Kathy Kinskey is a child, family and individual psychotherapist, speaker and writer.  She is the host of Conscious Connections Talk Radio and founder of The Attachment & Bonding Network. 

Her talk radio show regularly features child and family specialists and advocates.  Conscious Connections Talk Radio recently featured SBGI faculty member Marcy Axness, Ph.D, SBGI graduate Carrie Contey, Ph.D, M.Ed, M.A. , SBGI president Marti Glenn, Ph.D, Child Honouring advocate Raffi Cavoukian, and Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.

• Tell us about the Attachment & Bonding Network?

The Attachment & Bonding Network is a widely accessed, primary resource center used by lay and professional people.  Its primary mission is to provide convenient access to research-based knowledge, resources, and support for building and strengthening healthy attachment between parents and their children, and in adult relationships.  Conscious Connections Talk Radio (CCTR) grew out of The Attachment & Bonding Network as a natural avenue for this mission.

• How can members of the SBGI community contribute to the network?

Thank you.  What a thoughtful question.  The main way you can contribute is to remember that CCTR is a great and easy way for anyone who parents, works with, or advocates for children and families to gain knowledge and resources. 
Anyone can call in and take part in CCTR’s live shows for free.  The shows are engaging, packed with resources and awareness, and full of heart.  So you can…

• Listen in and experience the shows and interviews—again there is no charge for live radio shows. 
• Tell everyone you can about www.ConsciousConnectionsTalkRadio.com.
• Sign up for our email newsletter list so you can receive updates on upcoming shows.  Share this resource by sending CCTR’s email newsletter on to others who may benefit.  Remember to let others know that our featured guests, like Dr. Marti Glenn, are leaders in the world through their influence in increasing attachment & bonding awareness; they deeply understand what supports healthy development in the critical periods of pre-conception /conception/ pregnancy/ birth and post-birth, as well as what supports the healthy development of children, families, and societies.  We feature guests who are making a profound impact in the world with research-based knowledge, training, writing, and even (as in the case of Raffi) through their music.
• As our listener base for CCTR grows, so too does our sponsorship base.  This allows us to continue to expand in our reach to more parents, >therapists and healthcare professionals, educators, and others who work with children and families.  They, in turn, gain easy, convenient exposure >to powerful knowledge, training, resources, and support that is available >throughout the world, for evidence-based, best practices in the care of children and families.  This includes exposure to institutions of training and awareness like SBGI and APPPAH (Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health).  So helping to grow CCTR’s newsletter email list is a very impactful way to contribute.
• Finally, if you would like to sponsor or know of a possible sponsor for Conscious Connections Talk Radio, please call 303-443-1220 or email us at info@ConsciousConnectionsTalkRadio.com.

• Kathy, please give our readers a brief introduction to Conscious Connections Talk Radio?

Conscious Connections Talk Radio creates an innovative experience for listeners of convenient, affordable access to research-based awareness, resources and child & family specialists.  Listeners have an experience of direct connection with leaders in the fields of attachment/ regulation awareness, and support in >conscious parenting and relationship.  Listeners are able to talk with respected researchers, educators, psychology professionals, occupational therapists, child/ family advocates, and more.  I interview a featured guest on a topic during the 1st half of the show, and during the Q & A half of the show, guests talk with listeners.  Listeners learn more about an attachment-parenting/relationship related topic, about many resources, including those offered by the guest speaker, and leave the interview more aware, supported, and resourced.

>CCTR now also features music and give-aways, which we do to invite more fun and connection during the shows.  The show is continuing to grow into a great blend of cognitive learning, awareness, and heart, which is really what this is all about.

• What is the goal of Conscious Connections Talk Radio?

We very much desire to bring attachment, regulation, and trauma awareness, tools, & support into main stream consciousness.  We believe the related impact of this awareness on relationship with self, other, and the environment is greatly needed at this time.  Our most basic desire, which serves this goal, is that there will be a day when no parent experiences regret and grief stemming from a former lack of awareness of positive attachment-parenting choices and resources.   We also are looking forward to a day when an entire generation of adults in general are much more securely attached, and can spend less time on personal “repair” work and more time on joyful, conscious connection and creating.  A lofty, but we believe worthwhile goal, which will happen one parent-child relationship at a time.

• How can our readers access past and upcoming interviews?

I appreciate your helping readers to know how to access this easily.  They can go to www.ConsciousConnectionsTalkRadio.com and sign up for our newsletter email list.  Folks will then receive the announcements for upcoming radio shows, events, and resources. 

>For previously recorded interviews, folks can access those in two ways:  One is that they can receive notice of when previously recorded interviews become available on CCTR’s website, by signing up for the newsletter email list.  They can also go to the website now to see which interviews are currently available as digital downloads.  In early 2009, CDs of recorded interviews will also become available.  We do encourage people to “go digital” in their listening as part of efforts to reduce natural resources used in packaging and shipping.

>As a gift to your SBGI community, CCTR would like to invite you to complimentary listening of two interviews we think you will enjoy:

I was delighted to interview Santa Barbara Graduate Institute’s founder and president, Dr. Marti Glenn several weeks ago.  That was an extremely informative interview for therapists, healthcare professionals.  Dr. Glenn tied her research with Dr. Allan Schore (on early brain development & attachment) into healing attachment and regulation challenges in adult relationships and families—and particularly in couples.  You can listen by going to www.ConsciousConnectionsTalkRadio.com, clicking on the “Newsletter Sign-up page” and then being sure to select Educator as you complete sign-up.  You will be sent an email, which will allow you to listen to the entire interview with Dr. Glenn. 

And as you mentioned, Raffi was a featured guest on the show a few weeks ago.  We talked about the “Child Honoring” work he is now doing in the world, which is based on his “Covenant for Honouring Children” and his anthology (co-authored with psychologist Sharna Olfman), Child Honoring:  How to Turn >This World Around.  With Raffi’s permission we are featuring that interview on our website homepage (www.ConsciousConnectionsTalkRadio.com); you can go to the website, click on the interview and listen to it in its entirety >without charge.  I found this to be a very inspiring interview about concrete things we can do now to turn the world around by making choices that protect and honor our young for generations to come.

Thank you for this opportunity.  I hold much gratitude for and salute all of you in the SBGI community for the very important awareness and positive change you are bringing into the world.