Overview

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.