• Understand your child’s emotional world by learning to read the emotional needs

• Support your child’s ability to successfully manage emotions 

• Enhance the development of your child's self esteem

• Honor your innate wisdom and desire for your child to be secure

For parents of children aged 0 -7 years.
This programme is delivered online via zoom, over 7 consecutive weeks.
Sessions run for approximately 90mins each.

Exact time and date TBC
$349 for one or two adults
30% for previous antenatal and First Year Village participants

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The Circle of Security Parenting program is designed for all caregivers, not just mothers. The program is about empowering all caregivers to build strong, secure relationships with their children. Through this program, Sam provides a supportive environment for parents to explore these concepts, enhancing their capacity to connect with and nurture their children.

Matrescence NZ brings you the Circle of Security Parenting program, facilitated by Sam Bond a registered and qualified primary and early childhood teacher and Matrescence Practitioner.

Sam brings her professional expertise and personal experience as a mother of two sons to her role. Her passion for matrescence—the developmental process of becoming a mother—enables her to guide parents through the challenges and transformations of parenthood.

Recognizing and understanding the process and challenges of matrescence is crucial for both personal well-being and effective parenting. By acknowledging the profound shifts that occur during matrescence, parents can better navigate their new roles and foster healthier relationships with their children.

At times all parents feel lost or without a clue about what our child might need from us. Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child was really asking from you. The Circle of Security Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.

What is the Circle of Security? It’s a program that was developed with the goal in mind of finding ways to enhance secure attachment in caregiving relationships, because as caregivers we all want to do the best we can, and of course, we want to have secure relationships with our children. But what does that mean, ‘to enhance secure attachment’?

VIDEO EXPLAINING SECURE ATTACHMENT - Early Years Resources: Secure Attachment

Circle of Security is like an owner’s manual that’s been written by your child. Learning how to use the Circle of Security helps us figure out caring ways to get the job done. Because it is no secret, caregiving can be the hardest job on the planet. Having an owner’s manual makes it easier to know the questions to ask that can help us find helpful answers.

When we think about behavior, we think about reinforcing the behavior we like. We might use stickers, or treats, or give compliments. And when we think about behavior we don’t like, we try to find ways to stop the behavior. We might do things like time outs, or spankings, or ignoring the behavior. Circle of Security gives us a way to think differently about either trying to reward the behavior we like, or trying to get rid of the behavior we don’t like. The Circle is about thinking outside of the box. And when we start to use the Circle of Security roadmap, we start to switch the focus. And instead of focusing on the behavior and trying to figure out what to do with it, we start to focus on the behavior as communication of a need, and the need within the relationship.

The Circle of Security roadmap helps us to shift from asking the question, “What does this child want from me?” and we ask, “what does my child need?”

Circle of Security offers us a way to see things differently. Because attachment is so intuitive, Circle of Security has circled the globe. It’s now been translated into 14 different languages, and it’s available in more than 30 countries, with more than 25,000 facilitators that have been trained all around the world. And the interesting thing is that as the Circle travels the world, at our core, we all have these same needs.