About this course

Learning Objectives

• Identify self discovering strategies
• Identify childhood traumas
• Identify how childhood attachment patterns may be affecting your life today
• Describe how you can develop a secure attachment in adulthood
• Use neurobiological research to identify how you can rewire your brain to become more present, secure and empowered in your life today
• Identify how to construct a coherent narrative
• Use tools to better understand and integrate your emotions

Learning Levels

• Intermediate

Course Instructor(s)

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  Lisa Firestone

  Director of Research and Education

  Dr. Lisa Firestone is the Director of Research and Education at The Glendon Association. An accomplished and much requested lecturer, Dr. Firestone speaks at national and international conferences in the areas of couple relations, parenting, and suicide and violence prevention. Dr. Firestone has published numerous professional articles, and most recently was the co-author of Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships (APA Books, 2006), Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice (New Harbinger, 2002), Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy (APA Books, 2003) and The Self Under Siege (Routledge, 2012). Follow Dr. Firestone on Twitter or Google.

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  Dr. Daniel Siegel

  Daniel J. Siegel,M.D. received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA. Dr. Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute. He serves as the Medical Director of the LifeSpan Learning Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Blue School in New York City, which has built its curriculum around Dr. Siegel’s Mindsight approach.

Disclosure

References

• Toof, J., Wong, J., & Devlin, J. M. (2020). Childhood Trauma and Attachment. The Family Journal, 28(2), 194-198. https://doi.org/10.1177/1066480720902106 (Original work published 2020)
• Erozkan, A. (2016). The Link between Types of Attachment and Childhood Trauma. Universal journal of educational research, 4(5), 1071-1079.
• Forslund, T., Granqvist, P. (2021). Secure Attachment. In: Shackelford, T.K., Weekes-Shackelford, V.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1963
• Waqas, M., Hussain, Z. ., Ibrahimi, I. ., & Majid, A. (2024). Investigating how Childhood Bonding Patterns Influence Adult Behavior and Intimacy. Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences, 7(4), 959-972. https://doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v7i4.425
• Barbaro, N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2019). Environmental unpredictability in childhood is associated with anxious romantic attachment and intimate partner violence perpetration. Journal of interpersonal violence, 34(2), 240-269
• Carpenter, N., Angus, L., Paivio, S., & Bryntwick, E. (2016). Narrative and emotion integration processes in emotion-focused therapy for complex trauma: An exploratory process-outcome analysis. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, 15(2), 67-94.
• Fraley, R. C., & Roisman, G. I. (2019). The development of adult attachment styles: four lessons. Current opinion in psychology, 25, 26-30.