Watch our highly engaging training video, 'Ask the Expert', where we will be joined by Guest Expert, Elizabeth Jarman, Founder and Managing Director of ELIZABETH JARMAN® Group and the sole provider of The Communication Friendly Spaces™ Approach.

This training video is hosted by Earlyarts Director, Ruth Churchill Dower, and is suitable for:

• early years and KS1 teachers
• early years practitioners and professionals
• nursery nurses and managers
• childcarers
• local authority officers
• home educators
• parents and carers

"Thank you - very interesting and inspiring",  Olivia McLennan, March 2015 webinar with Matt Andasun and Martha Toogood.

Which lovely Presenters will I meet?

Elizabeth Jarman - Elizabeth is Founder and Managing Director of ELIZABETH JARMAN® Group and the sole provider of The Communication Friendly Spaces™ Approach which helps schools and settings to re-think the way they use their environment to really set the scene for learning to take place. Using intelligence from commissioned research programmes, taking account of different learning styles and also preferred contexts, Elizabeth’s thinking is professionally challenging the way that environments for children are viewed. Working with architects to educators, Elizabeth leads an international team of experts who deliver training, consultancy, develop resources and commission research on improving learning environments. She has a particular interest in engaging families in children’s learning

‘This approach provides a framework for review and also begins to challenge some of the outdated historical stereotyped ideas about the way that environments are set up for children today’, says Elizabeth Jarman.

Ruth Churchill Dower - As Director of Earlyarts, the award winning training network in the cultural and education sectors, Ruth established Earlyarts in 2002 and scaled it up to have a national footprint in 2009. Ruth is in charge of keeping the vision for Earlyarts high on everyone’s agenda, advocating for what’s important with our youngest children, running the consultancy and export side of the company, supporting the team and generally making sure the business as a social enterprise is sustainable.

Ruth can often be found roaming the hills and valleys to indulge in her passion for paragliding, and spends her weekends puddle-splashing, den-building or tree-climbing with her two children.