Many parents and carers already understand the importance of relationships, connection and felt safety. However, when a child becomes highly aggressive, destroys property, attacks others or places themselves at risk, staying calm and responding well becomes much harder.

This practical, skills-based workshop focuses entirely on protective responses: how to act when the safety of the child or others is at risk. Through discussion, case examples and scenario-based practice, participants will explore how to:

• maintain safety and a healing relationship during moments of a child's high distress,
• manage a child's aggression while keeping other children who witness it safe,
• care for and support children with anxious-ambivalent, avoidant or disorganised attachment patterns in everyday life.

Participants will have opportunities to reflect on their own experiences and will leave with strategies they can use in everyday family life.

Facilitator: Chris Taylor, psychologist with over thirty years of experience working with children affected by trauma. Author of two books on attachment and trauma published in Polish, including Empathic Care for Children with Disorganized Attachments (Polish edition: „Dzieci i młodzież ze zdezorganizowanym stylem przywiązania”).