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Facilitators: Lynnette & Pat

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What are your hopes and intent for learning circles?

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KidSTART Practice

Pick a symbol that best represents:

Where you are at now

Where you envision yourself in Dec

+ Getting from A to B

Topics & voting

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Planning for upcoming LC

Closing reflections

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R345 LC 1 Welcome to our first Learning Circle!

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Engaging caregivers (mothers), who are not in a good mental space, to keep their children in mind & re-diverting discussion back to child

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Engaging caregivers (mothers), who are not in a good mental space, to keep their children in mind & re-diverting discussion back to child

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Not sure if this is too negative but perhaps vicarious trauma can be discussed? ie how our work impact us

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Involving fathers in sessions

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Supporting caregivers & children who are recently separated from their partner/parent

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Supporting caregivers & children who are recently separated from their partner/parent

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collaboration with clients and asking reflective questions that elicit client’s strengths and how it supports child’s development

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Supporting children with special needs..

example: how does the curriculum look like?

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Supporting caregivers with children with Developmental Needs

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Supporting caregivers with children with Developmental Needs

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Facilitators: Joy/Lynnette/Pat

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"Walk in Their Shoes" Empathy Exercise

Briefly describe the family profile of one of their clients (parent of child(ren) with developmental needs)

KSPs to "swop" cases, and write a letter as if they were the parent in the scenario. To briefly describe parents’ emotions, needs, and the kind of support they wish to receive.

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Discussion:

1) Our experience in supporting families

How has KSP supported the families?

How did KSP differentiate the support given to each family?

What were some things that worked/did not work?

Why did it work/not work?

2) Our role as KSPs

Integrating the information shared in #1 discussion and reflecting on our role as KSPs (using practice principles as guide).

What is the role of KSP in supporting parents?

How might ‘encourage parental reflective functioning’ look like?

How might ‘encourage positive p-ch interactions’ look like?

Where necessary, tap on HOVRS items

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"Continue, Stop, Start" Reflection Activity

Goal: KSPs to reflect on their learning and think about their current practices.

Continue: Share one practice they currently do that they want to continue using because it’s effective in supporting parents of children with developmental needs.

Stop: Share one practice they realize may not be effective/not aligned to the practice principles.

Start: Share one new practice or strategy they might want to try out moving forward.

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PPT Slides

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[L2.2] Supporting caregivers with children with developmental needs (27 Mar 2025)

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Session Plan

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[L2.2 Session Plan] Supporting caregivers with children with developmental needs

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Facilitators: Hannah & Shearina

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What does "Keeping the child in mind" mean to you?

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Supporting parents with children with developmental needs

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Supporting parents with children with developmental needs

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How does "keeping child in mind" look like?

How to engage families with multiple children?

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1) Think about a situation in which you notice “Keeping a Child in Mind” was successful or is a wonderment for you?

What helped with this family?

What did not help?

What do you think are parents’ perspective is regarding keeping child in mind?

2) My reactions vs intentions

Which Principles did you use?

What could be improved?

Connecting it to HOVRS

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What is one thing you would do moving forward?

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Supplementary reading

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[Reading] Attachment Theory & Mentalizing

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Facilitators: Livia & Tricia

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Case study simulation activity

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What goes on in KSP's brain + what goes on in client's brain. Reflect together on what each wrote/drew.

How can professionals navigate the balance between advocating for children and respecting family challenges?

Can you share from your experience on what has worked for you i.e. success stories

What are the underlying principles that can help in working with families facing challenges?

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Let's look back at our KSP's brain - anything you would look to add on to the brain or take away from it? write or draw)

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Facilitator: Lynnette

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Two truths and a wish

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My KidSTART Journey

Insights from past Learning Circles

Exploring Challenges and Curiosities

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One-word check-out

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Facilitator: Lynnette

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Grounding exercise

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What has worked for my clients ?

Drink a cup of warm water at the end of the day when the children are asleep.

Using a nice shampoo for their hair /bath

What has worked for me?

Sleep through the day

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Being intentional in setting aside time for self e.g

Setting aside time to go out for a walk / shop (One of my clients would set aside the time after dropping off her son at school);

One of my clients would set aside time after her children go to sleep to catch up on shows she likes

Tapping onto social resources if possible e.g

Getting reliable family or friends to take children for the day so the caregivers can go for a date

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Analogy of the juggling balls, some balls are made of glass while some are rubber. It's ok to let the rubber ones slip sometimes.

Managing mum guilt. All parents make mistakes, respond in a way that we are not proud of. What matters more is not so much our response at the moment but how we repair. It's ok to own up to our bad response and say sorry to the child and repair the relationship.

Long bus rides listening to music after a hard day.