Neuro-Pédayoga Certification — 100 hours over 12 months | November 2026 Cohort

Transform the way you are present to transform the way you support children.

The first Neuro-Pédayoga cohort invites you to experience a journey of personal and professional transformation, exploring applied neuroscience, the Pédayoga technique, coaching, and mindfulness.

Over 12 months, you will take the time to explore your reactions, practice, try new ways of teaching, and reflect on your experiences. You will learn to know yourself better while developing concrete skills to support children with presence, discernment, and creativity.

A new 100-hour certification, intended for adults. First cohort scheduled for November 2026.

The curriculum in images

A training program that brings together France Hutchison's journey

This journey unites France Hutchison’s perspectives as a parent, coach, educator, and yoga and mindfulness teacher. The parent's experience brings attention to daily life and its unforeseen events. Coaching opens a space to question your habits and choose your next actions. Pedagogy structures learning. Yoga and mindfulness invite you to experience the practices in your own body before transmitting them.

This approach welcomes the adult with their history, strengths, and limitations. It offers the opportunity to develop a more conscious presence, a more intentional practice, and a way of supporting that also respects your own needs.

Ten objectives to evolve your stance and your practice

1. Know yourself better in your role as a supporter. Identify your values, your expectations, and the situations that trigger your reactions. Distinguish what belongs to your own experience from what you are actually observing in the child.
2. Develop your ability to pause before acting. Recognize your signs of tension and experiment with breathing, movement, and attention practices. Build a short personal routine and observe what works for you.
3. Take a more nuanced look at behaviors. Describe a situation without reducing the child to a label. Formulate several hypotheses about their needs and adjust your response based on your observations.
4. Connect applied neuroscience to concrete pedagogical choices. Explain key concepts regarding attention, emotions, stress, and learning in accessible terms. Justify your activity choices by distinguishing between established knowledge, hypotheses, and personal observations.
5. Develop an attentive relational presence. Practice listening, ask questions that open the dialogue, and adjust your tone, rhythm, and instructions. Offer a clear framework, choices, and real space for the child's participation.
6. Experience yoga and mindfulness to better transmit them. Explore postures, movement, breathing, and attention in your own practice. Learn to guide with accessible instructions, adaptations, and respect for individual limits.
7. Create a sequence based on the children's profile. Observe their interests, abilities, sensory needs, and context. Define an objective, choose activities, prepare transitions, and provide several ways to participate.
8. Facilitate with flexibility and discernment. Recognize when to simplify an instruction, slow down, modify an activity, or offer a break. Evaluate your session based on participation and observations, then explain the adjustments made.
9. Support while respecting your own limits. Recognize your needs, clarify what falls within your role, and formulate boundaries. Develop realistic habits to support your engagement over the long term.
10. Give concrete shape to your evolution. Design a 20-hour personal project related to your reality: an adapted sequence, a workshop cycle, or a pedagogical approach. Document your choices, your experimentation, and the adjustments to be pursued.

Why a 12-month cohort?

Time is part of the process: discovering a concept, experiencing it, trying it out with children, observing what happens, and returning with your questions. Monthly meetings and three group coaching sessions offer opportunities to step back and learn from shared experiences.

Throughout the journey, you will be invited to observe your own evolution: your reactions, your choices, your way of setting a framework, and your ability to adapt your activities. The targeted transformation is reflected in these daily actions.

Welcome to former Pédayoga participants! This new, comprehensive certification does not replace previous trainings. It opens a new path combining applied neuroscience and the Pédayoga technique.

The training is intended for educators, teachers, caregivers, children's yoga instructors, parents, and adults wishing to enrich their way of supporting children.

A 100-hour journey over 12 months

• Minimum of 80 hours of training, combining pre-recorded content, learning, and support.
• 20 hours dedicated to a personal project to put the learning into practice.

The journey specifically leads you to observe children's needs, choose relevant activities, and create a yoga sequence adapted to their profile, rhythm, and context.

Learn at your own pace, with support

• Pre-recorded training content.
• One live meeting per month for 12 months, with recordings available to review discussions.
• Downloadable pedagogical resources.
• Three group coaching meetings, the dates and themes of which will be determined once the cohort is formed.

Monthly meeting schedule

One 30-minute meeting per month, on the first Monday of each month. Two time slots available: from 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. or from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Ottawa time. Meetings are recorded. The dates and themes for the three group coaching meetings will be determined once the cohort is formed.

Introductory offer

$995 CAD until October 1, 2026.
After October 1, 2026: $1,995 CAD.

An opportunity to join the very first cohort of this new certification and evolve your practice with children.