Learning objectives/discussion points:

• Why we should be using connection as a starting point over compliance?
• Why we should be viewing our children through an equity, needs-based lens?
• Why connection is at the heart of effective co-regulation?
• Why we need to shift the lens and language around behaviour that challenges us as adults?
• Looking beneath that iceberg of behaviour.
• Modelling/teaching emotional language and literacy in the EY.
• SR and first and foremost - CR.
• Understanding the damage caused by punitive behaviour management approaches.