Encuentro Montessori
Encuentro Montessori 31 — Humanity in the digital age

Humanity in the digital age.

31st Encuentro Montessori México, we gather to rethink how we educate attention, wonder and human connection.

FEBRUARY 24 — 27, 2027TICKETS · AUGUST 1ST
Encuentro Montessori 31Montessori MéxicoTorreón · CoahuilaAMI · Association Montessori Internationale

Before you begin

Activities guide

The Encuentro brings together distinct moments: pre-conference activities, the main program, and experiences that run in parallel. This map helps you place what happens at each stage.

February 2027
Wed24
Thu25
Fri26
Sat27
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Wednesday, February 24

Pre-conference activities

Opening spaces for families and school leaders before the formal start of the main program.

Additional cost to the conference.

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Thursday 25 to Saturday 27

Main program

The heart of the Encuentro: keynotes, workshops and conversation spaces for the Montessori community.

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Montessori Sports

Simultaneous activity

A parallel experience of movement, connection and integration that takes place during the main program.

Find the detail of each block further down.

Conference program

Four days to talk, learn and look again at what matters.

The program brings together keynotes, workshops, level-specific conversations and community moments around a central question: how to sustain what is human within a profoundly digital era.

Program subject to adjustments.

Pre-conference activities

Main program

Wednesday · Feb 24

  1. Families Gathering

    9:00 — 12:50
  2. 9:00

    Welcome

  3. 9:10

    Education and wonder

    Catherine L'Ecuyer

  4. 10:40

    Coffee break

  5. 11:20

    The digital pink tower

    Erika Nadal

  6. 12:50

    Closing of the Families Gathering

  7. 17:00 — 19:00

    School visits

    Montessori schools of the city of Torreón

  8. School Leaders Gathering

    17:00 — 19:00
  9. 17:00

    Welcome

  10. 17:15

    What's happening in our classrooms: where it comes from and where educational methods are going

    Catherine L'Ecuyer

  11. 18:45

    Closing of the School Leaders Gathering

  12. 19:00 – 21:30

    Cocktail for school leaders

Wednesday, February 24

Encuentro Montessori events

An opening day with special spaces for families, school leaders and community. These events precede the main program and prepare the start of Encuentro Montessori 31.

Before the encuentro

Wednesday 24 · before the main program

Alongside the encuentro

In parallel with the main program · Fri 26 + Sat 27

Families Gathering

The prelude to Encuentro Montessori 31

A morning designed for families. A space to talk about education, family life and the place of wonder in raising children.

  1. 9:00

    Welcome to the Families Gathering

  2. 9:10

    Education and wonder · Catherine L'Ecuyer

  3. 10:40

    Coffee break

  4. 11:20

    The digital pink tower · Erika Nadal

  5. 12:50

    Closing

The Families Gathering has an additional cost to the conference.

Featured keynotes

Voices that will open key conversations on education, attention and humanity in the digital age.

The Encuentro brings together speakers who invite us to look deeply at the role of the adult, school life, and human presence in an era shaped by technology.

Catherine L'Ecuyer

Catherine L'Ecuyer

Canada · Spain

Researcher & author

Catherine L'Ecuyer holds a PhD in education and psychology from the University of Navarra, awarded summa cum laude, and is the author of the pedagogy of wonder, a proposal that the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience recognized as a new theory of learning. She is an honorary member of the Spanish chapter of the Association Montessori Internationale and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Magdalena (Colombia). She has appeared before education committees in Spain, the Basque Country and Québec, and has advised various governments. She is the author of bestsellers such as Educar en el asombro (The Wonder Approach), translated into eight languages and distributed in 60 countries, and the founder and director of the CLE Foundation.

Looking again at what matters.

We gather to look again at what matters: the child, the adult, the community, and the place of education in a profoundly digital era.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
John Naisbitt

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