Love Grows Here
Storytelling with belonging and inclusion in early childhood.
A Summer Intensive Workshop with Lynn Turner and Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton
July 7-9, 10am- 1pm CT
Program Details:
In this class series, we will bring new insights and offer wisdom that honors and embraces diversity into stories for young children.
How do we select them?
What is the heart behind the story?
And how can we feel into and create our own stories that cultivate joy and interest for fairytales from other cultures?
Our own collective biographies will help to inspire, broaden and support this very important heart work!
Each day we will meet live over Zoom with Leslie and Lynn. Participants should also anticipate spending time outside of the workshop on some activities to integrate the content more deeply.
In order to cultivate a sense of togetherness and active participation, we warmly insist that your video be turned on. Please do your best to make arrangements so this is possible
A certificate for 9 hours of Continuing Education can be earned with full participation in the course. A very brief survey is required.
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$270
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This workshop has an enrollment deadline of 10 participants by July 4th. In the event of a cancellation due to low enrollment, participants will be fully refunded.
Tuition
About the Facilitators
Lynn Turner
Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton (she/her)
For more than twenty years, Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton has taught Waldorf Parent-Child and
Nursery classes at Acorn Hill Waldorf Kindergarten & Nursery School located in Silver Spring, Maryland. Currently, Leslie is a member of the WECAN Early Childhood Research Group (Two recent WECAN Publications), and works also as a WECAN Site Visitor and Teacher Trainer for several Teaching Institutes in North America.
As a third generation Anthroposophist, Leslie brings a broad scope of wisdom and knowledge to Waldorf Early Childhood Education from her own early childhood. Now out of the classroom, Leslie loves her work with adults as a teacher trainer, mentor and evaluator, visiting many schools and new teachers across the country.
Leslie is also a skilled textile artist and interior designer for close to forty years. Leslie enjoys writing and compiling early childhood stories that reflect the world in the interest of advancing inclusion, diversity, equity, and access by creating puppetry to bring classics, cultural tales and her own new stories to life.
When not working, Leslie spends time with her family and friends at her beloved beach home in Chincoteague Island, Virginia.
Lynn Turner (she/her) is a native Washingtonian, wife, mother of two children. She is of mixed heritage and the proud descendant of enslaved African American people. She has been a culturally responsive early childhood educator, teacher trainer, and leader in the movement of Waldorf Education in Northern America for over fourteen years. Lynn holds a BA in Fine Arts, and an MAT in Early Childhood Education, and received her Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching Certificate in 2017. She is a Biography Worker, currently completing her third year of training in Biography and Social Art.
Lynn has been published in Gateways and Kindling Magazines and has been a workshop presenter and keynote speaker at WECAN conferences. She was the Director and Core Faculty member of the Great Lakes Waldorf Institute, Early Childhood Training Cohort from 2020-2023. She currently serves on the Board as Social Art Board of Directors.
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