65: What If Play is the Work of Childhood? Shifting Paradigms and Starting a Play Revolution
Guest: Sivanne Lieber, Parenting Coach, Educator, The Joyous Parent
Play - it’s fun, it’s joyous, it’s creative, it’s good for our bodies and souls - so why don’t we do it more often? Why are work and play considered polar opposites? And why is play largely confined to early childhood?
This week we join the Play Revolution with parenting coach, educator, play enabler, and self-proclaimed joyous parent, Sivanne Lieber! Tune in as we explore the power of play and the ways we can all benefit from a little more joy in our lives.
In this episode we talk about:
The true essence of play.
Play as the work of childhood AND adulthood.
How to bring play back into parenting.
The paradigms that unconsciously stand in the way of play.
How we might co-create something new with our kids that doesn’t come from what we’re supposed to do, but rather from freedom, choice and inner knowing.
About Sivanne Lieber
Sivanne Lieber is a self-proclaimed joyous parent who is dedicated to leading a passionate and purposeful life with a blanket of self care, unapologetic gratitude, and mindfulness. With a B.A. in Integrative Arts, a Masters of Education, and through her work as a Progressive Educator for almost two decades, Sivanne has a deep understanding of childhood development, behavioral schemas, project-based instruction, play-based learning and inquiry approaches, neurodiverse learning supports, mindful meditation, reading and writing remediation and much more. Sivanne is a certified Tinkergarten Leader for play-based learning in the nature classroom, and is trained and certified in Visual Thinking Strategies, the Responsive Classroom program, and Constructivist Math. Sivanne has received training to be a W.E.L.L. coach through i.b.mee Empowerment Education and as a Teach For America alumna, she has worked with hundreds of children to not just learn their a,b,c's but to become upstanding change-makers who use their beautiful, creative minds to shift the world. Sivanne has a plethora of experience in restorative justice, Second Step social-emotional learning, equity work, and is a passionate advocate of radically inclusive, social justice oriented classrooms and childrearing.
After almost two decades of experience in a myriad of school settings from startups to public schools to youth at risk programs with educators and parents from all walks of life, Sivanne has now leveraged her knowledge and expertise to develop a Four Phase Joyous Parenting Methodology that she believes can help parents and caregivers overturn their definition of what their parenthood is and can be.
A yogi, avid hiker, food lover, songwriter, and artist, Sivanne strives to fill each of these blessed days with her amazing husband and beautiful daughter with light, laughter, creativity, and the next twist and turn of this crazy, glorious journey.
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For more on Sivanne and the Play Revolution, visit www.thejoyousparent.com!