For child care providers and other educators, parents and guardians, and anyone else who cares for children, we offer these trainings. With the exception of the modules, each training can be adapted for the needs of the participants, and offered in a one-time two-hour format, extended over the course of a conference, or even given on a multi-session basis spread over several weeks.

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Get Over It: Explore specific tools and techniques for guiding children through emotional moments.

Enterprise Talk - Learn how to teach children initiative and create an environment without power struggles. Learn tools for behavior management and transforming your community.

Curriculum Planning: Learn to run art projects that have never been written about in a book. Resources, ideas and inspiration for curriculum without boundaries. Perfect for people burnt-out on art activities or people who are not comfortable with capital-A art.

Beyond Team Building: Adapted for each group of participants, this training uses games, talking and listening to help create long-lasting group dynamics and communication. This training is perfect for individuals or for an entire staff to learn skills to take back to their programs.

Programs Without Rules: Concrete tools that improve children’s behavior and allow you to step out of the “cop” role completely.

Connecting to Children – Developed by Tom Drummond, head of the ECE department at NSCC, Connecting to Children is the solution to providing fundamental growth in the abilities of all those who work or live with children. Each module consists of 10 sessions, one time a week, 45 minutes each.

D1 — Expressing Warmth to Children enables adults to develop ways of being genuinely warm and positive to all of the children.

D2 — Playing Responsively enables adults to open new ways of being, especially for the most difficult to reach children, through one’s responsive playfulness.

D3 — Talking Informatively studies habits of talking that place demands upon children and enables adults to influence children by informing, not directing, and to enhance children’s language development.

D4 — Attending to Initiative, Cooperation, and Perseverance studies these qualities of children’s dispositions and fosters children’s development into being effective learners.

For more information about the modules, click here.