Attachment Styles impact relationships throughout the lifespan. The four basic styles are secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized. A person’s Attachment Style is heavily impacted by their early years but can and does change over a lifetime.
Having an awareness of your own style allows you to be more intentional in your interactions with others. Considering another’s style provides some insight both into that person and into the interactions between you and them.
This workshop will begin with a resource packet for you to review before we meet including recommendations about attachment quizzes available online. You will be encouraged to consider both your primary style and secondary tendencies. We will cover signs in others and ways to react if someone is either not compatible with you or is very unstable. Attachment styles can change – we will look at the latest research regarding how to support positive change.
After the two hour in-person workshop there will be an additional resource package available to you for further exploration.
This workshop is suitable for all audiences, but especially appropriate for spiritual directors and spiritual directors in training.
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Our presenter
Laura Gaines has twenty years’ experience as a child and adolescent mental health clinician and Crisis Text Line volunteer working with children, adults and professionals to improve communication and mental well-being. She has trained professionals and parents for over 30 years regarding mental health, human development, ethics, trauma informed care, and resilience. Her goal is to empower others to overcome challenges and to build strengths so that they can pursue their goals. Her training style is lively, evidence based and interactive. As a former child therapist, she incorporates play/art in all workshops. Participants will go home with new ideas to try in their day-to-day life and work.