Part 1: Playspaces®: How to promote a secure base culture within your preschool
Playspace® Learning shows how to gain attachment influence within a preschool community that is shared between parents and educators and felt by all children.
In this webinar presented by Dr Robyn Dolby, educators will learn:
- What a secure base is and how it links to children’s learning.
- What a Playspace® is.
- How to become a secure base.
- How to help each other to be a secure base.
Through videoclips, educators will see what Playspaces look like and how, using Playspaces, educators help specific children (such as those with autism spectrum disorder or anxiety) to ease into connection and play at their own pace and experience inclusion and find companionship with their peers.
About our speakers
Dr Robyn Dolby is a psychologist and co-founder of Secure Beginnings. She has worked in the field of infant mental health for forty years. Her interest is in the emotional communications of infants and children and how these communications are understood by parents and educators. She introduces educators in early childhood settings to the way being still gives them room to really see themselves and the children and to be curious about what is happening in the moment. Robyn has written the booklets, “The Circle of Security: Roadmap to Building Supportive Relationships”; “About Bullying”; “Promoting Positive Behaviour”; and “Secure Transitions: Supporting Children to Feel Secure, Confident and Included”, published by Early Childhood Australia.
Part 2: Playspaces® including all children in preschool life
Gianna Black will share practical examples of implementing Playspace® Learning Program in the preschool setting and how the connections and relationships with all children and families are supported. This will be a great opportunity to hear the first hand experiences shared by the preschool Director from their journey of implementing Playspace® approach.
Gianna has worked for KU Children’s Services as a Director and Early Childhood Teacher over the last 34 years. Gianna has undertaken training in Circle of Security Parenting and in the Playspace® Learning Program which have given her a greater depth of understanding and reflective insight into the significance of supporting and nurturing each child’s social and emotional wellbeing, actively seeking the ‘everyday’ moments within the program where these practices can be supported. Gianna’s many professional learning opportunities have driven her to develop and implement innovative relationship-based practices within the educational program at the services she has worked in.
Related NESA Professional Teaching Standards/Focusses: 1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1-4.5, 7.3
