Working Through Holiday Triggers
A guided meditation course on working through old patterns
Half-day Online Meditation Workshop- Date: Saturday, 23rd Dec 2023
- Instructor: Cedric Reeves
- Cost: Sliding scale Free
Join us for this workshop where we work through our typical triggers experienced during the holiday season.
The intended outcome is to find more calm and well-being during challenging holiday events.
This program is for people who feel that the holidays can bring up difficult or painful situations and feelings.
Who is this for?
- For anyone who wants to go from insecure to secure attachment.
- Suitable for anyone new to attachment-work, or is already experienced.
- People with Dismissing Attachment.
- For anyone who is willing to do the work to get results.
Format
- Program: 3 sessions of 60 minutes each.
- Live Online Sessions: The live sessions will be hosted on Zoom. An email with the zoom links will be sent to you after you have registered.
- Q&A: There will be opportunity to ask questions during the Q&A section.
Attendance & Recordings
- Partial attendance is fine - however you get best results if you attend all sessions.
- Late Starts: You can join even after it has started.
- View at your own pace: The event will be recorded and sent out to registered participants for viewing on your own schedule.
Event Date & Time
This workshop will run twice in order to be accessible to people in different time zones. The content is exactly the same. You will get the access details for both after signing up.
23rd Dec 2023
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+12h
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What to Expect
Guided meditation will be the main focus of the program. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions and share whatever you feel comfortable with. There will be no pressure to do so; passive participation is perfectly fine.
In this course we’ll examine old ‘interpersonal episodes’ that have triggered us in the past.
We’ll process these old episodes in guided meditations using integrative metacognitive skills as follows:
- What schemas (emotional beliefs) are coming up
- How do I view myself
- How do I view the other
- What is my wish
- What is the response of other
- How I respond to their response
- What emotions come up
- How all these variable relate to one another
- How this is from my perspective and from a third person’s perspective
- How all this integrates into the story of my life
- How this has effected me
- Then how too soothe myself
- How such experiences are normal/experienced by many
- How our response in the past was part of a valid self-protective attachment strategy (taking the ‘Pro-Symptom Position’)
- Have an emotionally corrective experience
- Recognize discrepencies between out old emotional belief and a healthier way to live
These inquiries and exercise within the meditation draw from Core Conflict Relationship Themes, Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy, Coherence Therapy, The Dynamic Maturational Model, Ideal Parent Figure Protocol, Schema Therapy, and Buddhist Compassion Meditation (Tong Len).
The intended outcome of this is greater metacognitive integration, healing, better understanding of self, and other, and the adaptiveness of old strategies and more choice around our behaviors, going forward.
workshop Overview
This program is suitable for beginners to meditation and healing work.
Miscellaneous Notes
There will be time for Q&A and spot coaching during the live event. The Q&A recording will not be made available thereafter. If you do not attend live, you will not have access to the Q&A.
We will be doing deep work. For that reason please feel free to take a break at any point.
Walking Meditation
There will be a few breaks for walking meditation, and brief instructions will be given.
Who is this for?
This program is for those of us who...
- have problems with experiencing jealousy of others
- want to engage more authentically with people we are close with
Healing Together
Shared interest and social support can make meditation practice, study, and healing much easier.
Make friends in the course on the slack channel and invite friends who you think could benefit to participate in the course.
Benefits
These are some of the benefits you will have by the end of the program
Theoretical Understanding
- See how jealousy manifests as a product of the internal working model of attachment.
- Understand the roots of jealousy as originating in maladaptive views of self and the world.
Psychological
- Lessening feelings of jealousy and moving into more secure appreciation of others.
- Healing traits of insecure attachment.
For your relationships
- Relating to others more directly, instead of through the distortions of a jealous mental state.
- Increased calmness to let partners and friends be themselves, brining about more closeness.
Support Structure
- Opportunities to find accountability partners to meditate with.
- A sense of camaraderie as a result of seeing how our psychological difficulties are rooted in common experiences that affect us all.
- Slack group with which to discuss and share experiences and consolidate what you are learning.
Frequently Asked Questions
About Participation
Payment Questions
Technical Questions
If you are experiencing any technical issues relating to accessing the material or live sessions, please get in touch with us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
We can be reached with our online contact form.
Testimonials
This is what participants of prior workshops have to say:
Dani
Thank you for continuing to make these classes. When I am able to attend, they make a really positive contribution to my mental health :)
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Please note: What is on offer here is meditation coaching, not psychotherapy or counseling.
Hi Cedric, I resonated so strongly when you said in your bio, “for the first time in 14 years, I stopped meditating. I felt adrift”. That’s exactly where I’m at, only that it’s been 6.5 years of meditating. Back in the US, after being in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia for years.
Finding meditation at 23 was a godsend. I felt I finally had a tool I could use to calm myself down from constant pain. But I had a relationship that ended about 7 months ago, and I realized that relationally there was sooooo much I was blind to. I hurt her unknowingly through what i suspect is disorganized attachment, and through so much shame I unknowingly carried.
I’m guess I’m reaching out because I want some reassurance that there’s hope in going from a place of feeling lost and powerless, to having direction and a sense of purpose, and also to thank you deeply for these meditations which allow me to be in my body again. I still feel I trip at the starting line of action over and over, but I’m not suffering as much.
Thank you so much for the work you do! Really. I’ve been telling so many people about these tapes.
PS: Have you ever thought about translating these to Spanish?