Sundays With Susan
A Sunday well spent, brings a week of content!
Every week we gather as a Nurtured Inspirations Collective to engage in dialogue with other people who share our passion for learning and education. We gather to nurture within ourselves, our children, our families, and our community, the spirit of humanity to bring us together in relationship with the Other, materials, spaces, and places.
We schedule our gatherings in various ways including series sessions, single encounters, interviews, open dialogue, and Q&A formats. Don’t be surprised if we change it up from time to time. We’re responsive in our way of being and we want to bring to our Collective the things that matter most. We love to spark wonder, questions, reflection, and inspiration. We believe in creating a community where we honour, respect, and nourish the spirit of ourselves and those around us.
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Nurtured Inspirations Presents Rae Pica
‘Movement is Not Misbehaviour: Empowering Children’s Choices, Development, and Well-Being ‘
A pre-recorded session for you to enjoy on your own time, at your own pace!
Live Date: Tuesday, April 1st
Movement is Not Misbehaviour: Brain Research on the Mind-Body Connection as a Way to Empower Children’s Choices, Development, and Well-Being; using the mind-body connection as a way to empower children’s choices, development, and well-being.
Who is Rae Pica?
Rae Pica has been an education consultant specializing in the development and education of the whole child, children’s physical activity, and developmentally appropriate practice since 1980. A former adjunct instructor with the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of 19 books.
Rae is known for her lively and informative keynotes and training and has shared her expertise with various such groups such as:
- Sesame Street Research Department
- Head Start Bureau
- Centers for Disease Control
- President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
- Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues
- Gymboree
- Nike
- U.S State health departments
Rae also blogs for Huffington Post, is a member of the executive committee of the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences and is co-founder of BAM Radio Network, the world’s largest online education radio network, where she hosts programs on Educators Radio, interviewing experts in education, child development, play research, the neurosciences, and more.
Here’s what’s inside:
- Discover the latest brain research that supports how the mind-body connection is vital to children’s development.
- Learn practical ways to empower children through active learning, not only because it is developmentally appropriate but because doing so promotes a calmer, friendlier, and less challenging learning environment.
- Gain valuable insights as Rae Pica offers suggestions on how to update your own learning environment to support children’s health and well-being through active play and movement.
Nurtured Inspirations Presents Roberta Pucci
‘The Language of Matter: How materials can help us create significant and authentic relationships’
Save the date: Sunday, March 1st from 10:00am – 11:30am EST
Join us for another Sundays with Susan and discover how you can nurture children’s development of creativity and the creative use of artistic, natural or recycled materials as you learn alongside Atelierista, Roberta Pucci.
For seven years, Roberta Pucci has shared her brilliance with others in her work at The Loris Malaguzzi Center in
Reggio Emilia, Italy. We will explore perspectives of design as we consider the use of different kinds of creative tools and materials that we offer to children in early years.
Join us as we uncover a new perspective that invites us to think of every material as having a ‘natural grammar’. Consider how the specific characteristics and qualities, resulting from its nature, brings to children possibilities for creative expression and transformative creativity.
- Introduction video & online learning through our private eLearning platform
- Featured LIVE conversation with Roberta Pucci, Atelierista, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Featured recording of our dialogue online with Roberta Pucci
- Pre-session download to get your heart and mind engaged
- Concluding video to round out the conversation
- BONUS personal reflections download to provoke further thinking
- BONUS access to our private discussion forum for registered participants only
- BONUS access to our resource guide of additional resources
Nurtured Inspirations Presents
‘In Dialogue with Ann Pelo’
This session will provoke your mind and open your heart to thoughtful ideas as we consider her book, “from Teaching to Thinking: A Pedagogy for Reimagining Our Work” by Ann Pelo and Margie Carter. You’ll receive access to this session through our private eLearning platform.
Our session includes:
- Introduction video & online learning through our private eLearning platform
- Featured recording of our dialogue online with Ann Pelo
- Pre-session download to get your heart and mind engaged
- Concluding video to round out the conversation
- BONUS personal reflections download to provoke further thinking
- BONUS access to our private discussion forum for registered participants only
- BONUS access to our resource guide of additional resources
Nurtured Inspirations Presents
‘Stonework Play with Dr. Diana Suskind’
(Plus a Bonus Session!)
We explore Stonework Play alongside Dr. Diana Suskind who’ll bring her renowned work and research to us in the studio. We’ll gather together in conversation and hands-on play as we explore the possibilities of Stonework Play with children. Creative, open-ended, and a gift from nature, our explorations will deepen our perspectives of what it means to engage the senses, animate imagination, and welcome each child to tell their own story.
Explore nature play and the stories that emerge through Stonework Play as you invite children to explore and express their emotions, thoughts, and creativity. Explore how through the stories we support children to tell, we nurture empathy, kindness, compassion, connectedness, peace, and understanding.
You’ll receive access to this session through our private eLearning platform and more!
Our session includes:
- Introduction video & online learning through our private eLearning platform
- Featured recording of our dialogue online with Dr. Diana Suskind
- Access to our recorded version for all registered participants
- Pre-session download for Stonework Play
- Concluding video to round out the conversation
- BONUS download to guide you as you bring Stonework Play to Children
- BONUS professional reflection download to spark inspiration and generate thinking
- BONUS access to our private discussion forum for registered participants only
- BONUS provoking questions as you consider Stonework Play in your context
- BONUS access to a resource guide of additional resources
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