For years, I believed I was putting my professional life on hold while raising my children through a whirlwind of relocations and transitions. We moved across seven countries, navigating new cultures, languages, and school systems. But with time, I realized: this journey was my education. No degree could have taught me what I learned by watching my own children adapt, struggle, and flourish again and again.

That’s where my developmental approach was born - not from textbooks, but from life. I began crafting games that engaged my children not just cognitively or physically, but wholly – games that brought movement, creativity, and emotional connection into their everyday world. Over time, these homemade games became a structured method for supporting what children truly need to thrive: a sense of visibility, competence, curiosity, and belonging.

While my academic and professional background in physical education gave me the foundation for understanding holistic development, it was my lived experience—raising children through constant change—that taught me what truly supports growth;
And just as importantly, it showed me what doesn’t. I witnessed firsthand how educational environments, however well-meaning, can sometimes diminish a child’s confidence, silence their imagination, or disconnect them from themselves.

This profound experience has sharpened my senses. I started listening more closely. I paid attention to what made kids light up, what pulled them into deep play, and what made them feel seen, and to meet the hidden potential that lies in them.

Over the last decade, I worked directly with children through workshops, classes, creative camps, school programs, family sessions, and private swim lessons, eventually reaching thousands of kids and parents.

In 2017, I published B SmART 'n PLAY – Play, Explore, Connect, and Have Endless Fun with Games YOU Create.

Throughout the last couple of years, I’ve led parents and professionals through screen-free, creativity-based interactive experiences, helping them bring back deep, lasting connections in an overstimulated world.

After years of creating my new path in a changing world, for the first time, I’m offering professional training and certification for educators, therapists, and caregivers who want to bring this approach into their work, at home, in formal and non-formal educational settings, and therapeutic settings.
Because when we help children reconnect to themselves, to others, and to the joy of real play, something truly powerful happens.

Sincerely, Bell🌹