JUST RELEASED: Full program of Lead Montessori Conference 2025

ONLINE WORKSHOP

Montessori Guides & Assistants: Challenges and Solutions

with Diana Manova

The working relationship of assistants and guides is often challenging.
Learn how to:

Build a strong and respectful guide assistant partnership

Find practical solutions to everyday classroom challenges

Find clarity in roles and responsibilities

Workshop Takeaways:

  • Personal development, awareness, and clear professional goals
  • A deeper understanding of how assistants support guides—and how guides support assistants
  • Strategies to overcome the tension of authority and hierarchy
  • Insights on humility, respect, and standing up for one’s beliefs and responsibilities
  • The vision of guides and assistants as true “dancing partners” in the classroom

Key Topics:

  • Spiritual, physical, and intellectual preparation
  • The art and science of working with children
  • Partnership between guides and assistants
  • Roles & responsibilities
  • Challenges and solutions

Introduction to the Workshop

We will discuss the kind of preparations an adult needs to go through in order to be ready to work with children. 

We will compare the guide's and the assistant’s roles and responsibilities. Are these roles interchangeable, and when? We will find solutions to the challenges of working together.

  • A fully online workshop
  • October 4–5, 2025
    4:00–8:00 PM CEST
  • Recording access
    For 1 month after the workshop takes place
  • Diana Manova
    AMI 3-6 trainer in training
  • Certificate by Montessori Institute Prague
  • Price: €127

Introduction to the Workshop

We will discuss the kind of preparations an adult needs to go through in order to be ready to work with children. 

We will compare the guide's and the assistant’s roles and responsibilities. Are these roles interchangeable, and when? We will find solutions to the challenges of working together.

  • A fully online workshop
  • October 4–5, 2025
    4:00–8:00 PM CEST
  • Recording access
    For 1 month after the workshop takes place
  • Diana Manova
    AMI 3-6 trainer in training
  • Certificate by Montessori Institute Prague
  • Price: €127

Workshop Takeaways:

  • Personal development, awareness, and clear professional goals
  • A deeper understanding of how assistants support guides—and how guides support assistants
  • Strategies to overcome the tension of authority and hierarchy
  • Insights on humility, respect, and standing up for one’s beliefs and responsibilities
  • The vision of guides and assistants as true “dancing partners” in the classroom

Key Topics:

  • Spiritual, physical, and intellectual preparation
  • The art and science of working with children
  • Partnership between guides and assistants
  • Roles & responsibilities
  • Challenges and solutions

Workshop Schedule:

(8 hours in total)

Day 1 – Saturday, October 4, 2025 | 4:00–8:00 PM CEST

Day 2 – Sunday, October 5, 2025 | 4:00–8:00 PM CEST

When working in a children’s house, adults have different roles and responsibilities, but at the end of the day it matters if they were good role models for the children. Guides and assistants are partners in the prepared environment, and sometimes it can be challenging to know what, how, when, and why we say and do something during the vivid day.  

  • Who does the guide guide?
  • Can the assistant cover some of the guide’s responsibilities?
  • What does it take to work harmoniously?

Registration 

Who is this course for?

  • Montessori guides who want to lead with clarity while working side by side with assistants
  • Montessori assistants who seek confidence in their role and stronger collaboration with guides
  • Educators in Montessori or Montessori-inspired settings who wish to build respectful, effective classroom partnerships

Registration 

Who is this course for?

  • Montessori guides who want to lead with clarity while working side by side with assistants
  • Montessori assistants who seek confidence in their role and stronger collaboration with guides
  • Educators in Montessori or Montessori-inspired settings who wish to build respectful, effective classroom partnerships

MEET THE SPEAKER

  • A fully online workshop
  • October 4–5, 2025
    4:00–8:00 PM CEST
  • Recording access
    For 1 month after the workshop takes place
  • Diana Manova
  • Certificate by Montessori Institute Prague
  • Price: €127

Diana Manova

Diana Manova is in the AMI Training of Trainers Program to become a 3–6 trainer. She is a co-founder of Montessori Children’s House in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Bulgarian Montessori Association. With almost 20 years of experience, she has worked as a Montessori guide in Poland and Bulgaria and actively lectures and moderates webinars and workshops for parents, guides, and assistants.

Diana was trained by Molly O’Shaughnessy, Tiffany Liddell, and Elina Rautasalo. She holds an M.Ed. in Montessori Education from Loyola University Maryland, as well as a Master’s in Bulgarian Language and Literature. Diana is passionate about supporting the potential of every child and learner, and she continues to contribute to Montessori education both locally and internationally.

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DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION?

Feel free to contact us!