2024 Bridge Conference

A Sensory Approach to Working With Kids is a movement based, interactive workshop intended anyone working with kids in any capacity. Educators, health practitioners, coaches, and parents will all benefit from this unique approach to working with kids. This training explores how sensory processing affects behavior and function. Why might some kids have unruly behaviors? Why is attention sometimes difficult? Why can a child not follow through with a task? Sensory processing can affect how kids might struggle with behavior, attention, even their posture and coordination. We will dive into how we can look at kids through a sensory lens and provide accommodations in any setting, provide sensory rich activities to help with behavior and attention, and even how we can provide stability to posture and help with coordination to help our children in any aspect with which we work with them. This is an interactive course where we experiment with intentional movement activities to help organize the nervous system and help kids get ready to learn, move, and achieve.

Join for a community conversation and dialogue around the intersections of childcare and youth development in WA State. A space for providers, policymakers, and change agents looking to create a more collaborative network of programs for the broader youth in Washington State. Prepare to discuss, share, and collaborate - this is far less a presentation and more a conversation about the nuances of these two systems and how we best intersect to create change.