This recorded training workshop is carefully designed to teach therapists and other helping professionals how to help their clients recognize shame, work through it, and move on.

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 it 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.

The Healing Shame Core Workshop is the foundation of all of our other workshops. It is a prerequisite for the advanced workshops and is a requirement for becoming a Healing Shame Certified Practitioner. We have made a recording of the Core Workshop available to meet this prerequisite. You can now learn the core principles for healing shame in the comfort of your own home, with the flexibility to learn at your own pace and schedule.

This course is for therapists and other helping professionals who have a clear and compelling interest in helping heal shame in both their clients—and in themselves.

Healing Shame Core Workshop: Understanding, Reducing and Transforming Shame

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.

healing shame CORE WORKSHOP:
Understanding, Reducing, and Transforming Shame

recorded workshop

Pricing and Registration

$395 course fee
Special rate for interns - $ 45 off

$40 additional fee for CE credits

13 CE credits available ONLY for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in California – CAMFT Approved CE Provider #134393
Please note that the number of CE credits for the workshop includes both video time and exercise/practice time.

For details about CE credit, click here.

This recorded workshop can be applied toward certification as a Healing Shame Practitioner.

Course Structure:
The recorded Core Workshop consists of four classes. You can expect to spend approximately 13 hours on this workshop, including the breakout room exercises that you can do on your own.

For Those Not Seeking CE Credit or Possible Certification:
For those who do not need CE credit or an Hours of Attendance certificate and who are not in (or considering) our Practitioner Certification Program, we do strongly encourage you to write and submit papers (as described below) as a means of engaging with the course more deeply and fostering your individual learning.

Requirements for course credit (for those wanting CE credit or an Hours of Attendance Certificate or for those in the Healing Shame Certification Program):

• For each of the four classes, write and submit a paper of at least two pages, describing what you learned and how it affected you.

• After you finish the course, complete and submit the course evaluation form.

• You must complete the course and submit all materials within six months of the date of purchase. Materials received outside this time frame will not be applied toward the requirements.

For complete details about the requirements for course and CE credit, click here.

Please note: In registering for this workshop, you are agreeing to the terms of our Ethics and Scope of Practice Agreement. 

If you're wondering whether this is the right class for you, please contact Bret Lyon at Bret@healingshame.com, Sheila Rubin at Sheila@healingshame.com, or Elizabeth Davidge at EDhealingshame@gmail.com.

If you’re interested in registering for this recorded training, please fill out the form below and we will email you with the appropriate registration information.

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 for recorded workshops. Registrations are not transferable.

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.