Attachment Theory & Repair
Self-Paced Course
This is a digital Self-Paced Course
- Simply purchase and download the zip
- Lifetime access to course material
Download contains:
- 9 video lectures, 16 hours total
- 28 guided meditations, 10 hours total
Overview
This program will cover:- The basics of attachment theory
- How it forms an important foundation of adult mental health
- How attachment conditioning is made up of attachment schemas which together form an "internal working model of attachment" (Bowlby)
- We will re-pattern and work through these attachment schemas systematically
- How insecure attachment usually implies deficits in mentalization capacities (meta-cognitive, perspective taking abilities)
- Which we start correcting in the guided meditation
- How to heal our early attachment conditioning in order to have much improved well-being, better romantic and platonic relationships, and a stronger, healthy sense of self.
- There will also be an experiential quiz at the end of the first class to help you get a sense for what your attachment style maybe.
This is a Practice oriented course.
Doing the work (meditations in this case) is what brings about the results. The learning content of the course is intended to guide and encourage the meditation practice which will bring about the desired healing.Why is focusing on Attachment Repair especially relevant to people who have struggled with other healing modalities?
- Attachment conditioning sets the foundation for much of psychological development thereafter. The foundation must be healthy before further work is fruitful.
- Attachment conditioning happens between 6 and 20 months of age: very early before there is much narrative or cognitive functioning.
- For this reason doing work at a later developmental level (cognitive/narrative approaches to healing (CBT etc)) is not as effective without a solid base. Healing attachment conditioning should come first. Then other healing modalities (talk therapy, mindfulness meditation, etc) can have their desired effects when built on the foundation of secure attachment conditioning.
- In order to fix attachment conditioning we must have lived, emotionally corrective experiences
- This is the core focus on this course: Having Emotionally Corrective Experiences that open up new possibilities for greater happiness and ease, better relationships, and more self-efficacy.
What is the primary practice/healing modality in this course?
We’ll focus on ‘Schema Repatterning Meditation’ (SRM). SRM is a guided visualization in which we:- First identify our problematic, negative schemas (emotional learnings/beliefs) and modes (problematic, symptom producing behaviors that result from the schemas/beliefs)
- Investigate these beliefs with interest and openness, bringing them fully into awareness using sentence stem completion exercises (based on Bruce Ecker's work)
- Discover their origins in childhood, adolescence, and earlier adulthood seeing how these negative learnings were helpful and adaptive at the time, but now no longer adaptive to our adult life
- Have a calibrated and attuned emotionally corrective experience in the guided meditation that juxtaposes the old negative learning (consistent with Bruce Ecker’s Coherence Therapy)
- All along the way, the meditation guidance helps us develop our meta-cognitive capacities, correcting executive function deficits that often accompany insecure attachment.
- Attachment Theory
- Jeffrey Young's Schema Therapy
- Bruce Ecker's Coherence Therapy
- The Work of Byron Katie
- Shirley Jean Schmidt's Developmental Needs Meeting strategy
- Laurel Parnell's Attachment-Focused EMDR
- Dan Brown and David Elliott's Ideal Parent Figure Protocol/Three Pillars Model
- Mentalization/Meta-Cogntive therapies (Fonagy, DiMaggio, Liotti)
- Buddhist Visualization Meditation
- Buddhist Heart Practices:
- Loving Kindness
- Compassion
- Appreciative Joy
- Equanimity (Equanimous Love)
Course format:
The course is broken up into 8 classes with each class focused on guided meditation. See below for details.Who is this For
This program is for those of us who...
- Have insecure attachment
- Are looking to improve our psychological health, especially if we have tried other healing modalities with disappointing results
- Have problems with emotional independence, exploration and sense of self (enmeshment)
- Have troubles with expressing vulnerability
- Difficulties with intimate relationships
- Want to optimise our psychological health
- Want to understand the early foundations of our psychological development
- Have had trouble consolidating gains in meditation practice in spite of lots of dedicated meditation practice
- Have difficulties with emotional regulation
Benefits & Outcomes
These are some of the benefits you will have by the end of the program
Theoretical Understanding
- A basic understanding of attachment theory.
- The importance of attachment repair and how to start doing it
- The importance of your personal explorations as a source for meaning in your life and more clarity on how to proceed in life towards those explorations and goals.
- Understanding of how insecure attachment forms an important foundation of adult mental health
- A plan for attaining secure attachment
- More understanding of the modes/parts from a schema therapy perspective like:
- Demanding internalized parent voices
- Overcompensation modes like “workaholic mode”, or “self-aggrandizer mode”
- Avoidance detached modes like the “detached self-soother” and the “spaced out fantasy mode”
- Compliant surrender mode
- Vulnerable child mode (which we reparent with the SRM)
- Healthy Adult mode (which results out of the vulnerable child getting its needs met)
Psychological
- A better ability to observe your mind with meta-cognitive awareness as a result of the mentalization exercises peppered through the guided meditations.
- Better able to do emotional regulation on the spot in your daily life with ‘micro-hits’ of meditation
- Less blame of self or others
- Greater understanding and compassion for psychological problems and vulnerabilities that affect you and others.
- Less identification with your psychological maladies and quirks (ego-dystonia with your maladaptive schemas).
- A better ability to observe your mind with meta-cognitive awareness as a result of the mentalization exercises peppered through the guided meditations.
