A child has been quiet all morning. A three-year-old is telling a story nobody can follow. Some of your educators know exactly how to get alongside; others check they're okay and move on. Everything else in the room is built on this — so this is where the Program starts.
Sitting at their height and saying nothing for thirty seconds does more than any question. Children start talking when they don't feel interviewed.
"Tell me about this" invites a story. "What did you make?" asks for a label.
If the tower is massive, it's massive. Borrowing their word tells them you were listening.
Trios: one is the quiet child, one the educator, one watches for the moment the child starts talking. Then the unfollowable story — and the questions that keep it going. Everyone practises the thirty-second silence, which is harder than it sounds.
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 1 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.