My biggest key takeaway from the REACH Study Programme is the importance of experiencing things. As someone who is very new to the Reggio Emilia Approach, I realised that it would be difficult to help children learn if we haven’t experienced it ourselves. I also came to appreciate the value of our identity as teachers. This Study Programme has truly opened me up to many possibilities. Experiencing a variety of materials allowed me to discover that I am particularly drawn to light and sound, something I might never have realised without this exposure. As teachers, we need to be researchers ourselves, and I loved the opportunity to connect with materials, understand them, and learn how they ‘speak’ to us.