Hey community,
How are you doing? Angela Carolina and I have been focusing on each of our families this fall and have been letting the New Mexico hub and Cicatrice projects be what they are while we do that. Of course ideas are always flowing through. More to come…
My own learnings from our August Healing Centered Retreat for educators are still resonating. I have always valued Lori Goodrich’s, one of our retreat guest teachers, offerings on sensory integration. I got to co-host a workshop with her at the MAAEYC Conference last month, which we agreed was very fun! I shared a tool with the participants that you might find helpful, so it’s linked here: “Scaffolding the Respect of Physical Boundaries with Young Children”. If you want to try something you read in this tool please feel free to reach out to me or Angela Carolina for guidance! We practiced and fine tuned those strategies in our preschool classroom.
I’ve been looking for an opportunity to work with our other retreat guest teacher, Sarah Helm-Dunbar again, too, and it’s happening Nov. 17, 4:00-6:00pm! It’s this time of year when it becomes clear which of our babies are going to need individualized support and potentially intensive scaffolding, which is why we chose this month. The workshop, “How We Behave: Science at the Heart of Addressing Challenging Behaviors”, is being hosted by the Holyoke Community College Education Department (here in my own city!). You can find details and registration info on the Workshops page of our website: https://feelthinkconnect.com/classes-workshops-retreats/.
One more bit of news is that Angela Carolina and I will be hosting a remote winter educator retreat this year where we will offer practices for you to tend to and work carefully with your own nervous system. We’ll announce details soon!
With love and gratitude,
Lauren