Overview

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.

Childhood experience of unpredictable danger is one of the primary causal factors of anxious preoccupied attachment and disorganized attachment (mixed anxious preoccupied and dismissing avoidant attachment) (Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation by Patricia Crittenden and colleagues).

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.

In this half day meditation workshop, we’ll do this work in a series of guided meditations.

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.)

Please note that this workshop is focused on experiential guided meditation plus some basic psycho education on attachment theory and the process of healing insecure attachment.

This workshop is not psychotherapy or a substitute for it.