Mind

Written By Karen Benjack

IFS, Attachment Theory, Polyvagal, ACT

Psycho-educational reframe: giving family members a new perspective and model 

    • Moving away from a pathological view of addiction and mental health

    • Moving away from shame-based language, labels, and diagnoses, and traditional language like codependency, enabling, enmeshment into language that supports wholeness: connection, attachment, regulation, co-regulation, safety, etc.

Sleeping/ awakening framework

Regulation and co-regulation vs dysregulation and co-dysregulation

Individual and family story 

    • Family mythos: Identity, roles, and narrative

    • Family storytelling

    • The heroic journey of the warrior

Family pattern mapping (Family Constellation and Genogram)

Explore unconscious scripts embedded in family belief systems and worldviews

Adult Developmental Models 

    • Psychological and spiritual

Personal Transformation Approach 

    • Enneagram (Russ Hudson: Enneagram as a bridge between psychology and spirituality … helping people to liberate from the box they are in due to being asleep to their true nature)

    • Shadow work

    • Attachment Theory

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