Wait List: The Nervous System is the Curriculum: The Love Loop for Emotionally Safe Classrooms

Community Workshop

Facilitator(s): Dr. Nikki Martyn

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online

In early childhood settings, behaviour is often a nervous system message, not a child “choosing” to be difficult. Grounded in Dr. Nikki Martyn’s forthcoming book, Love Over Algorithms: How to Raise Emotionally Safe Kids in a World of Screens, this practical, love-informed session introduces the Neurorelational Love Model and the Love Loop as frameworks for building emotionally safe classrooms through co-regulation, boundaries with warmth, and repair after hard moments. Participants will leave with ready-to-use scripts, micro-rituals, and an in-the-moment tool (the L.O.V.E. Method) they can apply immediately. 

View Workshop Details

Wait List: The Myth of Socialization: When Children’s Friendships Work — and When They Wound

Community Workshop

Facilitator(s): Deborah MacNamara, PhD, RCC

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online

Drawing on developmental science and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Deborah MacNamara will unpack why peer-to-peer relating can so easily go off course, how it impacts learning, behavior, and emotional well-being, and why adult leadership remains essential in children’s lives.

 

View Workshop Details

Embracing Risky Play

Community Workshop

Facilitator(s): Dr. Megan Zeni

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online

What if we could create conditions for children’s outdoor play that serve to reduce power struggles and improve wellbeing? This session will review the roles and responsibilities of adults in children’s outdoor play, alongside practical implementation strategies for working with children in our care. 

View Workshop Details

Wait List: ADHD and Executive Function

Community Workshop

Facilitator(s): Michele Shilvock

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online

This workshop with presenter Michele Shilvock will be reviewing ADHD in toddler and preschool years, how to support without a diagnosis, and what executive function looks like in childcare and early learning centers.

View Workshop Details

Wait List: Guiding Big Feelings

Community Workshop

Facilitator(s): Kate Saunders

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online

Strong emotions are a part of life, and there are lots of ways caregivers can help children manage these emotional weather systems that sometimes catch them off-guard. In this workshop we will:  

• Learn about the ways our brains are wired to get upset, and how adults can lead children to return to a place of calm and self-control.
• Learn specific steps to handle tantrums and meltdowns, and when children are ready to learn from their mistakes.  
• Explore simple playful mindfulness practices to build the brain pathways to inner calm.
• Look a little deeper at our own emotional triggers as signals, and the ways to manage them within the work environment.

View Workshop Details