Training:
Facilitator level
1 Trainees participate in a workshop (3,4 days) about the ICDP programme:
Special emphasis on: The ICDP approach and work. Importance of interaction for children’s development. Promoting caregivers’ positive conception of the child. Zone of empathy – inclusion or rejection. The three dialogues/The eight guidelines/themes for good interaction. Principles of sensitizing.
2 Self training project: After the workshop each trainee needs to apply the 3 dialogues / 8 guidelines in practice in interaction with 3 children from different age groups; these interactions need to be filmed. Trainee has to make notes of these experiences and make his or her own interaction profile based on watching him/her self on the previously filmed interaction. This self training takes one month. The filmed interactions, the notes and the profiles drawn by trainees are all presented to ICDP.
3 Trainees implement ICDP in practice – 1st field work:
First field work means implementing ICDP in practice in weekly meetings with a group of caregivers. This is recorded in a diary. Takes 3 months.
4 During this period there are 2 support meetings by ICDP. Self monitoring checklists and diaries are discussed.
5 Trainees attend the evaluation and accreditation workshop by ICDP; they present their first field work which is evaluated; trainees are accredited as ICDP Facilitators. Diplomas are issued and an agreement is signed with ICDP.
