Additional information
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Half-day Online Meditation Workshop
Understanding and Healing Obstructions to Expressing Love, Care, and Desire
A guided, half-day meditation course on understanding and healing discomfort with expressing affection
Half-day Online Meditation Workshop- Date: Sunday, 25th May 2025
- 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 seek to understand what stands in the way of expressing love and affection for others. Then we'll investigate that discomfort in adult life and then explore the roots of this discomfort in earlier life, usually childhood. We'll do all of this with the aim of developing clear comprehension of this issue and then start with the work of healing it.
The intended outcome is a better understanding for why there is difficulty with expressing love and affection and start to heal it.
This program is for people who struggle to express love and affection
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.
- Live-only: This event will not be recorded.
Event Date & Time
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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 simple. We’ll first seek to understand our difficulties expressing love and affection, see how this difficulty is logical given earlier experiences in life (and the subsequent distortions). Moreover we’ll do the work of integrating both the current manifestation of this reservation/discomfort with affection in our current adult lives and the earlier experiences that contributed to this issue
Guided Meditations
- Brief Perfect Nurturer Reinforcement (Largely overlapping with a basic Ideal Parent Figure Protocol Meditation)
- Guided meditations on understanding this avoidant, uneasy part in our current adult lives
- Guided meditations on finding the root causes, likely in childhood, of this behavior and working on healing it.
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 expressing love and affection
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.
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 :)
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.
Where did you hear about this Program?
[2025-05] Understanding and Healing Obstructions to Expressing Love, Care, and Desire
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If you miss a session or are dissatisfied for whatever reason, simply let us know and we will issue you a full refund, no questions asked.
Please note: What is on offer here is meditation coaching, not psychotherapy or counseling.