DYADA – a home for parents and children from birth onwards
Announcing the opening of the new academic year at the Dyada School for Professional Instructors/Leaders
Under the direction of Gila Ronel: Professional Manager of the Dyada Group
The Dyada School for Professional Instructors/Group Leaders offers a wide range of training and continuing professional education in the field of pregnancy, birth and care of infants and children.
For anyone who has dreamed of being a part of the emotional and exciting field of pregnancy, birth and infant care, the Dyada Group of Centers has a school for training and certifying childbirth professionals, aimed at providing in-depth knowledge and the chance for a new career in pregnancy and birth under the professional direction of Gila Ronel, Professional Manager of the Dyada Group.
Childbirth Educator Course
Coordinators: Gila Ronel, Irith Falkovich
About the Course:
This course is for doulas and midwives who want to bring their wisdom, expertise and the information they will acquire from the course to their clientele, through group work with couples and individuals preparing for birth. The course uses content and advanced research in the field of childbirth preparation, focusing on the manner in which to share the information with the parents-to-be. In addition, the course teaches leadership skills and offers tools for dealing with difficulties that may arise during preparation for childbirth.
Course Coordinators:
Gila Ronel: Professional manager of the Dyada Group; certified childbirth course instructor and breastfeeding counselor; one of Israel’s first doulas (practicing for 16 years) and doula instructor (for 12 years); specialist in: alternative medicine in the fields of pregnancy and birth, baby massage, accompanying women and families through the year of pregnancy and birth; author of “It’s Natural to Give Birth: the Comprehensive Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and What Comes After” (Hebrew).
Irith Falkovich: Certified childbirth course instructor; yoga instructor for pregnant woman and post-partum (25 years); specialist in counseling mothers and babies in the “Keshev v’Maga” system (Attentiveness and Touch), baby massage, and more; senior teacher of childbirth educators; and coordinator, together with Gila, of the doula course for the past ten years.
Opening Session: 9.2.2012
Day and Times: Thursdays from 9:00-13:30
No. of Classes: 18 Total Hours: 108 academic hours
Location: Dyada Center, Tel Aviv Port
Terms of Acceptance: Personal interview. The course is intended for doulas and midwives.
The course covers the following subjects:
Childbirth preparation approaches; methodology; group dynamics and processes; communication; interventions; pain relievers/analgesics; examinations and tests during pregnancy; coping with situations using non-medical methods; couple relations and intimacy; IVF; The Man in the Prenatal Class; routine treatment during birth; and more.
Suitable course graduates will be included in the Dyada childbirth class staff of instructors as required.
Breastfeeding Counselors Course Coordinator: Julie Schor
About the Course:This purpose of this course to train and certify breastfeeding counselors to aide, support and accompany mothers and families during the breastfeeding period, beginning with preparation for breastfeeding, during the days following birth, and continuing throughout the breastfeeding period through weaning. The course provides a wide range of tools for coping with physiological and emotional situations that may arise during breastfeeding. This course is a milestone toward certification as a lactation consultant.
Course Coordinator:
Julie Schor: Breastfeeding counselor, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC); director of the breastfeeding division at Dyada.
Opening Session: 7.11.2011
Day and Times: Mondays from 9:00-14:00
No. of Classes: 22 + 10 internship classes / Total Hours: 147 academic hours + 50 hours of internship in a maternity ward
Location: Laniado Hospital
Terms of Acceptance: Personal interview; ability to learn from academic material in English
The course covers the following subjects:
Anatomy of mother and child; endocrinology and physiology of mother and child; biochemistry and nutrition, the immune system and infectious diseases; pathology; psychology, sociology and anthropology, research analysis, developmental milestones and growth parameters, breastfeeding techniques, and public health.
Suitable course graduates will be included in the Dyada staff of breastfeeding counselors as required.
Course for Training Mother and Baby Support Group LeadersCoordinator: Michal Osri Ben-Or
About the Course:
This is a course for women who would like to lead support groups for mothers and babies needing to share their experience, through professional support, after giving birth. The course provides leadership and communication skills and expertise, together with a deep and broad acquaintance with ways to accompany new mothers and their families.
Course Coordinator:
Michal Osri Ben-Or: Certified group leader in the fields of pregnancy, parenting and family; head of training in leadership and communications.
Opening Session: 3.11.2011
Day and Times: Thursdays from 9:00-14:00
Location: Dyada Center – Tel Aviv Port
No. of Classes: 26 Total Hours: 173
Terms of Acceptance: Personal interview. In addition, candidates must be mother to at least one child; group leaders; women with experience in helping/treating women and families, or in working in the fields of pregnancy and birth.
