The Outdoor Advantage: The Power of Play and Risk

Join us on March 5th for a workshop that reveals the secret superpower of outdoor play in shaping your child’s development and skills. This session will go beyond the obvious physical benefits and illuminate the "hidden gains" children achieve in the outdoor environment, focusing on essential skills like self-regulation, perseverance, and focus—all vital for success in school and life.

The outdoors is a powerful, natural tool for development. It effortlessly boosts movement, provides valuable sensory input, and involves heavy work, helping your child's brain and body become more coordinated, organized, and regulated. A key focus will be on the critical role of risky play. Outdoor settings naturally offer children safe and crucial opportunities to practice risk assessment—physically, socially, and cognitively. This practice builds condence and judgment, skills that are important prerequisites for academic success at every age.

You will leave the workshop understanding both why leveraging the outdoors is so effective and how to easily use it to support your child's development at home and in school.

Key Takeaways

1. Understanding the importance of outdoor child-led play and how it supports their development.

2. Reviewing the research and benets of risky play.

3. Exploring practical outdoor loose parts and tools to support outdoor child-led play experiences at home

A recording of the event will be made available to those who are unable to attend certificates of attendance will not be provided for this talk.

Interested in purchasing a ticket for your entire parent community? Contact us at info@ami-canada.com for whole school pricing.

AMI (Canada) Member Rate: Members, please enter your membership number to activate a $5.00 discount.

Suitable for: Caregivers interested in learning more about how nature and risky play impact human development.