About Dafna
CV, personal info, etc.
Interactive, active, and experiential
By incorporating practical, attachment, and somatic based activities every 45 minutes, Dafna helps you stay engaged, energized, and focused. The simplicity of these activities and the interactive quality of Dafna’s training approach prepares you to implement these strategies with your clients the very next day.
Accessible and interactive
Dafna is not afraid to share her vulnerabilities and brings every learning nugget to a personal, digestible level. Trainees attest that they immediately feel at ease and eager to participate in Dafna’s trainings.
Bringing “theory to body”
Dafna has devised ways of breaking down the most abstract and theoretical concepts into learning exercises aimed at bringing “theory to body”. After all, all true learning happens through experience. See a clip of Dafna’s hands-on teaching style here (link)
Treatment Observation and Analysis
Dafna’s trainings are chock-full of videos from clinical families who have given permission for their treatment to be shared. In Dafna’s training, you will have the opportunity to analyze behaviors or parents and children on a micro-level so as to become a keen observer of physiological changes that occur moment to moment.
Personalized Teaching
Dafna has worked in many different settings: day cares, educational settings, residential center, therapeutic foster care, in-home services and after school programs. She has a breadth of experience and can translate her teaching to many work settings.
Multilingual and Multicultural
Dafna is a traveller and wanderer - she teaches in four languages (English, Hebrew, French and Spanish) and has taught Theraplay and DDP trainings in 15 countries.
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