Love Addiction - a therapeutic key to patterns of relating behind all addictions using the methods of CAT
Wed, 27 Nov
|Webinar
This workshop takes participants inside the patterns of relating to self and others in love addiction and shows how to practice a more whole person and socially aware approach to all addictions in the face of unmet emotional needs and consumer capitalism.
Time of Event
27 Nov 2024, 13:00 – 16:30 GMT
Webinar
About the Event
The concept of Love Addiction invites us to look at the relational origins and maintenance of all addictions and at the same link them to our ways of expressing and managing our needs for relationship. CAT's reciprocal role procedures can offer the tools to scaffold and formulate the patterns and narratives of self and others that hijack our ways of relating to each other. Love addiction is in part a loss of relational and reflective capacity to one dominating state of mind (part of me becomes all of me). This workshop seeks to show the process of recovering bits of relational intelligence, identity awareness and narrative freedom within and between us.
Participants will try out bits of therapeutic mapping, writing and voice work to connect with the pain and power of seductive but restrictive states (excited misery, idealised and romanticised conditional care, hopium, disorganised attachment). Social, gender and generational…