13.-14.2.2025 and 7.-8.4.2025
D-EIS/MIM scoring International Reliability Practicum
The goal of this practicum is to guide and get participants reliable in scoring DEIS developed for the MIM observation protocol. The practicum is for people who have attended the 4-day Basic MIM training and want to earn international reliability.
Nurture and Play – mentalizing based parent-child interaction intervention 2025
Nurture and Play – parent-child intervention is a short-term intervention based on Theraplay-therapy (www,theraplay.fi) and mentalizing theory. Through active, playful interaction sessions utilizing embodied mentalizing, e.g., reciprocal activities…
9.-10.6.2025
Advanced Online MIM/DEIS training – Working with Families and couples (Family and Couples MIM)
Background:
Models that look only at the effects of social interaction patterns in father-child or mother-child dyads are inadequate for understanding the impact of interaction patterns on the whole family system. The family systems’ view provides a coherent foundation and framework for such efforts.
10.-11.4.2025
DEIS/MIM Advanced training– Working in pregnancy, infancy and with toddlers
Pregnancy is a period where emotional relationships (mother-fetal attachment, MFA) and prenatal reflective functioning are formed. They serve to prepare for the early caregiving, a system that overrides one’s own attachment needs (a.ka. motherhood constellation, D. Stern) t a certain extent. Parental own attachment models are activated and re-worked during the psychological preparatory process of becoming a parent. MIM work may be especially helpful in enhancing the emotional availability and increasing both the attachment as well as reflectiveness (i.e., treating the baby as a separate person).
27.-28.3 and 3.-4.6.2025
Marschak Interaction Method Skills Training with Dyadic Emotional Interaction Style scoring (D-EIS)
What: The Marschak Interaction Method (MIM; Marschak, 1960) is a structured technique for observing and assessing the overall quality and nature of relationships between caregivers and child. It consists of a series of simple tasks designed to elicit interactive behaviors…