Why Is Self-Regulation Vital for Children?

Children can easily be distracted from their organic processes in a society overwhelmed by electronics, perpetual stimulus and information. Through play, reconnecting with their own internal wisdom is at the core of healthy development.

When left to their own devices, most children find ways of restoring their self-regulation organically. Those that don’t will benefit enormously from the tools, frameworks, and methods I teach in this course.

These can be used with any children, not only those who have suffered a trauma, and are especially effective for working with children who are regarded as ‘difficult to engage’ because of the emphasis on playfulness.

It is not the game or activity itself but the engineering beneath it that matters – namely the importance of the activity providing opportunities to progress through the Five Phases and arrive at a state of integration.

Through reflection, analysis, and practice in the past 30+ years, I have refined my answers to these challenges, creating a set of principles that enables adult facilitators to harness children’s innate capacity for self-healing through play.

Dynamic Interactions

Action & Interaction are the most familiar means and ways of expression that children choose to learn and communicate with you and the world. That is why this course will focus on the dynamic part of children’s interaction with the world. Their fast movements, the desire for activities, the role of playfulness and the way children are interacting with others will be key components.

Establishing Balance

We will look into the backstage of children’s behaviour, movements, gestures, and how to facilitate when they start to present dysfunctional behaviour, such as hyperactivity or low energetic drive. How to take them to a more balanced state by down-regulating or up-regulating during activities. 

Nuances of Communication

Learn indirect ways to access and connect with children’s felt experiences. Very seldom children are available to “inform” us of what is happening in their experience. They are so driven to play and have fun, that sometimes these questions put them to alert and they close the communication with us facilitators.

Facilitate Movement

Understand how action & interaction supports children to move through their emotional states and harvest the self-regulatory superpowers of children's books.

Every Intention Has a Cycle. Every Cycle Holds a Meaning.

Supercharge Your Ability to Create Meaningful Interactions

Multi-Skills for a World Full of Multi-Needs.

Course Curriculum

This 2-month program includes 15 hours of live sessions and 9 hours of practice labs with Alé plus an additional 7.5 hours of group practice that is offered to participant as optional sessions. On the dedicated online learning platform, all participants will find a PDF workbook, further explanations with videos by Alé and the visualisations and graphics for the most important frameworks and maps the course teaches. 

Week 1

We also practice the Five Phases in our course design. The first week is all about creating the right level of readiness. We give you an overview of the learning platform, answer questions, and ensure you are mentally, emotionally and technically prepared for the first session.

Week 2

In the second week, the first live online session with Alé will take place. We will talk about attunement and work with the seven layers that create a container for safety. It is also the week when we slowly approach the concept of cycles.

Week 3 to 6

In weeks 3 to 6 we adopt the Five Phases. We talk about how to deal with dilemmas, how we can use storytelling to tap into different channels of expression which allow to ignite the self-regulatory process. We will learn a lot and practice even more.

Week 7

Week 7 is our integration week. The focus is on revisiting all parts and clearing up any questions. During this week, we will also acknowledge how much our perspectives have broadened since the beginning of the course. Time to review and deepen what we have learned.

Week 8

In the last week, we are doing the onboarding for our community platform. On this separate platform, we will continue to practice and keep you updated on the development of KidsInTune. It is also a place where you can share and practice with other practitioners.

How the Core Competencies Learned in This Training Will Help You Become a Better Professional When Working With Kids

Meet your Teacher

Alé Duarte is a teacher, advisor, and somatic therapist. His practice aids children traumatized by natural disasters and assists educators, therapists, and parents dealing with behavioral issues. Because of this, his career became nomadic by necessity, and his methods became invaluable where the stakes were high.

Alé created and teaches the pioneering educational series called KidsinTune™. It is designed for professionals who work and care for children and families. His training is innovative in the adult-child relationship and aims to equip therapists, pedagogues, teachers, social workers, health practitioners, and families with skills and strategies to help children to overcome stressful experiences, to feel more confident, and to deepen their experiences in what is meaningful and important to their development and future. His pioneering techniques and frameworks are an aggregate of many healing disciplines developed over 30 years in the field.

How you will benefit from the interdisciplinarity and diverse  backgrounds of other participants 

"Loved it. Inspired by it. Loved connecting with peers all over the world.

"Thank you for this amazing training opportunity! My life has been enriched by it. I’m deeply grateful for the insights and knowledge."

"I can divide my work with children in a time before Alé and one after."

"One of the most profound training I have ever done. Everyone is so dedicated to loving children exactly as they are, showing me that many beautiful humans want to help. It was a breath of fresh air in a world that feels so overwhelming."

"This is quite simply the most fun and most effectively taught workshop I have ever attended, in any discipline. Alé’s presence and bodyfulness, his ability to distil the essence, communicate & connect – sensorial & verbally – graphically, energetically – is the key to the experiences that matter."

"What I love most about Alé's teaching is that he empowers the participants of the courses to develop their own ideas. Rather than teaching a recipe or a bunch of tools and games, he teaches frameworks and principles so people can use it combined with their own unique skills and in the situation they work in."

"I am impressed by how you can discover personal resources and make them more perceptible. I improved my view on the children and how to discover cycles. I learned to assess better where the client is and in which direction it is better to move next."

"Alé provides support for the children in a first positive step and then guides this experience into ever more stable circles and with that enrich a children's aspects of life because the structure has been established. This approach is wonderful."

"I have learned a lot about myself through the five phases. I understood the importance of integration when I play with children. It was great also to remember how important is to trust in children and in their own process and capacities."