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Monthly Reflective Practice Groups

for practitioners working with infants, toddlers, and families

   
About the Groups
Register for session or request a group session
Questions?

Also see Groups for Supervisors

Also see Groups for Social Workers


About the Groups

Here is an opportunity to meet with a similarly committed and varied group of practitioners on a monthly basis with the goal of promoting professional development.

Working with infants, toddlers, and their parents is both rewarding and challenging, evoking powerful feelings in the professionals who deliver these relationship-based services. By "stepping back" to explore our observations, feelings, and actions, we can begin to understand our emotional responses. This practice of reflection helps us to remain emotionally available and connected to families--within appropriate professional boundaries--so that we can develop interventions that support the evolving relationship between the parent and child.

If you are currently working with parents and their very young children and would like the opportunity to meet with a similarly committed but varied group of practitioners, you are invited to participate in a monthly reflective practice group in Owatonna, MN. These meetings will promote professional development by using collegial relationships to encourage the thoughtful observation of oneself and others. The content for the group will emerge from the practice experiences of the participants. The size of the group will be limited, and participants will be asked to commit to the entire series of four sessions. Certificates of completion available to those completing all four sessions.

Also see Groups for Supervisors.

Also see Groups for Social Workers


To Register or Request a Group Session

Registration information and materials are made available here when group sessions are periodically scheduled and offered.

Alternatively, you may schedule a reflective practice group for your own organization or group of professionals. Complete the Training Request Form or contact Sara Zettervall at 612-625-2252 or sarazet@umn.edu.


Questions?

Contact Sara Zettervall at 612-625-2252 or sarazet@umn.edu.


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