The Power of Relationship and Play with Hannah Beach

Join Hannah for a warm and conversational workshop exploring practical strategies we can use to support our children to thrive. We will delve into how play can reduce aggression, lower anxiety and build resilience. And we'll explore the emotion behind aggression so that we can jump off the exhausting hamster wheel of trying to fix behaviours over and over again - and instead look at how we can work towards lasting change. This workshop is geared towards children in Grades K - 6.

SPEAKER BIO

Hannah Beach is an award-winning educator, author, emotional health consultant, and keynote speaker. She is the co-author of the best-selling book Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut-Down than Ever—and What We Can Do About It, with Tamara Neufeld Strijack, a trauma-informed resource for teachers and parents rooted in the relationship-based approach, now being translated into multiple languages internationally (including French, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian and Korean) and has been adopted by school boards across Canada. She was recognized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2017 as one of five featured changemakers in Canada. Her bestselling I Can Dance book series, supporting the emotional health of children through movement, play, and expression, won a 2017 Gold International Moonbeam Children’s Book Award.

Hannah delivers professional development services across the country, provides emotional health consulting to schools, and speaks at conferences about the power of bringing more feeling and human connection into the classroom. Hannah is an emotional health and play-based learning consultant for Britannica Education, where she develops courses which are facilitated by the Britannica Education team across the globe.

CHILD MINDING

Don't forget to bring your kiddos and s ign them up for Child Minding while you're there! There will be lots of fun activities and refreshments for them to enjoy. *Children must be toilet trained to participate.

Host or Publisher Ottawa CSPA