Healing Early Developmental Attachment Trauma (Fearful Disorganized Attachment)
Digital Self-Paced Course
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7 video lectures, 2 hours total -
10 guided meditations, 4 hours total
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Useful For
- CPTSD
- Dissociation
- Shame
- Trauma / CPTSD
Overview
This Digital Self-Paced Course focuses on healing developmental trauma. The primary aim of the course is to feel safe and protected in an embodied way while being reparented by the perfect nurturers (imaginary parent-like figures).
Going over the basics of attachment and what causes developmental trauma.
The difference between developmental trauma and later, non-developmental trauma.
Looking at the core schemas of disorganized attachment:
- mistrust & abuse
- subjugation
- punitiveness
- incompetence
- dependency
- defectiveness & shame
- enmeshment & underdeveloped self
Looking at the tumultuous structure changing or switching between self-states that is coming within disorganized attachment from a parts work perspective (schema modes).
List of guided meditation practices:
- safety grounding embodiment exercises
- to combat depersonalization and derealization symptoms (DPDR)
- creation of perfect nurturers with emphasize on their ability to protect you
- agency / self-efficacy as counterbalanced to fear and lack of safety
- SRM on mistrust and abuse schemas
- recognising all the schemas listed above
- getting comfortable with healthy touch / identifying healthy touch
- Recognizing our fearful and aggressive parts as adaptive responses to an unsafe environment and now, in the present, as adults giving those parts a “lived, emotionally corrective experience” of safety and protection
This meditation course draws on:
- Attachment Theory (Bowlby, Ainsworth, et al)
- Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (Brown, et al)
- Inner Child Work (Bradshaw, et al)
- Schema Therapy (Young, et al)
- Coherence Therapy (Ecker, et al)
- Mentalization-Based Treatment (Fonagy, et al)
- Metacognitive Therapy (DiMaggio, et al.)
- Buddhist Visualization Practices
- Mindfulness Practice
- Adult Attachment Interview (Main, et al)
We also draw on Ideal Parent Figure Protocol, developed by Dan Brown, which has been found to be effective for moving people with insecure attachment to secure attachment after repeated sessions, as well as Chairwork (Moreno, Perls, Kellogg).
Who is this For
This program is for those of us who...
- Want to become more joyous
- Want to enjoy meditation more
- 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
- Want to optimise our psychological health
- Want to understand the early foundations of our psychological development
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 and how to start doing it.
- A more coherent understanding of the role your childhood experiences had in producing your adult personality.
Psychological
- A better sense for 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.
- A full day of attachment repair meditation that will start moving you towards a secure attachment conditioning and a greater ability to do self-development and explore what is personally meaningful to you.
- A very effective way to do emotional regulation on the spot in your daily life with ‘micro-hits’ of Schema Repatterning Meditation.
- A better ability to observe your mind with metacognitive awareness as a result of the mentalization exercises peppered through the guided meditations.
- Better understanding of your own relationship shortcomings and how to remedy them.
- Less identification with your psychological maladies and quirks (ego-distonia with your maladaptive schemas).
For your relationships
- Greater understanding and compassion for psychological problems and vulnerabilities that effect yours and others.
- Less blame of self or others.
- A sense of camaraderie as a result of seeing how our psychological difficulties are rooted in common experiences that affect us all.
- Better appreciation for the importance and value of interpersonal collaboration generally and especially as it relates to supporting you do the explorations that.
Course Contents
Introduction and Attachment Theory |
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Introduction and Attachment Theory
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1 mins |
The Perfect Nurturers |
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Troubleshooting and Disorganized Attachment
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1 mins |
Perfect Nurturer ReinforcementMeditation
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36 mins |
Troubleshooting and Disorganized Attachment |
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Mentalizing the ModesLecture
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1 mins |
Perfect Nurturer Formation TroubleshootingMeditation
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7 mins |
Enmeshment vs Security |
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Enmeshment vs SecurityLecture
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7 mins |
Educational Meditation on Enmeshment vs Secure AttachmentMeditation
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7 mins |
Mistrust and Abuse Schema |
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Mistrust, Abuse, and DepersonalizationLecture
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43 mins |
SRM on Mistrust and Abuse SchemaMeditation
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32 mins |
Perfect Nurturer Reinforcement for Depersonalization and DerealizationMeditation
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10 mins |
Mentalizing the Modes |
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Mentalizing the ModesLecture
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39 mins |
Mentalizing the Modes on Mistrust & Abuse SchemaMeditation
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36 mins |
Perfect Nurturer Reinforcement with Parts Work |
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Perfect Nurturer Reinforcement with Parts WorkLecture
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29 mins |
Chairwork on Resistance to the Perfect NurturersMeditation
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18 mins |
Perfect Nurturer Reinforcement with Parts WorkMeditation
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29 mins |
Internalizing a Sense of SafetyMeditation
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45 mins |
Schema Repatterning Meditation on SafetyMeditation
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27 mins |
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Description
The focus of this program is to
- Recognize our fearful and aggressive parts as adaptive responses to an unsafe environment of the past.
- Now as adults, have a deep “lived, emotionally corrective experience” of safety and protection (emotional memory reconsolidation).
- …which will bring about greater ease, trust, and well-being into our adult lives.
It is suitable for beginners to meditation and healing work.
This is an experientially oriented self-paced course focused on healing developmental trauma. The primary focus of the course is to feel safe and protected in an embodied way while being reparented by the perfect nurturers (imaginary parent-like figures).
You will learn about the basics of attachment, what causes developmental trauma, and the difference between developmental trauma and later, non-developmental trauma. This will be done while looking at the core schemas of disorganized attachment:
- Mistrust & abuse
- Subjugation
- Punitiveness
- Incompetence
- Dependency
- Defectiveness & shame
- Enmeshment & underdeveloped self
List of guided meditation practices:
- Safety grounding embodiment exercises
- Combatting depersonalization and derealization symptoms (DPDR)
- Creation of perfect nurturers with emphasis their ability to protect you
- Agency / self-efficacy as counterbalance to fear and lack of safety
- SRM on mistrust and abuse schemas
- Recognising all the schemas listed above
- Getting comfortable with healthy touch / identifying healthy touch
- Recognizing our fearful and aggressive parts as adaptive responses to an unsafe environment and now, in the present, as adults giving those parts a “lived, emotionally corrective experience” of safety and protection
The course draws on:
- Attachment Theory (Bowlby, Ainsworth, et al)
- Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (Brown, et al)
- Inner Child Work (Bradshaw, et al)
- Schema Therapy (Young, et al)
- Coherence Therapy (Ecker, et al)
- Mentalization-Based Treatment (Fonagy, et al)
- Metacognitive Therapy (DiMaggio, et al.)
- Buddhist Visualization Practices
- Mindfulness Practice
- Adult Attachment Interview (Main, et al)
- Chairwork (Moreno, Perls, Kellogg).
This program is for those of us who…
- 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
- want to optimise our psychological health
- want to understand the early foundations of our psychological development
- want to become more joyous
- want to enjoy meditation more
The material for this course was recorded during an online-event in May 2022.