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Message----- Dear
Mrs. Powell Thank
you very much for your e-mail. The info you have about our activity [lecture by Albert Pesso on December 3rd, 2004]
is correct and I agree that it is very limited, sorry about that. So,
here are some further details, feel free to use anything of following info: (1) The
lecture is open to the public, however we have invited many people from the
fostering (&adoption) field as well as from the field of helping young
leavers from institutions. Altogether it makes about 75 - 80 people. The tickets
were sold out very quickly and at the moment there is a waiting list. It is
quite obvious that we cloud have organize it for much wider group of people, so
maybe next time. So I would say it is for people specialized in substitute care
for children and youngsters, who can not live with their biological parents. (2) The
Natama Institute focuses on development of foster care in the Czech Republic (I
have to say that as it unfortunately still bears many features of the
communist way of institutionalized care for abandoned kids.). I have worked with
Albert personally and I have been through "Pesso" therapy myself so I
know quite a lot about it. As well Albert's Dutch colleague Iman Baardman has
been working with us and he and I have decided to develop a special type of
training for future foster care-givers. I would like to discuss this idea with
Albert and I hope that there will be some time - I am very positive that the
"Pesso Boyden Approach" is excellent for helping people to
understand what abandoned, abused, neglected child needs are like and what
foster care-givers can do in order to help such a child. That is
also a topic of the lecture on the 2nd December. I very
much hope that it is just a start (!) and I will put all effort in
developing the idea of Pesso Boyden Approach in Fostering further. (3) The
web site is: www.natama.cz . However, at the
moment the English section of our web is rather small and does not provide
very satisfactory info on our activities and goals. The Czech version is much
better and quite informative. It would be good, if people contact us -
especially later, after we will have developed special methodology of
integrating Pesso Boyden Approach to fostering, so we could share the
experience. But as you see, we are at the very beginning and it is on its
way and I need to discuss it in details with Albert and Iman. I hope
that this is of help, shall you need anything else, feel free to contact us any
time. I feel very honored that Albert is doing it and I hope for further
co-operation. Best
regards Petra
Vrtbovska Natama
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