Places of Safety: Talk and Q&A with Alix Hearn

I’m delighted to be hosting an online conversation with psychotherapist, ecopsychotherapist and author Alix Hearn to celebrate the release of her new book, Places of Safety: How Attachment Shapes Our Parenting.

The event takes place online on 8th June at 7pm, and will be a discussion about attachment, parenting, emotional wellbeing, and the wider systems that shape the way we relate to ourselves and to each other.

What drew me to Alix’s work is the way that she writes about attachment not simply as something that exists between parent and child in isolation, but as something shaped by relationships, environments, communities, and culture. While also acknowledging the realities and pressures that families are living within.

As therapists, we often think about attachment through the lens of early relationships and internal working models. But attachment also lives in the wider context around us. The support we do or don’t receive. The environments we live in. The ways that safety, stress, connection and disconnection are experienced across generations.

I think this conversation will resonate with therapists, parents, educators, and anyone interested in understanding relationships and emotional wellbeing more deeply.

Alix has worked for over fourteen years with children, young people and families across schools, CAMHS, trauma and adoption services, residential settings, and private practice. Her work brings together perspectives from attachment theory, child development, systemic thinking and ecology.

The event is free to attend and will include a live Q&A, along with a CPD certificate and reflection pack for those who request one when signing up.

If you’d like to join us, you can book your place here.

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