WELCOME TO GABRIEL'S WORLD
The Adventures of Gabriel began on a FaceTime call between a boy and his mum. It became an Amazon number one bestseller, a way of writing that won back children who had given up on it, and a world that children want to build inside.
One question. One hour. Nothing corrected. Complete trust. That is where it starts.
Your child used to tell you everything. Now you get one-word answers and a closed door
You noticed before anyone else did. That is not a coincidence. Mothers always do.
One question. One hour. Nothing corrected. That is where it starts.
WELCOME TO
GABRIEL’S WORLD
Your Child Has a Story Worth Hearing
A guided creative experience that helps children build their own characters, worlds and adventures, with a grown-up beside them to listen and encourage.
No writing experience is needed. Just curiosity, imagination and a story waiting to be discovered.
MEET PLATY
Platy the platypus became the sidekick in every adventure was Gabriel's real favourite cuddly toy since he was a toddler.
He came from Gabriel's real life into Gabriel's imagined one to help Gabriel solve problems and perplexing puzzles with a strong sense of can do.
What came out of Gabriel the one-hour calls became vivid, specific, governed by the internal logic of a ten-year-old boy's imagination.
It later turned out to be a world other children were keen to enter.
THE POWER OF IMAGINATION IS NOT A METAPHOR. IT IS A MECHANISM.
When a child is handed a blank page and told to fill it, the blank page wins.
When a child is given full permission to go anywhere, invent anything and know they quite simply can't be wrong at it is their story something entirely different happens.
The child who said she couldn't write fills pages. The child who had never finished a story creates a world of his own. The child who was labelled difficult, unmotivated, too restless to sit still, stays voluntarily. Because the story was his.
"The only superpower you need is your imagination."
Child participant, Bradford school
This is what imagination does when it is finally trusted. Not inspired, not directed, not corrected toward something better. Simply trusted. Completely. The way Kate trusted Gabriel every Friday at seven o'clock, with a pen in her hand.
The Adventures of Gabriel is what trust produced.
PROOF AND EVIDENCE
When nearly 500 children entered the world Gabriel built, they didn't just read it. They wanted to build their own.
Across nine UK primary schools in Bradford and Gloucestershire, children were given the same conditions Gabriel had: full permission, a scribes, and a world that showed them what their imagination could become.
What happened was evaluated using rigorous qualitative research methodology in social science. Not because we expected extraordinary results. Because the results were extraordinary and they needed to be documented properly.
"Even the kids who don't like writing didn't want to leave." Tom Hirst, Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary Academy, BBC News
CHILDREN FIND THEIR VOICE
“I didn’t know I had so many stories inside me until I was allowed to let them out.”
CREATIVITY WITHOUT FEAR
“I could write anything I wanted, and it wouldn’t be wrong.”
FREEDOM FROM LIFE'S CHALLENGES
"I felt like I could free my mind to help with hard times."
ENGAGEMENT WITHOUT PRESSURE
465 children. Nine UK schools. 100% engagement. Zero behavioural incidents.
YOUR CHILDS WORLD IS ALREADY INSIDE THEM
Presented to the British Psychological Society. Published in a professional journal. Accepted within evidence by the UK Parliament.
Your child is not asked to explain themselves. They are simply given the freedom to create and someone who is ready to listen.
When they were trusted completely, the way Gabriel was trusted, they produce what Gabriel produced: a world that is entirely their own.
BOOK KATE TO SPEAK
Build a world together, and trust follows.
Your people are being asked to trust each other across distance, across generations and through constant change. Most have never been shown how.
Kate Markland has. For a time she had one hour a week with her son Gabriel, on a FaceTime call.
They spent it building a world. She asked one question, wrote down everything he said and corrected nothing.
That world became three books and a method tested in nine UK schools.
In her keynote, Create the World You Want, Kate shows your audience how trust is really built, and gives them a method they can use the same evening.
For leadership, education and family audiences.
Membership continues with:
A personalised PlatyPress for your child
Letters to My Son for you
Monthly live sessions with Kate
The Story Gallery
The 8 Rooms self-leadership
The A2A clinical framework
The Coral Cove family community
Start with 30 days to experience what StoryQuest can become inside your family.
A personalised PlatyPress for your child
Letters to My Son for you
Monthly live sessions with Kate
The Story Gallery
The 8 Rooms self-leadership
The A2A clinical framework
The Coral Cove family community
A personalised PlatyPress for your child
Letters to My Son for you
Monthly live sessions with Kate
The Story Gallery
The 8 Rooms self-leadership
The A2A clinical framework
The Coral Cove family community
STORYQUEST
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