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e-Newsletter 10
February 2011
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If this is your first visit, we are delighted to introduce our new Amazing Babies Moving™ interactive website for parents, caregivers, educators and professionals. If you are a previous customer or have visited our Amazing Babies website before, you will notice that we have changed our logo to better reflect our focus on Movement. Our team has been working behind the scenes for many months to make this an informative and interactive learning experience for you.

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We are delighted to announce our 5-Day Amazing Babies Moving Workshop in California.  

 

5-Day Amazing Babies Moving Workshop 

 Natural Movement Development in 

The Baby's First Year

 

Certificate Program

with Beverly Stokes 

 

San Francisco Area

June 27, 2011-July 1, 2011 


 

This 5-Day Program is designed to enhance the skills of educators and professionals who work in the fields of baby development, child education and in Early Years settings. It also provides fundamental movement information for Somatic Educators and Yoga Instructors who work with children or adults. 

 

Our dynamic Amazing Babies Moving (ABM) Program provides participants with a unique two-part framework for understanding natural movement development in the baby's first year.  The benefits of this approach is that it provides a clear guide to understanding movement development, preverbal communication and self-motivated learning in babies.  You will find it the most effective way to communicate this important information to actively support parents and babies in the first year.  

 

Amazing Babies Moving Program from Birth to Walking is  designed in two parts:

 

1 Pre-locomotion Baby - newborn to 5 months

 

In the pre-locomotion stage, the baby's FloorMoves sessions gets the developmental process going.  During this time babies are develo pi ng their body awareness, organizing patterns of movement, and setting up action plans in self-directed play.  FloorMoves explorations are an essential daily practice for babies that prepares them for the dynamic Locomotion Stage.

 

 

2 Locomotion Baby - 6 months to 12 months

 

In the second half of the first year, babies acquire the ability to move from one place to another putting wh  at they have practiced into action.  These fundamental movements, locomotion patterns, rhythmic coordination and dynamic balance provide the essential foundation for babies to become dynamic explorers, expressive communicators and self-motivated learners.

In this 5-Day Amazing Babies Moving Program You will 

Essential Movement Patterns    

  • Refine your observation skills and acquire a developmental movement framework and vocabulary.  
  • Experience and identify the essential Developmental Movement Patterns in the Pre-Locomotion and Locomotion Stages. 
  • Explore Reflexes, Righting Reactions and Equilibrium Responses.

 

 Communication in Social Interactions  

  • Learn a movement analysis system and language for identifying the baby's  functional and expressive communication skills.  
  • Identify the baby's natural cues, postures and gestures that provide the preverbal basis for our adult nonverbal communication. 
  • Analyze our new photo vignettes that demonstrate how babies communicate their intent through preverbal gestures and interpret nonverbal messages in social interactions. 

 

Self-Motivated Play to Mastery   

  • Learn to create an environment that encourages the baby's age-appropriate play activities. In self-motivated play, babies set up action plans and develop problem-solving skills to reach their goal. 
  • Analyze the variability in the developmental process as demonstrated in our Amazing Babies Moving Video Vignettes.
  • Babies will join us each day to enhance observation skills.

 

Training Materials

  • The Amazing Babies Moving Book: Essential Movement to Enhance Your Baby's Development in the First Year by Beverly Stokes will be used as the text for the program. 
  • The Amazing Babies Moving DVD, baby video research by Beverly Stokes,  will be used for our selected Video Vignettes Analysis.  
  • A Comprehensive Amazing Babies Moving Workbook will be provided.
Who Should Attend

This 5-Day ABM Program is for: 

  • Educators:early childhood, childcare professionals, childbirth instructors, nurses, infant massage instructors
  • Specialists:early intervention, physical, occupational, speech, developmental kinesiologists, massage therapists
  • Optometrists:developmental optometrists
  • Psychologists: prenatal/postnatal, developmental
  • Somatic Educators: Feldenkrais, Somatics, Alexander, Continuum, Trager, Yoga instructors
Location

The Studio is located in San Anselmo, a 30 minute drive north of San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge.  

 

The Movement Studio is spacious with a beautiful hardwood floor and lots of natural light. A second smaller carpeted Studio is for our Video Vignette Analysis and Discussions.  There is a Kitchen for lunch and beverage breaks. The outdoor Courtyard has a shaded sitting area that backs onto nature tails and parking is free.

 

Accommodations

Participants are responsible for their travel, accommodations and meals. There are a number of local hotels, inns and B&Bs near San Anselmo that can be found on the internet.

 

Sponsored by: Subud House, San Anselmo, CA

 
Sponsor an Amazing Babies Moving Program!

 

If your organization is interested in sponsoring an Amazing Babies Moving Program - send an email or call our Toll Free: 866.300.BABY (2229)

 

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