This book is an invitation by the ecl foundation to join us in enhancing children's lives, with tangible and powerful effect for all involved. Responding to the diverse and often disjointed systems and sectors that affect and intersect with children and young people, the ecl foundation works with a whole child/whole system approach with creativity, emotional well-being, and learning as core tenets of the practice.

Mia Perry, Research Director of the ecl foundation, draws out the underlying world-views and scholarship that inform the powerful practice of ecl Catalysts in many parts of the world. She takes this common ground into a collaborative enquiry with the highly reputed Netherfield Primary and Pre-School (UK). This book is an accessible commentary of why a shift in perspective of children and young people is essential to our future, but also an illustration of how to accomplish it. It is an invitation, a provocation, and a resource for all those who work with, care for, or impact children and young people.