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Children with experiences of trauma often present with significant challenges within a classroom setting. Their behaviours are often unpredictable and can shift the learning environment of a classroom.

Leaders find themselves pulled in many directions because of competing demands for their time and attention. When leaders fail to ground themselves and lack focussed intention, they risk doing the wrong things or causing harm to those they lead.

Explore a variety of strategies to ensure that transitions become an unhurried, less stressful learning adventure.

Anxiety represents our body’s natural alarm system, signalling the possibility of danger. When this response arises too frequently or intensely and doesn’t match actual situations of danger, it can interfere with life and cause great distress.

Day One: On the Road to Play-Facilitated Learning 

Whether sharing bad news with a client, providing corrective action or talking with a colleague about an uncomfortable issue, difficult conversations are typically stressful and often take a large mental and emotional toll.

Ways to integrate play therapy and sandplay therapy with children, youth, and adults in individual and group settings to address trauma, grief/loss, abuse, sibling relationships, family systems change and biopsychosocial issues.

"Inspire means to excite, encourage, or breathe life into. Inspire comes from the Latin word that means to inflame or to blow in to. When you inspire something, it is as if you are blowing air over a low flame to make it grow."

Educators often have the important job of helping children to emotionally regulate. A child’s anger can be emotionally and physically draining for everyone involved.

The Bachelor of Early Childhood Curriculum Studies is a unique educational credential focused on the methods and practice of early learning.

During this one day workshop, Jane and Susan will discuss the risk and protective factors, mental health symptoms and behaviors, and provide an overview of mental disorders from a cross-cultural perspective.

The parent-completed Ages & Stages Questionnaires, Third Edition is a family-friendly way to screen children for developmental delays between one month and 5 1/2 years.

ASQ:SE Early identification of social emotional problems is crucial, as more and more children are experiencing poverty and other risk factors for depression, anxiety, and anti-social behavior.  With Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotiona

Schematic Play can be observed at all times within an early childhood classroom.  Children use patterns of repeated behaviour to explore new ideas and express their thoughts.  Schematic Play is an essential building block for children’s developmen

Due to limited resources and time, brief counselling interventions that are effective and efficient are becoming more in demand.

"The goal in creating relationships with families is to build respectful and mutual partnerships.  Partnerships enrich both teachers' and families' relationships with children and bring together their mutual expertise for the benefit of the child.

Our communication skills and style are essential to positive and productive relations. Effective communication requires us to be clear about our own thoughts and desires, and also to be responsive to those of others.

Join us for a three-hour session to engage in important conversations about personal and professional mental health and wellness. We will explore what mental health is, discuss risk factors and share tools and resources.

Our communication skills and style are essential to positive and productive relations. Effective communication requires us to be clear about our own thoughts and desires, and also to be responsive to those of others.

This training will address the third pillar of knowledge and practice identified in the Foundations of Caregiver Support – Loss and Grief.  Practitioners will focus on identifying the various forms of loss people experience and the variability of

Why it is important for children (birth-3) who are B/VI and their families (home based). How routine based activities can be implemented in an early education classroom.

The Low Arousal Approach enables professionals, carers and family members to deal and manage challenging behaviours.

According to Early Learning Champion Dr.

Self-injury refers to deliberate, self-inflicted tissue damage such as cutting or burning.

In the absence of intentional coaching, employees often lack the support they need to develop and perform at their highest levels.

According to Ballantyne, Sanderman, & McLaughlin (2008), "Programs that provide research-based, age-appropriate instruction in early language and literacy skills can ensure that English language learners (ELLs) enter school equipped with the t

Many people who struggle with mental illness also struggle with an addiction. Recovery from both of these issues is complicated because they affect each other and are intertwined.

Harm reduction is an approach to help people explore their relationship with substances and behaviours. It works to reduce and mitigate damage and pain, and offers strategies to increase and promote safety, choice, and control.

Professionals will be introduced to oral rhymes, songs, finger plays, finger puppets, books and oral storytelling, contextualized within the domains of Early Development Instrument (EDI).

What is a 'stressed brain', and how does it manifest into things like Anxiety Disorder or even ADHD?

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The Bachelor of Early Childhood Curriculum Studies is a unique educational credential focused on the methods and practice of early learning.

