Baby Bonding Professional CPD
Baby Bonding is an early help programme that guides and empowers parents and carers to develop secure relationships with their babies.
This flexible and accessible programme can be delivered with groups, 1:1 or through a home-visiting model and is suitable from 28 weeks of pregnancy.
This training is accredited by the CPD Standards office for 12 CPD Points.
Aims of the course
Baby bonding practitioner training offers you the following:
- A strong grounding in the latest attachment and neuroscience research and theory that underpins the Baby Bonding programme.
- Understanding of the role parents and carers play in ‘wiring up’ their baby’s brain and how this lays the foundation for social and emotional wellbeing in later life.
- Understanding baby behaviour and temperament through a sensory lens
- Knowledge of concepts such as regulation and co-regulation, reflective functioning and mentalization and how they are woven throughout the programme through gentle, creative and playful activities
- Tools to empower parents & carers and support emotional resilience as they journey into parenthood
- A reflective space to develop your own authentic style of facilitation
- A range of pre and post outcome measures to support evaluation and commissioning requirements
- Access to a hub of research articles, videos and resources including example session plans so that you are ready to start offering Baby Bonding sessions on completion of the course!
- Access to an online community of like-minded practitioners for ongoing support.
If you have already purchased Baby Bonding Online then you can log into the training dashboard here.
Here’s what other Baby Bonding practitioners have to say about the course and intervention...
“A thoughtful and compassionate course to help remind us what is really important about the parent and child relationship.”
“In-depth information on child development with practical resources to demonstrate the mechanisms of baby bonding.”
“This is an extremely interesting and informative course which inspires practitioners to make a positive impact on the lives of parents/carers and their children.”
“A very informative course on the brain and the bonding relationship between parent and baby.”
“The course is simple to understand but clearly rooted in evidence. It has lots of advice and instructions to get started straight away.”
Who is this course for?
This 2 day CPD accredited training course is ideal for all practitioners working with families who may wish to extend their work to babies and their carers e.g. Play and other Creative Arts Therapists, social workers, teaching staff, midwives, nurses, charity workers, family outreach workers, nursery staff, health educators, children’s centre staff and others.
All of our Attachment Play Practitioner Courses are available to book as full courses in lots of locations across the UK and Ireland. If you have 10 or more people then please contact us on [email protected] with your requirements.
When is this course?
Online – any time Book Here
Baby Bonding Online Mentoring Session
After completing your Baby Bonding course we inivite you to join one of our course facilitators and other Baby Bonding practitioners for a 90 minute group online session.
Our next session is:
Thursday 13 February 2025 – 1pm-2.30pm
If you can’t make this date or would prefer a 1:1 session or series of sessions please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help.
Course leader
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