Scheduled Live Classes: a guided learning experience
Some of our courses are offered as scheduled classes when resources permit. These real-time classes offer a structured format that many students prefer. Participants watch the week's video lecture by Dr. Gordon Neufeld on their own schedule before attending a live online session with a faculty member who will help clarify key concepts and respond to questions. Classes are recorded so students can catch up later if having to miss.
Participants of scheduled classes also receive a 12-month campus study pass along with supplementary resources, study guides, and a course certificate.
Former and current students of a particular course can enroll in a scheduled class for a modest fee of $50 CAD, enabling them to join a scheduled cohort in real-time to enrich or refresh their learning experience.
Upcoming Scheduled Classes
Intensive I: Making Sense of Kids
Starts September 26, 2025
Tuesdays 01:00PM - 02:00PM PT
Runs for 22 weeks
Anchored by Karen Bollman
$600 CAD
Intensive I provides the conceptual foundations of Neufeld's approach. Participants are equipped to use the constructs of attachment, maturation and vulnerability to view children and their problems three-dimensionally.
Alpha Children
Starts September 30, 2025
Tuesdays 01:00PM - 02:00PM PT
Runs for 4 weeks
With Lisa Weiner and Robin Brooks-Sherriff
$135 CAD early bird (regular $150)
Alpha children are not only more challenging to parent but also predisposed to a number of problems including anxiety, aggression, oppositionality and eating problems.
Intensive II: The Separation Complex
Starts October 16, 2025
Thursdays 11:00AM - 12:30PM PT
Runs for 17 weeks
With Genevieve Schreier
$750 CAD
Building on Intensive I, this course sheds light upon the impact of separation on a child's personality and behavior. When the developmental antecedents are understood, the path to effective intervention becomes clear.
Intensive III: Becoming Attached
Starts October 27, 2025
Mondays 11:00AM - 12:30PM PT
Runs for 17 weeks
With Genevieve Schreier
$750 CAD
Becoming Attached unfolds and expands the six roots of attachment and puts the focus more on adults than in the first two levels. The course is also a journey through Dr. Neufeld's earlier theoretical development which created the puzzle pieces that ultimately came together in the six roots of attachment.
Scheduled Class tuition includes access to:
- Dr. Gordon Neufeld’s video lectures
- Faculty-facilitated scheduled online classes: live & interactive (+ access to class recordings)
- Discussion Forum to ask questions
- Study guide
- Supplementary course resources
- 12 months of course access
- Course attendance certificate
Making Sense of Kids: developmental science in practice
in over 35 languages
Neufeld's attachment-based developmental approach is grounded in over five decades of work as a clinical psychologist, university instructor, and developmental theorist. In 2004, he shared some of these insights in the book Hold On to Your Kids, which helped awaken parents and professionals worldwide to the importance of attachment and developmental science. Many who first discovered the approach through the book have gone on to deepen their understanding through the Neufeld Institute’s 30+ courses. Today, a growing network of language programs and dedicated language directors actively bring these life-changing insights to communities in their own languages and cultural contexts.
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Charity & Non-Profit Status
The Neufeld Institute is a registered Canadian charitable organization under the name Neufeld Institute Foundation and is also registered as a NPO in British Columbia. If you would like to make a contribution to us, please go to our donation page.
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