In two events, Sir Richard Bowlby will Discuss the Importance of Healthy Parent-Child Attachment and Its Impact on the Social and Cognitive Capabilities of Children at Skirball Cultural Center
Saturday, June 5th Learning for Life Parenting Seminar "Secure Attachment: Helping Your Child Get the Best Start in Life"
Sunday, June 6th - 21st Annual RIE Conference "RIE and Attachment Theory: Why Earliest Relationships Matter"
The simple act of a parent forming an enduring emotional attachment to an infant has a profound and lifelong impact on the child's ability to develop intellectually, achieve scholastically, become emotionally resilient, and create other meaningful interpersonal relationships. Defined as Attachment, this life-changing interaction will be the focus of keynotes by Sir Richard Bowlby at two, day-long events to take place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, on Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6, 2010.
For the first time in the U.S., internationally recognized attachment authority Richard Bowlby brings his message directly to parents, teachers, and caregivers, providing them with hands-on information that can be put into practice immediately to strengthen, nurture, and heal adult-child relationships, which will in turn fortify our families. Attachment theory, advanced and developed in the 1950s by Bowlby's father, British psychiatrist Dr. John Bowlby, contends that a young child needs to develop a trusting, reciprocal relationship with at least one primary caregiver in order to achieve healthy social and emotional growth. A child unable to establish a secure attachment may face difficulties that can follow him or her into adulthood.
Helping to validate John Bowlby's original research conclusions, neuroscientists have observed that important structures in babies' brains are shaped by their emotional experiences during their first two years of life, when a child's brain develops most rapidly. It has been shown that a child's genetic capability to form and maintain healthy emotional relationships is activated when cared for by people they love and with whom they have developed a secure attachment such as a parent, grandparent, or caregiver.
According to Sir Richard Bowlby, "It is the quality of the earliest attachment relationships formed between parents and their babies that tend to predispose the behavior of the developing child and emerging adult. There is now overwhelming long-term scientific evidence that points to the first two years of a person's life as the critical period for their personality traits to become established. These patterns of behavior are wired in the infant's developing brain, and when they later become parents they will frequently find themselves repeating the experiences of their own childhood with their child."
Gaining increasingly broader acceptance, attachment theory continues to be promoted by Sir Richard Bowlby, President, Centre for Child Mental Health, United Kingdom. Retiring in 1999 from a career in medical photography, he is now dedicated to fostering a much broader understanding of his father's work on attachment theory. He supports a range of organizations that address challenging attachment issues and is seeking ways to help the general public benefit from a better understanding of attachment relationships.
"Secure Attachment: Helping Your Child Get the Best Start in Life" will take place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 5, 2010, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. This Learning for Life Skirball Adult Education seminar is designed for new, expectant, or potential parents. For more information, contact: learningforlife@skirball.org or call 310-440-4651.
"RIE and Attachment Theory: Why Earliest Relationships Matter" will take place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Sunday, June 6, 2010, from 8:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The seminar is open to all those involved in early childhood, both parents and professionals. RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to infants and their caregivers founded in 1978 by renowned infant specialist Magda Gerber. For more information, contact: Deborah Carlisle Solomon at educarer@rie.org or call 323-663-5330.
Saturday, June 5th Learning for Life Parenting Seminar "Secure Attachment: Helping Your Child Get the Best Start in Life"
Sunday, June 6th - 21st Annual RIE Conference "RIE and Attachment Theory: Why Earliest Relationships Matter"
The simple act of a parent forming an enduring emotional attachment to an infant has a profound and lifelong impact on the child's ability to develop intellectually, achieve scholastically, become emotionally resilient, and create other meaningful interpersonal relationships. Defined as Attachment, this life-changing interaction will be the focus of keynotes by Sir Richard Bowlby at two, day-long events to take place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, on Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6, 2010.
For the first time in the U.S., internationally recognized attachment authority Richard Bowlby brings his message directly to parents, teachers, and caregivers, providing them with hands-on information that can be put into practice immediately to strengthen, nurture, and heal adult-child relationships, which will in turn fortify our families. Attachment theory, advanced and developed in the 1950s by Bowlby's father, British psychiatrist Dr. John Bowlby, contends that a young child needs to develop a trusting, reciprocal relationship with at least one primary caregiver in order to achieve healthy social and emotional growth. A child unable to establish a secure attachment may face difficulties that can follow him or her into adulthood.
Helping to validate John Bowlby's original research conclusions, neuroscientists have observed that important structures in babies' brains are shaped by their emotional experiences during their first two years of life, when a child's brain develops most rapidly. It has been shown that a child's genetic capability to form and maintain healthy emotional relationships is activated when cared for by people they love and with whom they have developed a secure attachment such as a parent, grandparent, or caregiver.
According to Sir Richard Bowlby, "It is the quality of the earliest attachment relationships formed between parents and their babies that tend to predispose the behavior of the developing child and emerging adult. There is now overwhelming long-term scientific evidence that points to the first two years of a person's life as the critical period for their personality traits to become established. These patterns of behavior are wired in the infant's developing brain, and when they later become parents they will frequently find themselves repeating the experiences of their own childhood with their child."
Gaining increasingly broader acceptance, attachment theory continues to be promoted by Sir Richard Bowlby, President, Centre for Child Mental Health, United Kingdom. Retiring in 1999 from a career in medical photography, he is now dedicated to fostering a much broader understanding of his father's work on attachment theory. He supports a range of organizations that address challenging attachment issues and is seeking ways to help the general public benefit from a better understanding of attachment relationships.
"Secure Attachment: Helping Your Child Get the Best Start in Life" will take place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 5, 2010, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. This Learning for Life Skirball Adult Education seminar is designed for new, expectant, or potential parents. For more information, contact: learningforlife@skirball.org or call 310-440-4651.
"RIE and Attachment Theory: Why Earliest Relationships Matter" will take place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Sunday, June 6, 2010, from 8:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The seminar is open to all those involved in early childhood, both parents and professionals. RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to infants and their caregivers founded in 1978 by renowned infant specialist Magda Gerber. For more information, contact: Deborah Carlisle Solomon at educarer@rie.org or call 323-663-5330.
