Meditation x Attachment™
Level Two
A 6-month meditation-based virtual group and 1.1 mentorship program designed to usher you into living a more meaningful life.
Next cohort begins Tuesday, August 6th.
Led by George Haas, Founding Teacher of Mettagroup,
Level Two focuses on remapping your native attachment conditioning, using meditation to strengthen your mentalization and emotional regulation capacities, and developing collaborative relationship skills.
In Level One, we skimmed the surface.
You received an overview of attachment theory, examining the attachment mechanism, the exploration mechanism and the collaborative relationship systems that are necessary for secure functioning.
Now that you’ve developed a foundational knowledge of attachment theory as well as the Buddhist philosophy and practices to earn secure attachment, it’s time to go deeper and focus on skill development.
In Level Two, you’ll learn:
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Attachment Theory Deep Dive + the Path of Repair for Each Attachment Conditioning Type
In Level One, you received an overview of attachment theory.
In Level Two, we go much deeper into each attachment strategy. You’ll learn about Secure, Insecure and Disorganized functioning so that you can be equipped to skillfully navigate relationships and self-manage with awareness.
Depending on your attachment conditioning, the paths to repair are different. Level Two will help you understand and learn the specific techniques and strategies to invest your time and energy into, depending on your specific attachment conditioning.
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How to Mentalize
If you perpetually feel misunderstood by others, or have a hard time tracking interactions with your partner, colleagues, family or friends (and it results in ruptures, arguments and tarnished connection), then you may need to strengthen your mentalizing skills.
In Level Two, you’ll learn a meditative approach to strengthening your mentalizing capacity. From there, you can:
Collaborate with people more skillfully.
Increase your influence and capacity to enlist support and interest in your projects, passions and vision
Support people better (because you can track how they’re feeling and anticipate their needs!)
Elevate the intimacy, meaning and mutual respect in your relationships
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How to Skillfully Collaborate with People
Do you struggle with developing and maintaining relationships - family, friends, romantic or even at work? Do you experience volatility, ups and downs, and find that you’re using a ton of energy to make sure your relationships are okay?
Or, are you tired of having to manage relationships, and just avoid them altogether?
In Level Two, you’ll learn strategies and meditative practices to strengthen you collaboration skills, so that you can connect with more ease, be in reciprocally supportive relationships, and use your energy ELSEWHERE: on your own authentic. exploration.
Level Two Skill-Set
Mentalizing
In Level Two, we focus on strengthening your mentalizing skill.
About
Mentalizing is essentially your capacity to monitor the dynamics of the exchange with someone else, so that you can keep within a range of secure communication. As a skill-set, mentalizing as an adult means that you can track the following four things continuously.
✔️Understanding what you want to communicate
✔️Expressing it in a way that the other person will understand what you’re attempting to communicate
✔️Tracking their reaction
✔️Modifying your understanding of the relationship based on their reaction
The Problem
Some of us with attachment disturbance didn’t develop this skill. So, we struggle with collaborating with others! This can lead to challenges at work, a lack of intimacy in relationship, or constant ruptures with little repair in your partnership. We can’t understand what other people are talking about, and we can’t get the sense that they understand us.
The Possibility
By learning how to effectively mentalize, you can collaborate with people (your romantic partner, friends, family, colleagues, and clients), in a way that makes you feel connected, seen and understood, delighted in, and even loved. This then opens to greater capacity and energy to explore.
Level Two Skill-Set
Collaboration
In Level Two, we focus on strengthening your collaboration skills.
About
Collaboration in adult relationships is agreeing to take care of the needs of someone else, and their agreeing to take care of your needs. Collaborating in how each of you can do that for the other.
The Problem
Without strong collaboration skills, it’s hard to maintain intimate, supportive and reliable relationships - romantic, platonic, familial or professional. If you’re struggling to connect or can’t show up for others in a reciprocal way, then it’s hard (and even impossible) to apply your energy to meaningful pursuits around you (because you’re not receiving the emotional regulation from people that you need!)
The Possibility
Skillful collaboration directly impacts your capacity to explore what you find most meaningful. Why? If you have solid relationships, people you can depend on and call upon when you’re struggling, you’ll be able to go out into the world and try new things, take meaningful risks. Your ticket to deep exploration truly depends on your collaboration skills (and your capacity to be emotionally regulated by trusted people in your life).
Level Two Skill-Set
Remapping the Native Attachment Conditioning
In Level Two, we focus on remapping the native attachment conditioning.
About
We are conditioned beings. We make reality based on our experience of ourselves in the world. Our realities are based on the meaning we assign to our experience. In remapping, we change the meaning of what happened in the past, to be of use to us today. You’re unburdened by the meaning of the past, free to move forward in alignment with your values today.
The Problem
Confined by limiting beliefs about what you can and cannot have, we often go about our days not taking the things we want because we don’t believe we can have them. We repeat endlessly the conditions of our early life, believing that that’s all that’s possible for us.
The Possibility
Remapping the native attachment conditioning is designed to help us maintain supportive relationships that act as a secure base for our authentic exploration to live a meaningful life. For example, you can go from feeling deeply unworthy of the career that excites you (thus avoiding it all your life), to courageously pursuing that career with a sense of purpose, aliveness and hope.
