Meditation x Attachment™
Certification Program

Enhance Your Tool Kit As a Helping Professional
and Provide the Mettagroup Method to Your Students

Learn and Practice the Mettagroup Method of
Attachment Repair with Your Students

In this professional certification program, you’ll learn our attachment repair method to support your private 1.1 work. The Mettagroup Method uses meditation as the main vehicle of change for your students (we call them students; you may call them clients), including Metta-Vipassana for the development of metacognition and emotional regulation, and the Ideal Parent-Figure Protocol for remapping early attachment conditioning, which was developed by  Dr. Daniel P. Brown, PhD and his group. We worked directly with Daniel P. Brown for three years to incorporate the Ideal Parent-Figure Protocol into our approach.

Developed to assess and address attachment disturbances in a totally unique and effective way, we offer the Mettagroup Method trainings in a professional development space for helping professionals including licensed therapists, psychiatrists and meditation teachers, coaches, and trainers who want to incorporate this approach into their own 1.1 work with students or clients. This marks a major development in George Haas's own lifelong work connecting secular Buddhist meditation and modern attachment theory.

Help your clients access long-lasting healing by getting to the root.

The Mettagroup Method is about changing someone’s native attachment strategy to earn security. The attachment work is foundational, because attachment disturbances are the source of the main difficulties in people’s lives. When they’re unattended to, people are unable to resolve the difficulties in their lives (resulting in months, years or decades of therapy without significant or long term healing).

What’s Included in the Certification Program:

  • Monthly Live Group Supervision with George Haas

    In these live sessions:

    ✔️ Learn the Mettagroup Method:
    George teaches you how to administer this method for use with your 1.1 students or clients.

    ✔️ Receive Group Supervision:
    Ask questions, share your client reports and receive support and advising to help you strengthen your facilitator skills.

    ✔️ Review a case:
    You and fellow certification program members will present student cases during this session time, and receive teacher support in navigating the opportunities and obstacles that arise.

  • Self-paced Trainings + Resources

    Get access during your active membership in the Masterclass, which includes

    - Supervision Session Replays

    - 14 of Dan Brown’s class replays

    - Online Course access to Meditation x Attachment Level One and Two

    - Online Course access to Meditation x Addiction Level One and Level Two

    - Online Course access to Always, Cool, Always Kind

Benefits of Becoming a Certified Mettagroup Method Facilitator

Adaptable

The Mettagroup Method is adaptable to whatever the student or client’s attachment system is.

Rapid Progress

People make rapid progress and experience profound change when using this system. Not only that, but it’s a short-term solution, providing healing within 2-3 years. No need for ongoing work that spans years or decades.

High Demand + Client Flow

Attachment repair is in high-demand, giving you an opportunity to support more people in your private practice and tap into the flow of interest. Not only that, but when you join the Certification Program, we will list your services on our website.  If you’re looking for a modality that is both impactful and popular in the marketplace (and you’re looking for a professional development training that helps you get students), look no further.

A Ton of Support

When you work with the Mettagroup Method, you’re coming into a system where you get a lot of support. Mettagroup’s classes and meditation training are available to your students or clients, so that you can focus on 1.1 IPF work with your students/clients. Because of Mettagroup’s Meditation x Attachment programming, your 1.1 IPF clients will have been primed to dive in and go deep because they have the baseline mentalizing skills and attachment knowledge. So, you get to hit the ground running!

IPF Client Results

“I just want to share, that it's been six years, a big journey, a big journey.

But guess what? I've earned secure. Today I found out that I've earned secure. I know a lot of you won't know what that means, but some of you might. I got my attachment assessment inventory back today and I'm secure. I'm better than I've ever been.”

-Sia, Pop Star

Mettagroup Certification Program Requirements

We want you to repair your own attachment disturbances, if you have them, as part of the process of Certification.

About the 3-Pillar Approach

The Mettagroup Method uses Ideal Parent-Figure Protocol to remap the native attachment relationship with your caregivers, Metta-Vipassana meditation to develop metacognition and emotional regulation, and group classes to develop an understanding of the dynamics of collaborative relationship systems. We want you to go through our whole program, so that you have direct experience of it and so that you can relay and support your students and clients as they go through the process.

