Course Description
This webinar will soon come with 2 CE credits - as a home study opportunity. Email [email protected] if you'd like to be notified when the course is ready for CE credits.
Shame often accompanies trauma and being shamed can have a traumatic effect. Shame and Trauma are both states of freeze.
Being able to understand and have compassion for the parts of the person that are still frozen in shame helps us be able to sit with a client without having our own shame triggered. Memories of a time when a person froze in embarrassment or shock can help unlock the unhealed places in a person’s physiology.
In working with trauma, there is a tendency to miss the shame component that is often hiding in plain sight.
And shame can be worked with most successfully as a form of trauma, utilizing many somatic techniques.
Shame also has a strong cognitive component - the belief that “something is wrong with me” - that needs to be addressed.
In this presentation, we will explore the connection between shame and trauma and look at ways to unlock somatic and imaginal resources to work with both effectively.
Shame often accompanies trauma and being shamed can have a traumatic effect. Shame and Trauma are both states of freeze.
Being able to understand and have compassion for the parts of the person that are still frozen in shame helps us be able to sit with a client without having our own shame triggered. Memories of a time when a person froze in embarrassment or shock can help unlock the unhealed places in a person’s physiology.
In working with trauma, there is a tendency to miss the shame component that is often hiding in plain sight
And shame can be worked with most successfully as a form of trauma, utilizing many somatic techniques.
Shame also has a strong cognitive component - the belief that “something is wrong with me” - that needs to be addressed.
In this presentation, we will explore the connection between shame and trauma and look at ways to unlock somatic and imaginal resources to work with both effectively.
Course Objectives
- Describe the strong similarities between shame and trauma - and the important differences
- Name the four basic reactions to shame and the characteristics of each reaction.
- Utilize techniques to counter feelings of shame.
- Discuss strategies to get though shame defenses of over-verbalization, dissociation and freezing.
- Utilize four realms of human experience—cognitive, somatic-emotional, imaginal and interpersonal—to create optimal distance from shame.
- Identify the differences between healthy shame and toxic shame.
Bibliography
Broucek, F. J. (1991). Shame and the self. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Kaufman, G. (1985). Shame: the power of caring. Rochester, VT: Schenkman Books.
Levine, P. (2010). In an unspoken voice: how the body releases trauma and restores goodness. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.
Levine, P. (1997). Waking the tiger: healing shame. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.
Nathanson, D. (1992.) Shame and pride: affect, sex, and the birth of the self. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
Porges, S. (2011). The polyvagal theory: neurophysiological foundations of emotions, attachment, communications and self-regulation. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Rubin, S. (2007) Women, food and feelings: drama therapy with women who have an eating disorder. In S. Brooke (Ed.) The creative therapies and eating disorders (pp. 173-193). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.