- Articulate how shame influences various mental health conditions.
- Identify factors frequently related to the experience of shame.
- Explain the relationship between Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of shame and trauma.
- Identify the four characteristics of empathy.
- Compare elements of family systems' therapies, authenticity, shame, and the false self/true self.
- Utilize mindfulness, meditation, and HRV coherence exercises.
- Explain the role of yoga, dance, movement, and somatic practices in mediating shame and trauma.
- Identify how perfectionism, co-dependency, and other behavior patterns are defenses against shame.
- Utilize somatic and mindfulness approaches to enhance emotional regulation.
- Recognize the impact of attachment on self-worth.
- Paraphrase how shame relates to body image, disordered eating, and self-worth.
- Categorize the role of self-compassion in the relationship between shame-proneness and self-forgiveness.
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FREE Live Virtual Event
2-Day: The "Not Good Enough" Treatment Plan: A Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist Training
December 2–3, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern
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For the first time ever - bestselling author, psychotherapist and international speaker Dr. Patti Ashley will show you how to incorporate elements of somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness, polyvagal theory, positive psychology, expressive interventions, and more so you can:
- Work with perfectionism, co-dependency and other manifestations of shame
- Teach clients to recognize their authentic voice vs. the voice of shame
- Successfully challenge the distorted beliefs that shame has constructed
- Transform clients' negative self-talk into self-empowerment
- Help clients reframe negative thoughts and replace them with self-compassion
- Provide clients tools to enhance emotional regulation and embrace their worthiness
- Use narrative and creative approaches to help clients share their vulnerabilities
Don't let the grip of shame continue to hold your clients back from the fulfilling lives they deserve.
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FREE Live Virtual Event
2-Day: The "Not Good Enough" Treatment Plan: A Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist Training
December 2–3, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit, certification, and certificate of completion are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
Outline
The Neurobiology of Attachment and Self-Worth
- Attachment and early brain development
- Social-emotional development
- Shame-based identify formation
- Why self-compassion is so hard to access
- Shame-based parenting and the first six years of life
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
- Cultural influences
- Understanding the vagus nerve
- ANS hierarchy - implications for emotional states and self-perception
- Neuroception's role in assessing safety
- The power of co-regulation, emotional safety, and connection
- Stephen Porges' four therapeutic “R”s
- Attunement as the key to therapeutic change
- Co-regulating safety and equal power in the therapeutic relationship
- Creating a holding environment
- Therapists as attachment figures
- Safe emergencies
- Epigenetics and neuroplasticity
- Recognizing implicit cues
- Non-verbal and non-linear awareness
- Attachment styles
- Pinpointing developmental traumas
- Strategies of disconnection
- Perfectionism, co-dependency, addiction, rage, disordered eating and other manifestations
- Person-centered psychotherapy
- Empathy as a right-brain activity
- Mirror neurons role in paving the path of empathy
- Four characteristics of empathy
- Therapist self-assessment
- Four non-linear skills
- Teaching clients to tolerate discomfort and embrace paradox
- Productive ways to express anger
- Emotional regulation ABCs and exercises
- Excavation exercise
- Connecting the emotional dots to early childhood trauma and shame
- Functional vs. familiar dysfunctional family systems
- Virginia Satir's Five Freedoms
- Brene' Brown's definition of love and belonging
- Defining authenticity
- Identifying emotional safety
- Old story/new story
- The somatic embodying of the new story
- The Hero's Journey
- Narrative therapy techniques to externalize clients' feelings of shame
- Self-compassionate visualization and letter writing interventions
- Mindfulness for non-judgmental awareness
- Breathing techniques to bring emotional and physical calm
- Therapeutic art techniques - how clients can process pain outside of themselves
- The role of yoga, dance, and movement in mediating shame
- Reconnect to the self with nature therapy strategies
- Evidence, Research Limitations, and Treatment Risks
- Examining the research and research limitations on discussed techniques
- Addressing potential risks
- Contraindications and other considerations
- Vulnerability, humility, self-awareness, and courage
- Support systems
- Remember the oxygen mask
- Healthy boundaries
Speaker
Patti Ashley, PhD, LPC, a psychotherapist, international speaker and best-selling author of Shame-Informed Therapy: Treatment Strategies to Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Self (PESI Publishing, 2020). With over 20 years of experience as a licensed counselor, Dr. Ashley brings unique insights into the identification and treatment of trauma, shame, grief and dysfunctional family patterns. She has counseled individuals, couples, families and groups in mental health agencies, psychiatric hospitals, and private practice settings. She currently maintains a private practice in Colorado where her Authenticity Architecture model helps clients break through unconscious barriers and rediscover a sense of self-love, belong, and connection. In addition to her book for psychotherapists, Dr. Ashley is the author of Living in the Shadow of the Too-Good Mother Archetype (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2014) and Letters to Freedom (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2019). In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Ashley develops and teaches continuing education courses for psychotherapists, physicians, hospital wellness programs, universities, and several private organizations.
Click here for information about Patti AshleyFrequently Asked Questions
YES! The training is LIVE and you'll be able to ask questions of the presenters - though they may not get to all of them, they will try to answer the most relevant and frequent ones.
Yes! Whether you know you work with shame or not, it can weave its way into your clients lives and be an obstacle you need to overcome in order to make progress on the original reason they sought your help.
If you register for the live summit and miss a session, you'll have access to the recording for 14 days in your portal. Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.
You'll have access to the recordings for 14 days in your portal. Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.
You can get unlimited access to the recordings + self-study CE hours for only $99.99 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration.
You can get unlimited access to the recordings + self-study CE hours for only $99.99 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration.
Yes! If you cannot attend any sessions live, you can purchase the recording package to earn self-study CE. Register and select the option to earn up to 12.5 self study CE hours.
Yes, you'll have unlimited access to session slides and handouts to add to your clinical toolbox and use with your clients.
Up to 12.5 CE hours, depending on your individual board.
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We've worked hard to make sure as many licensed mental health professionals as possible are covered by this amazing training program.
Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.
CE Details Coming Soon
We've worked hard to make sure as many licensed mental health professionals as possible are covered by this amazing training program.
Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.
Yes! We're confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected. However, if you're not completely satisfied, give us a call at 800-844-8260 and we will honor our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.
FREE Live Virtual Event
2-Day: The "Not Good Enough" Treatment Plan: A Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist Training
December 2–3, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit, certification, and certificate of completion are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.