16 Feb NASW MA Conference: Loving Our Broken Hearts
Coming in Massachusetts March 29-30, 2012 I’ll be presenting a workshop on “Loving Our Broken Hearts.” For more information see the NASW website.
Robert Karen wrote that attachment is “a theory of love and love’s central place in human life.” Using the current information on attachment and shame, this workshop will explore the newest generation of attachment theorists taking into account that attachment wounding happens before narrative memory develops, and shame is completely embedded in excruciating physical sensations. This complicates psychological repair by often cementing the agonizing aloneness that people feel but can’t share even in therapy. We’ll look at ways to remap old, non-verbal encoded patterns through making the non-verbal explicit, expanding secure connections to remap social contact, and harnessing physiological reactive cycles to explore new choices.