AMI Refresher 0-12 years

Dr Louise Livigingson is an AMI Trainer with many years of experience working with children in Montessori environments, latterly running the Maria Montessori Institute’s exemplar School in Notting Hill. She directs the Institute’s 3-6 courses and is Head of Training overseeing all of the Institute’s training offers from 0 -18 – including workshops, certificates and diplomas. She also mentors the Maria Montessori school’s teachers. She is an AMI Trainer of Trainers, having mentored many Trainers in Training from start to finish in the UK and China and a member of the AMI Training Group. She is an AMI examiner and lectures both in the UK and internationally. She has been involved in AMI’s work in China since 2007 and has been instrumental in supporting and co-ordinating the growth of an AMI Faculty in China including both international and local AMI Trainers.

Louise also holds an MSc and a PhD in Educational Neuroscience. She is a key member of the AMI Global Research Group and is committed to promoting research-based education.

Louise is a leading figure in the Montessori world and is beloved by her former students around the world. She has driven forward ongoing professional development opportunities for Montessorians in the UK and around the world including continuing to develop the ground-breaking Post Diploma MMI Observation Course available to communities outside of the UK as well as recently trailblazing our new Montessori and Learning Difference course, which takes a neurodevelopmental approach to inclusion, based on the neuroscience of development and learning.