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Become a Member
Once you have completed the Instructor course, you will become a member of your local chapter for the first year. Each IAIM chapter operates independently according to each country’s regulations and each chapter’s bylaws, however as all chapters are non-profit organizations, this is a place for members to connect,
Share and participate in chapter related activities, such as the local chapter newsletter, website, social media platforms, educational conference and general assembly.
FIND YOUR LOCAL CHAPTER
If there is no local chapter, please find out how to Create your Local Chapter in your country.
Create your local Chapter in your Country
If you would like to participate in forming your local chapter, please write to our international office at: info@iaim.net for more information.
We would be delighted in discussing how to bring infant massage to more parents and babies in your country!
IAIM will arrange for you to organize trainings in your country from one of our international trainers.
Our trainer(s) will support growth of IAIM certified instructors in your country.
IAIM chapter development coordinator (board member) will support creating your local organization once 10 certified instructors living in the country are willing to create a local non-profit organization. Once official documents with local governmental laws are sent to IAIM, you will sign with IAIM a Chapter contract to be part of our IAIM family from around the world.
IAIM will arrange for you to organize trainings in your country from one of our international trainers.
Your chapter will benefit from IAIM communication channels as well as internal resources privilege of our members.
IAIM Testimonials
From individuals in our associations who started the journey to create an IAIM chapter in their country
The journey of the Slovak Chapter
”I was working for an international auditing company and I started to be depressed about the office work. With my colleague Jenka, we have been dreaming about new jobs. One night when she was searching on the internet, she noticed the advertisement for the IAIM training in Slovakia. Immediately she was attracted and she registered for the training that night. Next day I registered too, it was May 2008.
The first Instructor training in Slovakia was organised by Lenka R-B., a Slovak woman trained in Ireland by Kirsty Hawthorn. All of the students have been impressed by the training and by the mission of IAIM.
The training was very transformative. It completely changed our lives and touched our hearts. Every two years we organized for IAIM trainers to come to Slovakia train instructors. We were fortunate to be with international trainers Kirsty Hawthorn (Ireland), Helen Moses (USA) and Sylvie Hétu (Canada).
In the meantime, we both quit the jobs and started working as Instructors. At the beginning there was not much awareness about infant massage in our country, so word of mouth marketing was the most effective. The happy mothers were recommending the course to their friends and relatives.
We established website to advertise the courses for parents and to inform about infant massage. We have been active on Facebook and we wrote many articles to magazines for parents. Our work as instructors helped us enhance the interest of parents as well as new students for the Instructor Trainings.
We are committed to be part of IAIM family.. one baby at a time, one instructor at a time..little by little we are getting there. Joining IAIM is a true human adventure!”
