Attuned Relationships

Watch this. And while you're watching it, and feeling it, hold in mind the babies and children, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, uncles, aunties, grandmothers, and grandfathers in our world who have been made to feel that they don't matter. If you matter, they matter. And you do matter, you matter absolutely and so do they.

Every Person has Infinite Worth | Kent Hoffman | TEDxSpokane Each of us carries within the gift of infinite worth. Find out what that means for us to walk in relationship with others with a new sense of interconnectedn...

I reread this from time to time, most recently yesterday.
Hunches on Childhood (or everything I want to say about world peace). By Kent Hoffman.
Some essential wisdom shared here. Offered with compassion.
The world's children need this more than ever.
I hope it resonates.

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/150/hunches-on-childhood #:~:text=We%20love%20because%20we%20were,or%20with%20something%20in%20between.

Even when we sometimes miss those being with moments, if we are available consistently enough our children come to know we will come back to them and meet their needs for connection and emotional support.

Parents promote emotional regulation skills by Being With their children in their experience at each point of the Circle. Being With is at the very core of our role as the hands on the Circle and makes all other aspects of that role possible.

Hoffman, Kent, Glen Cooper, Bert Powell, and Christine Benton. Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore. Guilford Press, 2017.

I'm very pleased to announce I am offering the Circle of Security Parenting program in term 4 (October - December) in partnership with The Bay Road Collective in Claremont.
Be in touch if you would like to know more.

Being curious about what is happening for the child, being with them in the feeling, and letting them know you’re there for them create the foundations of empathy.

How Do Children Learn Empathy? Learning empathy starts with adult capacities – our energy levels, our feeling states, our sense of wellbeing all impact our capacity to remain empathic. The same is true for our children.