There will be a few brief lectures on forgiveness, and Q&A. However, the focus of the workshop will be experiential. We will spend 50% to 65% on forgiveness meditations and exercises.

During the exercises, we’ll focus on both processing and forgiving others and ourselves. We’ll develop and deepen compassion towards self and other. Importantly, we’ll give ourselves full permission to feel our suffering, validating any difficult emotions. We’ll also engage in perspective taking exercises which will help us release ourselves from blame and release others from blame when we are ready to do so – never rushing the process! Moreover, we’ll see how that which we reject in others we tend to reject in ourselves and we’ll work towards healing this psychic-split.

The material on this course has been influenced by Bruce Ecker’s book “Unlocking the Emotional Brain”: “Neuroscience research since 2004 has shown that the brain has a key to locked synapses: a type of neuro-plasticity known as memory reconsolidation, which, when launched by a certain series of experiences, actually unlocks the synapses of a target emotional learning, allowing it to be not merely overridden but actually nullified and deleted by new learning.“.

This meditation course draws on:

• Attachment Theory (Bowlby, Ainsworth, et al)
• Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (Brown, et al)
• Coherence Therapy (Ecker, et al)
• Mentalization-Based Treatment (Fonagy, et al)
• Metacognitive Therapy (DiMaggio, et al.)
• Buddhist Visualization Practices
• Mindfulness Practice
• Chair work
• Embodiment practices

I hope that we’ll develop a sense of community in the workshop. As part of signing up you’ll be invited to the Attachment Repair Slack Group.

We will send out recordings to everyone who signs up. But it is highly recommended to attend live because we will be pairing up participants to do dyad-work.