Exploring attachment styles

Exploring attachment styles

A 4-session workshop to help you understand yourself and others better in relationships — whether romantic, family, or friendships. Through guided reflection and practice, you’ll learn how to express needs clearly, handle conflict with care, and build more emotionally balanced, fulfilling connections.

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  • Anyone Wanting to Improve Relationship Skills

    For people looking to communicate better, set boundaries, and deepen connection in any type of relationship.

  • Those Struggling with Conflict or Misunderstanding

    If arguments escalate easily, or you often feel unseen or unheard, this space helps you learn practical tools to change those patterns.

  • Individuals Exploring Emotional Intimacy and Balance

    Ideal for those who want to feel close without losing themselves - learning interdependence, not dependence.

  • People Seeking Healthy Relationship Models

    For anyone reflecting on their past relationships or family patterns and wanting to build something more intentional and emotionally mature.

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Goals of the group

• Understand your relationship patterns and attachment style.
• Identify emotional needs and values that shape your connections.
• Learn what safety, trust, and fulfillment mean for you.
• Strengthen your communication and conflict resolution skills.
• Set and maintain healthy emotional, physical, and digital boundaries.
• Balance individuality and togetherness in relationships.
• Practice empathy, vulnerability, and active listening.
• Learn repair strategies for when disconnection or hurt happens.
• Build confidence in showing up authentically in relationships.

Glimpse of the regime

Week 1 : How Did You Learn to Relate?

Understanding Attachment as Adaptation

Theme:
• Exploring how our earliest relationships shaped our expectations about connection, emotions, needs, and safety.

Psychoeducation
• What is attachment?
• The nervous system and relationships.
• Attachment patterns as adaptive responses.
• Secure, anxious, avoidant and disorganized attachment.

Experiential Inquiry
• Relational Timeline Exercise

Exploring:

• How was closeness experienced in my family?
• What happened when I was upset?
• How were emotions responded to?
• What did I learn about needing others?
• What helped me feel safe? What didn't?

Process Question
• "What is it like to begin relating to one another here?"

Between-Session Reflection
• "What do I notice about the ways I move toward people, and the ways I move away?"

Week 2 : The Ways We Protect: Understanding Attachment Strategies

Anxiety, Avoidance and Adaptation

Theme:
• Recognizing our patterns not as flaws, but as intelligent attempts to preserve connection and safety.

Psychoeducation
Understanding:
• Anxious attachment
• Avoidant attachment
• Disorganized attachment

Through the question:
• "What was this strategy trying to protect?"

Experiential Exercise
• Relationship Patterns Map

Exploring recurring themes:
• Fear of abandonment
• Fear of engulfment
• Hyper-independence
• People-pleasing
• Conflict avoidance
• Emotional withdrawal

Process Question
• "What do you notice happening inside you when you speak, listen, or remain silent in this group?"

Between-Session Reflection
• "What am I longing for underneath my reactions?"

Week 3 : The Longing Beneath the Protection

Needs, Vulnerability and Shame

Theme:
• Meeting the emotional needs and younger adaptations that live beneath our relational patterns.

Psychoeducation
• Core attachment needs.
• Shame and self-protection.
• The difference between needs and dependency.
• Emotional regulation and co-regulation.

Experiential Exercise
• Listening to the Younger Self

Inquiry:
• What did I need that I stopped asking for?
• Which parts of me learned to stay hidden?
• What felt unsafe to express?

Process Question
• "What happens inside when others truly see or understand you?"

Between-Session Reflection
• "Can I acknowledge my needs with kindness rather than judgment?"

Week 4 : Toward Secure Relating

Building an Inner and Relational Secure Base

Theme:
• Cultivating greater security through awareness, self-compassion, boundaries, and repair.

Psychoeducation
Secure attachment as:
• Flexibility rather than perfection.
• Dependence and autonomy in balance.
• Emotional honesty.
• Repair after rupture.
• Staying connected to oneself while remaining connected to others.

Experiential Exercise
• My Secure Relating Blueprint

Exploring:
• What helps me feel emotionally safe?
• What supports trust?
• What boundaries honour me?
• What kind of relationships do I wish to cultivate?

Closing Process Question
• "What have I discovered about the ways I relate, and what would I like to practice going forward?"

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Are Group sessions done on video?

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* Are FREE Peer calls available to everyone who signs-up for this group?

You can book 3 Peer calls for FREE as part of signing up for this group.

Please note: This is only available to first-time participants of a SoulUp group (those trying a SoulUp group for the first time).

How long has SoulUp been around?

SoulUp was founded in 2022 by Punita Mittal and Mahak Maheshwari - a team of IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay with more than 20 years of combined healthcare experience. SoulUp is redefining mental health through groups that are not only effective but also fun, social, and challenging.

More about Support Groups & Therapy Groups:

1. What is an online therapy or support group?

Online therapy groups or support groups are structured, therapist-led sessions where participants gather virtually to discuss and work on specific mental health or personal growth topics.

These groups offer a supportive environment and help members learn coping strategies and relevant techniques from the therapist. Participants offer each other encouragement, share advice, and provide emotional support, helping one another feel less isolated.

2. What benefits can I expect from joining an online therapy group or support group?

Participants in online therapy groups often experience improved mental health, a greater sense of connection, and enhanced coping skills. Group therapy provides structured guidance from a therapist, which can lead to valuable insights and personal growth.

3. How does online group therapy compare to one-on-one therapy?

One-on-one therapy is personalized, focusing solely on your needs, which can be ideal for in-depth, private work with a therapist.

Online group therapy, however, offers a sense of community and shared experience. In addition to learning from the therapist, members get to connect with others facing similar challenges. Group settings provide diverse perspectives and reduce isolation, which participants find valuable.

4. Are online groups effective?

Yes, studies show that online groups can be as effective as in-person groups. The online format provides convenience and accessibility while offering the same structured therapeutic benefits, especially for those who prefer the comfort of their home environment.

5. Will I have to share my personal journey in the group?

Sharing is encouraged but never forced. Participants are free to share only what they feel comfortable with, and many find that opening up gradually is natural and helpful for their own growth.

6. How do online therapy groups or support groups handle difficult emotions that arise?

The therapist leading the group is trained to manage challenging emotions. They provide tools and strategies for coping, helping participants process feelings safely.

7. Can I attend online therapy groups if I’m already in individual therapy?

Yes, many people find that group therapy superbly complements individual therapy, providing additional insights and social support, thus accelerating their healing. Also, users often join group therapy for a topic that they are not focusing on in their individual therapy sessions. Often, therapists themselves recommend their clients to group therapy for a specific area of their life.

8. How do I know if a support group is right for me?

If you’re looking for shared experiences and emotional support rather than structured therapeutic guidance, a support group may be ideal. Otherwise, consider a therapy group for a more structured approach.

You can also join more than one group if you feel it will benefit you, especially if each group focuses on a different aspect of your mental health journey.