- A very effective way to do emotional regulation on the spot in your daily life with ‘micro-hits’ of the SRM meditation
- Understanding of and compassion towards your parts/modes and needs.
- A more coherent and realistic understanding of the role your childhood experiences had in producing your adult personality.
For your relationships
- Understanding of how attachment conditioning unconsciously drives your relationship behaviors
- And how to remedy them.
- Greater valuing of attachment itself.
- Better understand of relationship dynamics
- Less social anxiety
- Greater ability and permission to be vulnerable and admit wanting closeness (dismissing/disorganized)
Included Files:
Using Meditation to Heal Attachment Conditioning |
2h 49m |
|---|---|
|
24m |
|
25m |
Understanding Schema Repatterning Meditation (SRM) |
2h 55m |
|
12m |
|
11m |
|
29m |
|
29m |
Mentalizing the Modes (Understanding our Parts) |
2h 51m |
|
4m |
|
8m |
|
32m |
|
34m |
Going Deeper with Metacognition |
2h 49m |
|
9m |
|
30m |
Dismissing Attachment |
2h 54m |
|
12m |
|
14m |
|
32m |
|
56m |
Preoccupied Attachment |
2h 0m |
|
5m |
|
5m |
|
40m |
|
29m |
Disorganized Attachment |
2h 11m |
|
5m |
|
5m |
|
31m |
|
28m |
Secure Attachment and the Healthy Adult Mode |
2h 43m |
|
26m |
|
31m |
Understanding Your Assessment Results |
1h 15m |
|
25m |
|
28m |
|
|
Frequently Asked Questions
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Description
This program will cover:
- The basics of attachment theory
- How it forms an important foundation of adult mental health
- How attachment conditioning is made up of attachment schemas which together form an “internal working model of attachment” (Bowlby)
- We will re-pattern and work through these attachment schemas systematically
- How insecure attachment usually implies deficits in mentalization capacities (meta-cognitive, perspective taking abilities)
- Which we start correcting in the guided meditation
- How to heal our early attachment conditioning in order to have much improved well-being, better romantic and platonic relationships, and a stronger, healthy sense of self.
- There will also be an experiential quiz at the end of the first class to help you get a sense for what your attachment style maybe.
This is a Practice oriented course.
Doing the work (meditations in this case) is what brings about the results. The learning content of the course is intended to guide and encourage the meditation practice which will bring about the desired healing.
Why is focusing on Attachment Repair especially relevant to people who have struggled with other healing modalities?
- Attachment conditioning sets the foundation for much of psychological development thereafter. The foundation must be healthy before further work is fruitful.
- Attachment conditioning happens between 6 and 20 months of age: very early before there is much narrative or cognitive functioning.
- For this reason doing work at a later developmental level (cognitive/narrative approaches to healing (CBT etc)) is not as effective without a solid base. Healing attachment conditioning should come first. Then other healing modalities (talk therapy, mindfulness meditation, etc) can have their desired effects when built on the foundation of secure attachment conditioning.
- In order to fix attachment conditioning we must have lived, emotionally corrective experiences
- This is the core focus on this course: Having Emotionally Corrective Experiences that open up new possibilities for greater happiness and ease, better relationships, and more self-efficacy.
What is the primary practice/healing modality in this course?
We’ll focus on ‘Schema Repatterning Meditation’ (SRM). SRM is a guided visualization in which we:
- First identify our problematic, negative schemas (emotional learnings/beliefs) and modes (problematic, symptom producing behaviors that result from the schemas/beliefs)
- Investigate these beliefs with interest and openness, bringing them fully into awareness using sentence stem completion exercises (based on Bruce Ecker’s work)
- Discover their origins in childhood, adolescence, and earlier adulthood seeing how these negative learnings were helpful and adaptive at the time, but now no longer adaptive to our adult life
- Have a calibrated and attuned emotionally corrective experience in the guided meditation that juxtaposes the old negative learning (consistent with Bruce Ecker’s Coherence Therapy)
- All along the way, the meditation guidance helps us develop our meta-cognitive capacities, correcting executive function deficits that often accompany insecure attachment.
This lived corrective experience opens up new possibilities freeing up the narrow, fixed views of our old way of seeing ourselves and the world (schemas) thereby making our ‘symptoms’ unnecessary. These changes are permanent without need for continuing maintenance work.
Drawing from the insights of modern neuroscience, SRM gets right to the root causes of unwanted behaviors by reconsolidating the emotional memories (Ecker et al., 2012). Moreover, the practice is gentle and non-pathologizing.
This course and the guided SRM meditation draws from:
- Attachment Theory
- Jeffrey Young’s Schema Therapy
- Bruce Ecker’s Coherence Therapy
- The Work of Byron Katie
- Shirley Jean Schmidt’s Developmental Needs Meeting strategy
- Laurel Parnell’s Attachment-Focused EMDR
- Dan Brown and David Elliott’s Ideal Parent Figure Protocol/Three Pillars Model
- Mentalization/Meta-Cogntive therapies (Fonagy, DiMaggio, Liotti)
- Buddhist Visualization Meditation
- Buddhist Heart Practices:
- Loving Kindness
- Compassion
- Appreciative Joy
- Equanimity (Equanimous Love)
Course format:
The course is broken up into 8 classes with each class focused on guided meditation. See below for details.
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