Early Years Mentorship and Consulting

🐦 EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPENS AUGUST 12! 🎉

Play advocacy is coming to Calgary! 💜

This year, we're doing things a little differently...

✨ Exclusive Early Bird registration is ONLY available to those on our Pre-Registration List! If you're not on the list, now's the time to join before registration opens on August 12.

As an Early Bird, you'll receive:
🎟️ 15% off conference registration
🤝 Exclusive Keynote Meet & Greet opportunity
🎁 Limited Edition Illuminate Play Conference bundle
⭐ Priority access to breakout session selection
🎉 Entry into our Early Bird prize draw

💜 New this year: We've introduced tiered ticket pricing to help make the conference more accessible for early childhood educators while supporting the long-term sustainability of Illuminate Play, ensuring we can continue bringing high-quality professional learning experiences to our play community. ECE Certification Numbers are required upon registration.

Plus, Alberta PD & Release Time Funding is approved for eligible Level 3 Early Childhood Educators, helping make professional learning even more accessible.

📍 Illuminate Play Conference 2026
🗓️ November 7, 2026
📍 Calgary, Alberta

Join hundreds of passionate educators, leaders, and play advocates for a day of inspiration, connection, and advocacy - because Play is a Right. Our Voice is the Power.

👉 Join the Pre-Registration List today and be ready when Early Bird registration opens on August 12!

Get on our list here!

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LAST CALL FOR SPEAKERS!

We’re in full swing planning the Illuminate Play Conference 2026, and we’d love for YOU to be part of it!

Call for Speakers is NOW OPEN!

Are you ready to stand up for play?

The Illuminate Play Conference 2026 is coming to Calgary, AB on November 7, and we are inviting passionate educators, researchers, and play advocates to share their voice, their practice, and their story.

We are looking for presenters who believe that:
🌱 Play is a right (UNCRC Article 31)
🌱 Children are capable, curious, and full of potential
🌱 Educators are powerful advocates for meaningful change

Whether you’re exploring emergent curriculum, co-regulation, land-based learning, inclusion, play-based research, wellbeing & belonging, culturally responsive practices, rights of the child, or innovative play practices - we want to hear from you.

This is more than a presentation. This is a movement. A space to inspire, connect, and elevate play in our communities.

✨ Selected presenters will be contacted by the end of July 2026.

👉 Apply now + share your passion: https://forms.gle/VzQdQEKkP2ooBqvK7

Let’s come together as Protectors of Play™ and amplify our collective voice.

🎉 Early Bird Registration is NOW OPEN... with a twist! 🎉

Play Advocates, this year we're doing something a little different!

You can now pre-book your spot for the Illuminate Play Conference 2026 and receive an exclusive sneak peek at our Early Bird pricing - without any financial commitment today!

When: Saturday, November 7, 2026
Where: Calgary, AB

Sign up here! https://forms.gle/Ap1dNug7EZA8F38X7

With the recent changes to professional development funding in Alberta, we wanted to ensure our conference remains accessible for educators with and without funding. We believe professional learning should be accessible while also recognizing the real costs of bringing together inspiring speakers, immersive play experiences, and meaningful opportunities to connect. Our new tiered pricing model helps us do both. That's why we're introducing a new tiered pricing system and exclusive Early Bird packages designed to help more play advocates join us this November.

✨ Early Bird pricing will only be available to those who join the pre-registration list.
✨ Open registration officially launches in August.

Gather your colleagues, invite your fellow Protectors of Play, and secure your opportunity to access our best pricing before tickets go on sale!

💛 Play is a Right. Our Voice is the Power.

Join the Early Bird list today! https://forms.gle/Ap1dNug7EZA8F38X7