All behaviour is an attempt to connect, and a way towards regulation. However, regulation is not an act that needs to be taught rather a process that needs to be facilitated through the means of nurturing our capacity to regulate.

During this workshop we will discuss our contemporary understanding of behaviours in people, messages that those behaviours carry as well as our capacity to engage with them in caring and compassionate way rather than against them.

Objectives:

Self-Care
Co-regulation
Building a capacity for connection to oneself and others
Tools and process towards co-regulation
Prevention and Intervention

Living Inquiries:

Well-being and belonging.
Engagement with others, materials, and the world.
Communication and literacies.
Identities, social responsibility, and diversity.
Pathways:

Emotions, thoughts, and views.
Multiple modes of communication.
Individual differences.
Social responsibility and justice.

Suitable for ECE students, parents, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages and abilities, from infants/toddlers to school age children.

Facilitator(s): Ana Vojnovic

Ana works as an educator (UBC Child Care), artist, research-based designer and a lecturer. Her pedagogical and creative practices are an integrated interdisciplinary response to basic questions of how built/designed environments affect and condition human perception, communication, learning, and socialisation.