Registration opens Tuesday, August 4 at 7:00 PM!
Facilitated by: Lobna Ajaini (she/her), MPED, HBECL, B.Eng, RECE
Join us for a workshop designed to empower educators to embrace risky play both indoors and outdoors. Explore the benefits of risky play, practical risk management strategies, and ways to create supportive environments for adventurous exploration. Together, we'll critically reflect on how the notion of “risky”play is often socially constructed through adult perspectives, while children experience it as a natural process of play, exploration, meaning-making, and learning.
Educators will also explore strategies for communicating with families, reflecting on personal boundaries and comfort levels, and navigating conversations with leadership around risky play practices. Leave with practical tools and confidence to foster children's creativity, resilience, holistic development, and meaningful indoor and outdoor learning experiences.
Learning Objectives:
Critically reflect on personal perspectives, boundaries, and assumptions related to risky play within early childhood educational settings.
Explore practical risk management strategies that support safe, inclusive, and engaging indoor and outdoor environments for adventurous play and exploration.
Examine approaches for communicating with families and leadership about the value of risky play in supporting children's learning, creativity, resilience, and holistic development.
Pedagogical Focuses: Belonging - Engagement - Expression - Well-being - Leadership
Standards of Practice: Standard I: Caring and Responsive Relationships, Standard II: Curriculum and Pedagogy, Standard III: Safety, Health and Well-Being in the Learning Environment, Standard IV: Professionalism and Leadership
Lobna Ajaini, MPEd Pedagogist, HBECL, B.Eng, RECE, is a multiple award-winning Early Childhood Education leader, ECE Professor, and founder of Childhood Empowerment. Drawing on her engineering background, she combines technical knowledge with ECE to inspire educators with innovative strategies, fostering creativity, equity, and lifelong learning while making a lasting impact in the community
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Thursday, October 29, 2026
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Zoom
Cost
London/Middlesex Professional: Pay What You Can
Elgin/Oxford Professional: Free With Access Code
Registration closes on Wednesday, October 28 at 12:00 PM
* Ticket types are based on the county you WORK in. Elgin and Oxford participants, use your access code to reveal your ticket types.
**An access link and password will be emailed out prior to the event
Registration opens Tuesday, August 4 at 7:00 PM!