ONLINE COS-P FACILITATORS LEARNING COMMUNITY

There are over 1500 trained COS-P facilitators working in a huge variety of settings across the UK.

Regularly, facilitators come together to learn from each other about how the COS-P approach is being used to help parents/carers and children in different settings and to share good practice. This is only for people who have already trained to be a COS-P Facilitator.

Next Online Facilitator Learning Community Sessions

Lunchtime Seminar: Using Circle of Security with neurodivergent children and their parents/carers

When: 7th July between 12.30 - 2.00 pm

Where: Interactive and live, via Zoom

In this seminar, Dr Georgina Davis will share her experiences as a Circle of Security facilitator working with caregivers of neurodivergent children, reflecting on their unique strengths and challenges within the circle, and exploring ways to support these caregivers - who often may be navigating their own neurodivergence.

Dr. Georgina Davis has been running Circle groups since 2017 in Plymouth, UK. She works at an NHS Child Development Centre supporting children with neurodivergence, including Autism, ADHD, communication differences, and learning needs. Georgina facilitates six groups annually, both online and face-to-face. She is also fortunate enough to practice being ‘good enough’ in parenting her 11 and 13 year old. One of which has confirmed neurodivergence and one who she suspects also has neurodivergence so she continues to learn and grow in her practice and parenting.

Previous Sessions

Listen to Una Archer, a psychologist and COS-P facilitator talk about blended families and their own unique attachment architecture that combines bonds that have been nurtured for years and bonds that are just beginning to form. This talk explores how parents’ and step-parents’ role as hands on the circle can be different and considers what could be helpful to keep in mind when facilitating COS-P groups with these families.

Listen to a recording hosted by Dr Helen Bell, a clinical psychologist and COS-P facilitator and Alex Davies, NHS Social Prescribing Link Worker, and Susie Steel, Domestic Abuse Practitioner in a Women’s Refuge and a COS-P Facilitator.

Sadly more and more families join our Circle of Security Groups who have experienced domestic abuse. With this in mind we are running an interactive seminar to think about how we can best support families in our groups who have experienced domestic abuse, through the lenses of trauma and attachment.

COS-P in the Classroom

Listen to a recording of Michelle Powell and Amanda Stirling who have brought Bristol Schools and Bristol Infant Mental Health together and are piloting COS-P in the Classroom in Bristol, helping teachers begin to shift from a behavioural approach to a relational one.

Attachment across cultures

Listen to a recording of Gavin Barker, a service lead in Westminster Council, a UK registered Social Worker, Systemic and Compassion Focused Practitioner and Workforce Development Trainer. He is a passionate advocate for Trauma Informed, Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) aware and ‘Compassion Focused’ practice and loves COS-P. He first encountered it in Australia and gets all his staff to train in the approach. Gavin has great insight into how attachment works across diverse cultures and helps us reflect on this in relation to our work in running groups and in working with individual families.

If you are a COS-P Facilitator and would like to hear more about the sessions we run, please complete the form below.