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VIRTUAL DHARMA TALK
OFFERED WEEKLY
THURSDAYS @ 7:30PM PT
90 MINUTES (INCLUDING THE MEDITATION)Join together online with the Mettagroup community for a new weekly virtual Dharma talk and sit every Thursday at 7:30pm PT. No reservations necessary, just show up by clicking the link below to join our Zoom meeting (password: metta). You can download the software in advance here. Donations graciously accepted here.
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LIVE WORKSHOP
HOW TO DATE LIKE A SECURE PERSON
75 MINUTE LIVE VIRTUAL GROUP EXPERIENCE
How can we make space for truly meaningful, mutually supportive, passionate and nourishing relationships? What’s the path to ending the cycles of starts and stops, ruptures and break-ups, and begin to experience a sense of balance, fulfillment and the capacity to explore in life (and do so in relationship?)
Join us LIVE at this upcoming workshop to find out how to date like a secure person (even if you’re not). There is a way through: we’ll show the ‘how’.
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LIVE WORKSHOP
AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION X ADDICTION
75 MINUTE LIVE VIRTUAL GROUP EXPERIENCE
The techniques and strategies covered in Meditation x Addiction™ are specifically designed to support healing for people dealing with addiction and addiction-related issues. As evidenced by George Haas's own personal path, mindfulness meditation-based skills training can offer a truly effective behavioral change in the realm of addiction. In this live workshop, you’ll learn about our approach, which combines traditional meditation approaches, the relapse pattern theories from the work of G. Alan Marlatt, Phd., and John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. You’ll learn about the path that helps our students with stabilizing in their recovery to continue to deepen their practice and maintain healthy lifestyle choices.
The Meditation x Attachment™ Track
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Fundamentals of Attachment Theory and the 3 Pillar Approach
In this live 4-part virtual group program, you’ll learn the fundamentals of our approach to a meaningful life. This includes instruction in Buddhist theory, an introduction to 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.
The Level One program is an overview of attachment theory, examining the attachment mechanism, the exploration mechanism and the collaborative relationship systems that are necessary for secure functioning. We set the groundwork for deeper work at level two and beyond.
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Mentalizing and collaborative relationships
After completing Level One, we invite you to go deeper in this 6 month container. You’ll learn about secure, insecure and disorganized functioning so that you can be fully equipped to skillfully navigate relationships and self-manage with awareness. You’ll also learn the different paths of repair, depending on attachment conditioning.
In level two, you also receive 1.1 meditation mentoring or IPF sessions. Our Metta-Vipassana meditation approach, designed to support attachment repair, is only available through Mettagroup.
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Private, Custom Support
Meditation x Attachment | Level Three
How to earn security for insecure or disorganized peopleMeditation x Attachment | Level Four
How earned secure people can develop their relationship and exploration skillsMeditation x Attachment | Level Five
Renegotiating relationships (romantic, professional, familial or platonic)
Process and Substance Addiction Support
Meditation x Addiction™
Level One
3 Week Virtual Group Intensive
Meditation based healing for substance
and process-related addictions.
The techniques and strategies covered in Meditation x Addiction™ are specifically designed to support healing for people dealing with addiction and addiction-related issues. As evidenced by George Haas's own personal path, mindfulness meditation-based skills training can offer a truly effective behavioral change in the realm of addiction.
Offered as three half-day intensives across three consecutive weeks, this course combines traditional meditation approaches, the relapse pattern theories from the work of G. Alan Marlatt, Phd., and John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. Students learn a simple, easy-to-learn, and very pragmatic approach to addressing addiction, and many move on Meditation x Attachment™ Level Two after stabilizing in their recovery to continue to deepen their practice and maintain healthy lifestyle choices.
Non-Residential Retreat
Metta Vipassana
Residential Retreat
May 11 - 25, 2024
Sacred Mirror Zendo
Kamienica Szlachecka, Poland
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Eliot
Mettagroup’s signature Metta Vipassana retreat is back! With a stable mind and open heart as a foundation, we will explore aspects of relational mindfulness: how you connect to others, and how you can be completely yourself in relationships and work; in other words, how to live a meaningful life. Each day will include Dharma teachings with meditation instructions, as well as some longer, uninterrupted sits, and daily mindful yoga sessions. This retreat is open to beginners and ongoing practitioners, and is encouraged for anyone seeking to deepen their meditation practice and bring greater insight into their daily life.
