My Word Speech Therapy Podcast
Sep 14, 2026 · 35 min · 11 segments
In today's episode, Maegan talks with Marion all about COSP, The Circle of Security Program You can get in contact with us at My Word Health through Website: www.mywordhealth.com.au Socials…
Okay, let's talk about the circle.
[laughs]
Mm-hmm.
The diagram, the, the sort of basis of the model as what it is.
Um, I know we don't have a visual image of what this looks like, but can you try and describe-
Mm-hmm
... what it is with, um, the circle with your hands at the bottom? And if somebody looked up a picture of the circle of security, like, you know-
Yeah
... jumped on Google or whatever and had a look at it, what would they be looking at and what does it mean?
Um, so basically there are two hands which are sort of positioned like this, and then there's a, um, circle coming; more an oval really.
[laughs]
Yeah, yeah.
[laughs]
That's okay.
It is.
[laughs]
It's more an oval, it's not a circle.
[laughs]
But it's a, it's classed as a circle because it does do like a, a circle, but it, um, it's sort of like this in that the, the, the top hand creates the top of the circle, and then the other hand creates the bottom of the circle.
So the top of the circle is really where the child feels comfortable enough, that they're feeling secure enough-
Mm
... with that attachment that they are then able to go out and explore the world.
They feel comfortable enough that they can go and take little risks, but knowing that they've got that security, that secure base.
So what generally happens is that the child will go out in sort of, you know, depending on the situation and depending on that attachment that they have with the, um, with the adult generally, um, that they'll go out and explore the world, and then something might frighten them or something that they're not quite sure about what to do, and then they go back to the connection of the base-
Mm-hmm
Okay, let's talk about the circle.
[laughs]
Mm-hmm.
The diagram, the, the sort of basis of the model as what it is.
Um, I know we don't have a visual image of what this looks like, but can you try and describe-
Mm-hmm
... what it is with, um, the circle with your hands at the bottom? And if somebody looked up a picture of the circle of security, like, you know-
Yeah
... jumped on Google or whatever and had a look at it, what would they be looking at and what does it mean?
Um, so basically there are two hands which are sort of positioned like this, and then there's a, um, circle coming; more an oval really.
[laughs]
Yeah, yeah.
[laughs]
That's okay.
It is.
[laughs]
It's more an oval, it's not a circle.
[laughs]
But it's a, it's classed as a circle because it does do like a, a circle, but it, um, it's sort of like this in that the, the, the top hand creates the top of the circle, and then the other hand creates the bottom of the circle.
So the top of the circle is really where the child feels comfortable enough, that they're feeling secure enough-
Mm
... with that attachment that they are then able to go out and explore the world.
They feel comfortable enough that they can go and take little risks, but knowing that they've got that security, that secure base.
So what generally happens is that the child will go out in sort of, you know, depending on the situation and depending on that attachment that they have with the, um, with the adult generally, um, that they'll go out and explore the world, and then something might frighten them or something that they're not quite sure about what to do, and then they go back to the connection of the base-
Mm-hmm
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