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Mindful Communication: Shaping Confident and Resilient Children

Reena Kukreja

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Location: Online | 24 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.

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Understanding Healthy Attachments

Paula Milbradt

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm | Location: Online | 25 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.

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Start 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

 

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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.

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Philosophies and Theories of Early Care & Learning

Jennie Roberts

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online | 25 spaces remaining

During this workshop participants will research, analyze and compare four education philosophies: Frobel, Montessori, Reggio and Waldorf, to reflect on what is quality and how it relates to our current practice, methods and theory.

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Alert Emergency Childcare First Aid CPR/AED - Level C

Alert Facilitator

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm | Location: Archway Community Services ( Jasbir Saran Room ) | 18 spaces remaining

This fun and interactive 8 hour course trains people how to react and improvise when dealing with life threatening emergencies. This course includes initial assessment, disease prevention, secondary survey, airway obstruction, adult, child and infant CPR and AED (level C). Recognition and first-aid treatment for head and spine injuries, shock, burns, bleeding, seizures, broken bones, anaphylactic shock, small wound management, poisoning, heat exhaustion and heat stroke will also be addressed. Participants spend the majority of the course doing hands on first-aid and participating in first-aid scenarios. By practicing with scenarios students gain confidence, learn to improvise, and react in emergency situations. This course meets Child Licensing guidelines.

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