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Building the Healthy Self: Self Definition, Self Agency, Self Esteem, and the Ability to Show Up for Others

Self-Paced Course

This is a digital Self-Paced Course

  • Simply purchase and download the zip
  • Lifetime access to course material

Download contains:

  • 8 video lectures, 11 hours total
  • 56 guided meditations, 12 hours total

What to Expect

How can you can you get to a place of earned secure attachment when you haven’t actually experienced it yourself?

Surely, the path is easier when you know where you are going and what it feels like when you get there.

In this course we will embody the qualities of secure attachment. As a result you will have clarity on what you are trying to cultivate, on the outcome. We start with the end in mind: Earned Secure Attachment

More specifically, this is an 8-week meditation practice course that lays out a path to:

  1. becoming a secure attachment figure for our intimate relatationships
  2. developing ego strengths in the “Healthy Adult”

Overview

The aim in this 8-week meditation course is to develop the strength of the Healthy Adult. The healthy adult can be understood as having two major sets of positive traits:
  1. attachment/connection based traits (very relevant to those with dismissing-avoidant attachment and disorganized/fearful
  2. strength based traits (ego strength) (very relevant to those with anxious preoccupied attachment and disorganized/fearful attachment)
The attachment based traits of the healthy adult are (drawing form Brown & Elliott 2016 and the Buddhist Brahma Viharas):
  1. Desire to protect others and expectation that loved ones protect you
  2. Ability to attune to others and the expectation of attunement from others (empathy)
  3. Ability to physically comfort and soothe and expectation to receive the same
  4. Support of explorations of loved ones and expectation of support from them and getting and giving guidance
  5. Physical and mental entrainment/synchronization with loved ones which creates a sense of belonging
  6. Ability to trust & trustworthiness
  7. Generosity
  8. Self-acceptance and acceptance of others
  9. Forgiveness
The strength based traits are comprised of (drawing from Jeffrey Young's 'healthy adult mode', Dan Brown's 'best self', and The Third School of Cognitive Therapy's metacognitive skills).
  1. Healthy self-definition (knowing who you are and what you are about)
  2. Assertiveness
  3. A well developed sense of agency (internal locus of control)
  4. Well developed ability to explore
  5. Healthy self esteem
  6. Metacognitive skills (reflective function, mentalizing etc)
  7. Stress tolerance and emotional self-regulation abilities
  8. Discernment

What you will gain

By the end of this course, you will have
  1. better self-esteem
  2. better self-definition
  3. a greater sense of agency
  4. greater stress tolerance
  5. greater access to positive attachment states; love, compassion, and delight in others
  6. better metacognitive skills.
  7. a clear understanding of how best to show up in close relationships and a greater ability to do so

Who this is for

This course is for people who want to develop their both their personal strengths and also become a secure attachment figure for others. This course is relevant to all three insecure attachment styles: dismissing-avoidant, anxious-preoccupied, and disorganized (fearful) attachment. Note: we will take a break on Monday 26th December. The course will resume as usual the following Monday.  

This course draws from the following sources:

  • Jeffrey Young’s Schema Therapy, especially Dr. Young's "Healthy Adult Mode"
  • Dan Brown's work on self-development
  • Dan Brown and David Elliott’s Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (IPF) / Three Pillars Model
  • David Bernstein's list of characteristics of the Healthy Adult Mode
  • Ericksonian Hypnosis
  • The "8 C's" of Dick Schwartz's IFS
  • Attachment Theory
  • Bruce Ecker’s Coherence Therapy
  • Mentalization/Metacogntive therapies (Fonagy, DiMaggio, Liotti)
  • Buddhist Visualization Meditation
  • Buddhist Heart Practices:
    • Loving Kindness
    • Compassion
    • Appreciative Joy
    • Equanimity (Equanimous Love)

Who is this For

This program is for those of us who...

