Attachment Play with Vivian
A gentle, playful, deeply nourishing and healing path
✧ An 11‑week exploration into connection, play, and emotional healing
In this online course, I would love to take you on a journey. On this journey, we explore the 9 types of attachment play. Attachment play is a part of Aware Parenting created by Aletha Solter. This type of play offers deeply connecting and nourishing ways for children to experience being seen, safe, and supported.
It gives them a gentle - or wild, or silly - connecting space to freely express what lives inside of them. This helps them learn about themselves and the world, about human interactions, resolve daily frustrations and irritations, bring in more cooperation and joyful moments together, and process and heal from painful experiences - experiences that often lie underneath behaviours we find challenging to be with or to support in the most helpful way.
And woven through the entire journey is something that has been an important part of my own personal journey, and that I believe is profoundly powerful and healing as well: including your own inner experience, parts, and feelings in the connection and play with your child. So that you - your feelings, your parts - also experience being welcomed and included, exactly as you are and where you are at in that moment. This makes the journey nourishing and healing not only for your child, but also for you and all your inner parts. This is not something Aletha Solter writes about in her books, but it has been a very meaningful part of my own path.
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Together we open space for more connection, more ease, more joy, and more emotional release in everyday life - for yourself, and for your children.
A playful doorway into deeper connection and healing
✧ A transformative 11‑week exploration into connection, play, and your own inner world
This 11‑week journey is an informative, self‑discovering, and potentially deeply transformative experience that can open an entirely new world for you.
You will discover that everyone can do attachment play- truly everyone. And you may discover that you already offer your child moments of attachment play - many parents do this intuitively, without knowing that these moments are part of attachment play.
Even if you currently feel resistance or discomfort when you think about playing, you can discover the seed within you, care for it, and gently grow into this. This journey is personal, spacious, and filled with warm connection and individual support.
You are warmly invited to join if you want to deepen your understanding of attachment play - for your child and for yourself. You will be part of a small group of parents, with space for all your questions, your feelings, and your experiences.
Would you like to experience how attachment play can support your connection with yourself, your connection with your child, and your everyday life as a parent?
I would love to walk this journey with you and share everything I know - including my own experiences. It will be an informative journey, but also a very personal one.
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You will learn how to use play to help your child:
process painful experiences
prepare for upcoming events
release daily frustrations
elicit cooperation and teamwork
shift the energy in moments that can easily turn into unpleasant or painful dynamics for both of you
And how these moments can become connecting, playful, nourishing experiences - for your child and for you.
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You will also learn to:
become more aware of what is going on inside of yourself
include your inner world in a connecting, accepting, and healing way
welcome and include your own feelings and parts into play, and express and process them
be more real and authentic in your connection with yourself and your child
turn moments of reacting into moments of presence and connection
be more appreciative of who you are and all you already do
that you are welcome and enriching exactly as you are
become more confident in your connection with yourself and your child
I am with you in every step of this potentially life‑changing journey. I look forward to connecting with you and supporting you.
Who this journey is for
✧ Understanding the deeper layers of play
This journey is for parents who want to understand the deeper layers of play, and who want to bring more joy, connection, and healing into their home - and who want to understand how play can support emotional healing. This journey is also open to caregivers, grandparents, and anyone who supports a child and is drawn to this way of connecting.
✧ When behaviour is challenging for you
This journey is also for parents whose child shows behaviour they find challenging to be with, or when they don’t know how to support their child in a way that truly resonates - and who do not want to resort to rewards or punishments.
✧ When your own reactions are coming up
It is also for parents who struggle with their own behaviour and reactions - when you find yourself responding in ways you do not enjoy, more often than you would like.
✧ Honest and authentic connection
It is for parents who want to connect more honest and authentic with themselves and with their children.
✧ Including your inner world
Parents who want to become more aware of their inner world, and who want to learn how to include their own inner experiences, parts, and feelings into connection and play with their child - and who want to experience the deeply accepting and healing benefits this brings for themselves, their feelings, their parts, and the connection with their child. And who want to learn how including their inner world can make connection safer, more congruent, and more nourishing - for themselves and for their child.
✧ Staying congruent
It is for parents who want to keep offering a congruent message, even when they have uncomfortable feelings inside - in a playful and/or honest way.
✧ Inspiration and community
It is for parents who want to practice this aspect of Aware Parenting more, who want inspiration and ideas, and who love being part of a small community with the same intentions.
✧ New or experienced in Aware Parenting
It is for parents who are new to Aware Parenting and attachment play, and who want a gentle, spacious introduction - and for parents who already practice Aware Parenting and attachment play, but have the calling to deepen, embody another layer, or re-inspire this aspect of their connection with their child and with themselves.
✧ Reassurance and guidance
It is also for parents who need reassurance and guidance. Sometimes children bring certain themes, feelings, or experiences into play that can feel uncomfortable or may be unfamiliar for parents. Children often bring into play exactly what they need to process. You may not be sure how to meet, welcome, or include what your child is expressing or bringing into play - or whether it is “okay” or “appropriate.” In this journey, you will receive gentle reassurance that what your child brings into play is valid and meaningful, and you will learn how to welcome these moments in a way that feels connecting, and nourishing for both of you.
