Workshop aims:
- Increase security of attachment of the child to the parent
- Increase parent’s ability to read child’s cues
- Increase empathy in the parent for the child
- Decrease negative attributions of the parent regarding the child’s motivations
- Increase parent’s capacity to self-reflect
- Increase parent’s capacity to pause, reflect, and chose security-promoting caregiving behaviors
- Increase parent’s capacity to regulate stressful emotional states
- Increase parent’s ability to recognize ruptures in the relationship and facilitate repairs
- Increase parent’s capacity to provide comfort when their child is in distress
Each workshop will be guided by the COS Parenting DVD, the chapters of which include:
DVD Chapters:
Ch 1: Welcome to Circle of Security Parenting
Ch 2: Exploring Our Children’s Needs All The Way Around the Circle
Ch 3: “Being With” on the Circle
Ch 4: “Being With” Infants on the Circle
Ch 5: The Path to Security
Ch 6: Exploring Our Struggles
Ch 7: Rupture and Repair in Relationships
Ch 8: Summary and Celebration