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Home >> Welcome To Sophia's Hearth

This special time between the years is the perfect moment to consider teacher training or renewal of your inspiration for working with young children. We believe that nothing brings greater healing to the world than working on behalf of the youngest children just finding their way. Please join us in preparing for this important and rewarding path toward changing the world – Waldorf early childhood education. Envision coming to study for one week, for two weeks, for a full training.

Summer 2012 Professional Development Opportunities – our new brochure for 2012 is ready for download click here. Do explore what is special for the coming summer:

· New cycle of our 13 month training program will begin on July 1^st – see full information in the brochure click here.

· New five day course with Jane Swain: Supporting Integration of the Primitive Reflexes in Children, Birth to Six: Practices and Interventions

· New for this summer: music with Eleanor Winship – a special part of every day in each course during the week of July 9^th – including Verbeck singing exercises, playing the children’s lyre.

We are Project Partners with Antioch University New England and thereby able to offer graduate credit for some of our courses.

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Spring 2012 Workshop with Jane Swain

The Pikler Approach to Gross Motor Development

March 10, 2012

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Join us for Winter Playgroups from January 3 on – a warm and cozy place to enjoy winter days with your baby or toddler! Call to join a group.

· And just beginning the January: Newborns, begins January for babies from 4 weeks to 3 months

· Older infants

· Toddlers up to 2 ½ years

Sophia's Hearth Family Center is a gathering place for families with young children that is active both in supporting families through direct service programs, and as a training center where professionals are prepared to provide the highest quality care for families and young children. Our organization is unique in addressing these two needs simultaneously.

If you are expecting a baby, are the parent of a newborn, infant, or toddler; if you are a caregiver of very young children; if you are a teacher of programs for parents together with their infants and young children or hope to become one, Sophia's Hearth Family Center can touch your life in many ways.

As a center of support for parents and families, Sophia's Hearth Family Center offers parent and child playgroups throughout the week beginning when babies are four weeks old.
As a support for working families and their employers, Sophia's Hearth Family Center offers childcare for fourteen infants and young children.
As a training center, Sophia's Hearth Family Center offers professional development programs throughout the year from a morning's workshop to a full year's part-time training course.

A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, Sophia's Hearth Family Center's vision is that every family be supported to create a healthy family life so that children develop and flourish with joy, strength and confidence. Sophia's Hearth Family Center is a full member of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America.

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