Our collaboration with the Flower valley ECD team is continuing with a shared passion for developing teachers and community practitioners . This months we were invited to facilitate a workshop for 17 ECD teachers at the good Hope ECD center in Masakhane. The Teachers and home visitors came together from different locations all run by
The vision for our artist mentoring is to bring established artists into our programs to mentor small groups of children towards creative and self-expression. We want to give young children and youth the opportunity to build up their artistic and life skills in these valuable artistic sessions. Sanette Upton is the artist who mentored the
While working with the learners in our school based as well as community based programs we have observed many young children presenting with low overall skill levels in terms of their language, social, emotional and perceptual development. From observation we have learnt that many children, at an early age, do not receive the necessary stimulation via
The creative works team offered another exciting, vibrant and very active holiday program in the March holidays. The Stanford team offered workshops from Die Bron primary in Stanford while the Masakhane team worked with the children from a new space that we are using from now on with the permission of the Grootbos Foundation. The
Many thanks to our partners in Switzerland , The Amani Harmonic foundation for supporting the new therapy space at Die Bron by providing funds for the extension of our outside deck. It will give us an extra 20 square meters space to do wonderful activities outside under the tress. We are very excited and looking
The theme of colors is extending from our early learning program into the open workshops were the children worked with lots of water color in the past few weeks. They made color rays on paper, explored color mixing, created butterflies and worked with printing flowers with water colors. The quality of watercolors brings a soft
Our early learners had fun in the first term of this year. We all enjoyed working and learning inside our new space at Die Bron primary in Stanford. The first term was filled with activities around the theme of color and Body awareness. We worked with lots of movement activities including bean bags, ball skills
Last week we had the privilege and pleasure to bring Namasun and Ronesca to Stanford for some wonderful drumming facilitation at Die Bron Primary, Okkie Smuts primary, Fynbos Academia as well as Funimfundo preschool. We had some very special sessions with the children at the different schools and want to say thank you to our
The creative workshops started in 2012 as a community based initiative in Stanford at Jenny October’s home with the support of DK projects, Rotary and the Stanford community. The underlying idea of the workshops is to create a safe space and offer extra mural activities to children who have little access to vocational and arts
I am excited this morning. The week ahead is reserved to build and nurture my tools as a practitioner. A few months ago the journey started. Having the opportunity to participate and complete the play therapy course level 1 and 2 at Uylenvlei retreat with Dr Hannie Schoeman was a profound experience that extended my
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