We uniquely combine attachment theory with meditation.
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!
Introducing
Meditation x Attachment
Level Two
This live group and 1.1 mentorship program offers deeper instruction in 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.
The Level Two program is a deep immersion into further learning and skill development, designed for earning secure functioning. This offers you a blend of learning key concepts across attachment theory and meditation, while also practicing the techniques in both a supportive group as well as within private, custom mentorship.
“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
What’s Included
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12 Live Immersive Virtual Group Sessions
12 Live Sessions | 2 hours/session | Replays Provided
We offer a blend of learning, practice and connection to help you engage the concepts and get on the path of healing.
In each session, you’ll learn the psychological and meditative philosophy to support you in living a meaningful life. You’ll also receive live guided meditation to help you experientially integrate the framework, where we explore IPF (Ideal Parent-figure Protocol) as well as other techniques in real-time. You’ll get to share, connect, ask questions and integrate in a community setting, with facilitator guidance.
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The Attachment Repair Meditation Library
Healing and skill development requires consistent meditation practice (especially if you desire lasting impact).
That’s why we offer a course library which includes the targeted guided meditations to support you in earning secure attachment, repairing old patterns, and cultivating greater compassion, equanimity and loving kindness.
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Peer-to-Peer Practice Opportunities
Collaboration skillfully is trainable.
Throughout this group program, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in dyads with fellow students. This is designed to help you get a sense of how your attachment strategy is functioning. Not only that, but this type of connection gives you an opportunity to practice skillful collaboration.
You’ll also receive Private 1.1 Mentorship
Ideal Parent-Figure Protocol or Meditation Sessions
If you decide to join Tier Two of this program, you will receive private sessions with our Mettagroup team.
Choose Your Path
Option One: 12 Meditation Mentoring Sessions
25 min duration/sessionOption Two: 6 IPF Sessions
50 min duration/sessionOption Three: Combination of the above
About 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 doesn’t guarantee we’ll always get a good outcome, but we won’t stomp around the planet mad that it’s always going to be terrible. We’ll actually be open to something good happening. Then, if and when good things DO come our way, we will be able to receive those opportunities with openness, curiosity and a sense of worthiness.
In Dan Brown’s research, he found that it takes between 40 and 150 sessions to move from insecure or disorganized attachment to earned secure.
Meet Your Teacher
I’m George Haas, and I’m glad you’re here.
I’m 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 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.
“His experience as a meditation teacher and practitioner and as an expert in Ideal Parent Figure protocol, combined with his warmth as a human being and the way that Metta Group systematizes and structures the journey from insecure to secure attachment makes the Meditation X Attachment Level Two a vital experience for anyone who is serious about their growth and healing in this area. I've never had so many moments thinking "that is exactly what I am going through" or "wow, finally I'm hearing what I've always felt but could never quite put words to." If you're on the fence, allow yourself to take the healthy exploration and sign up.”
- Aasheesh Paliwal
“There is no one on earth who explains attachment theory and gives a clear roadmap for how to repair insecure attachment and build healthy self esteem better than George Haas.”
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!”
“I found that your teaching provided me with essential tools in my meditation practice: namely the development of sensory clarity, dismantling of self-generated anger, and the development of an equanimity practice.”
“Your teaching style is the perfect balance of profound insight, fascinating science, and extra dry martini humor.”
Scotty Atkinson
Walk away with
✔️ Exploring in a primary way, so that your life feels meaningful and fulfilling.
✔️ A deep understanding of attachment conditioning for each attachment strategy - from secure, to dismissive, disorganized, anxious-preoccupied, and more.
✔️ Hope and newfound access to the possibilities that live within your own healing and repair journey.
✔️ An understanding of how people with different attachment conditioning can optimally interact with each other.
✔️ Learn how to help the people in your life (loved ones, colleagues, friends) emotionally regulate when they get disregulated. The path to being truly supportive and collaborative!
✔️Take other people’s behavior less personally (resulting in less suffering)
✔️Learn the red flags and green flags to look out for in relationship (and choose to invest time and energy into people who energize you)
✔️Learn how repair and deepen the relationships you already have (by moving your existing relationships toward secure functioning).
✔️ Open to new explorations, new people, new possibilities, new relationships that reciprocally feel supportive and satisfying.
✔️ Understanding the dynamics of collaborative relationship systems, where you’re taken care of in a way that you want to be taken care, and where you can take care other someone else in a way that they want to be taken care of.
✔️ A sense of belonging. Throughout Level Two, you’ll be learning, practicing and integrating within a supportive community space and with teacher support from George Haas and teaching assistants.
“Mettagroup's Level 2 course offered me new ways to understand my life and my emotional habits. I now see more clearly how my early experiences shaped the course of my life and relationships, and the practices George teaches have helped me to more directly experience and understand my emotions. 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
What our clients are reporting
Clarity (and a lot of it)
Clients report having a deeper clarity of self, which offers relief, acceptance and feeling understood. Not only that, but they also report having clarity of their attachment disturbances and what triggers them, which allows them to navigate life more intentionally and discontinue the harmful patterns that once ran the show.
