GUEST PRESENTER Rachel Bridge – Building Bonds: Nurturing Child-Educator relationships with the Circle of Security Approach

Building Bonds: Nurturing Child-Educator relationships with the Circle of Security Approach

This workshop is focused on reviewing and up-skilling educators and caregivers on an attachment focused lens of caregiving. Research continues to give evidence to the effectiveness of an attachment framework enhances the relationship between child and care giver, promotes social and emotional wellbeing leading to further developmental outcomes.

What is attachment

  • Attachment Theory
  • Attachment relationship templates

Nurturing attachment relationships

  • Understanding cues for connection
  • Connection before correction
  • Attachment push pull

Attachment interventions

  • micro moments
  • special time
  • Emotion coaching
  • time in

Circle Of Security at a glance 

  • founding principles
  • circle of security road map
  • supporting a child to ‘move in’ and ‘move out’
  • four domains of COS
  • power of repair and ‘good enough caregiving’
  • supporting separation
  • Robyn Dolby’s play spaces
  • language


Meet Rachel Bridge

Rachel is a perinatal, child & family psychologist and has been working with children and their families for ten plus years. As a mama of three, she describes herself as a person who loves to love, and values strong, honest and authentic connections with others.

Through her work of sharing in the journey of parents, as well as her own experiences as a mother, she is deeply passionate about working to improve parental wellbeing whilst also fostering infant and child development.

“I currently support families therapeutically in my private practice based in Wollongong, Australia. My psychology services is part of a collective of perinatal services known as Mama Base, of which I am the founding director. Through Mama Base, I work collaboratively with local community organisations to provide holistic and evidence-based support to families. I am also the resident psychologist for Calm Birth Australia, a freelance writer and the author of the children’s therapeutic picture book, ‘The Puzzle Of Us’” Rachel Bridge.

Start Date
19-Sep-2024
End Date
19-Sep-2024
Start Time
10:00 am
End Time
12:00 pm
Location
Live Online Webinar
Price
$75.00
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