This keynote requests interactivity from participants as we explore Love, its various meanings and its place in early childhood curriculum and professionalism. Richard will discuss love from a neurological perspective and relate it to early attachment theory. He will then facilitate exercises in which participants reflect, interact and discuss ideas with each other around their affective and behavioral experiences of love. Richard will close by providing a powerful guided imagery exercise in which participants explore how they balance who they are as loving persons and as professionals.
Richard Cohen, M.A. has proudly been an early childhood professional for over thirty years. Richard has traveled the world as a consultant, coach and motivational speaker/instructor, facilitating fun, innovative, thought-provoking, interactive adult learning experiences for communities of early childhood teachers, administrators, caregivers and parents. Additionally, he curates his viral social media presence, “Zen and the Art of Early Childhood Education,” offers a catalogue of online ECE Professional Development courses and hosts Community Sing-a-Longs.
In recent years, Richard has fallen in love with teaching Early Care and Education at the community college level, currently at Manchester Community College in Connecticut and previously at Saint Louis Community College in Ferguson, Missouri for four years where his life was transformed by the shooting of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots that both wrought destruction on and bonded together his community.
November 14, 2019
8:45 AM
Homburg Theatre