Joyful Beginnings Season 1 Episode 1  Meet the Joyful Beginnings Team

Today my guests are Susan Weber and Nancy Macalaster. Listen as they share about the inspiration and motivation behind creating an online community for parents, caregivers and teachers of young children, prebirth through age three.   Nancy Macalaster: Nancy is a certified Parent Early Childhood Mental Health Clinician in the State of NH. She holds a degree in child development from Connecticut College and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Antioch University New England. She is a graduate of Sophia’s Hearth Birth to Three Specialization and has completed advanced training at the Pikler Institute in Budapest, Hungary. She has completed training in maternal and infant mental health in Boston at the Jewish Family and Children’s Services. Susan Weber: Susan was the Director of Sophia’s Hearth Family Center for many years. She directed and taught in the Waldorf early childhood teacher education program at Sophia’s Hearth as well as at Antioch University. She is recognized internationally as a leading lecturer and writer in the field of Waldorf early childhood education. She has focused upon the illumination shined upon the understanding of the first three years of the child’s life as understood in Waldorf early childhood education, especially in the light of the approach of the Pikler Institute.  She has lectured internationally, most recently at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland and in Spring Valley, NY. She also led a multi-year course on the child in the first three years in Khon Kaen, Thailand, for teachers throughout Southeast Asia. Click here  for articles Susan has written for publication.   To learn more about Joyful Beginnings go to https://www.sophiashearth.org/joyful-beginnings and join the mailing list.   Or follow them at https://www.instagram.com/joyful_beginnings/      I have so much gratitude for everyone who has been listening to the Joyfull Parenting Podcast and joining the community of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525 !   If you haven’t already,  please subscribe to the podcast. It’s also super helpful to me if you rate it, review it and share it with others!    If you are looking  to work with me one-on-one as your parenting/caregivng coach you can do so  by clicking on this link with  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525. You can also find me on   Facebook and IG @joyfullparenting.