What matters most when it comes to the emotional health of our children as we navigate the changes resulting from the pandemic? How do we lead them to learning, back to school, and what signs should we look for when considering their overall emotional well-being? What do we need to do to help them feel safe, to reduce anxiety, and to deal with their resistance around new rules and limits for physical connection. Dr. Deborah MacNamara will make sense of what our young children need most from us as we lead and take care of them.
Facilitator Bio:
Dr. Deborah MacNamara provides counselling and educational services to parents and professionals based on the relational-developmental approach of Dr. Gordon Neufeld. She is on Faculty at the Neufeld Institute and presents on all of the Neufeld material. She is the author of the best selling book, Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one), and her new children’s picture book, The Sorry Plane.
Deborah is a dynamic teacher and experienced counsellor with over 20 years experience in educational and mental health settings. She is passionate in taking developmental science and making it applicable to everyday life in the home and classroom. The underlying purpose of all services is to put adults in the driver’s seat by making sense of kids from the inside out. From everyday questions to complex problems, strategies for making headway with a child or teen is grounded in a rich developmental framework.
Please note: Participants will be given the link to the video and are required to participate in one of two ways-- with a microphone/built in speaker (such as the one built into your phone) and through chat. Those that do not contribute will not receive PD hours.
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