The Circle of Security® Online Course
8 weeks. A new lens on parenting. A return to connection.
For cycle-breakers, conscious parents, and those ready to offer what they never received.
You're Trying To Parent In A Way Which Was Never Shown.
And some days, your nervous system just can’t keep up with your intention.
You want to raise your child with empathy.
You want softness to come naturally.
You want to feel like a safe place, not a ticking clock.
But your body learned survival long before it learned safety.
You didn’t grow up with this kind of parenting.
You didn’t get held through your mess.
You didn’t get mirrored in your fear.
And now?
You’re trying to give what you never got.
That’s not failure. That’s a nervous system performing courage.
And this course was made for that exact kind of courage.
Most Parents Aren’t Missing Love.
They’re missing safety inside love.
That’s why I teach Circle of Security®.
Because you are on the circle too.
You’ve reached out, only to feel let down.
You’ve come in close, then shut down again.
You learned when it was safe to show need — and when to go invisible.
This isn’t about fixing your parenting.
It’s about finally understanding yourself inside it.
“The sooner we begin building safety, the sooner your child learns they don’t have to earn it.”
💡 This Isn’t About Techniques. It’s About Transformation.
Inside the Circle, we gently explore:
🌱 What secure attachment really looks and feels like (spoiler: it’s not about being perfect).
🌱 Why your child’s “big” behaviours often mirror your own inner child’s unmet needs.
🌱 How your attachment history gets activated and how to respond instead of react.
🌱 The foundation of emotional safety: co-regulation, repair, and presence over perfection.
🌱 How to truly understand your child – learning to read their needs, cues, and nervous system signals beneath the behaviour.
🌱 A key into their non-verbal language, emotional world, and why they communicate through their behaviour when words aren’t enough.
✨ What You Receive
8 weekly live Zoom sessions (1.5 hours), guided by Jo Bealey – therapist specialising in attachment & relationships
Weekly handouts + reflective prompts to deepen your personal insight
A private, compassionate support group to share, connect, and feel less alone in the journey
Replay access for as long as you need.Perfect in case you miss a session or what do go over what we learn.
A trauma-informed space to explore your story, your child’s needs, and how to offer what you may never have received
“I can finally slow down and meet my child without bracing.” — Previous participant
Circle of Security® Online Course
Want Deeper Support?
Choose an Attachment-Focused Upgrade
If you’re ready to go deeper, you can add personalised support to your group journey:
Upgrade Option 1: 6 x Individual Therapy Sessions
Support your journey by gently exploring your own attachment story, relational triggers, and nervous system patterns in a 1:1 setting.
Additional: $780 AUD
Upgrade Option 2: 4 x Couple Parenting Sessions
Explore the attachment dynamics between you and your partner and learn how to co-regulate, co-parent, and reconnect with more ease and compassion.
Additional: $640 AUD
Circle of Security® Online Course
Want Deeper Support?
Choose an Attachment-Focused Upgrade
If you’re ready to go deeper, you can add personalised support to your group journey:
Upgrade Option 1: 6 x Individual Therapy Sessions
Support your journey by gently exploring your own attachment story, relational triggers, and nervous system patterns in a 1:1 setting.
Additional: $780 AUD
Upgrade Option 2: 4 x Couple Parenting Sessions
Explore the attachment dynamics between you and your partner and learn how to co-regulate, co-parent, and reconnect with more ease and compassion.
Additional: $640 AUD
Why This Course?
Why Me?
I didn’t come to attachment theory through textbooks.
I came to it through women. New mothers.
Sitting on the edge of their lives, raw, , unsure what part of themselves would be waiting on the other side of motherhood.
I began my career as a postpartum doula, not just because I cared about babies (I do love a cuddle!) but because I knew how many mothers never got to feel cared for themselves.
I wanted to offer women something most of us never received:
To be held while they held.
To be supported while they gave.
To be seen while they were stretched to their edges.
Because when you are cared for it becomes possible to care in the way you always wanted to.
From there, I created mum-and-baby classes rooted in attachment and bonding through baby massage but the magic was always in the community.
Where women could be deeply tired, honest, and still worthy of belonging.
Where everyone was doing their best and no one had to pretend they were fine.
While holding that space, I trained as a therapist.
I supported perinatal mothers through charity work.
And I went on to deepen my practice with Attachment-Based Psychotherapy, working with individuals, couples, and families navigating the complexity of unmet needs, emotional safety, and relational repair.
