Date: January 29th, 2027
Secure Enough: War, Displacement, and a Wider Template for Secure Attachment
I will be offering a 1-hour webinar that looks at how war, forced displacement, and structural-isms, including colonialism, racism, and economic pressure, shape a person’s felt sense of safety, across one lifetime and across generations.
What does “secure enough” attachment mean for a client whose family is from a collectivistic or indigenous culture that was scattered by war?
Attachment theory grew up studying white, Western, nuclear families. It hands a few early caregivers the whole weight of a person’s security.
Then it gets applied to families from collectivistic and indigenous cultures who survived war, genocide, and forced displacement, and their survival adaptations end up in the chart as pathology: the parent who can’t rest, the child who learned to read every room, the adult client who over-functions or under-functions and can’t say why. Some of what these clients carry is grief our training has no name for. Ambiguous loss. Traumatic homesickness. Ancestral grief for a country that carried on without them.
This webinar is free to attend, with the option to purchase Continuing Education (CE) credits for APA, ASWB, NBCC, and NYS for an additional $15.
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