Healing Shame Core Workshop:
Understanding, Reducing and Transforming Shame


Shame is perhaps the most painful of all emotions. It is at the root of both the inner critic and perfectionism. It binds with other emotions, such as anger and fear, so that is often hard to detect. Also, revealing shame can be in itself shameful. For many clients who don’t get better in therapy, shame — unacknowledged and not worked through — is the primary factor.

In this workshop, you will learn how to help your clients recognize shame, work through it and move on.

You will learn:

  • To become more sensitive to the shaming often implicit in the therapy situation and how to counter shame in therapy.

  • How to help clients separate feelings of shame from other emotions.

  • Strategies to get though shame defenses of over-verbalization, dissociation and freezing.

  • The differences between healthy shame and toxic shame.

  • How to help clients out of the shame morass so they can move their energy powerfully outward rather than turn it against themselves. 

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify the major characteristics of shame.

  • Describe the differences between shame and other primary emotions.  

  • Compare the four basic reactions to shame and the characteristics of each reaction.  

  • Apply techniques to counter feelings of shame.  

  • Design strategies to get though shame defenses of over-verbalization, dissociation and freezing.

  • Utilize four realms of human experience—cognitive, somatic-emotional, imaginal and interpersonal.

  • Create optimal distance from shame.

  • Analyze the differences between healthy shame and toxic shame.

Course Level: Beginning

There is no prerequisite for this course. It can be taken by itself or as part of a sequence.

CE credits are available only for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in California – CAMFT Approved CE Provider #134393

This workshop is offered in the following formats:

  • Live, interactive workshop on Zoom

  • Recorded workshop available for purchase — click here for information.

 
“I highly recommend this workshop to EVERY therapist.
Bret and Sheila are brilliant together—well-grounded in research, hugely compassionate
and safe, and AMAZING....”
— Belle Hazlehurst, RN, MFT, San Diego
“All therapists should attend your workshop.
Truly—it was invaluable. Incredibly rich and unforgettable. It has already changed my practice.”
— Sara Wicks, LCSW, NYC

The Center for Healing Shame is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in California – CAMFT-approved CE provider #134393. Courses meet the qualifications for 13 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. 

The Center for Healing Shame maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

WORKSHOP CANCELLATION POLICY

We do not offer refunds. The amount paid can be applied toward a future workshop within 12 months. Registrations are not transferable.

ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE DIFFERENTLY ABLED

The Center for Healing Shame welcomes people who have disabilities. Our training location is wheelchair accessible. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.

GRIEVANCE POLICY

The Center for Healing Shame seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner.

If you have a grievance, please include your name and contact information and submit it in writing to Sheila Rubin (sheila@healingshame.com).

Grievances will receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.