Seminar: Attachment in the Classroom with Dr Heather Geddes

This seminar will explore the links between children's early experience, their emotional well-being and their performance in school. It will be of great interest to teachers, counsellors, therapists and all those working with children. Specifically, the seminar will address such issues as:

• Attachment theory as a framework for understanding social and emotional development
• Behaviour as communication
• Patterns of behaviour and how they affect learning
• School as a secure base
• Ways to support those working with children in schools

There will be an opportunity for discussion and reference to clinical work.

Dr Heather Geddes is a qualfied teacher and Educational Psychotherapist who undertakes training and consultation with teachers and educational staff. Dr Geddes completed her PhD thesis on attachment behaviour in relation to responses to the teacher and the learning task. She works privately as a therapist, supervisor and trainer and contributes to the MA Training in Educational Psychotherapay at the Caspari Foundation. Her book 'Attachment in the Classroom' was published in 2006 and signed copies will be on sale on the day.

Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm (registration, tea and coffee from 9.0am)

Venue: Jurys Inn, 101 Stroudley Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4DJ

01273 862121 www.jurysinns.com (disabled access)

Cost £35.00 (includes tea and coffee on arrival and during the seminar)

For a booking form, please download the attachment below. For more information please contact Anne Taylor on 01273 320500 or Email: therapeuticservices@sussexcentralymca.org.uk.