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FEATURED EVENTS
CIRCLE OF SECURITY (COS) – PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS (TWO DAY COURSE)
17 & 18 August with Robyn Dolby
Melbourne CBD
23 & 24 November with Eilish Hughes
Melbourne CBD
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Cost: $420 (two days, includes morning tea and lunch)
This is a unique opportunity to learn about the Circle of Security. Participants
will see and discuss how it translates into early childhood practice by being
taken through the Circle of Security Parenting DVD program (2009). The Circle
of Security authors have given Dr Robyn Dolby and Eilish Hughes permission
to offer this training program to educators. In addition to, and separate to
the Parenting DVD, Robyn and Eilish will present video-clips filmed in an early
childhood centre so that educators can (1) discover how ‘the Circle’ is also
taking place in a group setting and (2) appreciate how they become a secure
base for children at childcare. Providing a secure base is intrinsic to children
becoming competent learners: when children feel secure in their connection
with their educators they are more likely to behave well and enjoy their
learning. Moreover connection with protective adults builds up a sense of
safety in the children that makes aggression and emotional collapse less likely.
In this course educators will have the opportunity to:
See how children use them as relationship support, in order to be happy,
make friends and learn well
Practice using the Circle of Security graphic as a roadmap for observing
and making inferences about children’s relationship needs
Reflect on ‘being with’ children’s feelings as the key piece in meeting
children’s relationship needs

Track their own state of mind to facilitate ‘being with’ children
Circle of Security (CoS) – Professional Development for Early Childhood
Educators will address Australian Teaching Standards 3.5.2 and 3.7.2
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