This includes:

  • Meditation x Attachment Level One and Level Two (included as part of your monthly fee)

  • Meditation x Addiction Level One and Level Two (included as part of your monthly fee)

  • 1.1 IPF
    Ideal Parent-Figure Protocol is a visualization meditation where you depict totally ideal parent-child interactions, which can be used to make meaning of the present moment. It turns out that the mind doesn’t care whether something happened to you, or whether you imagine it happening in order to create meaning. So, we can take the difficult experiences of our past, reimagine them in a positive light, so that our expectation of what is going to happen can change from rejection to acceptance, from terrible to ideal.
    This is an outside cost, and is not included in your monthly fee as part of the Certification program.

  • Always Cool, Always Kind Meditation Training (included as part of your monthly fee)

You’ll be required to test in the secure range on an Adult Attachment Interview for certification as a Mettagroup Method Facilitator. This is an outside cost, and is not included in your monthly fee as part of the Certification program.

This Certification Program is for you if…

You are a helping professional.

This certification program is for licensed therapists, psychiatrists and meditation teachers, coaches and trainers who want practice the Mettagroup Method with their 1.1 students. Note that you will learn how to administer this system in a 1.1 setting with your students.

You’re interested in administering the Mettagroup Method in private 1.1 client work.

This training program is designed for practitioners who want to practice the Mettagroup Method (which includes IPF) with their 1.1 clients. Since Mettagroup offers the group programs as part of the Meditation x Attachment track, we specialize in training clients and preparing them for 1.1 IPF. Ideal candidates of the Masterclass are open and interested in sending their clients to Mettagroup for the group work, and are open to receive client referrals for private 1.1 IPF from Mettagroup.

You’ve done the work first-hand.

You’re engaged in or have completed the Meditation x Attachment Track / Meditation x Addiction Track, and/or 1.1 IPF, or are willing to do so during your active membership in the Certification Program. At Mettagroup, we believe that to be most impactful with your students, you will need to experientially understand the system curriculum and have earned security first-hand.

You’re looking for a proven system to use with your 1.1 clients.

This is ideal for you if you’re looking for a system to administer in fidelity with the Mettagroup Method with your 1.1 clients. If you’re looking to learn the Mettagroup Method and modify it or blend it into other approaches or systems for your own client work (1.1 or group), then this certification program is not the right fit for you.

You want to make an impact (but don’t love business development).

As part of the Certification Track of the Masterclass, Mettagroup offers our facilitators opportunities to do 1.1 IPF work. We provide referrals, list you on our website and may also have opportunities for you to support other Mettagroup programming.

The Certification Track

Here are the four facilitator levels we offer here in the Professional Masterclass Certification Track, including requirements for each level. To become a facilitator at one of these levels, please sign up for the Certification Track of the Professional Masterclass at $95/mo.

    • Completed a minimum of 250 private IPF sessions with clients.

    • Completed the course material for Meditation x Attachment Level One + Two.

    • No AAI required.

    • All requirements for Associate Facilitator, plus:

    • Total of 2,500 hours of individual IPF sessions.

    • Completed the Meditation x Addiction Level One and Level Two course material.

    • Completed the Always Cool Always Kind meditation material.

    • Test in the secure range in the Adult Attachment Interview (note that this test is available at cost, and is not included in the Professional Masterclass).

    • All requirements of Facilitator, plus:

    • A total of 6,000 hours of individual IPF sessions with clients.

    • Complete initial MBT (mentalization-based therapy) training and the Level One PACT training, if available to you. (There may be a requirement for certifications to take these classes. If you don’t have them and cannot take the classes, then they are not required).

    • All the requirements of Senior Facilitator, plus:

    • Completed a total of 10,000+ hours of individual IPF sessions with clients.

Get Started

$95/Month Ongoing

Includes these resources + requirements:

  • Access all learning materials and live sessions during your active enrollment in the Certification Program. If you cancel your enrollment, you will lose access to program materials.

