LIVE WEBINAR: Working with loss: An attachment-informed, internal family systems approach

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Event Start: Monday, 03 November 2025 at 01:00 PM

Event End: Monday, 03 November 2025 at 03:00 PM

Venue: Online

Research from the neurosciences, psychological resilience studies and trauma research increasingly highlights the importance of connection for human thriving. When connection is lost through death or permanent separation, it is natural to feel intense grief. However, the deeper the attachment we feel to the one we have lost, the more resilient we will be in the face of such loss.

In this webinar we will:

Explore the application of Dr Gordon Neufeld’s attachment-based developmental approach to understanding how death and loss are mitigated by secure attachment.
Examine how healthy attachment develops or can get ‘stuck’ and what impact this has on grief.
Learn that attachment has the power to transcend death, and explore how an ‘earned secure attachment’ (Lyons-Ruth 1998) can be possible even after the loved one is gone. This will be through the application of Internal Family Systems theory to the loss of an attachment figure.

Key learning points:

An introduction to Neufeld’s attachment-based developmental paradigm.
How healthy attachment develops through six progressive levels or stages of attachment.
How grief can get ‘stuck’ and how to heal the attachment roots to help clients get ‘unstuck’.
The clinical application of attachment principles blended with insights from Internal Family Systems for working therapeutically with clients facing grief due to the death of a loved one.

Access to the live two-hour webinar
Access to the webinar recording for 30 days
Access to a downloadable PDF handout
For CPD/OPD points, a Certificate of Accomplishment can be issued on completion of a short quiz.

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If you have questions please contact Cathy Williams on events@griefcentre.org.nz.

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