During the past year over 500 people received ICDP training by the Danish ICDP Centre. The participants represent a diversity of professionals, both in the educational and health sectors – Dansk Center for ICDP – http://danskcenterfor-icdp.dk/
Read their about the many and diverse activities of the Danish centre in their Annual report 2025. A few snippets taken from that report:
We developed a lot of new materials, and in 2026, we our focus will be on the dissemination and implementation of these new initiatives – both internally and externally. We continue to work to position ourselves in the education market in Denmark.
It is with great pleasure and pride that we can present this year’s 4 new trainers. Together, they have taught 60 professionals in the ICDP programme. The 4 new trainers are fantastic ambassadors for the ICDP programme.
Psychologists Nete Rysgård and Maja Line Volden (on photo above) are new certified ICDP trainers – and therefore they were celebrated with brunch and flowers. Nete and Maja have trained pedagogical staff, including childminders from Odense Municipality, in ICDP at level 1 with great professionalism and good humour. The evaluations among the participants show that they felt strengthened in their pedagogical core professionalism – and as a side benefit, increased job satisfaction.
Daycare center manager Tina Maria Dalgård Sommer and Pedagogical Consultant Anne Moos have completed their ICDP trainer training in the day leading up to Christmas. Tina teaches her employees in ICDP and will subsequently be responsible for teaching the organization’s employees internally.
Anne Moos is trained by another provider but is now dedicated as a treasured ICDP trainer in the Danish Center for ICDP. She has been employed as an internal ICDP trainer and supervisor in Tønder Municipality.
Psychologist in Odense municipality, Helene Helskov, has been trained as an ICDP master-trainee at level 4. During the spring of 2025, Helene has with great skill and good humor, taught a bunch of committed daycare educators and educators from the daycare area at level 2, so that they are now certified in the art of providing relationship-based guidance. Helene uses her professional background in psychology to create a learning space with a high professional quality.
Network for trainers: All our approx. 40 certified trainees we meet face to face once a year. Where there is a focus on professional upskilling and networking. In addition, the trainees are divided into professional networks. In these networks, they meet regularly online and discuss professional issues and challenges.
Webinats: There has been a lot of interest in the registrations for our free webinar that we regularly hold.
1.The resilience framework and ICDP by associate professor and ICDP trainer Ida Skytte Jakobsen.
2.Relationship-based conflict Work by ICDP trainer Ugur Kevioglu
3.Empathy in Kindergarten by ICDP-Consultant Elise Linder
4.Quality improvement in daycare by Centre manager Anne Linder and ICDP trainer Sebastian Damkjær-Ohlsen
5. Supervision and inspection of the relational environment in Daycare by ICDP trainer Sebastian Damkjær-Ohlsen
News in 2026:
- In 2026, Elise Linder will take over as Center Director and Head of Professional Development for the Danish Center for ICDP. She replaces Anne Linder, who has chosen to enjoy her retirement with very reduced working hours.
- In the coming year, we plan to start a small development project with the aim of using ICDP as a pedagogical mindset for people working in the voluntary sector.
- Collaboration with The house of Song, a national institution that works to spread song among the Danish population. We intend to publish a joint material with a focus on singing and ICDP for the very youngest.
- We are planning a national ICDP conference in Southern Jutland together with Tønder municipality and the publisher Dafolo.