“Live” Online NBO Trainings - now around the world!

The unprecedented COVID-19 crisis has changed our approach to NBO and NBAS training. The pandemic creates both a challenge and an opportunity to explore the use of the NBO while working remotely, so that NBO Trainers, for example, are searching for innovative ways to implement the NBO remotely while preserving the critical relationship-supportive features of the NBO. On-line virtual training is now being offered in Australia, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Poland, South Africa, the UK and in the US at the Brazelton Institute, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at the Napa NBO Training site. See NBAS/NBO Training News for further information on NBO and NBAS on-line training offerings at our international sites. Several virtual NBO Trainings have been conducted by the Brazelton Institute faculty, including on-line training which took place at the Young Knocknaheeny Area Based Childhood Programme, Cork, Ireland, (now re-named - Let’s Grow Together! Infant & Childhood Partnerships) from Nov 30th to December 2nd and another at the UMASS Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Fellowship Program in December 2020. The first virtual NBO training in Italy, took place on March 22-23, 2021 on the occasion of the establishment of the NBO Training site at Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Meyer, Firenze. NBO training in Poland was offered on June 19-20th 2021, when the new Poland NBO Training site was established. Virtual NBO Training was also presented to members of GaDSOP, the Society of Developmental Pediatricians in Indonesia in April of this year. At the UK Brazelton Centre, the first NBO on-line training booked out within 48 hours. The NBO Japan site presented NBO on-line training in December 2020 and has continued to offer on-line training in 2021.