰ 6:30 – 8:00 PM (MST)
💻 Live Virtual Workshop
💲 $18.18

Prioritizing play is difficult in most early learning environments, and can be challenging for adults to comfortably and confidently engage in. Focusing on play when a child is dysregulated or uncooperative often feels like rewarding poor behaviour or giving the “wrong message”.

This presentation explores how Early Learning Educators can use play to support positive behaviour changes. Using concepts of magic, this workshop explores how adults use magical thinking in everyday situations to benefit their own behaviour, and how ECE’s can use magic to help manage behaviour in their centers, day homes and classrooms! Understanding how a child experiences the world through wonder can bring clarity to challenging behaviours and offer clear solutions.

Incorporating puppets and play-based behaviour intervention allows educators to not only build meaningful relationships with students, but to explore concepts and build skills that are essential for the real-world. This presentation is written and facilitated in partnership with a Behaviour Specialist and a Child and Youth Care Counsellor who is a professional magician!

You’ll leave feeling more confident to:
✔ Reframe challenging behaviours through a play-based and wonder-informed lens, recognizing how children’s dysregulation can be understood and supported through connection rather than compliance.

✔ Apply play-based behaviour strategies, including the intentional use of puppetry and magical thinking, to support emotional regulation, skill-building, and positive behaviour change in early learning environments.

✔ Integrate relational and imaginative approaches into everyday practice to strengthen educator-child relationships and create responsive, engaging environments that prioritize play as a pathway to well-being and development.

Join us for this imaginative and practical session to discover how play, puppetry, and a touch of magic can transform challenging behaviours into meaningful opportunities for connection, regulation, and growth.

Register Here: Puppet Wonder
🎟️ Limited virtual spots available.

Come curious. Come reflective. Come ready to deepen your practice and strengthen your advocacy for play.
💬 Because play isn’t the extra; it’s the pathway.

The Natural Science of Play

Join us online as we kick off 2026 with a powerful, play-affirming conversation about The Natural Science of Play, facilitated by Suzanne Axelsson, author of The Original Learning Approach: Weaving Together Playing, Learning, and Teaching in Early Childhood, and internationally respected voice in play-based pedagogy.

📅 Monday, February 23, 2026
⏰ 6:30 – 8:00 PM (MST)
💻 Live Virtual Workshop