Early Years Professional Development Day
Event description
Do you want to unlock your playfulness?
Do you want to listen more deeply and connect more playfully?
Whether you are an early years educator, an artist, a musician, a theatre maker, or just curious, a Magic Acorns' Professional Development Day will nurture, stretch and nourish your creativity in a way that you can take back into your practice, whatever that may be.
At Magic Acorns we work with artists, educators, parents/carers and 0-3 year olds, we learn about improvisation and play from the experts - the babies and young children.
"Completely amazing and inspirational. Unlike any other training I had done before. Such a holistic and inclusive approach."
We are offering a chance to join a Magic Acorns Professional Development day in our specialist early years arts space in Great Yarmouth. Together we will explore ways to nurture playful listening practices and develop sensitivity to communicative movement and sound play. This session is suitable for anyone with a creative, educational or therapeutic practice where listening to children is at the heart of what you do.
During this CPD day we will explore listening as a key quality and approach to our work with very young children and families. Not just listening with our ears but listening with our whole bodies.
Through playful workshop activities and games we will experience deep listening, movement and connection through shared sound-making. We will consider ways this nurtures our practice and helps us to develop sensitive musical play with very young children and babies.
"Warm, generous, open. Validating, and challenging: I feel more confident"
During the day we will create open-ended sensory musical provocations, and consider the whole environment as a potential musical play space. Through our explorations in listening, musical interaction and improvisation we will reflect together how we might support creative expression through playful environments and minimising adult-talk.
In addition to the professional development day we are also offering participants the opportunity to book a 1-2-1 online mentoring session with one of our lead artist facilitators, to offer you time and support to explore your particular areas of development and focus.
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions - we are more than happy to talk through any specific needs.
Getting to Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth is served by frequent buses and trains from Norwich, both the bus station and the train station are within walking distance from our space. There are a number of Pay & Display car parks nearby.