DARe Live Level 1: Fundamentals of Attachment Styles

Deepen your understanding of attachment system dynamics and learn how unresolved trauma can shape the patterns that interfere with connection and intimacy in adult relationships. This foundational training offers practical ways to recognize those patterns and support meaningful change for both yourself and your clients.

Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training

DARe Live Level 1

Fundamentals of Attachment Styles

This introductory training in the Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience (DARe) series explores the core attachment styles and the roots of early attachment wounds. You’ll gain a clear framework for understanding how secure functioning develops, where it can be disrupted, and how healing becomes possible.

Whether you join in person or online, the training blends somatic, relational, and experiential learning to help you understand how early attachment patterns continue to influence adult relationships. The course is designed to strengthen resilience, restore secure attachment, and support the healing of developmental wounds.

By working with attachment patterns at their source, you’ll build skills that can help foster greater joy, meaning, intimacy, and connection in both personal and professional settings.

What You’ll Learn

• How to identify Secure, Avoidant, Ambivalent, and Disorganized attachment adaptations
• Somatic and experiential approaches that support regulation and secure connection
• How over-coupling dynamics in early family-of-origin patterns can affect adult behavior and relationships
• How to create and facilitate corrective experiences for early attachment wounds
• Tools for developing presence, attunement, and relational safety in your work
• A framework for integrating embodiment and neurobiological awareness in clinical practice

Live DARe trainings offer a rare opportunity to experience this work in person, guided by experienced facilitator Dr. Liz George. Set in the peaceful surroundings of Sunrise Ranch, Colorado, the gathering provides an ideal environment for reflection, restorative practice, and community connection. Attendance is limited.

For virtual participants, the live online format includes full access to training sessions, demonstrations, and Q&A through an interactive platform. You’ll also have the option to learn more about DARe Online Workshops or the DARe Certificate Program.

This training is co-taught by Kristin Burns.

Kristin Burns, LCSW, SEP

Kristin Burns, LCSW, SEP is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and DARe Lead Assistant with more than 30 years of experience integrating Eastern and Western healing traditions. Her work brings together somatic, relational, and spiritual approaches to support wholeness, regulation, and secure connection. Kristin specializes in developmental and pre-/perinatal trauma, grief transformation, and embodied movement practices. A longtime yoga teacher and facilitator, she is committed to making somatic and attachment-informed work accessible to all. She brings grounded presence, compassion, and deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom to every learning space.

Virtual Attendance—Streaming Live Online

Join DARe 1: Fundamentals of Attachment Styles from anywhere in the world through the live, interactive online platform.

The virtual format gives you the full training experience, including live-streamed lectures, demonstrations, Q&A sessions, and small-group integration, without the need to travel. Learn directly from Dr. Liz George and Kristin Burns, LCSW, while exploring how early attachment patterns shape adult relationships and how somatic and relational repair can support secure connection.

Online participants will:

• Attend all live lectures, demonstrations, and Q&A sessions in real time
• Join facilitated breakout groups for reflection and experiential learning
• Receive digital course materials and post-session replays for continued study
• Qualify for up to 12 CE credit hours
• Connect with a supportive community of learners around the world

The online experience preserves DARe’s signature sense of safety and connection, with opportunities to witness live demonstrations and take part in guided exercises from your own environment.

The virtual training runs May 15–18, 2026, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm MT.

In-Person Experience

This year, the training also comes alive in person, offering the same restorative, experiential energy in a setting designed to support embodiment, integration, and connection.

The in-person DARe 1 training takes place at Sunrise Ranch, a serene retreat center in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near Loveland, Colorado. Surrounded by open sky, gardens, and walking trails, participants will spend five days in community, balancing rich educational content with grounding practices, group exercises, and time for reflection.

In person, you’ll enjoy:

• Morning embodiment and movement practices with Kristin Burns
• Live lectures and demonstrations with Dr. Liz George
• Small-group practice sessions and daily resource groups
• Nutritious, locally sourced meals prepared by the Sunrise Ranch culinary team
• Optional evening experiences, including SoulCollage®, a fire-circle gathering (weather permitting), and quiet time in nature
• Shared or private lodging with access to trails, gardens, labyrinth, hot tub, sauna, and contemplative outdoor spaces

Each day combines teaching, somatic exploration, and guided connection, supporting both professional development and personal restoration. Meals and accommodations are provided on site, and participants must stay on-site for the full training to support safety, regulation, and group cohesion.

