Editor’s Note: The following was provided by the Irvin L Young Memorial Library.
Do you and your young kids love to sing, dance, and play musical instruments? Do you wish you had new parenting strategies to handle stress, meltdowns, and challenging behaviors?
Sign up for “Sing, Dance, Thrive!” and enjoy musical fun, caregiver-child bonding, expressive dancing, and easy-to-use stress management and parenting strategies for children ages infant to five. Participants will use imaginative music, stories, and movement activities to explore common childhood and parenting challenges and engage in proactive, whole-brain methods to prevent meltdowns, meet children in the midst of big feelings, and move from reactivity to connection and receptivity. Participants take home a binder with weekly parenting resources, musical strategy song sheets, and adult and children’s book lists. We can’t wait for you to join us on this musical journey towards connection, joy, and family bonding.
The class will be taught by Noelle (Werner) Larson. She is a Board-Certified Music Therapist, graduate of Whitewater High School and Berklee College of Music, and the owner of Circle of Song Music Therapy, LLC. Noelle has a passion for helping clients and participants to “Connect, Thrive, and Come Alive Through Music”, strengthen family relationships, learn adaptive coping strategies, and experience wonder and joy through the delight of participating in live music making. Whether she is serving young children or senior citizens, individuals in hospice care or children and adults with special needs, Noelle feels honored to help each client work toward their goals and find meaningful connections through music.
A Kick-off event to learn more about the class will be held on Saturday, October 1 at 10:00 a.m. The six-week class session will be held Fridays, October 7 through November 11 at 3:20-4:00 p.m. at the Irvin L Young Memorial Library’s Community Room located at 431 W. Center Street in Whitewater.
There is no cost to attend, but please register in advance at whitewaterlibrary.org or at https://forms.gle/u6zx9hMn5RPvA6LG6
Email sfrench@whitewater-wi.gov or call 262-473-0530 with any questions or for more information.
