Upcoming Workshops: List View
Child Care Start-Up Information Session
Wanda Cole & Christine Kopp
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Location: Abbotsford Child Care Resource & Referral | 11 spaces remaining
Are you interested in opening your own child care centre and not sure where to start?
Join our CCRR consultants for a 1 hour information session that will provide you the beginning steps of starting and opening your in-home or commercial setting child care centre.
*NO CERTIFICATE IS GIVEN FOR THIS INFORMATION SESSION
View Workshop DetailsChild Care Start-Up Information Session
Wanda Cole & Christine Kopp
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Location: Online | 30 spaces remaining
Are you interested in opening your own child care centre and not sure where to start?
Join our CCRR consultants for a 1 hour information session that will provide you the beginning steps of starting and opening your in-home or commercial setting child care centre.
*NO CERTIFICATE IS GIVEN FOR THIS INFORMATION SESSION
View Workshop DetailsMindful Communication: Shaping Confident and Resilient Children
Reena Kukreja
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Location: Online | 23 spaces remaining
In this engaging and interactive workshop, Reena will guide parents and educators on how to use mindful communication to shape confident and resilient children. Through practical tools and strategies, participants will learn how the words we choose influence a child’s beliefs about themselves and their potential. Reena draws on her background in Early Childhood Education and personal development to provide actionable techniques that foster emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and positive growth in children. Attendees will leave equipped with powerful communication skills to nurture children's emotional well-being and help them thrive.
View Workshop DetailsUnderstanding Healthy Attachments
Paula Milbradt
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm | Location: Online | 23 spaces remaining
Secure attachment bonds ensure children will feel secure, understood, and calm enough to experience optimal development of their nervous systems. The developing brain organizes itself to provide children with the best foundation for life: a feeling of safety that results in eagerness to learn, healthy self-awareness, trust, and empathy. How you provide space and environment is crucial to the child's well-being and best start. Let's collaborate, share, and enhance your already existing skills through this thoughtful workshop.
View Workshop DetailsStart with a Book! Extending the Story with Hands-On Activities
Nancy Tovell
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Location: Online | 24 spaces remaining
Looking for new ideas to integrate into your programs and services? This virtual workshop will help refresh and rejuvenate your planning process with practical, fun ideas that support play-based, early learning activities. A variety of literacy extension ideas based on children's picture books will be introduced. This workshop is ideal for those working with infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
Content includes:
• Reviewing the importance of play-based, child-led literacy activities in the early years
• Exploring a wide variety of early literacy extension activities that can be easily integrated into current programming
• Providing a suggested children's book and activities listing that scaffolds on the ideas introduced in the workshop
View Workshop Details
Express Yourself: The Arts for Young Children
Karen Begley
Time: 9:30am - 12:00pm | Location: Online | 25 spaces remaining
In this session we will explore principles and strategies for creating enjoyable and enriching opportunities for young children to explore fundamentals of visual art, music, dance, and drama as avenues for creativity, expression, performance, and more. As a group, we will move, create, laugh and learn in a safe supportive environment. Participants will leave the session with detailed plans for a variety of tested activities for children ages 1-6 (with extensions for school aged children) and increased confidence to bring more art into their programs.
View Workshop Details