Recent Activities 2021

NBO Trainings (On-line 3-half-day Training)  

Recent Activities 2020

NBAS/NBO Introductory Day 2020 (On-line Seminar)

NBO Trainings (On-line 3-half-day Training)  

NBAS Training(On-line 2-day Training)

Urbi et Orbi 2019 NBAS/NBO Highlights

Eiko Saito and Mariko Iwayama (NBO Trainers)

We organized the NBO/NBAS introductory open seminar in July with 55 participants. In the seminar, our NBO/NBAS trainer, Shohei Ohgi, lectured on “Becoming a new family and the baby power of communication”. Different states were explained using videos of Japanese babies by our NBAS trainer, Masako Nagata, and the importance of infant-parent relationship in the early days were lectured by our NBO trainer, Mariko Iwayama. The NBO and NBAS sessions with Japanese babies were demonstrated by our NBAS trainer, Yukiyo Nagai and our NBO trainer, Eiko Saito. Our research plans were also introduced with research around the world. Also, for 2019, we had 3 NBO training courses in June, October and December run by our NBO trainers (Eiko Saito and Mariko Iwayama), with 26 trainees. We received two major research grants from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to evaluate the use of the NBO and to study the effects of the NBO in NICU settings. For 2020, we plan to organize an introductory open seminar and 3 NBO training courses. Also, research using NBO are planned, which will be demonstrated in the international congress. We also would like to organize an NBAS introduction course sometime next year. At the WAIMH conference in 2020, we - Mariko Iwayama, Eiko Saito, Yukiyo Nagai, Masako Nagata and Shohei Ohgi – will present our ideas on “The uses of the NBO in Japanese cultural settings”. Our goal is to continue to give trainings which are culturally adaptive and to organize events in collaboration with other associations with similar aims for promoting relationships between babies and families. The goal of the Japan site for 2019-2023 is to analyze the impact of the NBO on parent-child relationships; to develop and validate the effect of the NBO in a community-based intervention program and to organize an NBO training course specifically for Asian practitioners.