…human emotional system is meant to be responsive to one’s environment, but if feeling sets someone up to get hurt too much, the brain will naturally start to inhibit the…

…children need to go to school for their own good – to learn, to not to be left behind, to socialize with their peers, to develop normally. The urgency in…

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…an opportunity to dive deeper in to the practice of facilitating play for others – whatever your role – starting online in February 2024. For more information: https://neufeldinstitute.org/event/playful-facilitation-module-putting-play-into-practice/ And to

to school I was afraid to go into the class, because I thought my cat would be lost and get hit by a car. A classmate alerted Mrs. Tiller to

How quick I was to get irritated by a mom who was frantically trying to hold on to her child. She didn’t know how much longer she had to hold…

…and into long-term storage. But the control room soon gets crowded, according to Joy. In a fabulous scene where Riley’s parents introduce their toddler to broccoli, Joy simultaneously introduces her…

…cannot possibly take care of them. As evidence of this dynamic, you will find that most children today go to school not to learn about their world but rather to

…free to simply BE – to sleep, to read, to cook, even to organize my cupboards, as long as it was coming from a place of desire and play, not…

…were kept at bay. A bounded space where I had freedom within to move, to rest, to play, to create, to be present with my family. The paradox of the…

where there is room to explore questions rather than getting the answer right. Where there is room to express what is stirring inside rather than be told what not to

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