LIVE WORKSHOP
Meditation x Addiction
LIVE VIRTUAL GROUP PROGRAM
LED BY GEORGE HAAS, FOUNDING TEACHER OF METTAGROUP
THREE SATURDAYS | 9AM-1PM PT / 12-4PM ET
NEXT COHORT BEGINS FEBRUARY 10
We form addictions when the pains of life become intolerable. You can’t tell someone “Just stop using” without offering alternative ways of handling and healing these painful thoughts and emotions. Mettagroup offers a systematic approach to reduce the pain to the point where addiction is no longer needed to cope. Working with procedural memory (unlike cognitive training, which can still be hijacked by stress), this mindfulness meditation-based work enables powerful, sustainable change in behaviors around addiction.
Do you suffer from substance use disorder?
You have a hard time maintaining harm reduction or abstinence goals
Your personal relationships suffer due to your substance use
You have trouble maintaining your professional obligations
You have trouble controlling the amount and/or frequency of your use
Is your substance affecting other people? Are people complaining about your substance use?
This is for you if:
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. Is life still painful?
Your thoughts are still out of control even if you are sober
What you’ll walk away with at this workshop
You’ll learn about the Meditation x Addiction approach to substance use disorders. It’s an effective strategy for relapse prevention and we’ll introduce you to how students address addiction through the attachment lens. You’ll learn about the four modules that are the next step in this journey: craving and urging; stress, anger and depression; persitent negative emotions; and difficult interpersonal relationships.
You’ll understand how this evidence-based system combines ongoing meditation practice, the relapse pattern theory of G. Alan Marlatt, PhD and John Bowlby’s psychological model of Attachment Theory.
“When you come right down to it, addiction is an emotional regulation strategy. Working through meditation and addressing my own unhealthy attachment strategies, I was able to shift them in a way the has made my life meaningful. Now I’ve been sober for 40 years and this process has made my life something I’m excited to get up and go do. This is the piece that was missing before.”
- George Haas, Founding Teacher
INTROducing
Meditation x ADDICTION
The techniques and strategies covered in Meditation x Addiction™ are specifically designed to support healing for people dealing with addiction and addiction-related issues. As evidenced by George Haas's own personal path, mindfulness meditation-based skills training can offer a truly effective behavioral change in the realm of addiction. Offered as three half-day intensives across three consecutive weeks, this course combines traditional meditation approaches, the relapse pattern theories from the work of G. Alan Marlatt, Phd., and John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. Students learn a simple, easy-to-learn, and very pragmatic approach to addressing addiction, and many move on Meditation x Attachment™ Level Two after stabilizing in their recovery to continue to deepen their practice and maintain healthy lifestyle choices.
REGISTRATION
$120
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