The MamaDances Facilitator Training Programs ( Online or In-person) are  comprehensive training programs designed specifically for dance facilitators interested in offering mother and baby and/or parents and children dance classes.
The program covers all important elements of creating and leading successful classes, including safe and gentle exercises and movement patterns, choreographies, music selection, class plans, recordings of real life examples and more.

This programs provide a new professional development opportunity, which could provide the path to a more fun, flexible, family-friendly career. 

It is ideal for experienced dance artists/ teachers/facilitators/instructors who wish to extend their skills to include dance classes for mothers and babies and/or for parents and children or enhance what they are already doing.

It may also benefit dance/movement therapists, perinatal support professionals ( doulas, lactation consultants, baby-wearing consultatnts, baby massage therapists, postnatal fitness trainers, pre and postnatal yoga teachers) or pre-school and primary school teachers/educators who have a strong movement background and wish to enhance or implement their own programs.

The candidate should be in a physical condition that allows facilitation, including demonstration, although the sequences are not extremely physically strenuous. They do require energy, enthousiasm, skill and concentration. The facilitator is required to dance and provide vocal guidance at the same time. 

Upon completion of the program, the trainee will receive a Certificate of Completion of 35 hours for each training completed. 

Completing this program will support facilitation of Mother and Baby or Parent and Child Dance classes by incorporating the course content into your programming at your own discretion, and to respond to job offers in the field.

The teacher’s accreditation would appear as …” ( name of teacher) has completed the MamaDances Facilitator Training. ..or ( Name) is the recipient of Certification of Completion of The MamaDances Facilitator Training program.

A successful further evaluation process would grant the use of the trademark name MamaDances™  if requested.

A Mom and Baby or Parent Child Dance facilitator has formal professional dance training or its equivalent in recreational dance experience, has some teaching experience and loves babies and children. Exceptions can be made for other professionals, such as perinatal support workers or yoga and fitness trainers with a passion to incorporate dance movement into their practices. 

For the in person studio training you will be asked to complete the registration form and then proceed  with your payment. We will be in touch about the details in the form.

Once the Certificate of Completion is acquired, at a later date, either in person or remotely, the trainee will have the option of receiving an evaluation. A successful evaluation is required if the intention is to follow the course curriculum exactly ( within reason) and to operate using the trademark name MamaDances. or MamanDanse or another translation of the same name.. Successful evaluation will give  the option to engage with MamaDances using the MamaDances Teachers Certification Agreement. Please communicate your desire to have an evaluation at the beginning of your training.

Eryn Dace Trudell herself has the right to grant (or not) the use of the MamaDancesTrademark name, depending on the results of her final evaluation.

The objective of this training is education. MamaDances is not a Franchise. 

If use of the trademark name is desired and the evaluation is positive, the signing of the MamaDances Facilitator Certification Agreement will allow the teacher to produce and operate their own classes ( satellites) using the MamaDances trademark and to offer the MamaDances program to an organization within their community. MamaDances may also offer you contracts. 

To the best of our ability we will provide ongoing support . The intention is to create a  Community. Community Membership membership provides the following options: opportunities for growth and continued learning, continued use of trademark name if rewarded, your teaching profile included on our web-site, listing of your classes (3 classes maximum per season), a link to your class registration page, updated class content and material, the use of our promotional materials, basic promotional support on our social media channels as well as other.

Your membership will also assist with the continuity of MamaDances.

Until further notice, membership will be included in the purchase of this program.

MamaDances uses pre-recorded music for its dances and exercises. You are given a playlist, but are required to purchase the music or follow the guidlines for music rights in your country of practice.

You may want to purchase certain supplies needed to deliver the different MamaDances programs – during the training, such supplies will be supplied.

Host of many festivals, Montreal is very busy during the summer. We suggest that if you are coming from outside Montreal, you start looking for accommodation as soon as you register for the Training.

If you are coming with you children, we also encourage you to inform us in advance, so we can try to help you with finding childcare.

If many participants come accompanied by their children, the cost of a babysitter during the course could be divided among them.

This family friendly, flexible career path is where you create your own schedule and define your own working hours. You can take complete pride in the development of community in your neighbourhood or city. 

As a trained facilitator, you will acquire the ability to offer high-quality mother and baby and/or parents and children dance classes, earn more money as an instructor, and make a positive impact on the lives of mothers and their babies and/or parents and their children - all with complete confidence.

MamaDances provides supplementary revenue to local studios through hourly rental or additional programming, and can provide visibility to local businesses through promotional partnerships and affiliate marketing campaigns. MamaDances can be an addition to programming in community centres, cultural organization, dance schools, studios or other appropriate venues for physical exploration with similar vales.

• Discover new professional development opportunities in dance and movement facilitation
• Find flexible, family-friendly career pathways
• Learn about innovative approaches to parent-child and mom and baby programming
• Connect with the founder of MamaDances ( Eryn Dace Trudell) and other experts in the field
• Stay updated on trends in creative movement, child development, and family engagement

The founder of MamaDances is a dance artist, and a mother.  The program was built out of necessity, at the convergence of those two roles. The training program for facilitators is the culmination of decades of experience in facilitating Mom and Baby and the Parent and Child Dance Programs in Montreal. Further, the MamaDances approach to postnatal dance has been scientifically and academically validated and documented in: “A Phenomenological Exploration of MamaDances as a Relational Art: The voices of the Mothers Dancing with their Babies” (Trudell, E., 2022). Participants have singled out the MamaDances approach as being the only activity that is structured to be beneficial for mother and baby, parent and child equally. MamaDances has a unique ability to embrace diversity and welcome all movers regardless of dance experience or physical condition. It is the only postnatal dance program that begins from the intention of connection, rather than expectations of form, physical fitness or child development. It is a relational art where parents and children, mothers and babies can strengthen and cultivate their connection to each other through embodied, attuned rhythmic activity based in somatic education, artistic intuition, and traditional, ritual and celabrational dance practices. 

MamaDances facilitator trainings are available for 2 programs

Mother and Baby Dance Facilitator Program
Parent and Child Dance Facilitator Program

You may also choose to train in both programs together 

As Quebec is a bilingual province these programs are given in French and English 

When payment is made in full, you will be granted access to the programs online so you may begin to prepare immediately. 

If you are paying in instalments, the online program will be made available to you when your payments are complete. 

Depending on the Program  you choose, you will learn a step-by-step guide to creating and leading successful mother and baby and/or parent child dance classes, as well as important tricks, movement studies and choreographies, music selection and more.

These programs are taught in English and French. If you are interested in having it translated into another language , please let us know.