Calmer Play, Calmer Lives: Finding Time to Play and Promote Positive Connections with our Children

Speaker Bio

Sam is a professional child, family, and play coach in the UK. She specialises in communicating, time management, and behaviour and regulation strategies to promote positive relationships between children and their parents through play. Sam has developed fully certified parent, play, and child coaching training programmes and more recently developed the accreditation and networking body, The Child and Family Coaching Network. Sam is a speaker, author, and researcher, currently due to complete her PhD this year (2024), and holds Masters degrees in Early Childhood, Montessori Education, Child and Adolescent Mental Wellbeing, and DIgital Learning and Education. Sam lives in the UK with her husband and two daughters, and has delivered training in early years, childcare, child and family wellbeing, and teaching for more than 15 years.

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