It's drizzling and the children want to go out. The children are outside, and your educators are standing at the edge of the yard. Most teams treat outside as the break between teaching. This session changes the sentence — and what happens when you get out there.
Not "we're going outside" but "we're changing classrooms". It changes what you do when you get there.
A single provocation — a question at the mud kitchen, a rotation of loose parts — turns supervision into teaching.
A child trusted to climb, balance and carry something heavy is building judgement, not just muscles.
If it's in your centre, this one happens in your yard. The team maps where they actually stand, then plans one provocation for each zone and role-plays the "can I?" moments — the climb, the drizzle, the heavy log. Online, they do it with photos of their own space.
Are you and your team tired of the slide deck and the online click-fest? Louis's sessions are practical, on your feet and genuinely fun. You'll role-play the moments that actually happen in your rooms — the parent at pick-up, the child who hits, the drizzle at the door — and leave with language you'll use tomorrow.
Educators remember what they've said out loud, not what they've watched.
See what a session looks likeOne 90-minute session on this topic for your whole team — role-plays, the scripts sheet, a one-page action plan and a leader debrief. Online or in your centre.
See the Reset →This is module 5 of six. Run all six as one intensive day, or embedded fortnightly across the term so it becomes how your team does PD.
See the Program →Where: online for any centre in Australia · in your centre in Melbourne · interstate by arrangement (travel quoted upfront). Investment: depends on team size and format — Louis gives you a straight answer within a business day.
A sentence or two about your rooms. He'll reply within a business day with how he'd run it and what it would cost.
Tell Louis what you're seeing. He'll come back within one business day with what he'd do, what it would cost, and whether Praxibel is the right fit — a real reply, not an autoresponder.
Tell Louis what you're seeing and he'll build the session around it.