IAT Foundations – IAT Institute

Course Instructors

David Elliott Co-Founder of Integrative Attachment Therapy

Traill Dowie Co-Founder of Integrative Attachment Therapy

Start Here: Welcome to IAT Foundations

0.1 Welcome to IAT Foundations

0.2 How to Use This Self-Paced Course

Module 1: Understanding Attachment — From Survival to Security

1.1 Attachment: An Innate System for Protection and Connection

1.2 The Secure Base and the Drive to Explore

1.3 From Relationship to the Developing Self

1.4 Stability, Change, and Why Attachment Matters Clinically

1.5 Attachment and Trauma Treatment

1.6 Bowlby, Ainsworth, and the Foundations IAT Builds On

1.7 Attachment Across Society, Culture, and Context

1.8 Recognising Secure Attachment in Adults

1.9 The Five Conditions That Promote Secure Attachment

1.10 The Four-Pattern Map

1.11 Dismissing or Avoidant Attachment

1.12 Anxious or Preoccupied Attachment

1.13 Disorganised or Fearful Attachment

1.14 Good-Enough Parenting and Your Attachment Inquiry

1.15 Further Exploration: Participant Questions on Earned Security and Scope

Module 2: The Three Pillars of Integrative Attachment Therapy

2.1 The Three Pillars and Relational Collaboration

2.2 Metacognition and Mentalizing

2.3 From Attachment-Informed Therapy to Co-Created Secure Experience

2.4 The Developmental Architecture of Mind

2.5 The Three Pillars as an Integrated Stance — From Scales to Jazz

2.6 Practitioner Perspectives

2.7 Individual Inquiry: From Secure Relationships to a More Securely Attached World

2.8 Further Exploration: Participant Questions on Internal Working Models, Security and Avoidant Defences

Module 3: Seeing the Three Pillars in Practice

3.1 How to Watch: Deliberate Practice and the Integrated Pillars

3.2 Demonstration: Relational Collaboration

3.3 Debrief: Curiosity, Shared Framing, and Rupture Readiness

3.4 Demonstration and Debrief: Metacognition in Practice

3.5 Preparing for the Integrated IPF Demonstration

3.6 Integrated Demonstration: An Ideal Parent Figure Experience

3.7 Integrating the Experience: Between-Session Availability and Participant Reflection

3.8 The “Secret Sauce”: Curiosity, Presence, and Attunement

3.9 The Three-Pillar Stance: The Art of Practice

3.10 Individual Inquiry: Tracking the Pillars and Registers

3.11 Further Exploration: Participant Questions from the Demonstrations

Module 4: From Individual Repair to a More Securely Attached World

4.1 From Transmission to Transformation: Attachment Across Generations and Society

4.2 The Ethical Stance: Fit the Method to the Person

4.3 Development Resumes: Hope and Transformation Across Generations

4.4 Clinical Story: Meeting the Person Where They Are

4.5 Clinical Story: Following What the Moment Requires

4.6 Individual Inquiry: What Are You Taking Forward?

4.7 Learner Reflections: Curiosity, Compassion, Joy, and Practice

4.8 What Foundations Does—and Does Not—Prepare You to Do

4.9 Founders’ Closing: Towards a More Securely Attached World