IAIM Infant Massage Instructor Training
Details
The International Association of Infant Massage offers instructor trainings around the world. They are led by IAIM Trainers who have completed an extensive and practical, multi-phase education program designed to ensure quality trainings that you will truly enjoy. IAIM offers the most extensive and comprehensive training for infant massage instructors available in our field. All trainings follow the fifteen point curriculum originated by Vimala McClure and developed by the IAIM Circle of Trainers.
Trainings are generally four days, and include hands on learning with parent-baby classes in a supportive learning environment. Each training covers information about adjusting the teaching to meet the needs of each family and baby, including
those born prematurely or with special needs.
You will be equipped to
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Teach parents either individually or in small classes to massage their babies (0 to 12 months) as well as to deliver presentations to promote infant massage. This is not a 'hands on massage' qualification. This course does not qualify you to train others to teach or perform infant massage. You will be required to sign an agreement at your training to confirm you understand this,
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To facilitate parent-infant communication, create an opportunity to enhance parent/child bonding, assist in providing the optimum conditions for healthy development of the infant as well as bring awareness of many of the other benefits loving touch can bring about.
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To demonstrate the massage strokes on a doll and create a safe environment where there is an opportunity for parents to take part in informal discussions on many baby focused topics, you wil; therefore be providing support to parents on many levels.
Outline
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Handling and positioning of demonstration doll
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The IAIM sequence of infant massage strokes
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Observe the trainer teaching a parent & baby massage class
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Experience teaching opportunities with your fellow students parents and babies
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History of infant massage and IAIM
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Infant behavioural states and cues
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Guidelines for the safe use of massage oils
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Benefits of infant massage & Touch research
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Bonding & attachment
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Adaptations for babies born prematurely, with additional needs & for the growing child
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Valuing and supporting parents
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Teaching, communication & group facilitation skills
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Marketing and promoting infant massage classes
Speaker/s
IAIM International Trainer : Sylvie Hetu
Sylvie Hétu is the mother of three grow-up children. She has a college diploma in nutrition from Montreal Maisonneuve College (1976) and a BSc degree in Education from Montréal University (1980) and is a qualified Steiner-teacher (master level) trained
with l’Institut Rudolf Steiner au Québec (1998). She has taught primary school, as well biology and nutrition lessons to teenagers, and is an international lecturer on infant massage, parenting and education. Sylvie has been working with the International
Association of Infant Massage since 1983 teaching parents of various background including multi cultural groups and vulnerable families, and since 1989 as an international Trainer bringing the IAIM in several countries on the five continents.
Sylvie has co-founded the Massage in Schools Programme (2000) along with her Swedish colleague Mia Elmsäter. Sylvie is the co-author of the Massage in Schools Manual for Instructors (2000), author of The Song of the Child (2004), co-author of Touch in Schools:
a Revolutionary Strategy to Replace Bullying by Respect and to Reduce Violence (2010), has a published chapter (The Myth of Early Stimulation for Babies) in the book Too Much too Soon (2011), and her most recent book Facilitating IAIM classes (2012) serves
infant massage instructors. She is currently working on three other books and continues to train and lecture worldwide. She is passionate about the idea of marrying ancient traditions with modern scientific and humanistic knowledge for improving humanity’s
well-being.
We are a leading provider of trainings, classes and resources in the area of positive touch and relaxation. Our products and services provide you with tools to manage physical, emotional, mental health and wellbeing.
Our sense of touch is the very first sense that we develop and the last sense we lose before we leave this world. We use it in our daily lives more than we realise. It affects our ability to think, feel, communicate, socialise, connect and live. It is very important that we have a positive relationship with our sense of touch!
We work with families with babies, children, teenagers, adults in the workplace and the elderly to help them experience and introduce positive and nurturing touch into their lives through our 3 programmes.
Touch is essential at all stages of life. Our aim is to help everyone be "comfortable in their skin"!
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