ATTACHING TO GOD Learning Cohort
Quieting our ANXIOUS JUNGLES and AVOIDANT DESERTS
by building a SECURE Attachment to God and others.
A one-of-a-kind, 6-Week Learning Cohort—
New Cohort Forming in January 2025.
Live meeting calls on Thursdays at 4pm (Eastern), beginning Jan. 23rd.
Join January Cohort NowFeeling stuck connecting with God?
Why do
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some of us avoid talking to God?
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others of us pray streams of consciousness?
Why do
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some of us need to feel connected to God?
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others of us just think about God?Â
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Why do spiritual disciplines and community
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sometimes really help us connect?
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other times seem to be dry and lifeless?
It's because our Insecure Attachment pushes us to live in the JUNGLE or DESERT.
With God and others...
Do you feel ALONE or ABANDONED, like God is silent and people don't understand you?​
Why do you feel like NOTHING WILL CHANGE, that practically speaking, you don't really have any hope?​
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Why do you feel that life is OUT OF CONTROL, that you don't have any power to move forward?
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It's because sin has distorted your Attachment DEFAULTS.
A one-of-a-kind, 6-Week Learning Cohort—
New Cohort Forming in Nov. 2024.
Live meeting calls on Thursdays at 4pm (Eastern), beginning Jan. 23rd.
Join January Cohort NowJungle Attachment Survival Kit
- Non-Verbal Focus on Bodies and Emotions
- Relational Radar ("This is NEW")
- When in conflict, "I am the problem."
- When in distress, "I need my people."
Result: You connect with God through your heart, and sometimes God feels near, often feels far.
Desert Attachment Survival Kit
- Verbal Focus on Language and Logic
- Rulebook of patterns ("I know this already.)
- When in conflict, “They are the problem”.
- When distressed, “I do it myself” ... alone.
Result: You sometimes connect with God throughyour head...sometimes not.
War Zone Attachment Survival Strategy
In this ALL NEW SECTION, we talk about disordered attachment and how it mixes and matches aspects from the Desert and the Jungle.Â
Result: You have attach and defend parts that war inside you and outside.
But the Good Shepherd Invites us into the Pasture...
- Where we integrate verbal and non-verbal aspects of connecting with God & others.
- Where we can integrate the emotive and cognitive information around us.
- Where we can be available for others and exercise our own agency.
- Where we can know and feel loved, and offer that love to others.Â
The Attaching to God Learning Cohort will help you live in the pasture of secure attachment.
Join the 6-week Attaching to God Learning Cohort. New Cohort Begins Jan. 23rd 2025.
Join January Cohort Now
What People Are Saying
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Jeff (Pastor), OH
"These are some of the best tools available for starting a formational healing journey. I would recommend this cohort to everybody!"
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Ginger, CA
"Learning about attachment in the context of Scripture is extremely important to me, and it builds an understanding of grace."
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Steve (Pastor), KS
"Cyd and Geoff bring neuroscience into discipleship in a way that is easy to grasp, giving the church tools to heal and grow."
Cohort Overview
Week 1: The One Desire
How God made us for the good pasture of secure attachment and joyful connection.               Â
Week 2: The Two Dimensions
The dimensions of intimacy and independence and the process of relational rupture and repair.
Week 3: The Three Defaults
How our early relationships end up becoming embedded in our nervous systems as default answers to three key questions.
Week 4: The Four Landscapes
How our embedded defaults keep us living in the Jungle, Desert, War Zone, or Pasture.
Week 5: Securing Attachment in an Insecure World
Following the Good Shepherd out of the Jungle and Desert into the Secure Attachment of the Pasture
Week 6: Practicing Secure Attachment
Practices for deepening your Secure Attachment with God and learning to love others.
Who Are We?
Moving forward from their own DEEP WOUNDS and DISCONNECTED PATTERNS, Geoff and Cyd Holsclaw began learning about how our minds, memories, and bodies can keep us trapped in the past and fearful about the future—in our relationships and spirituality.
- Both Geoff and Cyd have been in pastoral ministry for over 20 years.
- Co-authors of Landscapes of the Soul: How the Science and Spirituality of Attachment Can Move You into Confident Faith, Courage, and Connection and Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to be With Us.
- Co-hosts of the Attaching to God podcast, on neuroscience and spiritual formation.
Integrative Coach and Pastor
Cyd Holsclaw (PCC)
Cyd Holsclaw is an author, spiritual director, and pastor. She is also a trauma-informed, Jesus-centered, professional certified coach focused on embodied practices and building a secure attachment to God.
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Trauma-informed training through The Power of Embodied Transformation and The Neuroscience of Coaching.
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Visiting Professor and Pastor
Geoff Holsclaw (PhD)
Dr. Geoff Holsclaw is an author of multiple books, is a visiting professor of theology at Western Theological Seminary, and co-founder of the Center for Embodied Faith.
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Trauma-informed training through the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate.
What Comes with the Attaching to God Learning Cohort?
All for only $227
Join the Waitlist for the January Cohort
#1 / Six Weeks of Recorded Videos
- 2-3 teaching videos and 1 practice video by Cyd and Geoff covering the content for that week.
#2 / Six Weekly LIVE Meetings
- 60-minute Live meetings to integrate and practice what was taught for that week.
- SCHEDULE:Â Jan. 23, Jan. 30, Feb. 6, Feb. 13, Feb. 20, Feb. 27.
And if you miss the LIVE meetings, we will send you the recording!!!
#3 / Bonus Materials
- Neurobiology of Rupture and Repair — ebook
- Praying to the One Who Repairs Ruptures — prayer guide on the Lord's Prayer
- The Brain God Gave Us — ebook
- Transcripts for all the videos
- All teaching outlines
- All teaching slides.
A one-of-a-kind, 6-Week Learning Cohort—
New Cohort Begins Jan. 23rd, 2025.
Live meeting calls on Thursdays at 4pm (Eastern), beginning Jan. 23rd.
Join January Cohort Now
