A Toolkit for Early Years Educators
In recognition of Early Years Wellbeing Week, Kate Moxley has created a new free resource to support early years educators.
The information contained within this toolkit can be used to guide, reflect, evaluate and build your own bank of practical ideas to promote and protect compassion resilience (the ability to maintain our physical, emotional and mental well-being). Take what you need – use it within daily life and share and care about it in your professional practice.
Use the toolkit to:
· advocate for individual activism and community collectivism
· aid prevention, early intervention, signposting and postvention
Interactive Resources
An interactive version of the toolkit has now been created to support early years educators. You can download and edit the pdf file by clicking the link below.
The founder of Early Years Wellbeing Week was interviewed recently by Siren Films. In this video, Kate Moxley tells us a little more about the thinking behind the new toolkit:
Kate has recently recorded a podcast with Professor Eunice Lumsden and Warda Farah called ‘An Intersectional Approach to Cultivating Wellbeing. Listen here.
A message from Kate:
This Toolkit would not have been possible if it were not for the lived experiences, thoughts, feelings, and feedback from a range of early years professionals who I have the privilege and pleasure of working alongside in my everyday work, and the essential contributions of early years colleagues who shared reflections from their frame of reference and window of the world. Our early years sector is unique, rich, and diverse so it is essential for us all to recognise how early years educators, children and families alike, are all brilliantly and beautifully different. To put wellbeing at the heart of our purpose and make adjustments to cultivate spaces that include and empower, we must foster respect for diversity and value the ways we are different.
Special thanks to:
Shada Lambert (Nanny Sharz) https://www.nannysharz.com/ https://nannycon.net/
Sarah Emerson www.wearecocoro.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/wearecocoro/
Emma Jeffreys Nursery Manager
Joss Cambridge Simmonds (Jossy Care) https://www.instagram.com/jossycare/
David Cahn (Free to learn) https://www.facebook.com/freetolearnleeds/
Alison Scott and the Early Years settings in Hull that took part in first cohort of Early Years Wellbeing Champion Training in 2023.