About IAN international
International collaboration is at the heart of what we do. We continue to expand our international network of IAN chapters, and now have an active presence in twenty-two countries across four continents. Under the banner of IAN our international colleagues research and publish on attachment theory, train psychological clinicians and allied professions in its latest developments, inform the public on the benefits and application of attachment theory, and develop and implement new attachment theory treatment initiatives including psychotherapy, interventions in mental health, mental health promotion, education, and interventions with communities, families and parents. IAN’s international initiatives take the form of courses, conferences, study groups and research projects, and include collaboration with independent clinical, academic and professional institutions, at both a national and transnational level.
International Member Focus
IAN Mexico’s Dr Vanessa Nahoul Serio interviews IAN United States’ Dr Howard Steele on his latest publication: ‘COVID-19, Fear and the Future: an attachment perspective’. Clinical Neuropsychiatry (2020) 17, 2, 97-99
‘Covid-19, Help the Helper’ IAN UK, IAN Mexico and IAN China train China’s Covid-19 Support Workers
In response to the Covid-19 crisis in China, IAN Executive Committee members Mario Marrone, Roxana Para, Nicola Diamond and Christian Herreman ran a series of workshops to support the crisis team led by Xiao Bin, the Director of the Mental Health Education Centre in the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, (UCAS) and Chairman of IAN China. This was organized as a response to their plea for support and urgent need to manage their schools’ psychological assistance program. Their centre at UCAS established a remote psychological service to serve nearly 50,000 people, including all the teachers, students and staff. The seminars delivered by the International Attachment Network aimed to assist the volunteers’ crisis support roles.
IAN UK in its Spain workshop series brings together trauma clinicians to learn about Attachment, Trauma and the Emotional Regulation Techniques of yoga and cyclical meditation.
In spring/summer of this year IAN UK’s Mario Marrone (psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and group therapist, co-founder and former Chairman of the IAN – UK) and Carolina Frontini (psychologist and yoga instructor, member of the Executive Committee of the IAN – UK) held workshops in Elche and Valencia, Spain on the Attachment Adult Interview, trauma and emotional regulation.
The courses integrated theory, experiential practices and group discussion and combined the basic principles of attachment theory, relational trauma, neuroscience, the Attachment Adult Interview (AAI) and the practices of yoga and meditation.
The attendees, clinical psychologists trained in EMDR, trauma therapy and dissociation, and who work with patients who suffer from trauma, shared professional and personal experience and discussed clinical cases and how body-based interventions for trauma can complement verbal psychotherapy.
Using the AAI questionnaire they explored together how their early experiences with both parents, specifically around rejection may have affected the development of their personality and their capacity for emotional regulation. Then focusing on the emotions this exercise may have elicited, in the latter half of the workshops participants experienced practically in a teacher led session, how the techniques of Cyclic Meditation (CM) technique and Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TC-TSY) encourage emotional regulation. Cyclic Meditation is a moving meditation which stimulates the body and mind using relaxation and calming techniques. It is designed to reduce psycho-physiological arousal and promote emotional self-regulation. Whereas the Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga focuses on bottom-up processing of experience. With an emphasis on movement, breath and bodily sensations it helps manage affective arousal by raising the practitioner’s awareness of their internal states thus improving interoception function, essential in trauma-focused psychotherapy.
Both the participants and facilitators reported that they enjoyed and found clinically relevant the creative in vivo experimentation, and that was an inspiring learning experience for the growing practice of integrating body and mind approaches.
If your organisation is interested in hosting one of this series of IAN Workshops, please get in touch with us.
Our Locations
IAN Colombia
Zuleima León Valle (Chair)
(Local Chapters in Bogota, Medellin & Santa Marta)
IAN Canada
Prof. Marlene Moretti (Representative)
Contact: moretti@sfu.ca
IAN Chile
Christian Thomas (Chair)
Contact: cthomas@cesch.cl
IAN Mexico
Christian Herreman (ILC Representative)
(Local Chapters in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey & Chiapas) Facebook
IAN Portugal
Isabel Soares (ILC Representative)
Contact: isoares@psi.uminho.pt
IAN UK
Roxana Parra (Chair)
Contact: roxanatherapy@gmail.com
(Local Chapter in Manchester)
IAN UK (North)
Jonathan Lloyd (Chair)
Contact: calmminds@gmail.com
IAN United States
Dr Howard Steele (Representative)
Contact: steeleh@newschool.edu
Interested in establishing an IAN Chapter for your country?
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International Liaison Committee
ILC CHAIR
Mario Marrone (UK)
ARGENTINA
Chair & ILC Representative: Elsa Wolfberg
BRAZIL
ILC Representative: Valeria Tinoco
CANADA
ILC Representative: Marlene Moretti
CHILE
ILC Representative: Christian Thomas
COLOMBIA
ILC Representative: Victoria Eusse
CUBA
ILC Representative: Joviana Castro Valiente
CHINA
ILC Representative: Zhang Zhiyong
ECUADOR
Chair & ILC Representative: María Eugenia Ochoa
ESPANA
ILC Representative: Juan José Martínez
GREECE – Ελλάδα
ILC Representative:Μαργαρίτα Μωραΐτου (Margarita Moraitou)
GUATEMALA
Chair & ILC Representative: Ileana Páez
ITALY
Chair & ILC Representative Fabio Monticelli
MEXICO
ILC Representative: Christian Herreman
PAKISTAN
ILC Representative: Kashaf Sheikh
PANAMÁ
Chair & ILC Representative: Lizzi Brostella
PARAGUAY
ILC Representative: Franca Lacarrubba
PORTUGAL
ILC Representative Isabel Soares
NETHERLANDS
ILC Representative: Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
UK
Chair & ILC Representative: Roxana Parra
USA
ILC Representative: Howard Steele
URUGUAY
Chair & ILC Representative Santiago Cabano
Additional ILC Representatives
Álvaro Pallamares (Fundación América para la Infancia)
Mauricio Cortina (USA)
PLAN
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Price
Price for 1 minute
Journal of Attachment and Human Development
£35
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