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In this two-day evidence-based course, participants through careful instruction are trained to teach parents/primary caregivers how to massage their newborns and children through a hands-on demonstration approach using a doll. Only parents/caregivers have immediate contact with their children. The training is presented through PowerPoint presentations, lecture, audio-visual aids, discussion, and hands-on participation with dolls through a demonstration class with parents and their newborns each day of the training.
** Post practicum portion follows the training to conclude certification. Participants who successfully complete & pass the post-training exam and field-based practicum achieve their Certified Infant Massage Instructors (CIMI®) Certificate. Graduates become a part of the International Registry of CIMI's through ILTF.
Registration fee includes 2- day course instruction, 135+ page training binder, post practicum review and first year certification. Registration fee is $450 if received by early bird date (typically 30 days in advance). Registration fee is $550 if received after the early bird date. Registration fee does not include additional required texts & practice demonstration doll. Those can be purchased through Loving Touch or resourced elsewhere.
Topics include:
• History, theory and techniques of infant Massage
• Bonding and attachment, promoting trusting interactions
• Massage benefits for infants, children and parents
• Effects of touch on the hospitalized infant
• Special needs, prematurity and active growers
• Social and emotional development
• Understanding infant cues and behavioral states
• Brain development and touch
• Sensory development, touch and music
• Multi-disciplinary collaboration
• Family-centered care approach
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