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What is Play Is the Way® ?

PLAY IS THE WAY® is a practical methodology for teaching social & emotional skills using:


A unique program of physically interactive games
 
(both require and develop personal and social competencies).

5 guiding concepts (embedded through classroom activities and serve as a moral compass to help children do what they believe is right as opposed to doing what they are told). 
A specific and empowering self-reflective language (which helps children to master their behavior in preparation for a responsible life in free society). 
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        2020 Open Workshops                         
Click Here to Register

SOLD OUT 

Provincial Pro D - October 23rd, 2020 
Merritt, British Columbia
Merritt Civic Centre - 1950 Mamette Avenue
9:00am-3:00pm
 

$100 per participant ​

SOLD OUT - Email playistheway@outlook.com to be put on a waitlist



All provincial health and safety standards will be adhered to: Maximum of 50 people, physical distancing, sanitization and masks will be required. 

If any participants have any symptoms at the time of the workshop please do not attend and you will be fully refunded. 

​If you have any further questions please email:
​playistheway@outlook.com or call # 604-366- play (7529)

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All workshops have a strong connection to Aboriginal Education. Each workshop has a focus on traditional stories and Truth and Reconciliation. In British Columbia this workshop fully meets the requirement for the ministerial order around Indigenous Professional Development.
Guide children
By Wisdom Not By Force
(Consilio Non Impetu)
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Suitable for 4-14 year old students
​PLAY IS THE WAY® is as much a process as it is a program.  Specifically, it’s a program of cooperative, physically interactive games that serve as the back bone for a process that builds a sustainable whole school culture of:
  • Continuous self-improvement
  • Adult guidance and role-modelling
  • Safety and non-violence
  • Peer support, trust, respect and understanding
  • Self-regulation and socially responsible behavior
  • Openness acceptance and belonging
  • Social and emotional competency that helps all children learn to the best of their ability and lead emotionally rich and rewarding lives throughout childhood and beyond.

PLAY IS THE WAY® is a common sense way of interacting with children that educators can use with confidence.  It imparts a philosophy and language that children easily understand and eagerly embrace
It makes sense that children are far more likely to thrive in socially and emotionally literate school communities.  PLAY IS THE WAY® is a behavior education (not a management) program and process in which the entire school community (all adults and every child) can participate, grow and enjoy.

It is not a pencil and paper program with a finite set of lesson plans but a way of learning by doing – an experiential process that becomes a way of school life.  It is a part of everyday core business – an ever present, positive influence that supports both students and educators as they work through the many and varied experiences of school striving to achieve ever higher educational standards with comparative levels of emotional and physical health and wellbeing.

Achieving both is not an easy task and it’s invariably harder if educators are not working in partnership with each other, students, parents and carers.

PLAY IS THE WAY® gives all parties a common language with key concepts and understandings around which to build communal responsibility for the desired outcomes of the stake holders.

School is working well when children can learn, play and be themselves in an environment free from threat, intimidation, fear or coercion.

PLAY IS THE WAY® helps build that environment and culture and sustains it for each and every year of a child’s life in school – a life which, if shaped well early, has every likelihood of flourishing as it transitions into adolescence and adulthood.
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    • Whole School Pro-D Workshops
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    • Mentoring Sessions
    • Parent Information Sessions
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