Sample the IPFP Meditation

Try an Ideal Parent Figure Meditation

During this IPF guided meditation with Camille Pack, you’ll be invited to relax deeply and imagine yourself as a young child having experiences with parent figures, who are ideal to your nature and needs.
 

Please note, this meditation is missing the conversational structure of IPF meditation—where you share your experience and the facilitator helps brighten and amplify what unfolds. So think of it as a little boost for your journey—not a replacement for the full 3 Pillars Method or IPF Protocol. 

Getting the flavor of IPF meditation can be great, but it’s no substitute for real-life connection.

 
And pay attention. If this meditation brings up difficult feelings, it’s important to hit pause and consider seeking support before a re-attempt. This is not the space to “feel all your feelings” because we know trauma processing is contraindicated with disorganized attachment.
 
While IPF Meditation is experienced best in a relational field full of emotional safety and attuned real-time support, we hope this offering brings some level of soothing support to your day.

The Three Pillars Model

Comprehensive education on the model that heals anxious-proccupied, dismissing, and disorganized attachment is available within the 2016 textbook by Daniel P. Brown and David S. Elliott, Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair (752 pages)

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IPFP Meditation

Imagine feeling yourself as a young child and engaging with ideal parent figures (IPFs) who are securely attached.

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Metacognition

Enhance Metacognition and Mentalizing. (Similar to Mindfulness Meditation.) 

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Collaboration

Focus on collaborative verbal and non-verbal communication to promote secure attachment.

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Ideal Parent Figure Protocol (IPFP) Meditation Outcomes

More Effective

Therapeutic models are considered effective when they have a treatment effect size of 0.8. The treatment effect size of IPF guided-meditation is 6.23 (Cohen).

Avoids Trauma Processing

The 3 Pillars Model sometimes resolves trauma without processing it — a gift because “trauma processing” can re-traumatize those with disorganized attachment.

Resolves Insecurity

Along with supporting a move into secure attachment (as measured by the AAI), the model can be used prior to trauma processing to resolve attachment insecurity.

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