Day One: On the Road to Play-Facilitated Learning 

Why does everyone keep talking about “Emotional Regulation”?  What does this mean?  This workshop explores the basics of emotional Regulation and provides families and professionals with some ideas to try to help their child stay calm and happy th

Day 1: This full day, practical 'hands-on' workshop, will look at developing a system for matching inappropriate behaviour with an appropriate level of assertiveness. 80% of behaviour in our classrooms is attention seeking behaviour.

Anxiety represents our body’s natural alarm system, signalling the possibility of danger. When this response arises too frequently or intensely and doesn’t match actual situations of danger, it can interfere with life and cause great distress.

Why are interactions between caregiver and child so important? This session answers that questions and takes a closer look at the sensitivity indicators identified by the Caregiver Interaction Scale (J. Arnett).

Working with individuals who have autism can be a very meaningful experience, but it is not without its challenges.

Trauma is part of the human experience and working from a trauma-informed lens acknowledges the prevalence of trauma within the population.

We all encounter people we find difficult, and typically conversations with them leave us feeling stressed and frustrated.

Imagine Institute facilitators are certified by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) to provide the Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI) Training.

For those who work with youth, managing challenging behaviours that interfere with development, learning, or success can be both frustrating and exhausting.

ASQ:SE-2 Early identification of social-emotional problems is crucial, as more and more children are experiencing poverty and other risk factors for depression, anxiety, and antisocial behavior.  With Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emoti

Relationship-Based Practice Training (RBPT) is a foundational four-day Learning Immersion™ that places equal importance on the unique and complex nature of both professionals and clients as they enter relationship-based service de

Trauma informed education, appropriately, is becoming an increasingly common topic of conversation in Canadian schools.

ACHIEVE CEO and Author, Randy Grieser, will share his own journey of leadership and inspire you to think differently and grow as a leader.

Join us for 3 full days to learn how to inclusively and collaboratively plan for, and respond to, the diversity in today’s elementary classrooms!

As Albert Einstein (1951) once noted, "Look into nature, and then you will understand it better." Come learn the great benefits of connecting with nature, and how to encourage and implement creative play and learning in natural environments.

Building relationships through responsiveness and communication: the teachers role in the brain-behaviour-environment triad.

Many people who struggle with mental illness also struggle with an addiction. Recovery from both of these issues is complicated because they affect each other and are intertwined.

Harm reduction is an approach to help people explore their relationship with substances and behaviours. It works to reduce and mitigate damage and pain, and offers strategies to increase and promote safety, choice, and control.

According to Loris Malaguzzi, founder of the Reggio Emilia approach, "There are three teachers of children: adults, other children, and their physical environment." Come learn how to thoughtfully creating responsive environments that continue to i

Trauma is a wound that injures us emotionally, psychologically, physically, and spiritually. As a result, the impact of trauma can be far-reaching and enduring.

Combining in-person workshopping with direct professional coaching, Sustainability Champions has a unique approach to helping your organization walk the talk of sustainability. 

Suicidal behaviour in children age 12 or younger is a subject of growing concern for those who work with children. Suicidal thoughts and attempts in children have sometimes been overlooked, denied or ignored.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is known as a challenging, complex, and long-term condition that is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide.

Everything is possible outside - children are more physically active, the natural world enters through all the senses, community connections are made and emergent curriculum takes off!

For those who work in an environment where there is potential for violence, it is important to develop the skills needed to defuse dangerous situations.

Day 1: This full day, practical 'hands-on' workshop, will look at developing a system for matching inappropriate behaviour with an appropriate level of assertiveness. 80% of behaviour in our classrooms is attention seeking behaviour.

Does this sound like a child you work with: struggles with emotional reactivity, appears to be impacted by sensory issues, broods over failures, takes things personally, deeply impacted by others emotions, easily withdraws if overwhelmed, thinks d

If you’ve taken a physical first aid course, you’ve learned the skills needed to help someone experiencing a sudden illness or injury.

The Joyful Primary Literacy Intervention That Works--Preschool to Grade Three
K/1/2 interventions are the best way to prevent future school failures. Join us for a dynamic active-learning experience!

Problem behaviors remain one of the most difficult and stressful challenges for practitioners, parents and persons on the autism spectrum and with related neurodevelopmental disabilities.