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If you sign up, you will receive a short questionnaire. Your answers will help me understand where you are in your journey and what you are needing most at the moment, so I can contribute to you in the most helpful way possible.
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I love this work, and I love Attachment Play - for our children and for ourselves - and I love supporting parents into a deeper, more nourishing connection with themselves and with their children.
Here for you if you want to join, and here for you too if you want to explore whether this journey resonates with you.
Practical details of this journey
This journey will be held in a private Facebook group, and places are limited. I love working with small groups of parents so I can offer the care, presence, and individual support I love to offer.
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You’ll receive:
weekly live interactive sessions
written information in the form of PDFs
inspiration and gentle ideas
listening space and empathy
spaciousness to ask all your questions
tune‑in moments in the form of Facebook lives
a caring group to share what is alive in you
personal guidance for your own challenging situations
personal guidance for including your inner world in play
voice‑message support (10 minutes a week)
the option to buy one‑on‑one sessions with a discount for extra support
practical examples, demonstrations, role play, and gentle guidance
recordings of all sessions
a PDF filled with play ideas
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Overview of the 11‑week journey
Week 1 - Introduction to Attachment Play
An introduction to Attachment Play - for your child, and for the kind of Attachment Play that gently includes your inner world and feelings
Understanding the foundations, the purpose, and the healing potential
Beginning to explore your own relationship with play
Weeks 2–10 - The 9 Types of Attachment Play
Each week we explore one of the 9 types of Attachment Play:
What it is
When to use it
How it supports emotional release, connection, and healing
Practical examples
How to include your own feelings, inner world, and personal experience in play
How this becomes nourishing for your child and for you
How play can transform daily frustrations, conflicts, and unpleasant or painful dynamics into connection and ease
Week 11 - Integration & Embodiment
What you are taking with you
How attachment play has unfolded in your everyday life
How your inner world has been included, welcomed, and transformed
Integration of everything you’ve learned, practiced, and discovered
Embodying attachment play more and more as a natural part of your parenting
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Payment
1 payment of €333, or
11 weekly payments of €33
I am offering this at a celebratory price, in honor of the opening of my website.
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Start date
We begin on October 1st and continue until December 17th. This means you will be so much more playfully resourced before the, for many, busy holiday times begin.
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I don’t know the exact time of the interactive live sessions yet. I would love to meet you at a time that meets your time zone, and I am willing to find days and times that work for everyone, so you can join at least half of the sessions live.
It is not possible to “fall behind” in this journey - everything is designed to meet you exactly where you are, and you can take all the time you need.
All sessions will be recorded and shared in the private Facebook group where this journey will be held.
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I chose 11 weeks because I love journeys where you can truly connect, learn, explore, share, process, discover, and practice together - and have someone by your side so that things can gently land and unfold for you.
This journey is not just an intellectual learning experience. It has the potential to be deeply transformative - something that becomes more and more embodied over time, something that slowly settles into your being and your everyday life.
If you have a yes to participating, you can join by clicking on the button below.
Why I offer this journey
My name is Vivian, I have been an Aware Parenting instructor for 10 years now, and earlier this year I became a Level Two Aware Parenting instructor. I love, and am deeply passionate about, this work. I also love attachment play, for our children and for ourselves, and I love supporting parents into a deeper, more nourishing connection with themselves and with their children. I also love hearing how these ideas unfold in the lives of parents I support.
When my son was very young, I began including my own inner world in our play - my feelings, my parts, my inner experiences. This made a huge difference for me: for my connection with myself, my parts, and my feelings, and for the connection with my son. It made our connection very real, authentic, nourishing, and healing for both of us.
My parts and feelings experienced that they were welcome too. I did not need to pretend they were not there or push them aside. I learned, and experienced, that I could include them. This helped me turn many moments into moments of connection that could have unfolded in a completely different way.
I also found that it made our connection more congruent. I began giving fewer mixed messages, which made the connection safer - for myself, and for my son. I believe children learn, in this way, that all feelings and inner experiences are part of being human. We do not need to be afraid of them, hide them, or pretend to be something we are not yet. They learn that it is safe to include their inner experiences and feelings in this way too.
I have supported many parents with play, and the reflections they come back with are so heartwarming. This is why I feel so passionate about sharing this with you.
If you would love to learn more about me, I invite you to take a look at my about me page.
If you would love to read experiences from parents who have trusted me on their journey, there are reflections on the home page, the working‑with‑me page, and some lovely words on the mentoring page.
A gentle side note
Of course, we do not always have it in us to be playful, or to include our inner world in a playful way. We all have unmet needs at times, painful feelings, or go through stressful phases. This is something I share about in this journey as well, and I share practical guidance for those moments too - the moments when play doesn’t seem available, when you are needing something different, or when you and your inner world need care before you can connect.
This is a natural part of parenting, and a natural part of being human.
You are warmly invited to contact me if you have any questions.
