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
Now Available! "API's 8 Principles of Parenting" From API's 15th Anniversary Think Tank Event
Register now to listen to Lu Hanessian host two hours of enlightening and encouraging pre-recorded discussion from API's 15th Anniversary Think Tank Event featuring Dr. William Sears, Martha Sears, Dr. James McKenna, Ina May Gaskin, Dr. Isabelle Fox, Mary Ann Cahill, Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker.
Enjoy the exchange among these experts, listen to their responses to questions of our time, and hear their answers to questions from the audience. Make your purchase now at the regular API Live teleseminar price -- before the price goes up. Enjoy this special value as our holiday gift to you!
March 9 - March 11, 2012 - Hear API Advisory Board member, James McKenna, PhD, and other noted speakers, present at the La Leche League of Illinois Breastfeeding Conference in March.
La Leche League of Illinois presents, "Breastfeeding, Roots to Wings" at the Holiday Inn, Schaumburg/Rolling Meadows, IL on March 9-11, 2012. Early registration deadline is fast approaching. Online Registration is LIVE and ready to go! Please come and register now. Come for one speaker, one day or all 3 days.
Hear from speakers including Dr. James McKenna, Director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at Notre Dame University, who studies how sleeping and co-sleeping environments affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants' physiological and psychological well-being and development (CERP session); Diana Cassar-Uhl, IBCLC, passionate about being an agent for change -- come listen to her presentation on Vitamin D and its role in breastfeeding mothers, and supporting mothers with mammary hypoplasia/insufficient glandular tissue (CERP session); and Marian Tompson (LLLI founder), featuring her newest book, Passionate Journey, My Unexpected Life.
April 18 - 20, 2012 - Attachment Parenting International is pleased to be a nonprofit sponsor of the 9th Annual Young Child Expo & Conference 2012 in New York. The Young Child Expo & Conference offers useful information to professionals and parents in order to help all young children learn, grow and reach their full potential. This conference brings more than 1000 people together across all kinds of programs, disciplines, and interest areas from speech pathologists to parents, to those working in children's museums, day care centers, preschools, and those working with children who have autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or other special needs. In one unique event, this conference integrates learning about typically developing children as well as those with special needs, including autism. Meet Bob McGrath (original cast member of Sesame Street), Maria Hinajosa (of NPR fame), John Archambault (author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom). and Raun Kaufman (from the Son-Rise program). Seating is limited and group registration discounts are available. For all details and online registration go to www.youngchildexpo.com.
Past Events for 2012
January 23, 2012 - Playing for Keeps: Play that Keeps Love, Creativity, and Belonging First, featuring international play expert Fred Donaldson. Monday, January 23, 2012 at 9pm EST/6pm PST. Dr. Fred Donaldson has played with thousands of people all over the world. Don't miss this interview with a rare and wise man who knows how power of play can heal us all. Register now to listen live to the teleseminar and receive a downloadable recording of the teleseminar.
