• Times and locations are set by each group
• Fee: Sliding scale, $25 – 40 per session
• Seminar size is limited to 4-5 students
• Application is required and accepted throughout the year
• Instructors: Maxine Anderson, Judy K. Eekhoff, Claire Foote, Rikki Ricard, Marianne Robinson, Tom Saunders

Observing an infant weekly from birth to one or two years provides a unique opportunity to learn about early childhood development as it is happening. The evolution of the earliest relationships with parents, siblings, and others in the surroundings can be seen in all its complexity. The baby’s own experience, its efforts to hold itself together, to develop trust, to have an internal good object, and to develop symbols can all be seen. The observation provides an opportunity for the cultivation of emotional openness to the experience in the observer.

These one-year and two-year seminars consist of three parts: a one-hour weekly observation of an infant in the home, (2) a detailed write-up of the observation, and weekly ninety-minute seminar meetings.

No prerequisites.

Maxine Anderson, MD, PsyA-FIPA, Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, PsyA-FIPA,
Claire Foote, MA, Rikki Ricard, PsyA-FIPA, Marianne Robinson, LICSW, PsyA-FIPA, Tom Saunders, LICSW (425) 745-0288.

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