What is Play Is the Way® ?
PLAY IS THE WAY® is a practical methodology for teaching social & emotional skills:
Play Is The Way is a program that uses play to help students develop emotional resilience and to develop the coping strategies (breathing and muscle relaxation, cognitive behaviour, and replacement behaviour strategies) necessary for them to be able to self soothe, as well as help their classmates soothe, when dealing with internal and external conflict.
Play Is The Way is a program that truly encompasses all the tools we have been provided as educators and brings them all into one cohesive program that allows us to reach our students (at all levels) in the best way possible. Giving kids the tools to soothe in the moment so they can engage their thinking brain and control their emotions is invaluable. When students have the skills to work their way through internal or external conflict on their own, or well enough to last until they can get help from an adult to soothe, they will do much better in all facets of school.
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).
Play Is The Way is a program that truly encompasses all the tools we have been provided as educators and brings them all into one cohesive program that allows us to reach our students (at all levels) in the best way possible. Giving kids the tools to soothe in the moment so they can engage their thinking brain and control their emotions is invaluable. When students have the skills to work their way through internal or external conflict on their own, or well enough to last until they can get help from an adult to soothe, they will do much better in all facets of school.
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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2021 Open Workshops
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.
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Abbotsford, British Columbia
Pro-d Day February 18, 2022
Matsqui Community Hall - 33676 St Olaf Ave, Abbotsford, BC
9:00am-3:00pm
$125 per participant - Registration Now Open
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Surrey, British Columbia
Pro-d Day February 25th, 2022
Location - Sheraton Vancouver Guilford Hotel
15269 -104 Ave, Surrey, BC
9:00am-3:00pm
$125 per participant - Registration Now Open
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Victoria, British Columbia
Pro-d Day May 20th, 2022
Northridge Elementary - 4190 Carey Rd. Victoria, BC,
9:00am-3:00pm
$125 per participant - Registration Now Open
All provincial health and safety standards will be adhered to: Maximum of 50 people, physical distancing, sanitization and masks will be necessary if required by the health authorities. If the workshop has to be cancelled for any COVID related reason all participants will be fully refunded.
If you have any further questions please email:
playistheway@outlook.com or call # 604-366- play (7529)
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)
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:
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.
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.