That’s why this course matters so deeply to me.
Because I’ve seen what happens when attachment gets named.
When shame begins to dissolve.
When nervous systems feel safe enough to soften – maybe for the first time in years.
I'm Not Just A Facilitator - I'm an expert in creating Safe Spaces.
Spaces where your nervous system can breathe again.
Where the pressure lifts.
Where you’re gently held as you begin to see yourself, your past, and your child with new eyes.
This isn’t about judgement.
It’s about awareness. Tenderness. And sustainable change.
If you’ve been craving a gentler, clearer path to connection,
I would love to welcome you inside the Circle.
Circle of Security® A Week-by-Week Overview
Week 1:
Welcome + Creating a Safe Base
We begin by exploring the core principles of the Circle of Security — a map that helps us understand our children’s emotional needs and behaviours through an attachment lens. We also gently reflect on what “security” looked like in our own childhoods.
- ♥ Introduction to the Circle of Security model
- ♥ Why attachment matters — and how it impacts development
- ♥ Creating emotional safety in the parent-child relationship
- ♥ Beginning to notice our own internal “shark music”
Week 2:
Following Your Child’s Lead
We explore our child’s need to explore, play, be curious, and independent — and how we as parents can support that without hovering or withdrawing.
- ♥ The top half of the Circle: exploring, learning, and adventure
- ♥ Understanding cues for independence and curiosity
- ♥ Noticing when we struggle to ‘let go’ or step back
- ♥ Reflecting on our own experiences of being supported to explore
Week 3:
Being With – The Bottom Half of the Circle
We explore how to be emotionally available when our child returns for comfort, reassurance, or regulation — and what might get in the way of this connection.
- ♥ The bottom half of the Circle: comfort, co-regulation, safety
- ♥ How our children express needs for closeness, comfort, or repair
- ♥ The importance of “Being With” over fixing or distracting
- ♥ Exploring triggers: when our child’s need feels overwhelming
Week 4:
The Hands on the Circle – Providing a Secure Base
This week focuses on our role as the “bigger, stronger, wiser and kind” caregiver. We explore how to provide both firm structure and gentle emotional presence — not one or the other.
- ♥ What it means to be the hands: containing, soothing, guiding
- ♥ Balancing connection and boundaries
- ♥ When our child needs us to hold firm
- ♥ Holding both strength and softness
Week 5:
Exploring Rupture + Repair
This powerful session helps parents explore how inevitable misattunements happen — and how they can be repaired. We reflect on our repair blueprint and what we’re passing on.
- ♥ All parents misstep – what matters is what comes next
- ♥ How to repair with our child
- ♥ Exploring guilt, shame, and fear around “getting it wrong”
- ♥ What repair looked like (or didn’t) in our own childhood
Week 6:
Navigating Emotional Triggers + Shark Music
We deep-dive into our own internal reactions — those moments when we feel dysregulated, overwhelmed, or disconnected — and explore how to bring more self-awareness and gentleness to those parts.
- ♥ Understanding “Shark Music” – the triggers that hijack connection
- ♥ Why certain behaviours evoke big reactions
- ♥ The link between our attachment histories and parenting responses
- ♥ Tools for regulation and reparenting in the moment
Week 7:
Reflecting on Your Child’s Needs + Individual Differences
This week invites reflection on your child’s unique temperament, cues, and ways of being in the world — and how to parent the child in front of you rather than the one in your imagination or upbringing.
- ♥ Each child’s Circle looks a little different
- ♥ Understanding and honouring temperament
- ♥ Adapting our responses to meet individual needs
- ♥ Letting go of perfection and embracing “good enough”
Week 8:
The Heart of Connection — Closing Reflections
In this final week, we explore how to take everything we’ve learned and carry it into everyday life — with warmth, flexibility, and compassion. This is about deepening your connection, trusting your instincts, and continuing to show up, even when it’s messy.
- ♥ The power of repair and emotional safety
- ♥ Strengthening your child’s secure base over time
- ♥ Parenting as a journey — not a destination
- ♥ Trusting yourself to come back, again and again
FAQs...
❓What age is this course suitable for?
This course is designed for parents and caregivers of children aged 0–10, but the principles apply far beyond.
The truth is; attachment isn’t age-specific.
Whether your child is 4 or 14, the foundation of safety, repair, and attunement remains the same.
