Project Sustainability Collective Podcast

Send Me a Text Message What does it take to fund 40 years of health research that changes lives? In this episode of the Rotary and Community Service Radio Show, host Lili-Ann Kriegler speaks with Stephen Humphreys, Chair of Australian Rotary Health — one of Australia's largest independent non-government funders of health research in Australia. Lili-Ann and Stephen first met at the Internation...

Send Me a Text Message Episode 3: The Catalyst Effect - Why Early Childhood Educators Hold the Key to Sustainable Futures Series: The First 2,000 Days: Building Brain Architecture and Sustainable Futures Welcome to the final episode in our series exploring how child development and sustainability are the same story viewed from different angles. Over the past two episodes, we've examined the e...

Send Me a Text Message Series: The First 2,000 Days: Building Brain Architecture and Sustainable Futures This is the second episode of three: The Extinction of Experience - Why Nature Connection Matters for Sustainable Futures Listen to our series exploring how child development and sustainability are the same story viewed from different angles. In the last episode, we examined the extraordinary n...

Send Me a Text Message Episode 1: The Grounding Years - Why the First 2,000 Days Matter for Child Development Series: The First 2,000 Days: Building Brain Architecture and Sustainable Futures Welcome to the first full episode of our new series exploring the profound connection between early childhood development and sustainability consciousness. In our introduction, we presented the fundamental pr...

Send Me a Text Message Series: The First 2,000 Days: Building Brain Architecture and Sustainable Futures Welcome to the newly rebranded Project Sustainability Collective Podcast! If you've been following For Your Ears from the Early Years , thank you for your support over the past 18 months. We're excited to share the evolution of this podcast with a new name, sharper focus, and an enric...

Send Me a Text Message "Why This Podcast is Evolving: A Transition Episode" After 36 episodes exploring the breadth of early childhood education, 'For Your Ears from the Early Years' is evolving into the Project Sustainability Collective Podcast. This bridging episode explains why. Between July 2024 and December 2025, I hosted conversations with thought leaders about brain deve...

Send Me a Text Message Rotary Community Service Radio Show - 94.1 FM 3WBC Host: Lili-Ann Kriegler Broadcast Date: 16 January 2026 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2071197/episodes/18512352 Managing Markets and Building Community: Teresa Molella's Rotary Story When Teresa Molella spotted a simple newspaper advertisement 13 years ago, she had no idea it would transform her life and lead to one of Mel...

Send Me a Text Message FOR YOUR EARS FROM THE EARLY YEARS Episode 36:Guest: Debi Keyte-Hartland The Pedagogy of Listening: Art, Children, Materials, and the Power of Place For my final episode of 2025, I speak with UK-based artist educator Debi Keyte-Hartland about art, pedagogy, materials, listening, and what happens when we stop separating the arts from all other learning. Debi's pathway in...

Send Me a Text Message Dr Jillian Woinarski - The Rotary Club of Canterbury 94.1 FM 3WBC - The Rotary and Community Service Radio Show Listen here. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2071197/episodes/18262726-rotary-radio-interview-with-dr-jillian-woinarski-co-president-of-the-rotary-club-of-canterbury --- 🎙️ From Obstetrician to Rotary Co-President: A Journey of Service and Impact What changes when you g...

Send Me a Text Message Welcome to Part 4 of our Reflect, Reconnect and Reimagine Sustainability series. As we approach the final days of 2025, how do we look back at the sustainability progress that's been made when it doesn't always look the way we expected? Bron and Lili-Ann explore what sustainability progress actually looks like in early childhood services. Spoiler: It doesn't l...

Send Me a Text Message Welcome to the final episode of our Reflect, Reconnect and Reimagine Sustainability series. For 12 months, we've worked with educators who are courageously reimagining what sustainability means in early childhood. In this closing episode, Bron and Lili-Ann step back to see the bigger picture of what's been achieved, not just in one service, but collectively across...

Send Me a Text Message Welcome to Part 3 of our Reflect, Reconnect and Reimagine Sustainability series. The festive season brings joy, connection and often a lot of pressure. Can celebrations be both joyful and sustainable? As December arrives, Bron and Lili-Ann turn their attention to end-of-year celebrations and how to bring sustainability values into festive practices without losing the magic o...