The course covers the following subjects:
Expertise in leading groups of mothers and babies; processing the birth experience; “The Birth of a Mother”; emotions following birth; myths about motherhood; intimacy after birth; acclimation of the infant to the world; motherhood and career; and more.
Suitable course graduates will be included in the Dyada staff of group leaders as required.
Post-Partum Doula CourseProfessional Coordinator: Gila Ronel Course Coordinator: Nirit Olivkovich
About the Course:
A post-partum doula is a woman who accompanies a new mother as needed and gives emotional and physical support to the mother and the family in the days and weeks after birth. The time after a first birth especially is a period filled with questions and insecurity, a time when the unknown becomes known, a time of feeling things out and searching for each person’s place in the new family structure. Into the confusion, uncertainty and change, and into the joy and the tears, comes the doula.
A post-partum doula gives general support at home – from washing a few dishes to putting up a pot of soup. A post-partum doula can advise on the daily care of mother and baby, watching the new mother nurse and guiding her towards better positioning, recognizing difficulties and recommending a lactation consultant if needed. The post-partum doula is there when the mother needs someone to listen, and the baby’s father will know the new mother is not alone when he is not at home. A post-partum doula can advise when the baby cries or is unsettled, or when the baby… what is he or she trying to tell us anyway?
This is a unique course that is laying the foundation for a new profession that will accompany a new mother and family in the first days after birth.
Course Coordinators:
The course is run under the professional guidance of
Gila Ronel, professional manager of the Dyada Group. Guiding the course is
Nirit Olivkovich, a certified breastfeeding consultant, post-partum doula and birth doula, and the instructor of Dyada’s “Information after Birth.”
Opening Session: 7.11.2011
Day and Times: Mondays from 16:00-20:00
No. of Classes: 16 Total Hours: 85
Location: Dyada Center, Tel Aviv Port
Terms of Acceptance: Personal interview.
The course covers the following subjects:
Processing the birth experience; the woman after giving birth (spiritually and physically); first steps in parenthood; Baby comes home: getting to know baby and his needs; solutions to frequent problems for mother and baby; breastfeeding; baby massage; and more. The various topics will be covered by the Dyada professional staff of experts in pregnancy, breastfeeding and infant care.
Course for Training Infant Massage and Baby Yoga Instructors
Coordinator: Sharon Charkham
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to train students for the instruction of massage for babies and baby yoga. The course focuses on the shape and development of the infant, as well as touch techniques and various exercises benefiting baby’s health as well as emotional and motor development.
Course Coordinator:
Sharon Charkham: Infant massage and baby yoga instructor; childbirth and breastfeeding preparation instructor.
Opening Session: 2.11.2011
Day and Times: Wednesdays from 9:00-14:00
No. of Classes: 20 Total Hours: 133
Location: Dyada Center – Tel Aviv Port
Terms of Acceptance: Personal interview. – Participants are professionals in the fields of care, physiotherapy, pregnancy and birth.
The course covers the following subjects:
Infant physiology and anatomy; psychomotoric development in the first year; recognition of needs; various methods of touch and contact; infant shiatsu; massage - both general and for specific problems; baby yoga – the method; baby yoga exercises; group dynamics and more.
Suitable course graduates will be included in the Dyada team of infant massage and baby yoga instructors when applicable.
Course for Training Instructors in “Music and Movement for Parents and Children”
Coordinator: Malka Dunsky
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to train instructors in “Music and Movement for Parents and Children.” The professional content of the course focuses on expertise in leadership and communication, on movement and music activities, and on the motor and psychological development of toddlers. The training concentrates on the first four years of a child’s life, and gives the instructors tools for group activities in music and movement. Course participants will practice group leadership, guided by professional instruction.
The experiential learning process leads to communication expertise and applicable tools for group leadership, as well as enhanced knowledge in everything related to the child.
Course Coordinator:
Malka Dunsky, family counselor and group leader at Dyada for the past six years, is coordinator of the “Gan Together” program at Dyada. She has a BA in early childhood education, and rich experience in the education system working with parents and children.
Opening Session: 7.11.2011
Day and Times: Mondays from 9:00-14:00
No. of Classes: 25 + 5 internship classes
Total Hours: 167 academic hours + internship
Location: Dyada Center – Tel Aviv Port
Terms of Acceptance: Personal interview.
The course covers the following subjects:
Music, movement, leadership training, motor development in early childhood, emotional development in early childhood.
Suitable course graduates will be included in the Dyada team of instructors when applicable.
