The Path to Secure Hands Learning Series

The Bigger, Stronger, Wiser, Kind Facilitator (Part 1)

This online training is available for Registered COSP Facilitators. Facilitators interested in learning more about what it means to be a Bigger, Stronger, Wiser, Kind Facilitator will gain insight into ways to build on their own relationship capacities and facilitation skills including taking charge, following the need, attunement, Being With, parallel process, rupture and repair, etc. Watch video of facilitators reflecting with caregivers and learn from their strengths and struggles. Engage in learning exercises to explore relationship struggles. Reflect with other facilitators as they share their lessons from the field. Benefit from new learning activities and handouts that promote reflection specific to facilitators on the Path to Secure Hands.

We strongly recommend that you get some practice with the COSP materials before you take this course. For example, facilitate COSP with caregivers, attend COSP as a caregiver, watch the Parenting in Action video series, and/or help other facilitators deliver the 8-chapter program. Your learning in the BSWK Facilitator course will be enriched if you are able to bring your own experiences with facilitation, since much of this course deepens your learning by inviting reflections on your previous facilitation of COSP.

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NEW: The Bigger, Stronger, Wiser, Kind Facilitator With Coaching

The BSWK Facilitator, Part One of the Path to Secure Hands Series, is now available with coaching. This is the same material covered in the asynchronous BSWK Facilitator course, but with the additional opportunity to meet and discuss your learning with a Circle of Security coach. Throughout the course, facilitators will work in a cohort of peer facilitators and will meet with a COSI coach in video conference calls. Facilitators will have opportunities to:

Unlike the asynchronous version, this course will have set start and end dates.

There are currently no BSWK with Coaching courses available. Please check back later. Thank you.

Shark Music & The Core Sensitivities (Part 2)

Facilitators were first introduced to Shark Music in the COSP Facilitator training. This second course on the Path to Secure Hands offers a deeper understanding of Shark Music, by giving facilitators a window into the underlying themes we all hold and our predictable reactions that live in procedural memory. These specific themes are what we call Core Sensitivities in the Circle of Security approach.

Core Sensitivities give a systematic understanding of our pervasive and often hidden struggles, and offer a coherent road map that can help bring clarity to these specific and predictable reactions that show up when we listen to our Shark Music rather than responding accurately to the present moment. Understanding our repetitive patterns gives us, and the caregivers we work with, the opportunity to change. This has the potential to improve outcomes for caregivers as well as our own personal relationships.

The Reflective Facilitator: Being With (Part 3)
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In COSP, reflection is the key. In this third course on the Path to Secure Hands facilitators take a closer look at Being With to build their capacity to use reflective dialogue to invite caregivers to explore the Circle of Security, to engage in focused observation, to practice seeing and guessing skills, and to begin to understand what is real and what is Shark Music.

Reflection is a skill, and a primary role of a COSP Facilitator is to provide a reflective stance with caregivers by Being With. When caregivers are supported by facilitators to put together their own thoughts and feelings into a narrative to share, it helps build coherence, and consequently, opportunities to reflect at a deeper level. For facilitators who want to improve their capacity to support reflective functioning in caregivers and to deepen their understanding of Being With, we have available opportunities to the Fidelity Journal, Fidelity Coaching, and this course, The Reflective Facilitator.