Reflecting on Principle Six

As a child care manager and leader, can you imagine your role as a person who is responsible for holding space and creating the conditions for truly democratic practice? What do you need to enact this vision?

Consider:

• What barriers do you face?
• What do you need?

As a child care manager and leader, can you envision the culture that might emerge from responsive and caring relationships?

• Whose voices are included in this vision?
• What can you do to bring those voices in?
• What barriers do you face?
• What do you need?

How can your child care centre be a fractal of the world that your heart is longing for?

• How do you wish to feel in the world? 
• What do you wish to experience? 
• What hopes do you have for others and how they might feel in the world?

Capture your responses and reflections in your journal, taking time to explore how your vision for democratic practice connects to your leadership role, your relationships, and the future you hope to help shape in your child care community.