The Map of Your Attachment Workshop #1 - Foundations of Attachment Theory

Obsidian Care Collective presents a transformational learning experiences that deepens emotional awareness, strengthens relationships, and helps individuals move toward secure attachment in everyday life. Our workshops combine research-backed psychology with experiential exercises, reflection, and practical tools for lasting change.

The 2026 Attachment Workshop Series, held at Research Triangle Park's gorgeous and modern Conference Center at NC Biotech, brings together eight carefully crafted modules exploring attachment across partnerships, parenting, family relationships, friendships, and the workplace. We serve individuals, couples, friends, family, professionals, and organizations seeking meaningful growth and connection.

Join us and experience relational learning that lasts.

Foundations of Attachment Theory is meant to stand alone or as a foundation to the future workshops to provide insight on your attachment style, its origins, and how to do the work to move toward greater ease, peace, and connection in all of your important relationships.

What You'll Leave With At the End of Foundations of Attachment Theory:

Clarity on Your Patterns – Understand how your unique attachment styleshapes the way you connect. Identify and practice exercises and skills to feel more grounded, emotionally present, and connected in a way that feels safe enough.

Confidence in Communication – Learn to identify and express your needs clearly.

Deeper Connection – Build richer, more fulfilling relationships with your partner, family, friends, and yourself with exercises introduced and practiced in the workshop.

Lasting Change – For about the cost of a one hour family therapy session, leave with practical tools you can use daily to built a more secure attachment, long after the workshop is over.

Info: Ventral vagal nurturing exercise. Identifying relational resources. Identifying resources within the room. Gentle regulation coaching to stay within the window of tolerance.

Info: Complete Diane Poole Heller's Adult Attachment Style Inventory We start to answer the questions: What is my attachment style, and how do I figure it out?
Can I have more than one style depending on the situation or relationship?
Why do I feel like I don’t fully fit into just one category? Did my attachment style come from my childhood, or can it change over time?
If my parents had their own issues, does that mean I’m fated to repeat the same patterns?
Can trauma or a major life event change my attachment style?

Info: People with a predominantly secure attachment adaptation generally feel comfortable with closeness and independence, but they still ask:
How can I support my partner if they have a different attachment style?
Are there ways I can stay secure even in stressful or triggering relationships?
Can a person with secure attachment behave in ways that are more anxious, avoidant, or disorganized? Why might this happen?
How can I parent in a way that fosters secure attachment in my kids?

Info: Each boxed lunch from Hope Valley Catering comes with a choice of side, a cookie or brownie, condiments and sweet or unsweetened tea. Additionally, there will be coffee (regular and decaffeinated), hot tea, and iced water throughout the day. Details to be completed in event registration form.

Info: Individuals with a predominantly anxious attachment adaptation crave closeness but fear abandonment. Their most common questions are:
Why do I feel panicked when my partner doesn’t respond right away?
How do I stop overthinking or needing constant reassurance?
Why do I keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners?
What’s the difference between intuition and anxiety in relationships?
Can someone love me if I’m “too much” or too needy?

Info: Individuals with a predominantly avoidant attachment adaptation value independence and often suppress emotions. They tend to ask:

Why do I pull away when things start getting serious?

Why do I feel smothered when someone gets too close, even if I like them?

How do I open up emotionally without feeling weak or exposed?

Can I have intimacy without losing my independence?

Is it possible to feel connected without constant closeness?

Info: Individuals with a predominantly fearful-avoidant or disorganized attachment adaptation often experience a sometimes disorienting mix of anxious and avoidant patterns, with more intensity from overwhelming or intrusive interpersonal trauma or insufficient care from the adults they needed. Questions asked can often sound conflicted:
Why do I push people away even though I desperately want closeness?
Why do I go from needing constant reassurance to wanting to disappear?
How do I break the cycle of being drawn to painful or unstable relationships?
Is it possible for me to ever feel truly safe in relationships with others?
How do I heal from the trauma that shaped my attachment style?

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