PARENTING TRAINING COURSE – CIRCLE OF SECURITY
I’m a certified and practiced Circle of Security trainer. Circle of Security is the most effective attachment based parenting training I’ve encountered in 30 years of professionally working with children and their families.
Circle of Security training teaches parents and caregivers how to build a secure attachment with their children. “Being with” the feelings of your child is the core of this approach, and you will learn research-based techniques that will enable you to recognise your child’s feelings, honour them, and stay with them, even in more challenging moments.
At the centre of the “being with” approach is decades of research that explains how we learn to manage our feelings by experiencing the support of an adult who stays present with us in the feeling and in the moment. What is unhelpful in this process is an adult who is cut off from their own feelings and only focuses upon their child's behaviour. Surprising to many is the research that shows how 2 year olds who’ve been raised in the context of “being with” are actually less demanding, throw fewer tantrums, and are more responsive to their parents’ requests than children who’ve been without this approach.
In science speak: co-regulation leads to self-regulation. This is called Attuned Parenting.
Circle of Security training is offered to groups as an eight-week course of 2 hours per week, or on an individual basis of 1 hour per week.
INDIVIDUAL WORK WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Parents and carers are always included in the work I do with young people living at home.
Particular areas of expertise are:
For further information about Parenting Training and Counselling with Children please click here.
I’m a certified and practiced Circle of Security trainer. Circle of Security is the most effective attachment based parenting training I’ve encountered in 30 years of professionally working with children and their families.
Circle of Security training teaches parents and caregivers how to build a secure attachment with their children. “Being with” the feelings of your child is the core of this approach, and you will learn research-based techniques that will enable you to recognise your child’s feelings, honour them, and stay with them, even in more challenging moments.
At the centre of the “being with” approach is decades of research that explains how we learn to manage our feelings by experiencing the support of an adult who stays present with us in the feeling and in the moment. What is unhelpful in this process is an adult who is cut off from their own feelings and only focuses upon their child's behaviour. Surprising to many is the research that shows how 2 year olds who’ve been raised in the context of “being with” are actually less demanding, throw fewer tantrums, and are more responsive to their parents’ requests than children who’ve been without this approach.
In science speak: co-regulation leads to self-regulation. This is called Attuned Parenting.
Circle of Security training is offered to groups as an eight-week course of 2 hours per week, or on an individual basis of 1 hour per week.
INDIVIDUAL WORK WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Parents and carers are always included in the work I do with young people living at home.
Particular areas of expertise are:
- Autism
- Complex developmental trauma
- Disrupted attachment
- Living in out of home care
For further information about Parenting Training and Counselling with Children please click here.