Scheduled Live Classes: a guided learning experience
Some of our courses are offered as scheduled classes when resources permit. These real-time classes offer a structured format that many students prefer. Participants watch the week's video lecture by Dr. Gordon Neufeld on their own schedule before attending a live online session with a faculty member who will help clarify key concepts and respond to questions. Classes are recorded so students can catch up later if having to miss.
Participants of scheduled classes also receive 12-month course access along with supplementary resources, study guides, and a course certificate.
Former and current students of a particular course can enrol in a scheduled class for a modest fee of $50 CAD, enabling them to join a scheduled cohort in real-time to enrich or refresh their learning experience.
Upcoming Scheduled Classes
Classes Start: September 16, 2026
Wednesdays 10:00AM – 11:00AM PT
Runs for 10 weeks
With Michele Maurer and Lisa Weiner
$350 CAD
Fresh understandings of marriage come from viewing the coupling phenomenon through the lenses of attachment, emotion, and development.
Classes Start: October 1, 2026
Thursdays 9:30 AM PT (6:30 PM CET)
Runs for 5 weeks
Led by Urška Žugelj. Each week she is joined by a faculty member.
With Dr. Neufeld joining for the final session.
$150 CAD
This course unfolds Neufeld's ground-breaking model of attachment — the result of decades of synthesis, inspired by the physical and natural sciences, and built upon the most recent understandings of the brain, emotion and development.
Classes Start: October 9, 2026
Fridays 12:30PM – 01:30PM PT
Runs for 22 weeks
Anchored by Karen Bollman
$650 CAD
Intensive I provides the conceptual foundations of Neufeld's approach. Participants are equipped to use the constructs of attachment, maturation, and vulnerability to view children and their problems three-dimensionally.
Classes Start: October 15, 2026
Thursdays 11:00AM – 12:30PM PT
Runs for 17 weeks
With Genevieve Schreier
$800 CAD
Building on Intensive I, this course sheds light upon the impact of separation on a child's personality and behaviour. When the developmental antecedents are understood, the path to effective intervention becomes clear.
Classes Start: October 23, 2026
Fridays 10:00 – 11:00 AM PT
Runs for 5 weeks
With Gordon Neufeld and Heather Ferguson
$175 CAD
Aggression problems are deeply rooted in instinct and emotion and are therefore resistant to conventional discipline practices. Dr. Neufeld uncovers these roots and outlines steps to addressing them.
Started - But registrations are still open...
Classes Start: April 29, 2026
Registration Closes: May 17, 2026
Wednesdays 10:00 – 11:30 AM PT
Runs for 7 weeks
With Jule Epp and Karen Bollman
$250 CAD
This course provides a fresh look at the causes and consequences of sensory overload in the brain and its role in a spectrum of syndromes, including autism, and to a lesser extent, some forms of giftedness as well as attention problems.
Scheduled Class tuition includes access to:
- Dr. Gordon Neufeld’s video lectures
- Faculty-facilitated scheduled online classes: live & interactive (+ access to class recordings)
- Discussion Forum to ask questions
- Study guide
- Supplementary course resources
- 12 months of course access
- Course attendance certificate
Making Sense of Kids: developmental science in practice
in over 35 languages
Neufeld's attachment-based developmental approach is grounded in over five decades of work as a clinical psychologist, university instructor, and developmental theorist. In 2004, he shared some of these insights in the book Hold On to Your Kids, which helped awaken parents and professionals worldwide to the importance of attachment and developmental science. Many who first discovered the approach through the book have gone on to deepen their understanding through the Neufeld Institute’s 30+ courses. Today, a growing network of language programs and dedicated language directors actively bring these life-changing insights to communities in their own languages and cultural contexts.
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Charity & Non-Profit Status
The Neufeld Institute is a registered Canadian charitable organization under the name Neufeld Institute Foundation and is also registered as a NPO in British Columbia. If you would like to make a contribution to us, please go to our donation page.
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