The first week (May 11-18) will focus on Metta practice, and the second week (May 18-25) will focus on Vipassana practice.
This retreat is for Phil Jourdan’s Polish community. This is a 35 person retreat. There are 5 spots open to the Mettagroup community, so priority will be given to those who wish to attend both weeks. However participants may apply to attend one week only.
Non-Residential Retreat
Be Touched Community Retreat
May 29 - June 1, 2024
10am - 5pm
Utrecht, Netherlands
In Retreat: Meditation x Attachment Level One
Open to all students, the first level of Mettagroup’s signature Meditation x Attachment course offers instruction in Buddhist theory, Attachment Theory, and in-depth meditation techniques.
It focuses on developing secure relationships, uprooting past attachment conditioning and working through conflict resolution strategies to learn how to be completely yourself in your relationships with others and with your work. In other words, this course helps you learn how to live a meaningful life. It draws deeply on John Bowlby’s teachings and Daniel P. Brown's Ideal Parent-Figure (IPF) Attachment Protocol. This very special retreat format offers a truly immersive experience in four consecutive days.
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Advanced Studies & Professional Services
1.1 Ideal Parent Figure Protocol
Developed by Dr. Daniel P. Brown, PhD, the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (IPF) is a unique approach to attachment repair that combines the most cutting edge psychology with ancient meditation techniques. Mettagroup founder George Haas trained directly with the late Dr. Brown, and over the past few years many of the underlying concepts have been incorporated into Mettagroup’s teachings. Although spots are limited, George does offer one-on-one IPF facilitation sessions. Get in touch to inquire about availability, or book an introductory session via the link below.
The Level One program is an overview of attachment theory, examining the attachment mechanism, the exploration mechanism and the collaborative relationship systems that are necessary for secure functioning. We set the groundwork for deeper work at level two and beyond.
If you’re interested in learning more and getting started, click below and schedule a free consult with our team. If you’re looking for additional IPF resources, click here to access our IPF Facilitator Directory.
Spots limited with George Haas.
Find out your attachment strategy
Created by Dr. Mary Main, Adult Attachment Interviews are scored assessments that take a snapshot of your current attachment representation. Because different attachment strategies require different responses, it's important to know your attachment presentation. Anybody who is interested in attachment repair needs an assessment of their strategy.
Click below and schedule a free consult to see about conducting an AAI with a Mettagroup mentor.
Spots limited.
For Professionals
Open Ongoing Group Supervision for IPF Practitioners
Enhance Your Tool Kit As a Practitioner in a Supportive Community
Developed with Dr. Daniel P. Brown, PhD, Mettagroup continues to offer a monthly masterclass work group based on his definitive work, Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair.
Described by Psychology Today as a "major breakthrough in treatment," the journal also said: "It should be required reading by every mental health clinician and provider as a basis of treatment. If it were, there would be more positive treatment results for a wide variety of mental health issues."
Developed to assess and address attachment disturbances in a totally unique and effective way, we offer these IPF trainings and professional development space for professionals including licensed therapists, psychiatrists and meditation teachers/mentors who want to incorporate this approach into their own 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.
Meditation x Attachment Masterclass is for you if…
You are a client-centered mental health or meditation professional and are integrating IPF into your tool-kit.
This training is by invite only for professionals including licensed therapists, psychiatrists and meditation teachers/mentors who want to incorporate this approach into their own work with students/clients. Note that you will learn how to administer IPF in this training. Whether you’re already a seasoned IPF facilitator or want to learn how to facilitate IPF, this is for you.
You’ve done the work first-hand.
You’re engaged in or have completed your own IPF.
You’re familiar and active with the approach.
Participants must have read Dan Brown’s Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair and must be currently engaged, or intend to be engaged in, using the IPF/three pillar approach with their own clients or students.
Apply Today
If you’re interested in joining this ongoing group, please apply by clicking below and completing the form.
Have Questions?
If you’re interested in Advanced Studies & Professional Services, or have questions about our programs, please click below and schedule a free consult with the Mettagroup Team. We look forward to connecting with you and hearing more about your needs at this time.
“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
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.”
