IAIM Trainers
Sylvie Hétu

Sylvie has a diploma in nutrition from Maisonneuve College (1976) and a BSc degree in Education from Montréal University (1980). Sylvie is also a qualified Steiner-teacher trained with l’Institut Rudolf Steiner au Québec (1998). She has taught primary school, as well biology and nutrition lessons to teenagers, and is an international lecturer on parenting and education. Sylvie is a mother of three grown children.
Sylvie is also the co-founder of the Massage in Schools Program (2000) along with her Swedish colleague Mia Elmsäter. Furthermore, Sylvie is the author of The Song of the Child (2004), co-author of Touch in Schools: a Revolutionary Strategy to Replace Bullying by Respect and to Reduce Violence (2010), and has a published chapter (The Myth of Early Stimulation for Babies) in the book Too Much too Soon (2011).
Sylvie is currently working on her next two books; one will focus on protecting babies' brains, while the other looks into her “one million miles in the air” following her travels and cultural experiences.
Wanda Cox

Wanda has a degree in psychology and has had a long career- since 1999- as a Certified Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, Lactation Educator & Infant Massage Instructor- all things pregnancy, birth, baby and breastfeeding! She has attended over 500 birth and supported families in their childbearing years with a focus on; evidence based, trauma informed and client-centred care. Her clients- as the experts on their own births and parenting journeys- have always been her greatest sources of learning. She has served in the IAIM Canadian Board since 2022.
Wanda has deeply enjoyed training birth doulas since 2017 and is now is excited to also be an IAIM Trainer! She's excited to offer IAIM Instructor training to anyone who would like to support parents and primary caregivers, by helping them learn how to lovingly and respectfully communicate with their babies through massage. Wanda knows that this work has the ability to change families, communities and the world!
Françoise Lefebvre
Françoise has been an international trainer with IAIM since 1997 and a Certified Infant Massage Instructor since 1988. As well as teaching parent and baby classes, Francoise's also teaches IAIM Infant Massage Instructor training sessions across Canada, Belgium and Switzerland. Françoise has taught and mentored thousands of students for IAIM.
Further to her work with IAIM, Françoise is also an early childhood educator and specializes in the Newborn Behavioural Observation System from the Brazelton Institute, Harvard Medical School in Boston. She is a trained doula and was a breastfeeding counsellor for several years.
As a result of Françoise's invaluable experience working with infants, she is regularly asked to lecture on this topic at events around the world including with the Infant Mental Health Organization.
In addition, Françoise has developed two programs for parents and professionals working with children and babies. The first program is called "Attention", which helps people to have a better understanding of the learning process and attention span in children. The second program called "Understanding Baby's Potential" discusses babies competencies in all aspects of their development.