After my graduation in 1992, I started working as an assistant counsellor and was also able to get hold of a volunteer position in the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore. Little did I know that my time at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital was going to change the shape of things to come and I was going to work with young children for the rest of my life. 

As a play therapy volunteer my job in the Shaukat Khanum Hospital was to keep young children engaged during and after their chemo treatment. It was a colossal task for a young woman at the terminus a quo of her professional life. I started by telling them fairy tales and other stories. I used to draw different characters on their arms and made a happy story out of those characters in order to ease the pain of their grim treatment. It was a challenge for me to handle those situations in a lively way. I also started doing puppet shows for them with the help of staff and other volunteers.

At the start of the new millennium, I joined a kindergarten in Lahore to get further experience in the area of early childhood. Based on Anthroposophy, the kindergarten sound promising and helped me to work with young children. My psychology studies helped me to observe and understand the behaviour of the children. Moreover, I also got training about Waldorf Education and worked in the areas of lower senses in Waldorf School System that included tactile movement balance, nutrition, and sleep in early childhood. I started working with the children with tactile problems and their fine motor and gross motor development.

It was fascinating for me to notice that storytelling is a vital part of Waldorf early childhood education and with the passage of time I have noticed that while it renders communication skills it also acts as a healing source for children.

As an early childhood educator, trainer and teacher I have travelled across three continents to explore, observe and to study the connection between narrative, imagination and learning. It is an incredible opportunity to work with children and to learn about what inspires their imagination.