  • Want to become a secure attachment figure for others
  • Want to become a more valuable romantic partner, parent and friend to others
  • Want to develop that actual individual traits like
    • ability to protect others
    • compassion
    • forgiveness
    • ability to attune
    • ability to soothe
    • ease with physical closeness
    • ability to support others explorations
    • delight in others
    • ability to lovingly guide others
    • generosity
  • Want to develop our ego strengths like
    • self definition (knowing who you are, knowing what you are about, valuing your own opinions, )
    • better agency
    • better planing abilities
    • better self-esteme
    • better stress tolerance
  • Are looking to improve our psychological health, especially those who have tried other healing modalities with disappointing results.
  • Have problems with exploration and self development, relationships and emotional regulation

Benefits & Outcomes

These are some of the benefits you will have by the end of the program

Theoretical Understanding

  • Understand what is means to show up in a secure way in relationship
  • How to develop those skills/abilities/qualities if you don’t have them yet
  • What does it mean to develop your own ego strengths and how to do so
  • A clear practice path of how to develop your own ego strengths and how to develop into a secure attachment figure for others

Psychological

  • A better ability to observe your mind with metacognitive 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.
  • More understanding and compassion towards your parts/modes and needs.

For your relationships

  • By becoming more secure in terms of how you show up you will feel more confident about yourself as an attachment figure for romantic partners.
  • Knowing how to apply the qualities cultivated in the formal meditations in daily life (this isn’t a theory focused course rather a practice and application focused course (we aim for real life character development))

Included Files:

