WORKSHOP FOR MONTESSORI 3-6 GUIDES

Child's Mind in Motion: From Attention to Concentration

with Karen Pearce

Reflect on principles guiding the adult’s role in fostering concentration.

Explore how children develop the capacity to make choices and its impact on normalization.

Discover practical strategies to support children’s attention and extend their work cycles.

Workshop Takeaways:

  • Understand the types of choices children make and how to support conscious decision-making.
  • Gain insights into different types of attention and their role in reaching concentration.
  • Learn how to adapt presentations to meet children’s needs, offering points of consciousness to deepen focus.

Key Workshop Topics:

  • What is attention, and how can we guide children to the point of concentration?
  • Principles of attention and its developmental levels.
  • The role of points of consciousness in fostering concentration.
  • Practical advice for connecting theory with action in daily practice.

Introduction to the Workshop

This workshop is designed for 3-6 Montessori guides working in children's houses who wish to deepen their understanding of how to support children’s development through concentration, conscious choice, and meaningful connection.

  • A fully online workshop
  • May 24-25, 2025
    3:00 - 7:30 p.m. CEST (Saturday and Sunday)
  • Recording access
    For 3 months after the workshop takes place
  • Speaker: Karen Pearce
  • Certificate awarded by Montessori Institute Prague (AMI)
  • Price: 127€

Attention! - attention is the first condition of learning, join us to find out more!

This workshop will offer the opportunity to reflect upon principles that guide and influence the actions of the adult in supporting the development of concentration.

To question how we support the child in their capacity to choose and what implications does this have on the child as they travel along the path to normalisation.

What are the different types of choice that we may observe in our work with the children and consequently how does this impact and influence our responses.

We will also reflect upon the development of concentration and how we can best support this to flourish and deepen. The role of the adult in offering appropriate individualised challenges plays a tremendous part in this process.

How do we know what to offer? How do we take the child to the point of concentration? What are the developmental guiding principles that steer our actions and responses.

All of this will be very much based from the standpoint of theory into action. As such the delegates will leave with lots of practical advice, reflection points for both themselves and their interactions with the children.

TICKETS

This workshop is designed for Montessori 3-6 guides and assistants working in Children’s House who wish to broaden their knowledge and advance their Montessori practice.

The workshop starts in:

Karen Pearce

Karen Pearce is a co founder and Director of Pedagogy at The Montessori Place in Brighton, UK, where she mentors the Children's House guides. 

Karen trained at the Maria Montessori Institute (MMI) in London in 1989, with Lynne Lawrence being the Director of training. 

She went on to lead one of their model children’s houses for 18 years before becoming head of school, lecturer and course leader in the post diploma course in Observation. Throughout her years with the MMI she was extremely privileged to be mentored by world renowned trainer of trainer Mrs Hilla Patell. 

She has 36 years of Children's House experience and she lectures and runs workshops across Europe and Asia. Karen also offers a weekly online Montessori mentorship programme, Montessori Unwrapped, to support guides in putting theory into practice. 

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.

-William James

"Literally an eye opener! Such valuable information! I am SHOCKED that this is not a part of our Montessori Training."
Workshop participant, 2022
"The stories that Karen shared were relatable, at times funny & helpful. I also very much appreciated the practical aspects of the workshop; the grids and examples Karen shared so that we can go about implementing the scientific observations in our environments was very useful."
Workshop participant, 2022
"It was so insightful and life changing. I have struggled for a while now with how to effectively observe. I have been doing it wrong..."
Workshop participant, 2022
"Karen shared an amazing content and the personal reflections made it so real. Explanations of how to bring the Work Curves into our nursery were wonderful."
Workshop participant, 2022
"I liked the fact I could gain strategies to put in use immediately in the class."
Workshop participant, 2022
"I like the way Karen Pearce talked about observation, and the fact that she herself works in an environment. She has direct feedback on what works and what wouldn't with the children."
Workshop participant, 2022
"It was so practical - specific procedures on how to set up classroom observations as well as specific procedures on how to monitor a child's interest and plan lessons for them."
Workshop participant, 2022
"I observe children at work. But there aren't many courses where observation is a major part of it. That's why I found this course interesting because it was all about observation all the time."
Workshop participant, 2022

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION?

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