Advanced Workshop: Fawn, Developmental Stages & Attachment
July 11–12, 2026 | London, UK & Online
This 2-day advanced workshop explores fawn responses, attachment patterns, and developmental stages through a trauma-informed, embodied lens. Designed for practitioners seeking deeper understanding and integration.
Building on the Foundation
Last year's Fawn & Appeasement Workshop brought together 16 participants in a day of embodied exploration (Part One). The response was overwhelming — nearly every participant expressed a deep desire to go further. They wanted to understand not just how appeasement arises, but why — tracing these patterns back to their earliest roots in attachment and developmental experience.
This two-day workshop answers that call. By weaving together attachment theory, Erik Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development, and the body's somatic intelligence, we go deeper into the formative architecture beneath fawn and appeasement responses — and discover more spacious pathways toward authentic expression and relational freedom.
About This Workshop
The Appeasement & Fawn Responses Workshop is a two-day experiential exploration into one of the least recognised yet most pervasive trauma responses. While fight, flight, and freeze are well-known, appeasement and fawning operate in more subtle ways — arising when the nervous system seeks safety through connection and compliance.
From a neurobiological perspective, these are not character flaws. They are intelligent, adaptive responses that once ensured survival. When they persist into daily life, however, they can limit authenticity, vitality, and emotional freedom. This Part Two workshop deepens that understanding by exploring the developmental roots of these patterns — asking: when did the body first learn that compliance meant safety?
What You Will Explore
Attachment & the Nervous System
Secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganised, and enmeshed attachment patterns — how each shapes the body's default survival strategies and the fawn response.
Erikson's 8 Developmental Stages
How each psychosocial stage either supports or challenges our capacity for authentic self-expression, and where fawn/appeasement becomes encoded.
Somatic Patterns & Embodiment
Where these patterns live in the body — breath, posture, voice, and muscle tone — and how to work with them through TRE® and somatic practice.
In depth, you will explore:
The neurobiology of appeasement and fawning
How these responses develop through attachment and early safety cues
Erikson's eight psychosocial stages and their intersection with attachment patterns
Enmeshment as the 'other side' of anxious attachment — the merging reflex
Trust, shame, guilt, and other core emotional threads through the developmental arc
The somatic patterns that sustain fawn responses — in breath, posture, voice, and muscle tone
Where in the body these patterns are held — from gut and belly to heart, throat, and pelvis
Ways to reconnect with authentic expression while maintaining inner safety
Practices to restore balance, coherence, and choice in your relationships and daily life
Who This Workshop Is For
Participants from the 2025 Fawn & Appeasement Workshop wishing to go deeper
Therapists, counsellors, coaches, and trauma-informed practitioners
TRE® providers and somatic facilitators
Individuals interested in deepening self-understanding and body awareness
Anyone curious about the intersection of attachment, development, and the body
No previous TRE® experience is required — only curiosity and openness to explore. Numbers are limited to ensure intimacy and quality of experience.
Format, Investment & Booking
Date
Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 July 2026
Time
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM both days
Location
Centre 151, Hackney, London, E2 8GU
Investment
£280 Early Bird (before 1 June 2026) | £320 after 1 June 2026
How to Secure Your Place
Payment is required to confirm your place. Numbers are capped to preserve intimacy and depth of experience. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Why It Matters
Appeasement and fawning are often misunderstood — seen as personality traits rather than survival responses. But when the body learns to equate love with safety and compliance with belonging, self-expression becomes a risk.
These patterns are not failures of character. They are the nervous system's intelligent adaptations to the environments in which we grew. Understanding their developmental roots allows us to meet them with compassion rather than criticism, and to discover the authentic expression that has always been waiting beneath.
This workshop offers a space to understand, feel, and integrate these deep patterns — bringing your body back to authentic coherence.