API Event Schedule
API is committed to connecting parents with researchers and experts in the field of Attachment Parenting. To this goal, API participates in many events in the community, both online and in person. Bookmark this page and check back often for more specific announcements.
Upcoming Events
September 15-19 - API Reads. Attention all API Reads Participants!!! Come join in an online discussion with leading author and Attachment Parenting advocate, Jan Hunt. She will be taking time to sit down with our API members and premium forum subscribers to have an online discussion with you on the book, The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart. To help prepare you for this discussion, please join the API Reads program in reading and discussing together The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart for the months of August and September.
If you are already a paying API member, you will have access to this forum automatically. Please send your first name, last name, address, and forum ID to Stephanie Petters if you are interested in participating in the discussion with Jan Hunt. Not a member? How about joining today? Not interested in joining but you would like to participate in the forum? Please visit this link to subscribe.
The discussion with Jan Hunt will be September 15-19. So that Jan and you can truly participate in the online discussion together, please make sure you have read or are reading the book. Need a copy of the book? Please check API's store or purchase from Amazon.
September 24-27 - 20th Annual ATTACh Conference. Co-Founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker will be attending this conference in Charlotte, NC, to talk about and sign their new book. Conference details are online at http://attach.org/2008confinfo.pdf.
October 3-7 - Please join Infant Massage USA for the International Association of Infant Massage - Sweden 9th International Educational Conference and General Assembly in Denver, Colorado at the Omni Interlocken Resort. The conference takes place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 3rd - 5th and is followed by the General Assembly Monday & Tuesday, October 6th - 7th. Speakers include API Advisory Board member Stephen Bavolek of Nurturing Parenting; Douglas Teti, Faculty of Penn State University's Child Study Center; and Carole Oleksiak, board member of World Association for Infant Mental Health.
Highlights include honoring Vimala McClure, author of Infant Massage: A Handbook for Loving Parents and founder of the International Association of Infant Massage, and Audrey Downes, founding director. Barbara Nicholson will be doing a book signing during the event for the new book by she and Lysa Parker.
Register by August 29th for best prices.
October 17-19 - La Leche League of Washington Area Conference, The Caring Continuum. Marriott Redmond Towne Center, Redmond, WA, Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson will be presenting sessions along with Marian Tompson, La Leche League Founder, Pam Leo, author of Connection Parenting, Jan Hunt, founder of The Natural Child Project. For more information go to LLLI.org. Lysa and Barbara will be promoting their new book and doing a book signing at this event.
Past Events for 2008
August 15 - 16, 2008 - 36th Annual Seminar for Physicians on Breastfeeding: Partnering for Optimal Lactation Management and Support. The Westin Providence, Providence, RI. Join La Leche League of the Eastern US for this important seminar.
July 18 - 20, 2008 - La Leche League of Texas Area Conference, Changing Our World, One Texan at a Time. It will be held at the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport in Irving, TX. Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker will be presenting keynote and general session presentations. For more information go to LLLI.org. Lysa and Barbara will be promoting their new book and doing a book signing at this event.
July 11 & 12, 2008 - API's Parent Education Certification Course, Cape Cod, MA. Register to attend API's premier Parent Education Training Course. Receive professional training, materials, certification and follow-on support to teach API's Parent Education Classes in your community.
June 27, 2008 - Billy Dean & Friends Benefit Concert. Would you enjoy seeing and listening to a wonderful recording artist and multiple talented singer/songwriters? Would you love to support API at the same time? Then you will surely want to come to the "Billy Dean & Friends Benefit Concert"!
May 19 - 23, 2008 - Book of the Month Forum. Join authors Sura Hart and Victoria Hodson Kindle, the authors of Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids, in API's first premium book of the month forum. For a subscription fee of $4.99, members will be able to engage in lively discussion with the authors and other forum members. In addition to the week-long live discussion, the subscription will also include 30 days access to the discussion archives so that you can be sure that you don't miss a thing! Visit the Book of the Month Forum for details. You will need a forum login/password to participate in this forum. For more information, visit our forums.
May 17 - 18, 2008 - Whole Child, Whole Planet Expo, Highland Hall, Waldorf School Campus, Northridge, California. API will be exhibiting at the Expo and the Founders will be participating in panel discussions with Dr. Isabelle Fox. For more information go to WCWPExpo.com.
March 31, 2008 - Listen as Barbara and Lysa discuss their new book and what's in store for Attachment Parenting International.