Send Me a Text Message Episode 30: The Unlimited Child: Unlocking the Potential of 2.1 Million Children Across the Globe Welcome to For Your Ears from the Early Years, where host Lili-Ann brings you thought-provoking conversations that enrich educational practice and strengthen connections with children, colleagues, and families. Every tenth episode celebrates global perspectives in early childhoo...

Send Me a Text Message It's time to release Episode 6 of THE THINKING EFFECT PODCAST! You often hear the statement that someone 'can't see the forest for the trees'. Sometimes students get so close to the details that they can't see the bigger picture. When students learn something without a sense of the bigger picture, the information is like an object floating around in...

Send Me a Text Message In this important episode of my podcast with Ortal Green THE THINKING EFFECT PODCAST I talk to Dr Shyam Barr about the role of metacognition in learning. According to Dr Shyam, metacognition is more than just thinking about thinking. It is also about the ability to regulate and control that thinking. This adds an important future-focused dimension to learning. Indeed, if stu...

Send Me a Text Message What if the sustainability thinking you're looking for is already happening in your service—you just haven't been guided to see it? In the first episode of a special five-part series, Reflect, Reconnect, and Reimagine Sustainability, Lili-Ann Kriegler and Bronwyn Cron from the Project Sustainability Collective share discoveries from their year-long work on embeddin...

Send Me a Text Message "We don't have anything interesting—we're just in the suburbs." If you've ever thought this about your outdoor space, this episode will change how you see your service's environment forever. In Part 2 of the Reflect, Reconnect, and Reimagine Sustainability series, Bron and Lil explore why place-connected learning is the missing link in making su...

Send Me a Text Message What happens when a dedicated, seasoned educator and consultant asks herself a simple but powerful question: "What is possible?" Jo Haynes has worked across private, public, and non-government sectors in Australia, and her journey through early childhood education is anything but conventional. From kindergarten college to discovering the Reggio Emilia approach, Jo...

Send Me a Text Message Glitter. Plastic. Single-use everything. The festive season can contradict every sustainability value you've been embedding all year. But what if celebrations could be both joyful AND sustainable? In this mid-series conversation, Lili-Ann and Bron tackle the tension educators face during end-of-year celebrations. They explore five key areas: creativity, gifting, food, e...

Send Me a Text Message In this transformative episode, host Lili-Ann Kriegler welcomes Dr Rachel Jones, an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, to explore why physical development has become the 'missing piece' in early childhood education. Dr Jones reveals how movement directly connects to cognitive functions and self-regulation, with the same brain areas activated durin...

Send Me a Text Message Dr Diane Boyd Explains the Three Pillars Beyond Environmental Focus Join Lili-Ann and Bronwyn on 'For Your Ears for the Early Years' podcast for an inspiring conversation with Dr Diane Boyd, an award-winning expert in sustainability within early childhood education. Broadcasting from sunny Wirral in the UK, Diane shares her remarkable journey from classroom teacher...

Send Me a Text Message What if everything we've been telling children about dealing with bullies is actually making it worse? In this powerful episode of "For Your Ears from the Early Years," host Lili-Ann welcomes trailblazing psychologist Evelyn Field OAM, FAPS - Order of Australia Medal recipient and leading expert on bullying prevention who has dedicated decades to transforming...

Send Me a Text Message 🔥 MUST-LISTEN for educators everywhere! 🔥 Continuing our April focus on the brain, prepare to have your understanding of learning environments completely revolutionised by Dr. Kathryn Murray, creator of the  'Brain Set Environments' programme and CEO of Future Strong Education. Building on insights from Dr. Shyam Barr in Episode 24, Dr. Murray unveils the powerfu...

Send Me a Text Message April 2025 is Brain Month with my podcast, For Your Ears from the Early Years. ' Starting with this fantastic interview with Dr Shyam Barr, I will be releasing other podcasts and articles focused on how we can maximise learning by supporting children to learn about how their brain works to support their learning.  In this illuminating episode of 'For Your Ears from...

Send Me a Text Message In this captivating episode of 'For Your Ears from the Early Years,'  Sue Newman, co-founder of Boogie Mites, shares her inspiring journey from the corporate world to creating a transformative music education program backed by neuroscience research. Sue's experience with her children led her to cofound Boogie Mites, an innovative approach that harnesses music&...