Cultivating Resilience podcast interview with Hannah Beach and Tamara Strijack
Hannah Beach — provides emotional health consulting and professional development to schools, and speaks at conferences around the world about the power of bringing more feeling and human connection into the classroom.
Tamara Neufeld Strijack — the academic dean of the Neufeld Institute, where she develops and delivers courses and workshops supporting parents, teachers, and helping professionals around the world make sense of children through developmental science.
The Takeaway
As much as possible, teachers should try to make space for unstructured play to help students process the outside world and specifically trauma. Natural development needs patience, guidance, and trust. Play-based activity brings students together and allows teachers to understand how each individual student learns. Play is the missing piece in most schools today, and it is the crucial part that will guide students to positive development.
As you listen
- Why is there a disconnect among children in a modern environment?
- What is the trauma associated with the loss of play?
- Why is play beneficial for cognitive development?
- How can teachers direct students to release emotions through play-based activity?
- What are the 3 Rs and how are they related to trauma?
- How does a student dealing with trauma interact during play-based activity?
