AiMH UK Lunchtime Skills Box Session
‘How to Support Parent-Baby Attunement’
January 22nd 2025 – 1pm to 2pm
We are delighted that Hilary Kennedy the originator of the VIG (Video Interaction Guidance) approach in the UK and joint CEO of AViG UK will be giving our January Skills Box session
Hilary will use video material of parent-baby interactions to explore with participants the essence of attuned parent-baby interactions. Key concepts of Love, Play and then Work will be explained and Hilary will demonstrate how these are central to the core principles of Video Interaction Guidance and baby-focussed interactions. Hilary will draw on 2024 Brain Research to explain why it is SO important for parents to attune to their babies.
Hilary will suggest ways you could support a parent to attune to their baby and show the way a VIG Practitioner can explore these ideas with a parent including an example of a VIG Shared Review
Key Takeaways
- Understanding of what a parent attuning to their baby looks like
- The importance of encouraging Love before Play before Work
- The Principles of Attuned Interaction and Guidance
- Why Attunement is so important
- How you can promote attunement in your day-to-day work
BIO
Hilary Kennedy
Video Interaction Guidance: Developer, Supervisor and Lead Trainer
Joint Chief Executive, Association of VIGuk (AVIGuk)
Hilary Kennedy is a leading developer of Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) in the UK, an educational psychologist and an Honorary Research associate at University College London. She is a freelance VIG trainer developing new VIG training methods, leads VIG training in perinatal teams throughout the UK and is involved in international VIG developments in Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador and Mexico.
Currenly, she is leading a mission to train 450 new Practitioners to deliver VIG in the 1001 critical days over 75 LAs. This Family Hubs-Best start for Life Project is led and funded by the Department of Health and Social Care
She has co-edited two books on VIG with Miriam Landor and Liz Todd. Video Interaction Guidance: A Relationship-Based Intervention to Promote Attunement, Empathy and Well being in 2011 and Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP: Professional Development through attuned interaction) in 2015. She writes many articles and has contributed chapters to 3 recent books on Innovative Research in Infant Wellbeing, Family Justice and Neglect.
www.videointeractionguidance.net
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