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Holistic Education Seminar – Preparing Children for Life
Friday, October 7th, 2011International Seminar on Holistic Education
Thursday, September 15th, 2011ImaginationGYM will shortly be announcing details of a very exciting seminar on Holistic Education titled ‘Preparing Children for Life’. The one day seminar will feature speakers from the UK, Finland and Ireland and will be divided into four workshops. It will provided educationalists and child care professionals with practical and fresh ideas to approaching the well being 
development and education of children. It will also address the needs of these professionals which can sometimes be overlooked in the contemporary workplace.
Tickets will be limited and cost €100 for the day. The seminar will take place in the Mater Dei Primary School in Dublin 8 which has hosted a very successful early intervention programme for the last 5 years.
The school that rewrites the rules
Irish Independent
“Within the Early Focus room therapeutic play, art work, talk and dialogue, cookery classes, imagination gym, primary movement, mindfulness and breath-work …
The workshop topics are based on themes of: Early intervention work, self-esteem, behaviour, and importance of play, imagination and creativity, identification of co-ordination and sensory development problems in children, and latest developments in the Finnish pre-school system.
Date: Sat Nov 19th 2011
Time: 10am -4pm
More details and booking arrangements will follow shortly
Early Intervention – Successful Projects
Friday, August 12th, 2011Do you work with children in Early Intervention?
You may be interested in the success ImaginationGYM is having in early intervention projects in inner city schools and communities. ImaginationGYM is unusual in that it does not focus on the problems instead it focuses on the assumption that all children are born with talents, imagination and the ability to be creative. 
Talents being that there is something in all children that they can do which will benefit themselves and their society and that they will enjoy and love doing. Creativiity being that their ability to ‘create goods and serivces that are useful to society and themseleves and to be creative at problem solving’. (Definition of intelligence, Howard Gardner, Harvard University).
An early intervention project first focuses on centering, self regulated behaviour, boundaries, listening skills, attention skills, concentration and focusing skills. This part of the project helps children to get a sense of their ‘own self’ seperate from peers, adults, media, etc.
Then the methodology works on building the child’s self esteem and increasing their creative abilities. As the methodology uses imagination exercises, that exercises their whole brain, areas that affect critical thinking and emotional inteligence are also exercised.
The exercises also stimulate multiple intelligences and a trained practioner will be able to identify talent attributes and learning preferences in individual children which can be built on.
Early intervention projects can be run in schools (curriculum based) community, police liason, etc. They can be self administered, run directly by ImaginationGYM practioners are a hybrid of both. They are extremely cost effective on a per capita basis and will suit most budgets even with the stringent cut backs that are taking palce in many countries. In fact the positive beahaviour outcomes may compensate for the effects of some of these cut backs. 
For furthe information contact Peter or Rosaleen at 00 353 1 6753522 or info@imaginationgym.com
Here is an example of an inner city project run in a school in Dublin reported on by a National newspaper, The Irish Independent, in an aricle called The School that Rewrites the Rules
