This experientially oriented course focuses on repairing early attachment conditioning through a series of guided meditations along with relevant psycho-education.

Attachment Theory describes one of the earliest phases of our psychological development. It describes the behaviours of the infant from ages 6 months to 3 years when it ventures away from the caregiver to explore and then goes back to seek safety, affection, and care from the ‘secure base’.

Attachment conditioning is foundational to our psychological health. When our foundational attachment conditioning is insecure then we experience developmental problems with our exploratory abilities, self-development, emotional self-regulation and relationships with others.

The course is set up to help heal common aspects of disordered attachment conditioning. There will be guided meditation sessions focused on the first five of Jeffery Young’s 18 schemas. These five schemas all relate back directly to attachment conditioning:

• Emotional Deprivation (common to all insecure attachment styles)

• Defectiveness & Shame (Dismissing)

• Social Isolation (Dismissing)

• Abandonment & Instability (Preoccupied)

• Mistrust & Abuse (Disorganized)

According to Jeffery Young “An early maladaptive schema is a pervasive self-defeating or dysfunctional theme or pattern of memories, emotions, and physical sensations, developed during childhood or adolescence and elaborated throughout one’s lifetime, that often has the form of a belief about the self or the world.” Jeffrey Young also calls the schemas “life traps”. We will work towards healing and dismantling them in this course.