If your child still comes to you with big feelings (or you wish they could), this course will meet you both.
❓I’m not sure I’m the “type” of parent this is for…
There’s no one type. This course is for the ones parenting over their own unmet needs. The ones trying to offer what they never received. You don’t need to already have it figured out. You just need to be willing to look. And if you’re here — reading this — chances are, you’re already doing the brave thing.
❓What if I’ve already read a lot about attachment?
Then this course will help you live it. Circle of Security® isn’t just information – it’s integration. It’s a felt, relational process that helps you not only understand your child’s behaviour, but your own. The result isn’t just insight. It’s shift. Inside your nervous system, your parenting, your partnerships.
❓Do I need a partner to join?
Not at all.
Many parents walk this path solo – whether by choice, circumstance, or emotional load.
This course honours all family structures.
You are enough, and you deserve support. No partner required.
❓What if I can’t make a session live?
That’s completely okay. Every session is recorded and available to watch on replay for 10 days. We know life — especially parenting life — is rarely linear or predictable. You don’t need to show up perfectly. You just need to keep coming back when you can. This work meets you where you are.
❓What if I miss a session?
You’ll have replay access for every session.
That means you can watch (or re-watch) each week’s content in your own time, no pressure.
We know life with children isn’t linear – this space was built with real life in mind.
❓What if I’m in therapy already?
Perfect. This course doesn’t replace therapy, it complements it. Many participants find that Circle of Security® gives them language, frameworks, and inner clarity that deepens their 1:1 work. If anything gets stirred up during the course, we always encourage you to bring it back to your therapist.
❓How is this different from therapy?
This is not therapy, but it is therapeutically informed.
Think of it as a gentle education space that gives language to things you’ve felt for years without needing to emotionally excavate.
That said, many people find the work so resonant that they choose to explore it further in therapy.
That’s why we offer optional upgrade sessions for 1:1 or couple work.
❓Is this suitable if I have trauma?
Yes and I’m holding that with care.
The Circle of Security® framework is trauma-sensitive and delivered in a way that prioritises emotional safety.
There’s no pressure to share personal stories, and you’re always in charge of your level of participation.
You will not be pushed. You will be gently guided.
And I’ll be there the whole way.
❓Will this make me feel guilty for how I’ve parented?
No.
This is not a course about perfection.
It’s about understanding, softening, and repair – not shame.
In fact, many parents tell me this course helped them forgive themselves more than anything else.
❓I’ve done a lot of courses. How is this different?
This isn’t a ‘how-to’.
It’s a lens.
You won’t leave with a script – you’ll leave with an internal shift.
A new way of seeing your child.
A new way of understanding yourself.
That’s why so many people say:
“It didn’t just change my parenting. It changed my relationships. My nervous system. My story.”
❓What if my child is neurodivergent?
This course welcomes neurodivergent families with open arms.
The framework is relational, not behavioural – meaning it’s not about control, compliance, or performance.
It’s about reading cues, understanding needs, and creating safety for who your child actually is.
If you’ve felt like other parenting advice just doesn’t fit — this may be the first time something does.
❓How much support will I get?
You’ll be guided by me (Jo Bealey) across 8 live sessions, with space to ask questions, reflect, and integrate what you’re learning.
You’ll also receive weekly handouts and prompts and access to a private support group where connection continues between sessions.
If you want more personalised support, you can add one of the upgrade options (1:1 or couple sessions) to go deeper.
❓I’m nervous I won’t keep up or “do it right.”
There is no right way to do this.
Just showing up is enough.
Some weeks, you’ll feel inspired. Some weeks, you’ll feel raw.
Both are welcome here. There are no expectations to share or speak unless you would like to, (other than a quick hello at the start). You will not be put on the spot.
This isn’t a course about doing.
It’s a course about seeing.
❓How do the upgrade sessions work?
If you select an upgrade (individual or couples therapy), you’ll receive a separate email with your booking link and a soft orientation into what to expect. These are private, 60-minute therapy sessions with Jo to explore your attachment story, relational patterns, and emotional wiring in more depth. They’re held online and paced with care.
The sessions are available:
Monday 9-2.30pm 5-7pm (Perth time)
Tuesday 9- 6pm (perth time)
Thursday 9am-3pm
Emotional safety isn’t something you were supposed to know how to give without ever receiving it yourself.
It’s something you can learn. With support. With space. And with others walking the same path.
Come home to connection — for you and your child.
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