The Playwell Foundation

12/09/2025

🌿 Our nervous system remembers safety 🌿

Safety is not just an idea....it is something our nervous system learns through rhythm, repetition and relationship.

Our Old People gifted us the tools to return to that place of safety:
✨ Ceremony
✨ Song and dance
✨ Art, weaving, and carving
✨ Sitting on Country
✨ Sitting in circle

These are not simply “cultural activities.” They are medicine for the mind, body and spirit.

Through a two-eyed seeing perspective, we understand that what Western somatic and polyvagal approaches teach about regulation, Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing have held for thousands of years....that healing comes through connection, rhythm, community and Country.

Let us reclaim and honour these practices in our healing journeys for ourselves, our families and the generations to come.

12/09/2025

ancient wisdom healing us in chaotic modernity ...

🌿 Our nervous system remembers safety 🌿

Safety is not just an idea....it is something our nervous system learns through rhythm, repetition and relationship.

Our Old People gifted us the tools to return to that place of safety:
✨ Ceremony
✨ Song and dance
✨ Art, weaving, and carving
✨ Sitting on Country
✨ Sitting in circle

These are not simply “cultural activities.” They are medicine for the mind, body and spirit.

Through a two-eyed seeing perspective, we understand that what Western somatic and polyvagal approaches teach about regulation, Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing have held for thousands of years....that healing comes through connection, rhythm, community and Country.

Let us reclaim and honour these practices in our healing journeys for ourselves, our families and the generations to come.

20/09/2022

The Invisible Epidemic of Trauma (+ How To Heal): in this into psychiatrist & trauma expert Dr. Paul Conti discusses how unresolved truma negatively affects our lives and shares tools to understand, heal & even prevent it.

Psychiatrist & trauma expert Dr. Paul Conti discusses how unresolved trauma negatively affects our lives and shares tools to process, heal, & even prevent it from impacting you.

12/08/2020

This publication titled ‘Rethinking Learning: A Review of Social and Emotional Learning for Education Systems’, published by the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) reviews the latest research on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), its impa...

09/04/2020

EXERCISE HELPS CHILDREN STRENGTHEN THEIR HAND-EYE COORDINATION, GROSS MOTOR SKILLS, AND STRENGTH.

Here’s a 7 minute workout that can be used for helping with self-regulation, a brain break or indoor recess movement activity!

https://hes-extraordinary.com/improve-emotional-regulation-just-7-minutes-per-day/

10/10/2019

Most of the time, when children act out by kicking and screaming expletives, it is because they do not understand what they are going through, and cannot find a better way to release their feelings.

29/09/2019

A compulsory subject of study which is taught an hour a week in the “Klassens tid”, where students learn to help their classmates and compete only with themselves

22/08/2019

The 6 core strengths all of us need for healthy development - from the bottom up