Dangers that have a known cause are much easier to manage and integrate. However, childhood experiences of unpredictable dangers and threats can have a disproportional and distorting effect on us as adults. The usual impact of unpredictable danger is to always be on alert. This unrelenting anxiety hugely damages the quality of our lives and our functioning in relationship. This course will help you identify and process experiences of anxiety that seemingly appear without cause. We will then see how that anxiety can actually be linked back to childhood experiences of unpredictable danger, one of the primary causal factors of anxious preoccupied attachment and disorganized attachment.

In this course, we will see how chronic anxious attention to threat was a natural and helpful adaptation to unpredictable danger, in childhood. We will learn to be compassionate towards our anxiety, understanding its origins. Then we’ll move on to process, integrate and heal it; freeing ourselves from this pattern in adulthood.

Understanding of how childhood experiences of ‘danger and threat of unknown cause’ can still affect our adult lives and working on processing the resulting anxiety will further your journey towards earned secure attachment.

This workshop is focused on experiential guided meditation plus some basic psychoeducation on Attachment Theory and the process of healing insecure attachment.

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.)