Circle of Security

Facilitated by Faye Evans Psychologist MAPS

COS Registered International Parent Educator

“Because your children deserve to be parented from the heart. Building and maintaining warm loving connections with your child that will endure through time”. – Faye Evans-

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless” – Mother Theresa-

The circle of security parenting training program was created by Kent Hoffman, Bert Powell and Glen Cooper and thoroughly and has been extensively researched. If you would like to read about the authors please follow the link

http://circleofsecurity.net/about-us/originators-and-trainers/

Circle of Security is a 8 week parenting program that runs 2 hrs per week.

This program will help you TRANSFORM yourself and the relationship with your child becoming a mindful parent, constructing strong and everlasting connections, where you will:

• Feel more confident, competent and self-efficient in managing your child
• Become self-aware of your own levels of stress and learn how to manage it
• Understand the neuroscience of care-giving
• Learn how to create and foster secure attachments
• Understand, empathise and connect with your child’s emotional world
• Help your child develop emotional literacy and build bridges of communication
• By creating strong connections, teach your child how to regulate his/her emotions
• Discover how to use “limit-setting” with “time-in” strategies
• Discover and identify your own parental beliefs
• Reflect on your personal and family values and act on what’s true to your heart
• Practice Mindful awareness strategies
• Enjoy the giggles, challenges and joys of parenting
• Start being “Stronger-Kinder and Wiser” as a parent

This program integrates the latest research findings and information available in the following areas:

Circle of Security

This excerpt was copied from the Circle of security website. The training in all settings is based upon the following assumptions.

1. Learning occurs from within a secure base relationship.
2. The quality of the parent/child attachment, which is amenable to change, plays a significant role in the life trajectory of the child.
3. Interventions need to be based on a differential diagnosis that is informed by research-based theory.
4. Lasting change comes from parents developing specific relationship capacities rather than learning techniques to manage behaviors. The capacities needed for a secure relationship include:
   • Observational skills informed by a coherent model of children’s developmental needs,
   • Reflective functioning and the ability to enter into reflective dialogue,
   • The ability to engage with children in the regulation of their emotions,
   • Empathy.

You may follow the link to read more about the history

http://circleofsecurity.net/about-us/history/

These are some of the reviews that the Circle of Security has received:

“The Circle of Security® is circling the globe as an intervention to help parents raise their children with love, warmth, and emotional intelligence. The four researcher/clinicians who invented this important new and effective program are themselves filled with these positive traits and a huge dose of common sense and devotion to the well-being of others. These innovators have created a readily accessible and engaging approach to helping parents, young and old, to connect with their infants and toddlers in ways that break the old, destructive patterns of parenting that so often have been learned by difficult childhood experiences in the past. Cited from England to India, the Circle of Security™ offers new hope for making the hard earned wisdom of attachment research available to clinicians helping parents heal old wounds and building new options for the next generation.” Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. Faculty, Center for Culture, Brain, and Development Associate Clinical Professor UCLA School of Medicine Author, The Developing Mind and Parenting from the Inside Out

“The Circle of Security Parenting© DVD is an outstanding contribution and a “must see” for parents of young children. Focusing on how parent/child relationships can be strengthened, this unique approach teaches parents and those helping them new ways to understand children’s needs and behavior. It also offers effective ways to respond to these needs and behaviors. I have found it invaluable in my own work with parents of young children.” Charles H. Zeanah, M.D. Tulane University School of Medicine Editor of Handbook of Infant Mental Health

“The clinically effective Circle of Security® model is solidly based on the most recent advances in developmental neuroscience and attachment theory.” Allan N. Schore, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine Author, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self