EVENTS
Circle of Security Parenting Group (London Hub) - Daytime Session
Our next daytime Circle of Security Parenting Group for parents is starting on Friday 5th February and will run until 26th March 2021
Timings: Monday - 10.00-11.15
Location: Online
Cost: There is a suggested donation of £100 per participant to help with the running of the course but any amount is gratefully received.
Circle of Security Parenting Group (London Hub) - Evening Session
Our next Circle of Security Parenting Group for parents is starting on Monday 1st February and will run until 22nd March 2021
Timings: Monday - 20.00-21.15
Location: Online
Cost: There is a suggested donation of £100 per participant to help with the running of the course but any amount is gratefully received.
Parenting Talk: What your Child really needs during the third lockdown
What an exhausting and relentless task it is to be a parent right now.
You are likely to be trying to juggle parenting, working and education for your children all at the same time.
If it feels impossible, you are not alone. You may be longing for time off but with little prospect on the horizon.
You are invited to join a conversation with Dr Kathryn Hollins who will share some ideas and tips to help you during this crazy time. She will touch on some helpful concepts from Circle of Security that can help us meet our children’s needs. These will include being ‘bigger, stronger, wiser and kind’, and why ‘time in’ with your children can work better and be more satisfying than ‘time out’. There will also be a chance to ask questions.
TIme: 12.00-1.00pm live, or a recording can be sent to you for later viewing
Date: 29th January 2021
Cost: £5
Location: Online
Dr Kathryn Hollins (www.drkathrynhollins.com) is committed to empowering parents to meet the emotional and developmental needs of their children. She works closely with Connected Lives in advocating the Circle of Security parenting programme with parents.
She is a Consultant Parent, Child and Family Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist by profession. In the NHS she engages with Surrey-wide consultation and collaboration across health, education, voluntary sector and local authority, in particular to transform how we support parents and families from pregnancy into the early years. She has a small private practice.
The delights of the digital world means we can join from anywhere, so please send onto anyone you think might be interested.
Spotlighting Relationships - Connected Lives is turning One
Join us for our first birthday party and a virtual evening of music, magic, readings and to hear from relationship and parenting experts on parenting in the pandemic, love in a time of COVID and raising confident teens in an age of anxiety.
Magic from magician to the stars Maximilian Somerset and reading and poems read by actors Cassandra Hercules, John Holden-White, Pippa Nixon and Matt Rutherford
Party with Gemma from Swashbuckle
Join us online for a bit of family fun with TV presenter Gemma Hunt from Swashbuckle for an interactive 45 minutes of games, stories, songs and a treasure hunt.
We will also be joined by Maximillian Somerset, magician to the stars! who will wow us with some clever magic.
Finally, see who will win the 'Bake Off' to make our first birthday cake.
Circle of Security-Parenting Facilitator 4 Day Training - Cambridge
The 4 day DVD training trains professionals to use an 8 chapter DVD programme. The training includes:
Teaching on the theoretical foundation of Circle of Security
Training on how to help carers shift from focusing on behaviour management to helping them enhance the quality of their relationship with their child.
Insight into how to encourage and support empathy.
How to use the programme to enhance attachment security.
Suitable for social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counsellors, health visitors, midwives, family support workers, child psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists.
Cost: Early Bird Rate - $1,000 a person (Group discounts 5-9 registering and paying together receive a 10% discount. Groups of 10 or more registering and paying together receive a 15% discount. These discounts are only applicable during the Early Bird Rate). Standard Rate - $1,100.
Dates: 13th - 16th October 9am - 4.30pm
Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Broad Street, Cambridge, CB1 1PT
If you would like to know more please email katie.logan@connectedlives.org.uk
If you would like to book, please go directly to the Circle of Security website and scroll down to find the Cambridge training
Online COS-Parenting Course for Parents of Teenagers and Pre Teens
Come to this group to understand how your teen’s brain works and join other parents to discover more about how to connect with your teenager.
Our next course at Connected Lives will be run on Monday evenings (20.00-21.15) from 14th September to 9th November with a break on 26th October for half term.
There is a suggested donation of £100 per participant to help with the running of the course but any amount is gratefully received.
Helping your Tweens and Teenagers with their Big Emotions during these Difficult Times
Some might say that our tweens and teens are having the hardest time in lockdown - just when they are starting to look to their peers for connection they have been thrown back into family life in a big way.
However, as parents we can use this enforced period of togetherness to really help them understand their feelings and process them, building resilience that will help them, not just with their relationship with us, but with all their relationships throughout their lives.
So rather than focus on the bad behaviour, moodiness, anger and jealousy that you might be experiencing, join us to understand how you can see beyond these frustrations and help your children understand what is driving their behaviour and together you can be their for them and validate their feelings and big emotions.
Venue: Online platform
Time: 8.00-9.00pm. Don’t worry if you cant join at this time, register and we will send you a link to listen at a later stage.
Date: 14th July 2020 or afterwards
Cost: £5
Hold Me Tight (London Hub)
Hold me Tight® was devised by Dr Sue Johnson, for couples who want to take time out to strengthen their relationship and gain insight and help in strengthening their communication, intimacy and connection.
The course runs over 6 weeks.
We ask for a suggested donation of £180 a couple for the whole course. If you are unable to pay this, we have a number of bursary places, so please fill in the appropriate form.
Week One looks at how love actually works; how we are made for connection and what happens if we feel disconnected from those we love.
COS-P Facilitators Learning Community
The aim of these gatherings are to learn from each other about how the COS-P approach is being used to help parents and children in different settings.
Each time we will invite a number of different facilitators to share their experience (successes and failures) of running groups and using COS-P in their setting.
The next Learning Community Group will focus on:
Kathryn Hollins will be looking at using COS-P as a tool for one-to-one sessions
Leah Cronin and Lindsay Rautman from NSPCC Scotland will look at how their team uses COS-P with both birth parents and foster parents of children in foster care
Jenny Peters will discuss using COS-P in the lockdown
Cost: £20
Parenting Seminar - Leaving Lockdown - Helping our children cope with returning to the outside world and school
Louise Bomber will discuss with Jenny Peters in a Q and A session how best to help our children go back to school. They will particularly look at how we help them make sense of this new world in ways that leave them feeling safe and secure. Louise Bomber is a trauma and attachment specialist and the author of several books.
This will be run online at 10.30 on 2nd June. If you think you might miss that - dont worry - sign up and we will give you a limited period of time to watch the seminar at another time.
Date: 2nd June 2020
TIme: Live at 10.30 am or for a limited period
Where: Online
Cost: £5.00
Marriage Preparation
All couples spend large amounts of time during their engagement preparing for their big day. Preparing for your wedding day is obviously important (and hopefully fun). Preparing for the rest of your married life is important too! Decades of research have been done on how couples can ensure that they enjoy a long-lasting mutually fulfilling marriage.
The marriage preparation course we run draws on other people’s expertise and seeks to help individual couples prepare in the best way possible for their life ahead. Each evening we give couples the chance to explore key areas of their relationship with the aim of helping them prepare emotionally and relationally for a wonderful life together.
We have run Marriage Preparation Courses for a number of years and have helped at least 300 couples through them. The course is open to anyone considering marriage, engaged or within the first year of married life.
The next course will be on Saturday 26th October, 9.30 am- 5 pm at St Marys church. It will cost £20 per person to help cover our running costs.