DEVELOPING ATTACHMENT with DDP-INFORMED PARENT/CARER GROUP PROGRAMS

This workshop was last offered in 2018. It sold out in one day. Seats are limited again in 2025.

Train the Trainer Workshop for Group Facilitators

Back by popular request, the highly acclaimed Kim Golding, presents the Train the Trainer Workshop for Group Facilitators. The three day workshop provides participants with Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) informed training to equip them to deliver the Foundations for Attachments (FA) and the Nurturing Attachments Training Resource (NA) group work programmes with parents and carers parenting children who have experienced developmental trauma, including foster, kinship, residential and respite care.

Nurturing Attachments and Foundations for Attachment have been designed to be delivered using the DDP principles. This is a collaborative delivery which provides opportunities for discussion, experiential work and sharing of experiences. Throughout the group facilitators ‘model the model’ providing the group members with an opportunity to experience DDP in action. It is therefore recommended that group facilitators have engaged with their own DDP training. This Train the Trainers programme has been designed to help facilitators to apply their DDP training to the delivery of Nurturing Attachments and Foundations for Attachment.

Aim: This training will provide delegates with a good understanding of the FA and NA programmes and will prepare them for delivering and using these programmes within parenting groups/ carer training.

Objectives:

• To gain knowledge and understanding of the Foundations for Attachments Programme and the Nurturing Attachments Training Resource.
• To have a thorough understanding of the group work process which underpins the delivery of the groups.
• To be confident facilitating the programme informed by the DDP principles.
• To be confident facilitating the programme in a way which is inclusive and sensitive to difference.
• To be confident writing mind-minded narratives and helping others to develop these.
• To be confident responding with PACE, PACE role plays and helping others to develop the use of PACE within the group work.

Content covered:

• Overview of Foundations for Attachments (FA) and the Nurturing Attachments Training Resource (NA) programmes & models
• Models and types of delivery
• Developing mentalisation through Narratives 
• Exploring developing PACE through exercises 
• Blocked Trust, Blocked Care and Shame
• Intersubjectivity and Miscuing Attachment Needs
• Exploring Attachment History
• Encouraging Self Care
• Exploring the programmes and preparation for group facilitator practice 
• Group work process, running groups and dealing with challenges
• Facilitator observation and practice in small groups/ large groups

A MAXIMUM of 36 participants is permitted.

Prior reading

Participants should be familiar with the following resources:

• Nurturing Attachments Training Resource 
• Foundations for Attachments

Presented by: Dr Kim Golding CBE, is a UK based Clinical Psychologist. Kim has worked with children and families since 1985 in a range of situations. Throughout this experience Kim has always been interested in parenting, and collaborating with parents or carers to develop their parenting skills tailored to the particular needs of the children they are caring for. Additionally Kim is keen to promote the emotional and social needs of children in school settings. Learning and mental health will both improve if we pay more attention to these needs throughout the child’s school career. Kim is proud to have been involved in the setting up and evaluation of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children. ISL is a multi-agency, holistic service, jointly provided and managed by Health and Children’s Services. The service provides support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals around the children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim has been fortunate in this work to have been trained and mentored by Dan Hughes in the use of DDP; both as a therapy and a framework for communicating with and helping families of children who have experienced early trauma from within their family.

Kim is a past DDPI Board Director and continues to be involved in actively developing DDP within the UK and the world. She supervises, accredits and trains other professionals in this approach. Kim is author of many books relating to the DDP practice including the new Healing Relational Trauma Workbook (co-authored with Dan Hughes), Working with Relational Trauma in Children's Residential Care and Working with Relational Trauma in Schools.

Audience: participants must have completed DDP Level 1 Completion over 6 months prior to joining this workshop.

This training is suitable for professionals who have experience in working with children and families/parents/caregivers affected by relational and developmental trauma and attachment difficulties. This could be with parents, foster parents, kinship carers, or caregivers, such as in residential homes. 

Mental Health Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Mental Health Workers, Family Therapists, Child Protection and Disability Workers, Guidance Officers, Speech and Language Therapists, Residential Care Workers and Foster Support Workers, and all other mental health professionals looking to support young people and their parents/carers.