Workshop
Applying Compassion Focused Therapy to Work with Shame
One day online workshop with Dr Marcela Matos
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About this workshop
Shame is a powerful and universal human emotion, evolved to assist us to navigate our social relationships. However, shame can also be profoundly painful and have serious adverse effects on psychological functioning, mental health and social wellbeing. Shame memories have been found to become central to our sense of self-identity, and can have traumatic qualities that maintain and exacerbate threat system activation, especially in the social and relational aspects of our lives. Nevertheless, cultivating compassion, especially directing compassion to oneself and receiving compassion from others, have been found to buffer the negative impact of shame experiences. While shame and shame memories can be painful and difficult to approach, there is mounting evidence about the role that Compassion Focused Therapy can play in helping alleviate and prevent the suffering associated with shame. This workshop will provide a compassionate roadmap for working with shame and shame memories by developing, practicing and embodying the compassionate self, through a combination of knowledge sharing, discussion, and experiential exercises.
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What you'll learn
Understand the concept of shame in light of the evolutionary biopsychosocial model
Distinguish shame from guilt and humiliation
Learn how to assess and explore shame and shame meories in clinical settings
Using CFT imagery, embodiment and behavioural practices to work with shame memories
Who this workshop is for
Mental Healthcare Practitioners
Those working with shame
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Yes, please contact finance@compassionatemind.co.uk who will be happy to set this up for you.
If you find you are unable to attend this course, please email our admin team via hello@compassionatemind.co.uk as soon as possible. You will be given the option to transfer to another course (within 12 months). Refunds are available if cancellation occurs no less than one month before the start of the course, although we will consider exceptional circumstances.
Yes, please email finance@compassionatemind.co.uk who will be able to organise this for you.
Yes, we offer an EDI Fund to support those who would like to attend our events but may be unable to do so due to the price. Please email hello@compassionatemind.co.uk to apply.
All delegates signed up to the workshop will recieve joining links and instructions when they sign up for the event via Eventbrite. Any additional handouts will be sent to you as soon as they are recieved from the speaker. If you do not recieve a welcome email when you book, or have other queries, please email hello@compassionatemind.co.uk.
All attendees will received a certificate upon completion of the course. This will be emailed to you, so please ensure that your details are correct on registration.
Our staff will take a register on each day of the workshop and any non-attendees will not receive a certificate. If you are unable to attend for any reason, please get in touch at hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
Yes, this workshop will be recorded on zoom. Once the workshop has finished all delegates will receive a follow-up email with the links to view these along with any extra resources. These will be available to view for around 3 months post-event. The recordings are edited, so will be made available roughly a week after the workshop has finished.
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