Mohonk offers the first of its kind training for professionals who work with children. This includes teachers, social workers, child-care workers, psychologists and, yes, parents. The training is based upon what we call brain-based methods. If you read the first chapter of our attached book, you will get an overview of what brain-based methods are all about. These methods draw, in part, on a number of theories of teaching and therapy. But it does not stop there. That is because brain-based methods reflect scientifically known ways the human brain functions in the daily lives of humans, especially with children. This is unique and is not limited by the much more theoretical methods used by other methods.
Our training programs typically last three to five weeks, and we offer these programs to educators, child-caring professionals, and some parents from other states and overseas. For those participants who live outside Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts, and especially overseas we can provide housing, meals and also transportation at a reduced cost or no cost for many international professionals, especially teachers, child-care professionals, and others who have lived with and been exposed to homeless, orphaned, and abused children in their countries, have a college education and a compelling interest in helping such children .
These programs are intensive and also involve meetings at programs that are involved with children directly such as mental and behavioral health centers, through research and education such as is done at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and their Mind, Brain, and Education Department as well as organizations that focus on children worldwide, such as UNICEF in New York City, and the Save the Children Foundation in Fairfield, Connecticut. For a more detailed itinerary please let us know and we will send you the current itinerary for our first program for 2025. Successful completion of this course will be a Certificate in Child Development and Course Completion, and we will also be willing to help and offer some sponsorship at those schools and programs that are interested in applying our brain-based methods.
We will have 2 five-week programs for the remaining year. However, registrants can choose to sign up for only the first three weeks for each of these programs if they wish. The three-week program will cover the eight brain-based methods, observing organizations that utilize brain-based methods, meet other professionals and practice utilizing brain-based methods within the group through role-playing. The five-week programs do the same but with attendance at two conferences, one focusing on international education and the second on the use of educational technology with brain-based methods and visits to two research centers or universities that focus on the use of neuroscience in their educational programs. Lastly, registrants will have the opportunity to be involved in internship sessions with children, one with children who have special educational disabilities and the second with children in public schools. The dates of our next two programs are:
September 19 – October24, 2025
January 23 – February 27, 2026
If you are interested, we can provide you with the September Itinerary by July 1 ,2025
Please read our itinerary so you can decide if this is of interest to you, and please email us to ask questions, and we can give you more details.
The cost of the three-week program is $3,500 and the five-week program is $6,500.
We offer four full scholarships and two partial scholarships for registrants, especially for those coming from overseas. This can include airfare and accommodation. We invite a maximum of 15 registrants to each program.
Please contact us at MohonkCT@gmail.com or complete the attached below REGISTRATION AND APPLICATION as soon as possible as these programs do fill up quite quickly.