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Discovering What Is Hidden, Unspeakable, Unthinkable
A Guided Meditation Workshop for Gently Discovering What Is Stuck and Hidden, Prevening Us from Futher Healing.
Half-day Online Meditation Workshop- Date: Sunday, 22nd Dec 2024
- Instructor: Cedric Reeves
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Cost: Sliding scale $30 ~ $120
- 🎓 Scholarships are available to those who need them
Join us for this workshop where we will discuss how often our most core psychological problems are not generally known to us (othewise they, generally, would have resolved, already!). Then we'll do a series of gentle guided meditations that both respect the tenderness of what we don't want to see, and start moving towards understanding the issue. Then, we'll start to heal these issues that are core, yet also hidden, and often unspeakable.
The intended outcome is to equip you with a a better understanding of what is unseen/unthinkable in your personal case and a series guided visualization meditations to help you discover and heal these issues. .
This program is for people who have insecure attachment and still feel stuck, and you don't know why you feel stuck.
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.
This Workshop is suitable for
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Useful For
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Inner Critic
- Shame
Event Date & Time
Sunday, 22nd Dec 2024
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+12h
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Workshop Overview
This program is not psychotherapy or a substitute for it. It is a psycho-educational and meditation program. Additionally, it is helpful and recommended to do psychotherapy in parallel with this type of program.
This program is suitable for beginners to meditation and healing work.
Most of the time when we start the path of healing our own psychology, we don’t know or understand what the actual issue is (what is unspeakable/unthinkable). Rather, we work on what seems safer and more known. This is nearly universal to people in psychotherapy, in my opinion. (This concept is drawn from the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation developed by Patricia Crittenden and others)
The purpose of this workshop is to:
- normalize how common these ‘unspeakable’ issues are
- how not addressing them keeps us either stuck or only making slow progress on healing path
- validate how avoiding these unspeakable issues has, in fact, been strategic and protective (taking the pro-symptom position)
- gently and compassionately start discovering the unspeakable issues
- start healing and integrating these issues
Psycho-education Part (what to understand)
- discussion of the types of unspeakable issues (they are what would be too painful to admit, or too threatening to current attachment strategies and relationships to change abruptly)
Please note there will be no expectation to share your issue during the workshop. Everyone is in total control of what they do and don’t choose to share during the Q&A period.
Guided Meditations (experiential)
- Brief Perfect Nurturer Reinforcement (Largely overlapping with a basic Ideal Parent Figure Protocol Meditation)
- A series of meditations for validating the difficulty of looking at these hidden issues, discovering them, and finally integrative meditations to start healing them.
This course draws from:
- Attachment Theory generally
- Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (Crittenden et al.)
- Coherence Therapy (Bruce Ecker et al.)
- Mentalization Based Treatment (Fonage & Bateman et al.)
- Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (IPF) (Brown & Elliott et al)
This program is not psychotherapy or a substitute for it. It is a psycho-educational and meditation program. Additionally, it is helpful and recommended to do psychotherapy in parallel with this type of program.
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...
- struggle with clinical/hard to treat insecure attachment.
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
How normative/mild insecure attachment and ‘clinical’ insecure attachment differ and interrelate.
How clinical/severe insecure attachment builds on normative/mild insecure attachment.
How clinical/severe insecure attachment is an attempt at adaptation.
The kinds of experiences that create clinical insecure attachment
How to start healing clinical insecure attachment
For your relationships
More patience and understanding towards those near to you
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
Once you sign up, an email will be sent out to you with a Zoom link. It will allow you to access the live classes. A free Zoom account is necessary, and Zoom needs to be installed on your computer before the event starts.
No, this course is open to anyone, regardless of your familiarity with attachment theory or prior meditation experience.
Yes, and in fact we highly encouraged you to do both.
Payment Questions
If for any reason you aren’t satisfied, simply contact us and we will send you a full refund.
If you are experiencing troubles with your payment, simply contact us and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
There are other payment methods listed on our donations page. Otherwise contact us for other options. If you lack any ability to make online payments, let us know and we can sign you up for free.
Technical Questions
The recordings will be available for 3 more months after the course ends.
The recordings will be made available as video and also as audio-only.
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 :)
Please note: What is on offer here is meditation coaching, not psychotherapy or counseling.
Registration
This event is offered on a sliding scale to be accessible to anyone.
🎓 Scholarships: Inability to pay is no barrier to taking the class. Please fill in this form if you need a scholarship and we will accommodate you.
💵 Refund policy: If you are dissatisfied for whatever reason, simply let us know and we will issue you a full refund, no questions asked.
[2024-12] Discovering What Is Hidden, Unspeakable, Unthinkable
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