educational conferences
Colourful and exciting, warm and welcoming, our Biennial IAIM Educational Conferences and General Assemblies attract IAIM Certified Instructors, Trainers, parents and professionals from around the world to learn, share, grow and lead.
At the Educational Conferences we promote lectures, workshops and discussions that are connected with the IAIM Program. Most of the conference is open to the general public.
The Educational Conference always ends with the special moment of the stroke review. Only Certified Instructors may attend. This is a very special and unique moment where instructors from all around the world get together and strengthen their knowledge and skills as instructors.
When IAIM started in 1992, it was the first of its kind globally. Our main goal is to teach parents and caregivers how to use touch to communicate and bond with their children, making sure families everywhere are loved, valued and respected.
100+ Countries represented
30 000+ Certified Instructors
65+ International Trainers
Some of the speakers that IAIM has invited to its Biennial International Educational Conference are:
| Year | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - Madrid | Álvaro Bilbao - Spain | Constructing better brains: neuroscience lessons for parents |
| 2018 - Madrid | Deborah Lipschitz - Sweden | Reflexes in relationship with infant massage |
| 2018 - Madrid | Jillian - Canada | Teaching the IAIM programme with very young parents |
| 2018 - Madrid | Bernardo Ortin - Spain | Physical contact and construction of identity |
| 2018 - Madrid | Diana Siswartonova - Czech Republic | Order emerging from chaos, Inspiration from the science of water about the impact of our inner state on class dynamics |
| 2016 - France | Hugues Reynes - France | What is a baby’s inner experience ? An original obstetrical point of view |
| 2016 - France | Marc Lafrance - Canada | Why does our skin matter so much ? |
| 2016 - France | Sylvie Hétu - Canada | The IAIM Programme: A Necessity for the Third Millennium Families |
| 2016 - France | VimalaMcClure - USA | Nurturing Touch & Infant Mental Health - The Parenting Practices that Influence Brain Development |
| 2014 - Costa Rica | Mónica Berrocal - Costa Rica | Mother - Infant Interactions and Infant-Parent Mental Health in Special Situations: A Case Example with Adolescent Mothers |
| 2014 - Costa Rica | Mariano Rosabal - Costa Rica | Between Autonomy and Relatedness: How Culture Shapes Child Development. |
| 2014 - Costa Rica | Sylvie Hétu - Canada | What does it mean to be a good CIMI? |
| 2012 - Portugal | Sylvie Hétu - Canada | The Global Success of IAIM |
| 2012 - Portugal | Angela Underdown - UK | Holding the Baby in Mind: Supporting Early Relationships |
| 2012 - Portugal | Pratibha Reebye - Israel | Touch as therapeutic modality - arts or science |
| 2012 - Portugal | Nils Bergman - South africa | Evolutionary biology and modern neuroscience - what mothers always knew |
| 2012 - Portugal | Elsa Silva - Portugal | Premature birth and touch |