Forgiveness
Forgiveness
A means for healing internal splits
Half-day Online Meditation Workshop- Date: Sunday, 5th Sep 2021
- Instructor: Cedric Reeves
- Cost: Sliding scale
Join us for this half-day event in which we will use visualization exercises to identify and repattern our grievances and resentments, moving instead towards wholeness, ease, integration and "conformity with the ways things are”.
In this workshop we will be using a forgiveness meditation technique with the focus on forgiveness of self and other. Through these guided forgiveness meditations we will heal the inner schisms and splits of our psyches and move towards wholeness, ease, integration and 'conformity with the ways things are'.
Format
- Half-day Online Meditation Workshop: 3 sessions of 60 minutes each.
- Live Online Sessions: The live sessions will be hosted on Zoom. An email with the zoom links will be sent to you after you have registered.
- Q&A: There will be opportunity to ask questions during the Q&A section.
Attendance & Recordings
- Partial attendance is fine - however you get best results if you attend all sessions.
- Late Starts: You can join even after it has started.
- Live-only: This event will not be recorded.
Event Date & Time
This workshop will run twice in order to be accessible to people in different time zones. The content is exactly the same. You will get the access details for both after signing up.
5th Sep 2021
Workshop Schedule
There will be 3 sessions of 60 minutes each, for 4 hours total.
Each session is like this:
| Duration | Activity |
|---|---|
| 10 mins | Lecture |
| 40 mins | Guided Meditation |
| 5 mins | Q&A |
Workshop Overview
This program is suitable for beginners to meditation and healing work.
There will be a few brief lectures on forgiveness, and Q&A. However, the focus of the workshop will be experiential. We will spend 50% to 65% on forgiveness meditations and exercises.
During the exercises, we’ll focus on both processing and forgiving others and ourselves. We’ll develop and deepen compassion towards self and other. Importantly, we’ll give ourselves full permission to feel our suffering, validating any difficult emotions. We’ll also engage in perspective taking exercises which will help us release ourselves from blame and release others from blame when we are ready to do so – never rushing the process! Moreover, we’ll see how that which we reject in others we tend to reject in ourselves and we’ll work towards healing this psychic-split.
The material on this course has been influenced by Bruce Ecker’s book “Unlocking the Emotional Brain”: “Neuroscience research since 2004 has shown that the brain has a key to locked synapses: a type of neuro-plasticity known as memory reconsolidation, which, when launched by a certain series of experiences, actually unlocks the synapses of a target emotional learning, allowing it to be not merely overridden but actually nullified and deleted by new learning.“
I hope that we’ll develop a sense of community in the workshop. As part of signing up you’ll be invited to the Attachment Repair Slack Group.
We will send out recordings to everyone who signs up. But it is highly recommended to attend live because we will be pairing up participants to do dyad-work.
Miscellaneous Notes
There will be time for Q&A and spot coaching.
We will be doing deep work. For that reason please feel free to take a break at any point.
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Who is this for?
This program is for those of us who...
- Are looking to improve our psychological health, especially if you have tried other healing modalities with disappointing results
- Want to let go of old grudges
- Difficulties with intimate relationships
- Have difficulties with emotional regulation
Healing Together
Shared interest and social support can make meditation practice, study, and healing much easier. Make friends in the course on the slack channel and invite friends who you think could benefit to participate in the course.
Benefits
These are some of the benefits you will have by the end of the program
Theoretical Understanding
- The importance of forgiveness and how to cultivate it
- Understanding of how insecure attachment forms an important foundation of adult mental healt
Psychological
- A better ability to observe your mind with meta-cognitive awareness as a result of the mentalization exercises peppered through the guided meditations.
- Better able to use forgiveness as an antidote to negative mental states (anger, holding grudges etc)
- Less blame of self or others
For your relationships
- more forgiveness = easier relationships that repair more quickly after the inevitable ruptures that occur.
Support Structure
- A sense of camaraderie as a result of seeing how our psychological difficulties are rooted in common experiences that affect us all.
- A Slack group to continue discussion going forward
Frequently Asked Questions
About Participation
Are there any prerequisites to attend?
Is the course compatible with therapy/counselling/psychotherapy?
Technical Questions
How do I access the online event?
Once you sign up, an email will be sent out to you with a zoom link. It will allow you to access the live classes. You can add the zoom to your google calendar to be reminded.
A password will be shared with you in order to access the recordings from previous classes.
I’m having technical issues accessing the event
If you are experiencing any technical issues relating to accessing the material or live sessions, please get in touch with us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
What is the refund policy?
If for any reason you aren’t satisfied, simply contact us and we will send you a full refund.
My payment didn’t go through / I’m having payment issues
If you are experiencing troubles with your payment, simply contact us and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
I don’t have Paypal / Card / are there alternative payment methods?
There are other payment methods listed on our donations page. Otherwise contact us for other options. If you lack any ability to make online payments, let us know and we can sign you up for free.
In what format are the recordings?
I have technical issues accessing the course or recording. What should I do?
If you are experiencing any technical issues relating to accessing the material or live sessions, please get in touch with us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
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Please note: This program is offered for educational purposes only and is not group-therapy, counselling or any kind of other psychotherapy, nor is it a substitute for the aforementioned. The instructor Cedric Reeves is a meditation teacher, not a psychotherapist, counsellor, or otherwise therapist.
Hello Cedric,
I sent my donation for Sunday’s 2:30-5:00 pm session. Is there a registration form I need to fill out to receive the zoom link for the session?
Thanks,
Hana
Hi Hana,
I just re-sent the registration email to you that contains the link. Please be sure to double-check junk folders. You can contact us via email if you still aren’t receiving it
Hello Cedric. I just found your YT channel Attachment Repair last week and have already benefitted from two of the sessions, this last one on forgiveness and the emotional repatterning meditation. I would like to learn much more. Please put me on any newsletter list so I can sign up for more of these sessions and be able to ask some questions live. (on Youtube my identity is “Pa” which I did purposely to avoid any unwanted attention from stalkers.)
Hi Patricia. Wonderful to hear you benefited from the meditations – we’ve added you to the newsletter. You should get an email that you will have to confirm