Current research confirms that the physical activity of infants and young children is an important component of early brain development and learning.
-Active Start, National Association for
Sport and Physical Education 2002
An utterly absorbing workshop! I have a deeper and renewed sense of the immense importance and huge opportunities present in the first year of a person's life. The reinforcement of the importance of aware, intentional instructions with infants (well informed nurturing). Lots of great, specific activities and exercises. We will have a richer infant program - one which pays long term dividends for children and their families - as a result of this workshop.
-Mike Kapizak,
Director of Interlake Childcare
What children learn in the first three years of life and how they learn it form the foundation for successful lifelong learning. As an infant/toddler teacher, you have the opportunity to help ensure that this foundation is sturdy and strong. School readiness begins in infancy.
-Diane Trister Dodge, The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos, 2nd ed.
Christine's experience includes being the keynote for the Borderland Exhibit in Tokyo, Japan the Washington State Family Child Care Association in Seattle, WA and FACES North in Shoreline, WA. Christine has presented "Growing The Mind Through Movement"TM at the National Association for the Education of Young Children in Dallas, TX, SERC Conference in Cromwell, CT, Parent Education Conference in Dallas, TX, the Early Childhood Educators Conference of British Columbia in Richmond, BC, and the Washington Association for the Education of Young Children through out the state of Washington. She has been the featured clinician with the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association in Richland, WA, Kelowna, BC, Rhode Island, and San Diego. Christine is experienced with interpreters.
We know from rigorous psychological and sociological research, and from compelling clinical experience, that early childhood is a time when infants and toddlers acquire many skills needed to become productive happy adults.
-ZeroToThree 2002
Christine offers five different topics for a wide audience interested in creative dance, movement education for the early years, brain development, language development, school readiness, sensory integration through movement, forming secure attachments through touch and massage and parent education tips and materials.
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Growing the Mind Through Movement® is a lively workshop that takes you through the Dendrite Dance™ and allows you to feel for yourself the benefits of moving your body through a specific set of movement patterns that clears the mind, settles the body and brain for learning and empowers the neuromuscular system to feel whole. Christine will explain the benefits of early childhood creative dance on sensory integration, school readiness and how to integrate parent education into structured movement activities. This workshop can be designed to meet the needs of educators from birth to eight years.
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Sensory integration can lead to subtle and not so subtle disturbances in a child's development. You will learn how it works and what it means when something has gone wrong. Equip yourself with activities and excercises that help children handle, overcome or cope with their sensory sensitivities.
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Discover the developmental progression of language acquisition and how the environment exerts a strong shaping influence on a child’s cognition. Learn practical applications for enriching the environment with words that are fun for everyone. Come to appreciate why Lise Eliot in her book, "What's Going on in There?" says language is the most important stimulation a baby can receive. You will walk away armed with specific goals to implement to strengthen your world with words and develop the cognition of the children in your care. Valuable parent education tools and "Brain Bites" to share with parents are included in this workshop.
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This workshop explores the four pillars of secure attachments and their significant impact on a child's developing cognition, relationships, affect regulation, behavioral control and sense of self. Participants come away with a deeper understanding of how parental behaviors affect formation of secure attachments, and what a child needs to aquire healthy self-esteem.
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Participants learn just how profound touch is to the physical, emotional and mental well-being of a baby. This unique workshop will give the participants hands on experience learning massage routines that sooth, aid self-regulation and impact the global development of the child. The essentials for forming healthy attachments and how touch plays a vital role in our capacity to give and receive love are included in the workshop. Appropriate for teachers working with infants and babies.
All workshops,
keynotes and clinics are STARS approved.
Session length and fees vary. Please contact Christine for engagements
or to customize training for your program or school.
