Workshops
South Africa
DIR 201: Promoting Basic Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities
7 to 9am US ET: From January 20, 2022 to April 28, 2022
This is an online practicum course that helps participants develop competencies to promote the first four functional emotional developmental capacities: Regulation, Engagement, Purposeful reciprocal communication, Sense of self and Problem solving with all…
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Interactive Metronome® (IM)
Certification Workshop
April 1, 2022 – Online. Interactive Metronome® (IM) is an evidence-based training and assessment
Interactive Metronome® (IM) is an evidence-based training and assessment tool proven to improve cognition, attention, focus, memory, speech/language, executive functioning, comprehension as well as…
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IDIR 203: The DIRFloortime®
Advanced Certificate Course
From January 18, 2022 to April 19, 2022
This is a practicum course that helps participants develop competencies to coach another adult (e.g. caregiver, teacher) on how to interact with a child or adults with special needs, following the Floortime principles, promoting basic functional emotional developmental capaciti…
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Sensory Processing Extravaganza – Season 2
March 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 2022 from 9:00am to 4:00pm Johannesburg, South Africa time zone
These 5 days will be packed with information, from theory to assessment to intervention. The workshops will leave the participants feeling immersed in certain areas of sensory processing, with the focus on …
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Trauma and Trauma Informed Care
Online on March 3, 2022 from 9am to 4pm South Africa time zone (Johannesburg)
We live in a world today where trauma is everywhere and no one can really escape it in some shape or form. The Covid epidemic had global impact and the rates of child and domestic abuse have risen. We experience …
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Impact of Attachment on Sensory and Motor Development
Online on March 4, 2022 from 9am to 4pm South Africa time zone (Johannesburg)
How do you explain behavior? What do you look for in your clinical observations? We frequently witness our clients struggle with relational behavior, constricting their ability to become socially adaptive…
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What does it mean to be social?
Online on March 7, 2022 from 9am to 4pm South Africa time zone (Johannesburg)
Social skills is an important function of different occupations as well as for our relaxation and leisure time. So many families seek for their child to gain effective social function. Attaining these skills considers more than learning…
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Bridging Sandplay into therapy practice
Online on March 9, 2022 from 9am to 4pm South Africa time zone (Johannesburg)
Sandplay is a projective technique that can be used very effectively with children across the age spectrum. It is a modality that uses touch in the sand to reach the limbic system in the brain where our emotion…
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Tomatis® Sound Training – Level 1
Live Online from March 16, 2022
It was 60 years ago that French otolaryngologist (MD. ENT), Alfred Tomatis® observed that humans can have good hearing, but poor listening. Hearing is the passive reception of sound. Listening is the act of processing sensory information and translating it into something the…
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Tomatis Practitioner Level 2 Training
Online from July 20, 2022 from 2 to 4 pm on each date July 20, 2022, July 22, 2022, July 27, 2022, July 29, 2022, August 5, 2022, August 25, 2022
Tomatis®Sound Therapy Training is an intense process of learning to understand development, neurology, as well as application of therapeutic…
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DIR/Floortime – Assessment, Practice, and Goal Setting
Online on March 8, 2022 from 9am to 4pm South Africa time zone (Johannesburg)
DIR/Floortime has grown tremendously since it was first introduced to South Africa in 2011! Multiple therapists have discovered the power of this work in mobilizing the minds and bodies of children and families. This workshop is…
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