4 DAY FACILITATOR TRAINING

The 4 day seminar trains professionals to use the 8 chapter Circle of Security Parenting© DVD programme. This programme contains the core components of the Circle of Security protocol and can be used in group settings, home visitation, or individual sessions.

There are over 15,000 COS-P facilitators world-wise operating in both clinical and early help settings. In the UK it is used in early help teams, perinatal mental health services, clinical teams, CAMHS, with adoptive and foster parents and by individual community based practitioners. Recent studies indicate that participating in a COS-P group helps build parental reflective functioning, reduces punitive parental response to children’s needs and supports attachment security.

The programme is based on decades of attachment research and is accessible and easy to use. The programme presents video examples of secure and problematic parent/child interaction, healthy options in caregiving, and animated graphic designed to clarify principles central to COS©.  Recent studies indicate that it helps build parental reflective functioning, reduces punitive parental response to their children’s needs and enhances child executive functioning.

The training course is designed for social workers, family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, health visitors, family support workers, nursery workers, outreach workers, behaviour support specialists, and anyone providing parenting education or support to parents of young children.

NEXT COURSES

Most courses are online at the moment, but we are hoping to host an in-person group later in 2022.

Go to the COS-P website to see dates for the online courses, we are region A. If you have any questions or are interested in the in-person training, please fill in the form below.