You Are the Strategy!
Gain a deeper understanding of a child’s attachment strategy. This three-hour workshop is designed for those who care for children, primarily foster parents but also support workers, and those who directly support children in caregiving. Using material from attachment and Circle of Security, participants will gain an understanding of a child’s attachment strategy for staying safe in relationship, understand how trauma affects this, and learn how to meet a child’s emotional needs. This workshop is aimed at foster parents, support workers, teachers, educational assistants and child care professionals.
Objectives:
- To understand the differences in attachment patterns and that those are protective strategies
- To learn how trauma alters our understanding of what is safe and what is dangerous
- To gain knowledge of how to meet a child’s emotional needs, which in turn, affect a child’s behaviour
Presenter
Joanne Brown, RSW
Joanne Brown has been a clinical social worker for close to 30 years, 26 of those at New Directions, always working with families who are struggling to overcome past trauma, current functioning struggles and parent all at the same time. Joanne has trained extensively in many modalities of attachment, in particular, Circle of Security, and volunteers her time to co-chair the Attachment Network of Manitoba. Joanne is often called upon to give workshops or talks to various groups on attachment, trauma, parenting and such. Her work in Family Therapy Services is to liaise with child care centres and families involved in daycare who are struggling.
Foster parents, support workers, teachers, educational assistants & child care professionals