EWFCCA 'Reach for the
STARs' Virtual Conference 2022
“ILLUMINATING CARE: Caring for Our
Children, Our Community, and Ourselves" - Carol Garboden Murray, Richard Cohen,
and Emma Tempest
Saturday March 12th, 2022 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM (6 STARs Hours)
We would love for you to join us via Zoom from the comfort of your home as Carol Garboden Murray, Richard Cohen, and Emma Tempest present LIVE via ZOOM: “ILLUMINATING CARE: Caring for Our Children, Our Community, and Ourselves”
The 6 hour event (with breaks) includes:
- “ILLUMINATING CARE: Living with an Ethic of Care” (2 hours
Professional Development and Leadership)
Presented
by: Carol Garboden Murray
In this provocative KeyNote,
Carol will ask us to consider a new teaching and learning paradigm - where we
shift from a view of care as weak and soft to revealing care as the strong back
bone of our early childhood practice. We will examine how living care as an
educational philosophy and as an ethic has the potential to generate reciprocal
power so that as we care for others, we receive care, and we learn to care for
ourselves. With the 7 Lamps of Care, Carol will shine the light on a new path.
Together, we will pioneer a practice of care as education, care as a right, care
as bodily, care as an art and a science, and care as what makes us human.
- “Implementing
Care: Strengthening Care in Your Early Childhood Setting” (2 hours Interactions)
Presented by: Richard Cohen
Write down your thoughts and questions during
Carol’s keynote as Richard will facilitate an open-ended follow-up discussion,
answering and helping participants answer each other’s questions about how to
implement the 7 Lamps of Care in their setting, discussing their challenges,
and, together, brainstorming solutions. Then Richard will explore some key
aspects of care in greater depth: relationship/community building,
co-regulation, facilitation, play, meaningfulness, mindfulness and more.
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“Being Care: Looking Out for Ourselves by Looking In ” (2 hours
Professional Development and Leadership)
Presented by: Emma Tempest
As caregivers, we often put ourselves
last on our to-care list. Emma breaks down why this will never work and why we
have to be the ones to fill our own cup before we can help anyone else. We all
know this metaphor, but why is it so hard to do in reality? Emma will bust some
self-care myths, share methods for how to look inward, and cover five aspects of
wellbeing through her SHINE lens. Emma will end this session with laughter yoga,
designed to diffuse stress and pain, ease anxiety and shift your energy up!