Accommodation and travel reservations are separate from registration and must be booked directly through Sunrise Ranch. In-person attendance is limited to 50 participants. Check-in begins the afternoon of May 14, 2026, with a group introduction session that evening. The training concludes the evening of May 18, 2026, and participants may extend their stay subject to availability.

Sunrise Ranch

More than a training, this experience is designed to nourish body, mind, and spirit.

Located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Sunrise Ranch is a working farm and intentional community committed to renewal, sustainability, and holistic living. It offers a beautiful setting for deep learning, rest, reflection, and connection.

In-person participants will experience DARe as a living community, including morning embodied movement practices with Kristin Burns to support nervous-system regulation, grounding, and presence. You’ll also have the opportunity to join an evening SoulCollage® experience or simply explore the grounds.

Farm-to-Table Cuisine

Rooted in freshness, nourishment, and sustainability, Sunrise Ranch serves three farm-to-table meals each day. Many ingredients come directly from on-site gardens or nearby farms, creating vibrant, seasonal, nutrient-rich meals.

The kitchen offers vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and high-quality grass-fed meat options, all prepared with care and intention.

Accommodations and Amenities

Your lodging is designed to support a personal retreat experience.

• Comfortable private or shared rooms with cozy furnishings
• Three organic meals per day featuring local, seasonal ingredients
• Unlimited tea and coffee throughout the day
• Access to the sauna, hot tub, hiking trails, and contemplative garden spaces

Learning Objectives

• Explain three qualities of the secure attachment caregiver style
• Identify three parenting behaviors that may contribute to avoidant attachment adaptation
• Describe at least two characteristics of avoidant attachment adaptation
• Identify three parenting behaviors that may contribute to anxious/ambivalent attachment adaptation
• Describe at least two characteristics of anxious/ambivalent attachment adaptation
• Identify three parenting behaviors that may contribute to disorganized attachment adaptation
• Describe at least two characteristics of disorganized attachment adaptation
• Write one clinical corrective experience that may help a client return to secure attachment
• Describe how prosody can communicate comfort and safety versus threat
• Explain the importance of Stephen Porges’ theory of the Social Engagement system and threat extinction
• Use a client’s Attachment Questionnaire results to evaluate their predominant attachment style
• Identify two key areas that need to be tracked simultaneously when tracking an attachment wound
• Describe how attachment adaptations and patterns can shift across situations and relationships
• Name at least three ways to resource secure attachment for yourself and/or clients

Continuing Education (CE) Credit Option

Licensed mental health professionals may be able to purchase 10 CE credit hours for an additional fee of $89.

Course Level: Beginning to Advanced Practice Professionals

Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers, and Other Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Continuing Education credit is approved for:

• Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors
• Licensed Clinical Social Workers

CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA), the sponsoring organization for this program. SCA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists and maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by APA-approved CE sponsors.

LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, as well as professionals outside California, should check with their state licensing board regarding acceptance of credits from APA-approved CE sponsors.

SCA is also approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.

Who Is This For?

• Therapists, social workers, and counselors who want to learn the basics of attachment theory and the four attachment adaptations
• Beginning to advanced clinicians who want to understand attachment system dynamics and apply attachment-focused interventions
• Practitioners trained in SE, EMDR, IFS, or CBT who want to integrate attachment theory with somatic and nervous system–based work
• Clinicians who notice recurring patterns of withdrawal, anxiety, or ambivalence and want to trace them to early bonding experiences
• Therapists who want to move clients beyond insight into embodied experiences of safety, trust, and connection
• Professionals working with individuals or couples facing fear of closeness, emotional dependence, or difficulty sustaining intimacy
• Early-career therapists and interns seeking step-by-step methods, demonstrations, and client-friendly language
• Seasoned practitioners refining their ability to identify and transform developmental adaptations rooted in early neglect, inconsistency, or misattunement
• Educators, supervisors, and group facilitators looking for accessible models and experiential exercises
• Body-oriented or mindfulness-based practitioners expanding their understanding of how somatic regulation supports attachment healing
• Anyone committed to trauma-informed, attachment-based work

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