Coming into Balance Regarding Responsibility
Correcting Imbalanced Assessments of Responsibility
Half-day Online Meditation Workshop- Date: Sunday, 28th Jul 2024
- Instructor: Cedric Reeves
- Cost: Sliding scale $30 ~ $120
Join us for this workshop where we will discuss the distortions around responsibility which is a hallmark of insecure attachment. Around negative events (memories of difficult relationships, etc), people with dismissing avoidant attachment over-assign to self and under-assign responsibility to others. The opposite is true for people with anxious preoccupied attachment. We'll discuss how this distortion was a helpful adaptation in the past, yet is troublesome in the present. Then we'll work through this in the guided meditations.
The intended outcome is a better understanding of why you either under or over assign responsibility to self/other, why it was helpful and strategic in the past, and start healing them. To heal these distortions means to come into balance and better see 'messy' multi-causal contributions to interpersonal problems.
This program is for people who struggle to understand themselves, their pasts; who struggle with forgiveness and anger; who have insecure attachment and unresolved traumas.
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 Insecure Attachment.
- 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
28th Jul 2024
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+12h
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workshop Overview
This program is suitable for beginners to meditation and healing work.
The first hour of the workshop will be review that covers the basics of Attachment Theory and Attachment Repair. If you have taken other courses with attachmentrepair.com you can skip the first hour.
Unbalanced and distorted understanding of responsibility and blame is a hallmark of insecure attachment.
In this course we will seek to understand what is ‘balance’ around assigning fault, blame, guilt, and responsibility and how to achieve it. We will also investigate and seek to understand the reasons for our own distortions around assigning responsibility.
Then we’ll do a series of meditations where we investigate the extremes (total self blame/exoneration of other and total self-exoneration/blame of other) and then come into balance. This is a dialectical and exploratory task.
In these meditations we will reflect, integrate, and mentalize our own experience. Thereby, we’ll come into balance. This balance will help us be more responsive to our current live circumstances instead of reactive.
This course draws from:
- Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (Dan Brown et al.)
- Schema Therapy (Jeff Young et al.)
- Coherence Therapy (Bruce Ecker et al.)
- Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (Patricia Crittenden et al.)
- Mentalization Based Treatment.
Please note that this workshop is focused on experiential guided meditation plus some basic psycho education on attachment theory and the process of healing common perceptual distortions of insecure attachment.
This workshop is not psychotherapy or a substitute for it.
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 feel ambivalent about connecting
- people who have anxious preoccupied or disorganized/fearful attachment
- people with anxiety disorders
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
Better understanding of how childhood experiences of ‘danger and threat of unknown cause’ can still affect our adult lives.
More compassion towards and understanding of the origins of anxiety, anxious preoccupied attachment, and disorganized attachment (mixed anxious preoccupied and dismissing avoidant attachment).
Psychological
- Working through chronic anxiety and confusion about the source of the anxiety.
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 :)
Registration
Registration has closed.
The recording is available in our Store:
Please note: What is on offer here is meditation coaching, not psychotherapy or counseling.