Higher Self-Acceptance + Confidence
The capacity to accept oneself for one’s full humanity begins more and more available. This allows for the releasing of perfectionism, seeking validation from others, and proximity seeking behavior that oftentimes holds many people back who are insecurely attached.
More Empowered
With clarity and the tools to skillfully live and relate to others, our clients feel more empowered in their life, relationships and career. They know what situations may trip them up, or what types of behaviors activate their attachment strategies. This results in higher self-agency to make choices that support one’s wellbeing, and meet one’s needs more (all needed in order to live that meaningful life).
More Authentic Self-Expression + Access to Purpose
Our clients feel free to express themselves authentically (and find their own portal of expression). An ALIVENESS is untapped, along with greater energy, inspiration and motivation. They tap into their unique sense of purpose, courageously pursuing it (for some, it’s the first time in their lives!)
Courageously set boundaries
Our clients report that they can now set boundaries, stemming from the self-clarity, self-agency and empowerment they now embody. Saying an aligned ‘no’ is easier to do (without being overcome by guilt, shame, or self-abandoning behavior). They start to choose aligned opportunities more and more, whether that’s a roadtrip that’s been calling out to them, or the new job that truly meets their vision and needs.
Connection + Relationships Thrive
Collaboration becomes easier and more manageable, whether they’re engaging with their team, colleagues, clients, or even family, friends, and romantic partner. Our clients report a sense of ‘belonging’ that becomes available (no longer feeling ‘other’ or outside in relationships). Whether you’re desiring a deeper connection, to be more heart-open, or to be more influential or impact at work, all of these elements enhance.
Exploring Alignment
This program is for you if…
We invite you to explore alignment! Below, we share some indicators that this program and our approach is designed for you.
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Are you someone who can jump into the deep end of the pool, or are you inching your way in at the shallow end?
If you can hanging the deep end, then you’re ready for Level Two. If you’re more comfortable at the shallow end of the pool, we recommend that you attend our workshops or revisit the Level One program.
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A meaningful life isn’t prescriptive, but rather includes the endeavors that spark YOUR authentic curiosity and interest.
You’re interested in having a meaningful life, and want to feel free to explore things that are meaningful to you. But, it’s hard or unfamiliar (and maybe you never learned how to do it, so you don’t know where to begin). We’ll give you the roadmap to discern what your meaningful life encompasses (and how to pursue it without feeling overwhelmed or overcome by fear).
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Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced meditator, this program is for you. If you’re brand new to meditation, we provide you with a foundational self-paced training to support you in jumpstarting your meditation practice and learning the fundamentals, so that you can hit the ground running. That training is included in Meditation x Attachment Level One.
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You’re not on the verge of trying to make relationships work (or you’ve already given up), because the disappointment has accumulated so much due to not knowing how to have workable relationships.
You may be a high functioning working professional who struggles with relationships at work or in your personal life.
You’re ready for a new approach, so that you can have satisfying, healthy and mutually supportive relationships.
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It’s all sort of working, but not well enough. You’re constantly anxious about pretty much everything, and holding on tight.
Life is going well, but nothing really matters. You’re succeeding, but it doesn’t mean anything to you.
You want to feel ALIVE again. Inspired. On purpose.
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You’re constantly dissatisfied in relationships because you think that that’s where the meaning should come from.
You don’t explore anything. You put your focus on getting into the right relationship, and believe that the aliveness of life will be found in that relationship.
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You’re afraid to do anything because you can’t make a mistake. The consequences of making a mistake are so catastrophic, which then leads you to being alone. Taking risks is just too upsetting or distressing, so it’s better to not take the chance.
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Ready to have a truly satisfying career? Do you lack the influence to enlist support for your projects and efforts? Do you struggle with collaboration, having rifts with your colleagues, manager/managees or clients?
If you want to make courageous strides in your career, then you’ll love Level Two.
Schedule a Free Consult Call
Schedule a call with the Mettagroup team to ensure that this program is the right fit for you, and to ask any questions you have at this time. Click below to schedule a free consultation call.
FAQs
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No problem! While we do strongly recommend that you attend as many live sessions as you can, we understand that life happens. You will have access to all session replays for life. These will be sent to you after each live session, and will be housed in an online course for easy access.
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George Haas will be your private mentor throughout your time in the Level Two program.
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FAQ answer
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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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Many of our clients feel this way when they arrive. We invite you to explore the possibilities that live in the Mettagroup approach. If you’re open to practicing meditation and exploring attachment theory more fully, then this is a good fit for you. This approach does require effort, but if you’re willing to put in the time, energy and resource, then it can truly be worth it.
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You have access for life.
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No. We cannot tell you what your attachment strategy is without an Adult Attachment Interview.
This is not included in Meditation x Attachment Level Two program, but is available for purchase separately. Click here to reach out and sign up for an Adult Attachment Interview.
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No. This is a meditation-based program that requires consistent effort and practice, so it will not work unless you’re willing to practice.