During the month of October we were honored to host a special training for the educators and specialists in psychology in our foundation. We were also able to offer this training to specialists from other organizations in Targu Mures. This was a three day event in which the participants were able to learn many new strategies and therapeutic activites for working with children and adolescents.
The instructors were Roger Day, a psychotherapist and certified play therapist and Cristine Day, an early childhood specialist and counselor. The first day the activities and training focused around building trust and self esteem. The second day was all about encouraging, celebrating with and loving children. The third day was very helpful as it focused on helping children with healthy expression of anger and managing aggressive behaviors.
On this last day we were able to bring in several of the children from our care to participate in some of these play therapies and to put into practice all that was learned. It was a fun time together and everyone had lots of positive feedback about the experience and the practical applications.
We hope that we can continue activities like this in the future to continue to train up our staff and others in our area to be better and better equipped to work with the children that God has given us.
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