Online workshop-Karen Pearce

ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH KAREN PEARCE

For Montessori 3-6 Guides

The 3 c's: Concentration, Choice and Connection

This workshop covers the development of attention, types of choice, and levels of attention. Followed by the value and significance of points of consciousness.

January 12-13, 2024 | ONLINE ZOOM

ABOUT KAREN PEARCE

Karen Pearce is a Director of Pedagogy at The Montessori Place in Brighton, UK, where she mentors the Children's House guides. She has 35 years of Children's House experience and she lectures and runs workshops across Europe. Karen also offers an online Montessori mentorship programme to support guides in putting theory into practice. Alongside all of this, last year Karen put her slippers back on and returned to lead a Children’s House for a year's maternity cover!

WHAT WILL THE WORKSHOP FOCUS ON?

To reflect upon principles that guide and influence the actions of the adult.

How do we support the child in their capacity to choose and what implications does this have on the child as they travel along the path to normalisation.
What are the different types of choice that we may observe in our work with the children and consequently how does this impact and influence our responses.
We will also reflect upon the development of concentration and how we can best support this to flourish and deepen. The role of the adult in offering appropriate individualised challenges plays a tremendous part in this process. How do we know what to offer? How do we take the child to the point of concentration? What are the developmental guiding principles that steer our actions and responses.
All of this will be very much based from the standpoint of theory into action. As such the delegates will leave with lots of practical advice, reflection points for both themselves and their interactions with the children.