  • Requirement: Track client hours

  • Get listed on the Mettagroup website and receive IPF 1.1 client referrals from Mettagroup at the Associate Facilitator level. You will be listed so long as you’re an active member of the Certification program.

  • Requirement: Must complete correlative client hours for your facilitator level (see the 4 levels above).

  • Requirement Must complete the course work for
    1 - Meditation x Attachment Level One and Two (live or self-paced)
    2 - Meditation x Addiction Level One and Two (live or self-paced)
    3 - Always Cool, Always Kind meditation training.
    These online courses are provided to you as part of your ongoing participation in the certification program, at no additional cost.

  • Requirement: Must test in the secure range by taking the AAI test. Test not included in the Certification Program, but available at cost. (If you have natively secure attachment, we still want you to do your own IPF sessions so that you have the student/client perspective, which is the best way to train. Note that the personal IPF sessions are an outside cost, and not included in the cost of this program).

I’m George Haas, and I’m glad you’re here.

I’m Founding Teacher of Mettagroup and lead trainer in the Professional Masterclass. Mettagroup is an organization committed to helping people heal their attachment injury, be more secure and live a truly meaningful life.

I had a lot of difficulties in my early life, and there was no way to get people to help me with them.

Today, my main drive in offering the Meditation x Attachment system and training others in this system is simple…

It’s payback. Not the revenge-type. My mission today is to pay it forward, honoring the people who helped me save my life.

Over the last 40 years, I have accumulated this knowledge about how to heal attachment injury (through both learning and experience). My mission in this program (and at Mettagroup at large) is to share this blueprint in a distilled, manageable way so that people don’t need to go through years of confusion and suffering like I did.

Within 40 to 150 sessions, studies show that you can go from insecure attachment to securely attached. That’s profound, swift results (we’re talking ~ 3 years). I spent most of my life (5 decades) exhaustively exploring all the wrong paths, so it’s my true honor to share what’s worked for me and hundreds of my clients, with long-lasting and life-enhancing effects.

“Many of my relationships have been shot through with an anxiety that got in the way of more satisfying forms of connection, and while I still have a ways to go, I've made a lot of progress in a short time in transforming that anxiety into intimacy. I'd recommend this course to anyone who has struggled to find peace and stability in romantic relationships and other important relationships in their life.”

- Chris Loar

  • “Working with George Haas and Mettagroup was the best decision of my life. In under four years I moved from a highly disorganized attachment style to earned security. Now my days have a sense of happiness and purpose that I never thought was possible before. I’d recommend George to anyone.”

    -Evan Leed

  • “George’s work has changed my life high and low. My days go smoother and the years are stuffed with meaning, like happy little sausages, now that I can get out of my own way. My only annoyance is I didn’t start sooner, but I take comfort with the idea that Security is like Confidence…it’s more interesting when it’s earned!”

    -Jon Chalkley

  • “George's masterful distillation and unification of highly advanced concepts from meditation and attachment theory opened my eyes to deeper layers of myself in need of understanding and healing. This curriculum has opened doors to personal and professional opportunities I never dreamed possible. George's consistent kindness and compassion, coupled with his wealth of knowledge and deep understanding of practice place him in a category of his own. Please take this course, and apply yourself to these practices! Your future self will thank you!”

    -Michael Holt

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FAQ

  • If you decide to discontinue your participation in the program, you will retain your certification level. However, you will no longer be listed on the Mettagroup website or receive referrals from Mettagroup.

  • Your certification can be revoked for unethical behavior in the community at the discretion of Mettagroup solely.

  • Senior and Master Facilitators are available for 1.1 supervision with people learning the Mettagroup Method. Reach out to admin@mettagroup.org, and we will connect you.

  • At the Facilitator level, as Mettagroup programming expands, there will be a need for group class trainers.

    To be eligible to serve as a Mettagroup trainer, you will need to attend live versions of the classes as a student. You will need to teach and pass each module of the training in order to be certified as a trainer. We provide a stipend for the training period.