1

Introduction and Traits of Secure Attachment

Introduction and Traits of Secure Attachment

Video
 84 mins

Embodying Secure Attachment

Meditation
 32 mins

Embodying Secure Attachment

Meditation
 29 mins

Firming Up on General Life Habits

Meditation
 8 mins

Firming Up on General Life Habits

Meditation
 7 mins
2

Positive Attachment States

Positive Attachment States

Video
 82 mins

Embodying Secure Attachment with Emphasis on Supporting Exploration

Meditation
 15 mins

Expressing Healthy Anger

Meditation
 6 mins

Me Too Meditation on Developing Compassion

Meditation
 8 mins

Me Too Meditation on Developing Compassion

Meditation
 8 mins

Self Acceptance

Meditation
 17 mins

Self Acceptance

Meditation
 20 mins
3

Metacognition

Metacognition

Video
 88 mins

Motivation

Meditation
 7 mins

Motivation

Meditation
 6 mins

Embodying Secure Attachment

Meditation
 19 mins

Epistemic Trust and Attunement

Meditation
 6 mins

Epistemic Trust and Attunement

Meditation
 6 mins

Self Acceptance

Meditation
 17 mins

Self Acceptance

Meditation
 20 mins

Metacognition of Mental States

Meditation
 16 mins

Metacognition of Mental States

Meditation
 18 mins
4

Self Definition

Self Definition

Video
 84 mins

Embracing Preferences

Meditation
 14 mins

Embracing Preferences

Meditation
 10 mins

Self Definition

Meditation
 10 mins

Self Definition

Meditation
 18 mins

SRM on Enmeshment and Underdeveloped Self

Meditation
 21 mins

SRM on Enmeshment and Underdeveloped Self

Meditation
 14 mins
5

Self Agency and Stress Tolerance

Self Agency and Stress Tolerance

Video
 82 mins

Embracing Preferences

Meditation
 19 mins

Embracing Preferences

Meditation
 5 mins

Self Definition

Meditation
 14 mins

Self Definition

Meditation
 14 mins

Agency and Planning

Meditation
 7 mins

Agency and Planning

Meditation
 15 mins

Fear And Agency

Meditation
 2 mins

SRM On Failure To Achieve, Dependence, And Incompetence

Meditation
 8 mins

SRM On Failure To Achieve, Dependence, And Incompetence

Meditation
 11 mins
6

Self Esteem

Self Esteem

Video
 60 mins

Schema Repatterning Meditation on Defectiveness and Shame

Meditation
 13 mins

Schema Repatterning Meditation on Defectiveness and Shame

Meditation
 16 mins

Self Esteem

Meditation
 23 mins

Self Esteem

Meditation
 23 mins
7

Challenge to Hold Self Esteem

Challenge to Hold Self Esteem

Video
 84 mins

Schema Repatterning Meditation on Low Self Esteem

Meditation
 19 mins

Schema Repatterning Meditation on Low Self Esteem

Meditation
 10 mins

Self Esteem

Meditation
 23 mins

Self Esteem

Meditation
 11 mins

Dealing with Social Difficulty

Meditation
 9 mins

Dealing with Social Difficulty

Meditation
 10 mins

Dealing with Difficulty

Meditation
 9 mins

Dealing with Difficulty

Meditation
 16 mins
8

Positive Social Self

Positive Social Self

Video
 71 mins

Embodying Secure Attachment

Meditation
 12 mins

Ego Strength

Meditation
 12 mins

Ego Strength

Meditation
 15 mins

Embodying Secure Attachment

Meditation
 15 mins

Beneficence and Generosity

Meditation
 9 mins

Beneficence and Generosity

Meditation
 8 mins

Embodying Secure Attachment

Meditation
 19 mins

Embodying Secure Attachment

Meditation
 19 mins

Ego Strength

Meditation
 18 mins

Ego Strength and Purpose

Meditation
 21 mins
  • 8 video lectures, 11 hours total
  • 56 guided meditations extracted as .mp3s, 12 hours total

Frequently Asked Questions

Self-Paced Courses

Yes, and in fact we highly encouraged you to do both.
By buying this course you receive lifetime access to a collection of videos and guided meditation tracks. These are organized so that there is a progressive order to them, but you can take them as slowly or as quickly as you'd like, and you can always view the same content again.
Once you've completed your purchase, you'll get a link to download the course. You can then view the audio or video files from your laptop, desktop, smartphone, or any devices of your own choice. There is no limit to how many devices you can access the course from.
You can download and keep this course forever and watch it at your own pace as many times as you wish. There is no live Q&A section.

Payment Questions

If for any reason you aren’t satisfied, simply contact us and we will send you a full refund.
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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

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Description

The aim in this 8-week meditation course is to develop the strength of the Healthy Adult.

The healthy adult can be understood as having two major sets of positive traits:

  1. attachment/connection based traits (very relevant to those with dismissing-avoidant attachment and disorganized/fearful
  2. strength based traits (ego strength) (very relevant to those with anxious preoccupied attachment and disorganized/fearful attachment)

The attachment based traits of the healthy adult are (drawing form Brown & Elliott 2016 and the Buddhist Brahma Viharas):

  1. Desire to protect others and expectation that loved ones protect you
  2. Ability to attune to others and the expectation of attunement from others (empathy)
  3. Ability to physically comfort and soothe and expectation to receive the same
  4. Support of explorations of loved ones and expectation of support from them and getting and giving guidance
  5. Physical and mental entrainment/synchronization with loved ones which creates a sense of belonging
  6. Ability to trust & trustworthiness
  7. Generosity
  8. Self-acceptance and acceptance of others
  9. Forgiveness

The strength based traits are comprised of (drawing from Jeffrey Young’s ‘healthy adult mode’, Dan Brown’s ‘best self’, and The Third School of Cognitive Therapy’s metacognitive skills).

  1. Healthy self-definition (knowing who you are and what you are about)
  2. Assertiveness
  3. A well developed sense of agency (internal locus of control)
  4. Well developed ability to explore
  5. Healthy self esteem
  6. Metacognitive skills (reflective function, mentalizing etc)
  7. Stress tolerance and emotional self-regulation abilities
  8. Discernment

What you will gain

By the end of this course, you will have

  1. better self-esteem
  2. better self-definition
  3. a greater sense of agency
  4. greater stress tolerance
  5. greater access to positive attachment states; love, compassion, and delight in others
  6. better metacognitive skills.
  7. a clear understanding of how best to show up in close relationships and a greater ability to do so

Who this is for

This course is for people who want to develop their both their personal strengths and also become a secure attachment figure for others.

This course is relevant to all three insecure attachment styles: dismissing-avoidant, anxious-preoccupied, and disorganized (fearful) attachment.

Note: we will take a break on Monday 26th December. The course will resume as usual the following Monday.

 

This course draws from the following sources:

  • Jeffrey Young’s Schema Therapy, especially Dr. Young’s “Healthy Adult Mode“
  • Dan Brown’s work on self-development
  • Dan Brown and David Elliott’s Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (IPF) / Three Pillars Model
  • David Bernstein’s list of characteristics of the Healthy Adult Mode
  • Ericksonian Hypnosis
  • The “8 C’s” of Dick Schwartz’s IFS
  • Attachment Theory
  • Bruce Ecker’s Coherence Therapy
  • Mentalization/Metacogntive therapies (Fonagy, DiMaggio, Liotti)
  • Buddhist Visualization Meditation
  • Buddhist Heart Practices:
    • Loving Kindness
    • Compassion
    • Appreciative Joy
    • Equanimity (Equanimous Love)
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