Program
(Please take note that there might be changes)
Friday 11 September
From 10.00: Optional School Visits and Walking Tour. Details will be announced and shared with our participants as soon as possible.
14.00: Registration opens at the conference venue Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Bergen. Make sure you pick up your complimentary tickets to Fløibanen for the Opening Reception.
16.00-17.30: Transport with the funicular Fløibanen to Fløien Folkerestaurant
18.00: Official Opening Reception with Norwegian tapas (snacks, not full dinner) at Fløien Folkerestaurant
Saturday 12 September
09.00 – 16.00: 7th Nordic Montessori Conference
Speakers:
- Michael Dorer: The Transformative Power of Storytelling
- Tomas Myklebust: Communication and the Social Brain
- Carla Foster and Madlena Ulrich: Living Grammar
- Lynne Lawrence: Topic to be announced
18.00: The conference concludes with a standing buffet dinner at King Håkon’s Hall.
King Håkon´s Hall is more than seven hundred and fifty years old and was built by King Håkon Håkonsson between 1247 and 1261 as a royal residence and feasting hall. It’s a hall worthy of Kings – and Montessorians! During the dinner, children from local Montessori schools will sing for us.
On Sunday 13 September you have the opportunity to participate in an additional professional development day, where you can choose between four different topics: Leadership, Storytelling and Cosmic Education, Practical Life (0-6) and Special Needs.
More detailed information can be found here.