Janina Fisher – 2-Day Intensive Workshop: Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma
Shame… have you noticed how it sticks like super glue to our clients and acts as a barrier to trauma resolution?
Even after effective trauma treatment, shame and self-loathing can interfere with our clients’ full participation in life.
Watch world-renowned complex trauma and attachment expert Janina Fisher, PhD, as she reveals today’s most effective modalities for treating shame and self-loathing in trauma clients.
The body-oriented interventions featured in this recording will help clients relate to their symptoms with mindful dual awareness and curiosity so that, when integrated with traditional psychodyanamic, cognitive-behavioral, and EMDR techniques, issues of shame can become an avenue to transformation rather than a source of stuckness.
If you are frustrated with the lack of treatment success with traumatized clients with chronic shame, this live webcast will provide the solutions for long-term healing.
Key Benefits:
- Discover how shame complicates trauma treatment and how addressing shame can help you expedite recovery.
- Help clients get unstuck, transform shame, and improve treatment outcomes.
- Teach clients to manage shame without resorting to destructive measures.
- Reduce judgmental thoughts and reactivity with mindfulness.
- Cultivate secure self-attachment and self-acceptance.
- Build resiliency to shame with interventions based on empathy, forgiveness and compassion
Handouts
Outline
The Neurobiology of Shame
- The role of shame in traumatic experience
- Shame as an animal defense survival response
- Effects of shame on autonomic arousal
- Why shame can be treatment-resistant
- Limitations of research & potential risks
Shame and Attachment: Its Evolutionary Purpose
- Shame and the attachment system
- Rupture and repair of shame states in attachment formation
- What happens to shame without interpersonal repair
- Shame as a defensive response to traumatic attachment
The Meaning of Shame in the Treatment of Trauma
- Trauma and procedural learning
- Shame as a survival strategy
- Implicit memory of disgust, degradation and humiliation
- Shame-based meaning-making
- Cognitive schemas that exacerbate shame
- Vicious circle of shame
- Vicious circle of shame and anger Internal working models
Treating Shame
- Why shame is hard to overcome
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: physiological state as the entry point for treatment
- Mindfulness-based techniques to combat trauma responses
- Regulate shame states with somatic interventions
- Use mindfulness interventions to inhibit self-judgment
- Work with shame as implicit memory
- Work with shame-based cognitive schemas
Healing Shame: Acceptance and Compassion
- Dis-identifying with the shame
- Re-contextualize shame as a younger self or part
- Shame and the Structural Dissociation model
- Getting to know our “selves”
- Recognize the role of critical voices and judgmental parts
- Dual awareness of who we are now and who we were then bringing our adult compassion to our childhood vulnerability
Healing Shame in the Therapeutic Relationship
- How can we use therapy to ‘repair’ shame states?
- The role of therapeutic empathy
- Therapists as neurobiological regulators
- The social engagement system in trauma recovery
- Incorporate playfulness, acceptance and curiosity
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