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06/05/2022

Check out this brilliant CPD opportunity in infant mental health week. Low cost online conference: 17th June 2-4.30pm. Register via EventBrite eventbrite.co.uk/e/nurturing-ba… pic.twitter.com/PmuH6d5A2g

02/03/2021

Really interesting day with AIMH on Friday 5th March. Click link to book

AiMH London Region Hub online Event Friday March 5th 2021 -12.30-3.00pm The first part of this event, presentations by our two speakers, Monika Celebi and Debbie Brace, is open to AiMH members. Non-members may also book to attend the presentations. The last part of the event from 2 – 3pm is for ....

11/07/2020

**FREE** introductions to Video Interaction Guidance for professionals who want to find out about VIG. Scheduled at different times to accommodate different time zones. Please share if you know folk who might want to come ♥

02/07/2020

Another fabulous group of students trained online in Video Interaction Guidance. It really does not get better… If you want to get trained in VIG then we have courses scheduled into the Autumn iswmatters.co.uk/product/vig-in… pic.twitter.com/NaWdPF2Ffm

27/05/2020

My colleague Monika Celebi is offering a free seminar on Video Interaction Guidance on 9 June 2020...details below...PLEASE SHARE!

"My name is Moni Celebi and I am a National VIG supervisor and psychotherapist. I am offering a free introduction to video interaction guidance (VIG) and will be showing footage of online VIG with a mother and her toddler.

Tuesday 9/6/2020 at 11.00 am - 11.30 am GMT

zoom ID: 99730335237 password: 186506
the zoom room will be locked at 11.05

10/04/2020

Blog post by VIG Futures with ideas of how to cope during the lockdown

Zubeida and her family were self isolating a week before the lock down started because she was showing symptoms. She was thrilled to be asked by the BBC to share their experiences and her ideas about coping. You can read what she said in the article below:

08/04/2020

if you are working with new parents who are struggling due to the lockdown, Babies1st are offering help online. Please share

16/03/2020

Check out a new blog post by VIG Futures's co-founder Zubeida Dasgupta's thoughts on why we focus on strengths in strengths based practice. Share please!

Somebody asked me recently why we tend to look at the negative. Like a lot of people I have my own theories: culturally we tend to look at negatives; we think of talking about our strengths as ‘showing off’; services I work in are often deficit based (when are we taken to court because we have d...

02/03/2020

If you're a provider of attachment interventions please complete this survey for researchers at UCL. It will take less than 5 minutes....

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends video feedback and sensitivity training for caregivers for supporting childhood attachments but also highlighted that we need much more evidence around what interventions work.

If you're a provider of attachment interventions please complete our survey:

https://tinyurl.com/AttachmentMattersSurvey

28/02/2020

New Blog Post alert!

This one is a guest blog post by Richard Devine senior social worker at Bath and North East Somerset Council who shares thoughts from his questioning mind...

This is a guest post by Richard Devine who shares some ideas from his ever questioning mind. Here he reflects on the application of the Japanese art of Kintsugi to contemporary child protection practice. Strengths versus deficit orientated practice: A false dichotomy?