Live Workshop
for Helping Professionals
How to Repair Attachment
Embody the Meditation x Attachment™ System
And Support Your Students/Clients on Their Healing Journey
Led by George Haas, Founding Teacher of Mettagroup
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST
7PM-8:30PM PT / 10PM-11:30AM ET
Calling all meditation teachers, trainers and coaches, healing arts practitioners and mental health practitioners.
A more meaningful, impactful life awaits.
In this workshop, George Haas will introduce you to the Meditation x Attachment™ track that’s designed to help people earn security, heal their attachment disturbances, and access lasting change. When we embark on the attachment repair journey, we can experience profound shifts, from how we see ourselves, to how we see the world, to how we LIVE our lives. If you’re interested in repairing your own attachment and earning security, and integrating this approach into your tool kit to support your students or clients, this workshop is for you.
The patterns that keep us trapped are actually changeable.
Healing is possible, and 90% of our students at Mettagroup see radical shifts within 3 years. In this workshop, you’ll learn about the healing track we offer, how it differs from other meditative and psychological interventions, as well as our distinct NEW training track now available for helping professionals who want to earn security, embody the framework first-hand, and integrate the Mettagroup Method into their work with students or clients.
In the workshop, George Haas will unpack our 3 Pillar Approach to attachment repair.
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With this pillar, we educate about attachment theory, and support our students with installing a secure functioning model.
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.
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Exploration is the pursuit of anything that one finds authentically meaningful to them. As part of this pillar, we teach mentalizing and emotional regulation skills, which are rooted in a meditative approach.
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Are you interested in truly being collaborative, committed, and reliable in relationships? With this pillar, we teach the skills for skillful collaboration in any type of relationship - familial, platonic, romantic and professional. When you can collaborate skillfully, you can receive the support needed in order to fully explore in life.
Where Attachment Theory and Meditation Meet
At Mettagroup, we offer a reparative approach that combines attachment theory and meditation.
Here’s why.
Understanding attachment theory is the easiest mind blow, and 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.
We combine the two ingredients of attachment and meditation. 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 hundreds 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!
This Workshop Is For You If
You’re a helping professional who is interested in doing first-hand attachment repair and want to learn how to bring the Mettagroup Method to your students or clients. What’s the path for embodying the system and sharing it with others?
You have a private practice
(or are interested in building a private practive)
You might be in the public mental health sector
and want to pivot to the private practice model
You’re teaching on the spiritual path and are looking for preliminary practices
that will aid your students in going deep.
You’re ready to end dysfunctional patterns
and you’re ready to develop new habits, more meaningful connections and heal once and for all.
In this workshop, you’ll walk away with…
⚫️ Attachment Theory 101 + How to Earn Security
Begin to recognize the attachment responses of others, as well as your own, and understand the meditation-based process for earning security. You’ll learn about our unique approach that includes mentalizing, remapping the native attachment conditioning and collaboration skill development.
⚫️ Shift your perspective
Understand that you’re not broken, but had an ordinary outcome to the conditions of your childhood. We’ll share how you can step into new possibilities, how to navigate the attachment repair journey, and how to be congruent with your values and needs today.
⚫️ The path to change for you (and your students/clients)
Learn about what it takes to heal your attachment and earn secure attachment so that you can experience a meaningful, authentically enlivening life. George will share about the helping professionals track that we’re offering, as well as our certification program for practicing the Mettagroup Method with your 1.1 students or clients. Embody the system first-hand, and learn how to bring this life-changing method to your students or clients to support them in earning security and healing their attachment disturbances.
⚫️ How to manage expectations on your path of healing and repair
Learn how to get your needs met, be authentic, as well as all that accompanies this path of healing. When you can see the blueprint, you can ready yourself for the journey ahead with greater equanimity, grace, and courage. This will also help you understand how to manage your students’/clients’ experiences and expectations on the attachment repair path.
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).
Learn and Practice the Mettagroup Method of
Attachment Repair with Your Students
In the workshop, we’ll share about how you can embody this attachment repair system and 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 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.
Heather Clague, MD
“Working through the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol with George Haas earned me attachment security and changed my life. The effect has been both subtle and profound. Things are just easier having Ideal Parent Figures at my back - I like myself more, I'm not so afraid to make mistakes, the world seems interesting instead of daunting. I can't say enough good things about George as a IPF facilitator and as a human being. He has walked this walk and offers his guidance out of integrity and love.”
About
Meditation x Attachment™
This is a training track that includes Buddhist theory, Attachment Theory, and in-depth meditation techniques, all designed to help you get your needs met, pursue your authentic passions, and emotionally regulate along the way. In this training track, you’ll learn how to develop secure relationships, uproot past attachment conditioning, as well as work through conflict resolution strategies. This training track integrates Daniel P. Brown's Ideal Parent-Figure (IPF) Attachment Protocol, and offers you space to develop empowering, reparative mental and somatic skills, while also tapping into a supportive community of people on the shared path of cultivating a meaningful life.
Rose Bostick, Unified Mindfulness Coach and Trainer
“I took George’s course - Meditation X Attachment Level Two - a year ago and was truly uplifted by George’s generosity, openness, and dedication to his students throughout the course. Immediately, George established a safe environment for sharing and mutual acceptance. The course itself was an empowering mix of meditation and compassionate practices deftly interwoven in with Attachment theory-oriented meditation exercises. I found the course to be very helpful to my personal growth as a meditation trainer and certainly a healing journey. In gratitude, George!”
The Results
Here’s what Mettagroup students are experiencing after going through the Meditation x Attachment track.
- Earning security -
- More fulfilling relationships and deeper connections -
- Newfound access to a wellspring of support (from others, as well as within yourself) -
- Greater energy, curiosity and inspiration to live your most authentic life -
- Relationships enhance your fulfillment, rather than leaving you feeling depleted and unfulfilled -
- Being authentic (without a paralyzing fear of rejection holding you back) -
- Willing to truly get your needs met (and you believe that you’re worth it) -
- Capacity to go explore meaningful endeavors with greater courage, trust and resilience -
A space for helping professionals to connect and grow.
✔️ Embodying the system allows you to be more supportive as a helping professional
It’s useful to understand through your own personal experience the process of changing attachment conditioning, so that you have that innate personal experience of doing it. That will then help you guide your clients and students in their own journey of attachment repair. Because Mettagroup offers a mentorship stance rather than expert or subordinate stance, you need to have walked the walk in order to be effective in transmitting it. In the workshop, we’ll share about upcoming opportunities to do your own attachment repair, learn the model and get on the path of sharing this system with your students/clients.
✔️ Learn, Grow, Connect and Integrate with Fellow Helping Professionals
Attend the workshop live to be among fellow meditation trainers and teachers, healing arts practitioners, and mental health professionals who are interested in diving deeper into attachment repair. Tap into compassionate accountability and encouragement on this shared path.
✔️ Networking Opportunities
Connect with people on the path of collectively making an impact. Your next strategic partner may be in this room!
Join Today
How to Repair Attachment
Led by George Haas, Meditation Teacher
February 21st @ 7pm PT/ 10pm ET
(approx. 75 min.)
One payment of $27
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.
“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.
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No. We cannot tell you what your attachment strategy is without an Adult Attachment Interview.
This workshop is an introduction to secure relationships, how to nurture these types of relationships and more ab out our attachment repair and meditation approach at Mettagroup.
