Engaging with infants and toddlers through respectful and peaceful care, July 16-22With Pikler® USA President Elsa Chahin, and WCI Faculty and Pikler® USA Scientific co-chair, Dr. Debbie Laurin
From WCI
The Birth to Three course explores a peaceful and respectful approach to caring for babies and toddlers inspired by the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, Dr. Emmi Pikler, and Ute Strub.
Participants will deepen their knowledge about infant-toddler care and education to provide peaceful and respectful care to babies and toddlers.
We will use a variety of experiential activities, as well as discussion and lecture. Infants’ and toddlers’, bodily care routines are typically the first experiences of learning to be cared for and of caring encounters. These experiences of ‘caring encounters’ between a child and caregiver invite the child’s participation.
Workshop participants will learn how the affective quality in the caregiver’s intonation, gestures, attitude, and movements influences how a child interprets the caring moment. Like partners in a dance, the caregiver and child engage in a process that requires the attention, action, and response of both participants. When viewed from this perspective, the child is no longer a passive recipient. Instead, the child becomes an active participant in a shared process; it is not a one size fits all approach.
Pleasurable encounters between a child and caregiver are motivated by their relationship where the caregiver sees the child in the context of their competence and vulnerability. Children explore, wonder, and play with their whole being and rely on the warm interest and slower pace of care from their caregivers. Adults can support this learning with a careful and caring approach that understands and respects the importance of children’s sensory-motor expression, motivation and volition for infant and toddler development.
Workshop participants will learn when a caregiver interacts with the child in an unhurried and gentle way, a powerful message conveys the caregiver enjoys being with the child positively influencing how a child begins to feel about their bodies and bodily functions. Crucially, sensitive care is associated with higher levels of child well-being, and lower levels of cortisol (stress hormone) compared to less sensitive caregiving practices with children.
Research from the Pikler® Institute in Budapest, Hungary suggests that young children thrive when they are seen as participants in their own care and initiators of their own explorations and play. We will explore how careful and attentive care of the foundational senses facilitates a child’s sense of competence, consent, and wellbeing.
Presented by the West Coast Institute, July 16 to 22 at Sunrise Waldorf School in Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Visit our website for more information and to register: westcoastinstitute.org/courses/early-childhood-courses/
From WCI
The Birth to Three course explores a peaceful and respectful approach to caring for babies and toddlers inspired by the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, Dr. Emmi Pikler, and Ute Strub.
Participants will deepen their knowledge about infant-toddler care and education to provide peaceful and respectful care to babies and toddlers.
We will use a variety of experiential activities, as well as discussion and lecture. Infants’ and toddlers’, bodily care routines are typically the first experiences of learning to be cared for and of caring encounters. These experiences of ‘caring encounters’ between a child and caregiver invite the child’s participation.
Workshop participants will learn how the affective quality in the caregiver’s intonation, gestures, attitude, and movements influences how a child interprets the caring moment. Like partners in a dance, the caregiver and child engage in a process that requires the attention, action, and response of both participants. When viewed from this perspective, the child is no longer a passive recipient. Instead, the child becomes an active participant in a shared process; it is not a one size fits all approach.
Pleasurable encounters between a child and caregiver are motivated by their relationship where the caregiver sees the child in the context of their competence and vulnerability. Children explore, wonder, and play with their whole being and rely on the warm interest and slower pace of care from their caregivers. Adults can support this learning with a careful and caring approach that understands and respects the importance of children’s sensory-motor expression, motivation and volition for infant and toddler development.
Workshop participants will learn when a caregiver interacts with the child in an unhurried and gentle way, a powerful message conveys the caregiver enjoys being with the child positively influencing how a child begins to feel about their bodies and bodily functions. Crucially, sensitive care is associated with higher levels of child well-being, and lower levels of cortisol (stress hormone) compared to less sensitive caregiving practices with children.
Research from the Pikler® Institute in Budapest, Hungary suggests that young children thrive when they are seen as participants in their own care and initiators of their own explorations and play. We will explore how careful and attentive care of the foundational senses facilitates a child’s sense of competence, consent, and wellbeing.
Presented by the West Coast Institute, July 16 to 22 at Sunrise Waldorf School in Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Visit our website for more information and to register: westcoastinstitute.org/courses/early-childhood-courses/
