Live Workshop Tuesday, January 20th @ 1pm PT/ 4pm ET

Addiction and Attachment

How Early Relationships Shape Our Coping Mechanisms as Adults

Led by George Haas, Meditation Teacher
Replay included - Live attendance is strongly encouraged

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Ever wonder why the cravings continue to haunt you (no matter how much intention or awareness you bring to your lived experience)? Or why the destructive patterns continue to play out in your life and relationships, no matter what interventions you’ve tried?

In this workshop, George will invite you into a compassionate, evidence-informed approach to addiction recovery that goes beyond willpower and abstinence alone - one that factors in attachment theory and an understanding of our early relationships’ impact on us as adults. What happened to us in the past, and why does it matter today?

In this 75-minute introductory workshop, you’ll explore how early attachment patterns and relationships shape craving, emotional regulation, and relapse. Not only that, George will share why addiction so often becomes a substitute for safe human connection. You’ll learn the difference between craving (the spontaneous thought of using) and urging (the planning to use), and be introduced to a practical framework for relieving craving in healthier ways while getting long-term relief from addiction for good, informed by G. Allan Marlatt’s relapse prevention model and Daniel P. Brown’s attachment repair work.

The patterns that keep us trapped are actually changeable.

Attachment healing and addiction recovery is possible, and 90% of our clients at Mettagroup see radical shifts within 3 years of implementing the Mettagroup Method.

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Walk Away From This Workshop With -

⚫️ Understand What Set the Foundation for Addictive Patterns to Play Out

You’ll receive a clearer understanding of your addictive patterns and how early relationships, your family system and your attachment strategies factor into your experience of craving, urging, shame and relapse.

⚫️ Attachment Theory 101

Learn a high level view of what it takes to earn secure attachment based on the insecure attachment strategy - be it Anxious, Avoidant or Disorganized. Begin to recognize the attachment responses of others, as well as your own, and understand the impact on how your relationships and opportunities in life unfold (so that you can break from old patterns and experience the meaningful life you crave).

⚫️ Shift your perspective

Understand that you’re not broken, but had an ordinary outcome to the conditions of your childhood. And not only that, but we’ll share how you can embark on sustainable addiction recovery, end the cycles of dysfunction, and show up congruent with your values and needs today.

⚫️ The path to sustainable recovery + thriving in life

Learn how to heal from addiction, heal your attachment and earn secure attachment so that you can experience meaningful, supportive and passionate relationships, and so that you can pursue the things in life that bring you the most meaning (without all the chaos, drama and pain bogging you down).

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LIVE WORKSHOP
Addiction and Attachment

How Early Relationships Shape Our Coping Mechanisms as Adults
Led by George Haas, Meditation Teacher
Tuesday, January 20th @ 1-2:15pm PT
(approx. 75 min.)

  • Testimonial image with five-star rating. Text: "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." - Aasheesh Paliwal, Client.
  • A testimonial quote with five gold stars above it. It reads, "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." The quote is attributed to Chris Loar, labeled as a client.
  • A testimonial graphic featuring a 5-star rating. Text reads: “I thought I knew something about healing attachment. Now I know that was a fast food approach. Metta Group offers a Michelin Star experience of Attachment repair.” Signed by Sonya Thomas, Client.

Our students are reporting these results after doing the Mettagroup Method

- More fulfilling relationships and deeper connections. -

- Greater clarity about what they’re passionate about, and what direction they want to go in in life and in their career.-

- Newfound access to a wellspring of support (from others, as well as within themselves) -

- Greater energy, curiosity and inspiration to live your most authentic life -

- They invest in relationships that enhance their fulfillment, rather than leaving them feeling depleted and unfulfilled -

- They can finally be themselves (without a paralyzing fear of rejection holding them back) -

- They’re willing to truly get their needs met (and believe that they’re worth it)

- Learn how to tell if someone is telling the truth about what they think, feel and desire (and sniff out the inauthentic folk before getting too involved)

This Workshop Is For You If

You have a hard time maintaining harm reduction or abstinence goals

  • Your personal relationships suffer due to your substance use or behavioral addictions

  • You have trouble maintaining your professional obligations

  • You have trouble controlling the amount and/or frequency of your use / problem behavior

  • Your substance use is affecting other people (they may even be complaining about your substance use)

  • 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. I

  • Your thoughts are still out of control (even if you are sober)

  • You may be in other addiction recovery programs like 12-step, SMART recovery, Refuge Recovery, Recovery Dharma, or other - and you want to supplement your recovery program.

  • You want long-term, sustainable relief from addiction (craving, urging, relapse), but don’t know how to develop that.

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Meet your Workshop Facilitator - 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 Dysfunctional Patterns

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!

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“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

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  • “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

FAQs

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Yes! No need to identify as an addict in order to explore this topic or approach. This is a safe space to bring your curiosity and learn about attachment theory, early relationships, and addiction.