OXPIP Training: Watch, Watch Wait and Wonder (an introduction)

Summary

Fri 13 June 09:30 – 15:00

This is a one-day training aimed at early years professionals, social workers, and mental health professionals who want to help parents become more attuned to their babies, and to follow their babies’ lead in play. This intervention facilitates parents’ interaction with their babies in ways that support the babies’ sense of self, confidence and curiosity. Supervision can be made available for those wishing to develop their WWW practice or use WWW in groups.

It is a pre-requisite of this course that participants have completed our Attachment Theory training or equivalent.

Please note although this is called ‘an introduction’, it is the complete course.

Learning outcomes at the end of the training

Participants will have:

• an increased understanding of the theoretical framework underpinning WWW, in particular, attachment theory and Donald Winnicott’s work
• a deepened awareness of the parent-infant relationship, rather than a singular focus on either the symptoms of the parent or the infant
• a stronger knowledge base of how to help facilitate parents’ capacity to observe, recognise, and understand their children’s play
• a greater capacity to adopt an observational, reflective stance with parents which will, in turn, enable the participant to foster an observational, reflective stance in the parent towards their child