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In this experientially focused online meditation workshop we will work towards healing our deep attachment conditioning with a special emphasis on improving our abilities to explore life and find what is personally meaningful to us. Underdeveloped exploration and self-development are especially relevant to those of us with anxious preoccupied attachment patterns.
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.
8th Jan 2023
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+12h
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This program is suitable for beginners to meditation and healing work.
This program will focus on working through negative early attachment conditioning especially as it relates to exploration and self-development. We will approach this from attachment theory and attachment repair perspectives.
We’ll do this work primarily through guided meditations along with relevant psycho-education.
Attachment Theory describes one of the earliest phases of our psychological development. It describes the behaviours of the infant from ages 6 months to three years of age when it ventures away from the caregiver to explore and then goes back to seek safety, affection, and care from the ‘secure base’. These early experiences imprint on us forming emotional memories (schemas) that go on to condition many aspects of life thereafter.
When the ‘secure base’ isn’t entirely secure our exploratory capacities and self development are undermined. We’ll focus on fixing this conditioning through direct attachment repair work (guided meditations).
The structure is set up such to help us heal common aspects of disordered attachment conditioning (emphasis on anxious preoccupied attachment). There will be four guided meditation sessions focused the four Schemas of the “Schema Domain” of “Impaired Autonomy and Performance” These four Schemas all related back directly to the exploration end of attachment conditioning.
According to Jeffery Young “An early maladaptive schema is a pervasive self-defeating or dysfunctional theme or pattern of memories, emotions, and physical sensations, developed during childhood or adolescence and elaborated throughout one’s lifetime, that often has the form of a belief about the self or the world.” Jeffrey Young also calls the schemas “life traps”.
The form of meditation that we’ll use is the “Schema Repatterning Meditation” This meditation uses the “Perfect Nurturers” to reparent our inner, vulnerable child and thereby bring about emotional memory reconsolidation and related positive change.
The technique that we’ll be using, the “Schema Repatterning Meditation” is influenced by Jeffrey Young’s Schema Therapy approach, Dan Brown and David Elliot’s Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (IPF), and Bruce Ecker, Laurel Hulley, and Robin Ticic’s Coherence Therapy.
Schema therapy was developed by Jeffrey Young in response to seeing how traditional Beckian Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was ineffective for patients with more serious disturbances like personality disorders.
IPF was developed particularly to treat insecure attachment.
Coherence therapy is a therapeutic modality that focuses on bringing “transformational change” through emotional memory reconsolidation.
We will do psycho-education and reparative meditations on each the following schemas:1
This course will be broken down into two half-day workshops. In the morning we will focus on:
In the afternoon we’ll do:
Additionally, in the the afternoon class we did meditations to validate the sense of personal preferences (often underdeveloped in people with insecure attachment) and the sense of the “best-self”.
Moreover we’ll investigate how each of these schemas manifest as behaviors (schema modes); particularly the coping modes of surrender, avoidance, and overcompensation. Then we’ll regress back to the vulnerable child mode and feel into the schema, studying how it was brought about through difficult childhood experiences. Then we’ll reparent the vulnerable child around those difficult experiences.
We will start with a brief lecture on attachment theory, attachment repair, the Schema Repatterning Meditation using Perfect Nurturers, and Schema Therapy.
Then, before each guided meditation on each schema listed above, we will do a brief psycho-education on that particular schema drawing both from Jeffrey Young’s Schema Theory and Attachment Theory.
Guided meditation will be the primary means for working through the schemas. We will be taking an attachment theory based re-parenting approach in the guided meditation. These meditations will give us corrective emotional experiences. The “perfect nurturers” will reparent our inner, vulnerable child in the meditation. These meditations will help us remap the ‘internal working model of attachment’.
We will apply each of these meditations to each the five schemas listed above:
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.
There will be a few breaks for walking meditation, and brief instructions will be given.
This program is for those of us who...
These are some of the benefits you will have by the end of the program
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This is what participants of prior workshops have to say:
Cedric I would just like to say thanks for your wisdom and knowledge of attachment issues and repair. The work you are doing really helps me and I have never come across anything as transformative for me as your meditations. Thank you so much.
Thank you for this beautiful retreat. Feels like this is what I needed in the moment.
Thank you for continuing to make these classes. When I am able to attend, they make a really positive contribution to my mental health :)
Great retreat, thank you so much Cedric. There is something special about Tonglen and using it with the schemas feels so healing. I feel hopeful and inspired to keep working with Tonglen.
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Please note: What is on offer here is meditation coaching, not psychotherapy or counseling.