WEBINAR

Loving Weaning

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€50,00

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€40,00

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Description

Many parents who seek professional support today arrive with a clear request: they want to sleep train. For professionals, this often creates tension.

On one side, much of the available guidance is rooted in behavioural sleep training models, promising predictability and fast results. On the other, there is a growing body of work emphasising normal infant sleep, responsiveness, and developmental variability. Lean too strongly toward one, and you risk alienating families who expect the other. Try to balance both, and it can be difficult to articulate a coherent position.

Rather than asking whether sleep training is “right” or “wrong,” the session explores how sleep training emerged historically, how it became embedded in parenting advice, and why it remains so compelling to both parents and professionals. By understanding where these ideas come from — and what social, cultural, and scientific assumptions they carry. Professionals gain a clearer view of where current approaches are helpful, where they fall short, and why families often feel conflicted.

The session introduces a broader bio-sociocultural lens on infant sleep, inviting professionals to think beyond technique and toward context: family values, cultural expectations, parental capacity, and the meanings attached to sleep. This perspective supports more grounded conversations with parents and helps professionals clarify their own stance, rather than reacting to polarised debates.

Understanding the history of sleep training is not an academic exercise. It offers practical insight into how parents interpret advice today and how professionals can guide families in ways that feel both ethical and effectively.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Place contemporary sleep training debates within their historical and cultural context, rather than treating them as purely technical choices
• Recognise why sleep training remains attractive to many families and professionals, even when it does not fully meet families’ needs
• Identify the limitations of both behavioural-only and “normal sleep” framings when used in isolation
• Begin mapping their own professional position using a bio-sociocultural lens that supports clearer communication and alignment with the families they serve