Live Workshop
Meditation x Addiction
Next date TBD
We form addictions when the pains of life become intolerable.
You can’t tell someone “Just stop using” without offering alternative ways of handling and healing these painful thoughts and emotions. Mettagroup offers a systematic approach to reduce the pain to the point where addiction is no longer needed to cope. Working with procedural memory (unlike cognitive training, which can still be hijacked by stress), this mindfulness meditation-based work enables powerful, sustainable change in behaviors around addiction.
Do you suffer from substance abuse disorder?
You have a hard time maintaining harm reduction or abstinence goals
Your personal relationships suffer due to your substance use
You have trouble maintaining your professional obligations
You have trouble controlling the amount and/or frequency of your use
Is your substance affecting other people? Are people complaining about your substance use?
This is for you if:
You’re ready to make lasting change
You are able to maintain your harm reduction or abstinence goals, but you still have trouble maintaining healthy relationships
Regardless of substance use, you still have trouble finding meaning in your life. Is life still painful?
Your thoughts are still out of control even if you are sober
Join us LIVE at this upcoming workshop to learn about an effective strategy for relapse prevention.
What you’ll walk away with at this workshop.
You’ll learn about the Meditation x Addiction approach to substance use disorders. It’s an effective strategy for relapse prevention and we’ll introduce you to how students address addiction through the attachment lens. You’ll learn about the four modules that are the next step in this journey: craving and urging; stress, anger and depression; persistent negative emotions; and difficult interpersonal relationships.
You’ll understand how this evidence-based system combines ongoing meditation practice, the relapse pattern theory of G. Alan Marlatt, PhD and John Bowlby’s psychological model of Attachment Theory.
Meet Your Meditation Teacher
George Haas,
Founding Teacher
Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. I’m George Haas, Founding Teacher of Mettagroup, 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 program series 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 Metttagroup 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 just 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.
The Key to Ending the Relationship Dysfunction
At Mettagroup, we offer a reparative approach that combines attachment theory and meditation.
Here’s why.
Once you’ve gained an understanding of the concepts and differences between attachment styles, the difficulties you have in past relationships all start to make sense. This can lead to greater relief, and an opening to new possibilities.
Here’s how the combination works.
With meditation, we offer specific types of practices that guide in the attachment repair process. We then pair that with a psycho-educational approach to attachment theory. This winning combination is what has helped many of our students (including myself) earn secure attachment and end so many of the patterns that once held us back.
Oftentimes, my students can’t believe they’ve waited so long to make these connections.
But the good news is, it’s not too late!
“I'm better than I've ever been.”
“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
FAQs
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Yes! If you can make it out live, we’d love to see you there. If you want to catch the replay, we’ll send it to you within 24 hours after the workshop, via email.
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Attachment theory is an understanding of the instinctual drive to seek closeness to a caregiver who will provide protection and love, as well as support the development of your natural abilities.
By understanding this system, as well as your own attachment style (as well as the attachment styles of people in your life), you’re better equipped to act in secure ways, get your needs met, set aligned boundaries, and invest time and energy in reciprocally supportive relationships. This leads to having the capacity to live a more meaningful life, and to put your energy into your authentic passions, curiosity and purpose (and less energy in volatile relationships).
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Commonly referred to as "mindfulness," Vipassanā meditation is focused on living more peacefully, compassionately and wisely. Derived from the Theravada school of Buddhism, the techniques are widely acknowledged as effective ways to manage pain, stress, compulsiveness and are often used in conjunction with psychotherapy.