Lynne Lawrence is Director of Training and Schools at the Maria Montessori Training Organisation London, the International Training Centre in Britain of the Association Montessori Internationale. The MMTO also runs 3 Children’s Houses and an Elementary school and Lynne oversees the running of these schools in addition to running the MMI courses. Lynne took the AMI training course in London in 1974, training under Hilla Patell and worked with Muriel Dwyer on the ‘Help the Children’ project in Kenya between 1978 and 1985. Since 1990 Lynne has been Director of Training of the 3 - 6 AMI Course at the Maria Montessori Training Organisation, now known as the Maria Montessori Institute.