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Safety as the Foundation for Everything with Dr. Gillian Boudreau

Two Sides of the Spectrum

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How to Model Freedom in Spaces With Kids

The best thing we can do as adults in any space with kids but especially in schools and therapeutic spaces is to model freedom. A lot of what drives the fight or flight response in well-meaning adult practitioners is trying to do things right. "If compliance based methods I think maintain a status quo" will definitely be obsolete in the foreseeable future anyway," she says. The new jobs her students are preparing for haven't been invented yet so they may not include sitting quietly at a desk, rather like rolling around on the floor while learning.

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