Engaging with Infants and Toddlers through Respectful and Peaceful Care – Part 2, 2023
Faculty: Elsa Chahin, Dr. Paola Guraieb, Dr. Katherine Bussey and Angyal Till.
Children move, explore, wonder, play, and learn with their whole being: their minds, bodies, and hearts. Adults can support this learning with a careful and caring approach that understands and respects the importance of children’s movement, thinking, and feeling. These online introductory workshops will explore the philosophy of Dr. Emmi Pikler, which advocates a peaceful and respectful approach to caring for babies and toddlers. Taught by world-renowned experts. Internationally Accredited by the Continuing Professional Development Certification Service.
Illustration by Klara Pap.
If you have previously taken ‘Part 2’ and would like to re-take the course for certification please contact admin@pikler.org. The registration fee is only $50.
Pikler® Intro courses are an introduction and do not count toward Pikler® Professional Certification.
Day 1, Care: Dr. Pikler, through her keen observations, found that emphasis needed to be placed on the child-mother or child-adult relationship. This, she believed, ensured that the adult caring for the child was not only attentive to the child’s inner needs, but that a peaceful, healthy and intimate bond could be forged.
Day 2, Gross Motor Development: The Pikler approach is based on respect for babies as human beings, as well as our capacity to trust in them to develop as they are meant to without our interference or “help.”. Children go through a natural set of developmental milestones, meaning that without any intervention, will all follow the same path.
Day 3, Self-Initiated Play: After careful exploration of the environment, the best device is adult supervision within the safe space, to this we add the notion that the child should have confidence in playing and moving freely, as it is extremely important that he first feels secure in his relationship with his/her caregiver.
Objectives:
- Further enhancing and deepening knowledge of young children's growth and development.
- Understanding the role of the caregiver analyzed from the point of view of Donald’s Winnicott work and reflecting on the content learned in Part 1 of the role of the professional and how this is shifting and changing as we build our knowledge on the Pikler® Approach.
- Practice and enhance practical tools to use in their own environments, integrating concepts from the Pikler® Pedagogy. Participants integrate concepts into their own cultural context.
- Reinforcing the importance of the myelination process holistically with further information about the understanding of neural control of micturition, caudo-cranial myelination and the impact of this process in the development of children’s interdependent care activity (toileting, play, feeding, movement)