LATEST EDITORIAL
BY TAMARA STRIJACK
Last night I went to my youngest daughter's final school music concert. It was a phenomenal evening of instrument and song, shared with a packed room of family and community members. Packed, because this school has earned a reputation and tonight would not disappoint. Can you remember the last time you witnessed a standing ovation for a high school band performance??
What came out of these young people, as they played their instruments and sang their songs together, was nothing short of inspirational. You could
feel
the music.
"Music is what cannot be said, but cannot be kept quiet."
These words, written on the doors of the high school music room, speak to me of magic and of necessity. They speak to the mysterious power of music and its ability to move something deep inside - for both the one who plays and the one who listens. They also speak of the need to express what is inside in ways that words cannot always reach
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FOUR-DAY DESTINATION EVENT
EMOTIONAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING
PRESENTED BY DR. GORDON NEUFELD
ACAPULCO, MEXICO | JANUARY 20-23, 2020
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Join us at Hotel Elcano in beautiful Acapulco this coming January. This unique learning opportunity is open to all - no prerequisites necessary.
Stay tuned for a
SPECIAL ISSUE NEWSLETTER
next week or watch our
Events page
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JUST RELEASED!
2019-20 Scheduled Online Class Calendar
Registration is now open for our Fall 2019 classes! We believe the best way to take one of Dr. Neufeld’s courses is through a Scheduled Online Class with one of our faculty members.
Scheduled Online Classes bring together the best of two worlds:
- the ability to study in the comfort of your own home; and
- the opportunity to meet weekly with a group at a scheduled time to receive further live instruction from one of our faculty members and to be able to ask questions and discuss the material in an interactive videoconferencing format.
All of our scheduled online classes are recorded.
If you can't fit a live class into your day-time schedule, you can keep up by watching the recording later in the week.
Our online courses include
access to
our Virtual Campus and feature online support, discussion forums, study guides, supplementary resources, and much more.
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FALL 2019 CLASSES - REGISTRATION OPEN
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THE ATTACHMENT PUZZLE
FRIDAYS
STARTS SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 9 WEEKS | $200
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The science of relationship exists in fragmented pieces all over the empirical map: biology, sociology, embryology, ethology, epigenetics, neuroscience, psychology, medicine, and so on. We have never known more about the relational context required for parenting, teaching, and treatment. Yet this knowledge fails to inform our everyday practice and policy. This course distills the science of relationship to its essence and explores the implications for working with children.
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THURSDAYS
STARTS OCTOBER 3, 2019
10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 22 WEEKS | $600
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Not everyone grows up as they get older. The construct of psychological immaturity is not new, but only recently has developmental science advanced to the point where the idea of developmental arrest can be spelled out and employed as a powerful explanatory tool for problems in learning and behaving. Once kids are stuck, the usual ways of dealing with behaviour - including sanctions, consequences, and time-outs - actually make things worse. This flagship course, organized around the constructs of maturation and stuckness, provides a grounding in the conceptual foundations of Dr. Neufeld's formulation of the attachment-based developmental approach.
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TUESDAYS
STARTS OCTOBER 8, 2019
10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 9 WEEKS | $200
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Part I of the Power-to-Parent series focuses on the child-adult relationship as the context for raising children - how this relationship is meant to develop, what can go wrong, why parents must matter more than peers, how to cultivate a context of connection, how to win back one's child if need be, and more. Attachment-safe and developmentally friendly discipline strategies are also introduced.
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INTENSIVE II:
THE SEPARATION COMPLEX
THURSDAYS
STARTS OCTOBER 10, 2019
11:30 AM TO 12:30 PM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 17 WEEKS | $750
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Most problem behaviour is rooted in instinct and emotion and is therefore unresponsive to conventional forms of discipline or behaviour management. Building on the foundations of the Intensive I, this course sheds light upon the profound impact of separation on a child's personality and behaviour, with special attention given to the problems of aggression, resistance, oppositionality, bullying, distractability, impulsiveness, anxiety, alarm problems, alpha problems, attachment problems, and more. When the developmental antecedents are understood, the path to effective intervention becomes clear. The prerequisite for this course is Neufeld Intensive I: Making Sense of Kids.
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WEDNESDAYS
STARTS OCTOBER 16, 2019
10:00 AM TO 11:30 AM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 5 WEEKS | $125
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This four-session course provides a fresh look at the causes and consequences of sensory overload in the brain and its role in a spectrum of syndromes including autism, and, to a lesser extent, some forms of giftedness as well as attention problems. Uncovering this root neurological condition sets the stage for retreating from a battle against symptoms and creating a context for isolating and minimizing the resulting dysfunction. The implications for intervention are profound.
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WEDNESDAYS
STARTS OCTOBER 23, 2019
4:00 PM TO 5:00 PM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 9 WEEKS | $200
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Counterwill is the instinctive reaction of resistance to being controlled - so universal at certain stages of development that it has given rise to terms like 'terrible twos' and 'rebellious teens.' This resistance can come out as opposition, negativity, laziness, noncompliance, disrespect, lack of motivation, belligerence, incorrigibility, resistance to learning, and even antisocial attitudes and actions.
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REGISTRATION OPENING SOON FOR WINTER & SPRING 2020 CLASSES
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ADVANCED INTENSIVE:
MAKING SENSE OF THERAPY
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MAKING SENSE OF AGGRESSION
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UPCOMING WEBINAR
PRESENTED BY DR. GORDON NEUFELD
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM PACIFIC
$25 PER PERSON
We cannot effectively address problems we do not fully understand, and making sense of troubled kids has always been rather daunting. Fresh insights from neuroscience are providing us with a new way of thinking about the underlying dynamics and thus hold much promise for finding a way through. By troubled kids, Dr. Neufeld is referring to those who get into trouble, who are troubled, who make trouble, and who trouble us because we can't make sense of them. And by kids, he is also referring to the kids in us as well.
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Join us for this rare opportunity to hear a live, online presentation
by Dr. Neufeld on this important topic.
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A Neufeld Institute Conference
co-sponsored by Jack Hirose & Associates
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Featuring:
Gordon Neufeld, Deborah MacNamara,
Maria LeRose and Neufeld Institute Faculty
REGISTER BEFORE JUNE 30TH
TO SAVE $40 OFF 3-DAY CONFERENCE RATES
USE PROMO CODE NEUFELDSAVE40
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Click above to download the Edmonton Conference brochure.
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In appreciation of your interest and involvement in the Neufeld Institute, we're including this never-before-shared video as a free resource exclusively for newsletter subscribers.
This one-hour presentation,
Making Sense of Bullies
, was delivered by Dr. Gordon Neufeld in Kiev, Ukraine in October 2018. This event was hosted by the Ukrainian National Ministry of Education, and the National Ombudsman for Children.
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