healing early bonds

Developed by MADELEINE JABLONSKI

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Saturday 22nd August

1.00PM - 4.00PM — ONLINE COURSE

Join us for an intimate workshop exploring the Healing Early Bonds Protocol — a powerful, AIP-fuelled preverbal approach to healing attachment wounds and developmental trauma. Experience foundational shifts in your sense of self and an embodied knowing that you are deserving of love, safety, and care.

Origins of the Healing Early Bonds protocol

The protocol was developed mid session when a client struggled to bridge back further using AI-EMDR protocols. Drawing from ai-EMDR, somatic theory, Sandra Paulsen’s** pre-verbal protocols, and the client’s intuition, the target of looking into mum’s eyes as an infant was used. I asked her to imagine being in her mother's arms as a baby and notice what was there:

She could see the love in her mother's face, but felt heavy in her arms and as we processed, her mother's arms elongated until they reached the ground, yet never let go
Resource figures brought in for her mother allowed her to finally offer what the baby needed
Negative emotions concerning her father emerged so using the image of the father holding the baby, he was processed in the same way
Distress resolved completely, a positive belief was installed and the body scan was clear

When we returned to the original stuck target, it was processed.

That session became the foundation of the Healing Early Bonds Protocol.

Deepening the Work with Resource Therapy

Incorporating Gordon Emmerson's Resource Therapy (RT),*** deepened the protocol further using RT's Empowerment Protocol as an Extended Interweave.

RT is a parts-based therapy grounded in similar principles to Ecker's memory reconsolidation
Like EMDR, RT activates memories and uses Bridging to access young parts holding early experiences of fear and rejection
The Empowerment Protocol offers multiple moments of juxtaposition, reconsolidating and transforming early memories
Techniques include bridging, imagery rescripting, and chair work; helping parts understand they hold the power now, and that they were always lovable, even when carers couldn't offer unconditional love

Why This Works

We are working at the very foundations of attachment wounding — before protective parts have fully formed.
Although we rarely hold conscious memory from before the age of three, we were alive, and our bodies lived through every experience.
Because we are entering the experience at its origin point dissociative and numbing parts have not yet developed their survival strategies.
The body, instinct, and felt sense of early attachment still remember creating a rare opening to go to the source, and to heal the early bonds.

THE HEALING EARLY BONDS PROTOCOL IS AN EFFICIENT, AIP FUELLED PREVERBAL PROTOCOL for mending attachment wounds and developmental trauma in the infant stages of development.

It uses the imagined image of the participant as a baby being held by it’s caregivers as the target to be processed.

It goes to the heart of attachment wounding. When successfully processed, this target creates foundational change in a person's sense of self - an embodied knowing that they are deserving of love, safety, and care.

WHEN:

SATURDAY 22nd August

1.00PM — 4.00PM ONLINE COURSE

The Protocol

Indications for Use (Phase 1)

Unmet attachment needs likely present from birth
Maternal post-natal mental health challenges
Probable domestic violence exposure from birth
Parental absence during early developmental years

Preparation & Stabilisation (Phase 2)

Develop calm place and “healing place” for young parts
Build a resource team (nurturing, protective, wise figures)

Mother Visualisation Target (Phase 3)

Visualise self as a baby held by their mother
Notice:
- What do you see in your mother’s face?
- What do you feel in your body?
- What emotions are present?
- What do you believe about yourself?

BLS & Processing (Phase 4)