Healing the Longing for Belonging: Uncovering Secure Attachment for Ambivalent Adaptations
Learn to understand ambivalent patterns and cultivate a felt sense of secure connection—with yourself and others.
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Course Description
A three-part experiential workshop led by Dr. Liz George, including practical exercises, guided audio practices, and a bonus SoulCollage session.
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What’s included in the training?
Three 90-Minute Training Sessions led by Liz George Ph.D., SEP, expert somatic- and attachment-focused clinical psychologist
Each live session combines clear teaching with embodied exploration, helping you understand ambivalent attachment through direct nervous-system experience. Rather than talking about patterns from a distance, you’ll be guided to notice how regulation, boundaries, and connection show up in your own body and relationships.
Across the three sessions, Liz introduces practical, accessible practices that support steadiness in moments of activation, alongside reflective exercises that deepen awareness over time. Teaching is woven with guided inquiry and reflection, so insights land at both a cognitive and felt-sense level—“in the bones.”
Recorded live Q&A with Dr. George
Listen in on participants’ thoughtful questions, exploring how the work applies to personal healing, relationships, or clinical contexts.
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BONUS #1: Embodied Attachment Through SoulCollage®
A special 1 hour 45 minute workshop introducing the art of SoulCollage®, a creative and therapeutic exploration and healing tool developed by Seena Frost. Liz introduces the SoulCollage® process as a method for deepening embodied learning throughout the course, and a pathway to accessing inner experience without relying on analysis or words—engaging mind, body, heart, and imagination together.
In this guided workshop, Liz will help you through creating your first card, using images to explore attachment patterns and inner resources that support greater regulation and security. You’ll learn the basic principles of the method, experience a guided meditation and reflective prompts, and practice “meeting” your card as a living source of insight.
BONUS #2: Compassionate Communication Strategies for Ambivalent Patterns
This printable guide offers clear communication tools for navigating moments of relational urgency—whether you recognize ambivalent patterns in yourself, your partner, or your clients. Grounded in attachment and nervous-system awareness, the handout focuses on reducing escalation, increasing steadiness, and preserving connection without blame or over-explaining.
Why take this course?
For many people with ambivalent attachment patterns, the longing for connection is strong and sincere. You may care deeply, invest fully, and want closeness more than anything—yet still find yourself feeling unsettled, anxious, or dissatisfied in relationship. Reassurance or intimacy may be offered, but doesn’t quite land, or your body stays on edge, scanning for what might shift or disappear.
This can be confusing and exhausting. Especially if you’ve done meaningful self-work already—therapy, reflection, insight—you might wonder why understanding your patterns hasn’t translated into a steadier felt sense of security, or changed how your body responds when connection feels vulnerable or uncertain.
The challenge is that ambivalent attachment isn’t just a set of thoughts, beliefs, or behaviors. It’s a nervous-system pattern that developed in response to inconsistency—times when care, availability, or attunement were present sometimes, and absent at others. Over time, the system learns to stay oriented toward connection through heightened sensitivity, vigilance, and emotional reach. Longing and alertness become intertwined.
Because these patterns are organized in the body, they can’t be resolved through insight alone. True change requires felt experiences that help the nervous system register safety, protection, and connection as real and reliable.
Rather than asking you to analyze your attachment patterns from the outside, this course works from the inside out—supporting your nervous system in learning new possibilities for regulation, boundaries, and belonging.
Across the three class sessions, you’ll explore how ambivalent patterns show up in your body and relationships, and engage in guided practices that support a growing sense of steadiness and secure connection.
Whether you’re on a personal healing journey, supporting a partner with ambivalent tendencies, or working clinically with these dynamics, this workshop offers a grounded, non-shaming path toward connection that feels safer, clearer, and more sustainable over time.
What you’ll learn?
In this on-demand, experiential training, you’ll learn:
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Here’s what’s in the training curriculum…
Session 1
Self-Regulation: The Foundation of Secure Attachment
This class focuses on how the ambivalent attachment adaptation commonly shows up in relationships. Participants will explore ventral vagal anchors that support greater nervous system regulation.
The first session offers practical, in-the-moment strategies to pause and return to self-regulation when triggered, along with simple daily practices to build resilience over time. You’ll experience embodied practices that support a direct experience of returning to regulation.
The session concludes with discussion and practices focused on creating secure attachment with self and developing a reliable inner secure base.
Session 2
Healthy Boundaries and Self-Protection
This class focuses on the role of boundaries in creating a felt sense of safety, particularly for those with an ambivalent attachment adaptation, where boundaries may tend to be porous or inconsistent. Participants will explore how boundary patterns show up in everyday relationships and how these patterns relate to attachment and nervous system regulation.
You’ll identify your own boundary tendencies and learn how to establish more protective, supportive boundaries. An embodied practice guides the creation of a competent protector—an internal resource that supports clarity, protection, and a sense of safety in relational interactions.
The class also introduces clear, structured communication strategies to support boundaried interactions with others. The session concludes with practices focused on creating a safe haven within self—a reliable internal place to remain tethered to, or return to, after relational engagement.
Session 3
Developing Internal and External Communities of Care
This class focuses on the role of belonging and community in healing attachment patterns, beginning with a discussion of the growing epidemic of isolation and its impact on health, well-being, and relational resilience. Participants will explore how attachment adaptations are shaped not only in close relationships, but across broader spheres of belonging over time.
Through guided reflection, participants will identify the different spheres of belonging in their lives and how experiences of connection, exclusion, or inconsistency within these spheres have influenced their attachment responses. An embodied practice supports the creation of an “ally oasis” of inner resources—reliable internal supports that foster grounding, safety, and connection.
The class also supports participants in recognizing existing sources of support in their external world and exploring strategies for building communities of care that align with their needs and capacities.
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Meet the Experts
Meet the Expert
Dr. Liz George
Nervous system regulation is essential to work with attachment adaptations and the challenges that lead to a sense of disconnection and a lack of a sense of belonging
Liz George Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Boulder, Colorado, and a certified Somatic Experiencing® and DARe™ practitioner. With training in Brainspotting and Somatic Resilience and Regulation developmental touch work, she brings over two decades of experience integrating body-based and relational approaches to trauma healing.
Liz is also a Certified Mindfulness Instructor, a SoulCollage® facilitator, and a certified Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) provider. She brings somatic therapy, attachment, mindfulness, and support for non-ordinary and mystical states to her work, helping individuals and communities heal from trauma and reconnect with resilience, compassion, and the natural world.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about course access, the training format, continuing education, and purchasing. If you need more information before enrolling, our support team is always happy to help you choose the right training.
Do I need to be a therapist to benefit from this training?
No. This workshop is open to individuals on a personal healing journey, partners, and professionals alike. You don’t need clinical training or prior knowledge of attachment theory to participate.
The material is taught in an accessible, experiential way, with practices designed to meet you where you are. At the same time, therapists and practitioners often find the content clinically relevant and transferable. Whether you’re joining for personal growth, relational understanding, or professional development, the learning is designed to be meaningful and applicable.
This course is educational and experiential in nature and is not a substitute for individual therapy or mental health treatment.
How long can I access the course materials if I purchase this training today?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses too. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use.
In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Are the class sessions live or recorded?
All sessions were recorded live, including the Q&A segments. This reissued training features recordings of all three 90-minute sessions, along with audio recordings, written transcripts, complementary resources, and exclusive course bonuses.
All of the training is on-demand, so you can learn at your own pace, or revisit sessions more than once.
Are CE credits available for this course?
Continuing Education (CE) credits are not available for this training at this time.
Is there a refund policy?
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