Circle of Security International - Company History

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ircle of Security-International was incorporated in 2008 in response to growing interest and international demand for training in the Circle of Security-Intensive intervention. As interest grew, so did the company. And when an evening and weekend project centered around Glen Cooper’s garage morphed into the Circle of Security Parenting program, the company’s rate of growth increased exponentially.

Here are some of the pivotal moments in our company’s history:

By 2020, more than 35,000 providers around the world had attended COSP trainings held in more than 20 countries. The COSP program has been translated into multiple languages. As more providers learn the fundamentals of our approach, two more recent areas of growth have emerged. First, there has been expanding interest in applying the COSP model to early learning sites, leading to the development of the COSP-Classroom Approach. Second, providers began asking for post-training support spurring the development of our Fidelity Coaching model.

None of us could have foreseen the ways in which the Circle of Security has touched people’s lives. While our company’s primary focus is on training providers to deliver the Circle of Security models in various settings, we are inspired by the ways in which professionals and communities use the Circle to impact caregivers and children worldwide. That is why we feature the story of one of the early applications of the Circle of Security-Intensive model in a prison-based program for pregnant and parenting mothers with histories of trauma and substance abuse on one of our web pages; the remarkable story of Tonier Cain and her youngest daughter (an infant when Tonier went through the COS-Intensive program and now a teenager) exemplifies how hope, courage and a roadmap to security can inspire change.