Circle of Security Workshop

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