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Shame & Self Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma
Presented by Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Thursday, May 19, 2016 – Friday, May 20, 2016 | Vancouver, bc
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Date & Location
Thursday, May 19, 2016 – Friday, May 20, 2016
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Norman Rothstein Theatre, Jewish Community Centre
950 W. 41st Avenue
Vancouver, BC
Shame often prevents your traumatized clients’ recovery and hampers their ability to find relief and perspective despite effective treatment. Feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy interfere with taking in positive experiences, leaving only hopelessness. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn effective experiential exercises drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, from internationally renowned trauma expert Janina Fisher, Ph.d. Dr. Fisher will show you how to help clients relate to their symptoms with mindful dual awareness and curiosity rather than automatic acceptance. If you are frustrated with the lack of treatment success in your traumatized clients, this workshop will provide the solutions for long-term healing. Despite your best efforts, unshakeable feelings of shame and self-hatred often undermine treatment: your clients repeatedly take two steps forward, then one step back. In this one of a kind workshop you will understand shame from a neurobiological perspective—as a survival strategy driving somatic responses of automatic obedience and total submission—enforced by the client’s punitive introspection. Complete this workshop and learn to integrate traditional psychodynamic and cognitive- behavioural techniques with Sensorimotor interventions that emphasize posture, movement and gesture. With these new techniques, issues of shame can become an avenue to transformation rather than a source of stuckness. Why does shame stick like glue for decades after trauma?
Who Should Attend
Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
Agenda
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 is so treatment-resistant
Shame and Attachment: It’s Evolutionary Purpose
- Shame and the attachment system
- Rupture and repair in attachment formation
- What happens to shame without interpersonal repair
The Meaning of Shame in the Treatment of Trauma
- Disgust, degradation, and humiliation interpreted as “who I am”
- Cognitive schemas that exacerbate shame
- Internal working models predict the future and determine our actions
Treating Shame: Working from the “Bottom Up”
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Physiological state »»as the entry point for treatment
- Regulating shame states with somatic interventions
- Using mindfulness-based techniques to inhibit self-judgment
Healing Shame: Acceptance and Compassion
- Re-contextualizing shame as a younger self or part
- Dual awareness of who we are now and who we were then
- Getting to know our “selves”
- Bringing our adult capacity to our childhood vulnerability
Learning Objectives
- Describe the role of shame and self-loathing as symptoms of trauma
- Identify the neurobiological effects of shame
- Describe the role of negative cognitive schemas in perpetuating shame
- Assess the physiological and cognitive contributors to shame
- Apply somatic interventions drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy that decrease shame
- Practice memory processing, cognitive-behavioural and ego state techniques
Your Presenter
Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation. Dr. Fisher is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment. More information can be found on her website: www.janinafisher.com.
Testimonials
“She gives thoughtful insight to questions from the audience/participants. She is successful to make therapeutic techniques/process playful.”
– Shame & Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma | Vancouver, BC | May 19 – 20, 2016“SO enjoyable. Janina is such an inspiration. She embodies the empathy, humanity, knowledge, and expertise.”
– Chelsea Conron | Vancouver, BC | May 19 – 20, 2016“I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop and Janina’s fantastic. I look forward to digesting all that I learned and putting it into practice.”
– Shame & Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma | Vancouver, BC | May 19 – 20, 2016“So grateful for this workshop. Lots of applicable information. I am also now eager to learn more about sensorimotor therapy!”
– Shame & Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma | Vancouver, BC | May 19 – 20, 2016“Janina Fisher was obviously knowledgable, skilled, and an engaging presenter. Bring her back for the same presentation!”
– Galya, M.A, CCC | Burnaby, BC | May 12 & 13, 2015“Excellent workshop by an excellent presenter. Janina’s skill, knowledge, and facilitation skills are superb. Her warmth and ability helped me to learn a lot.”
– Maija Wiik, M.A | Burnaby, BC | May 12 & 13, 2015“What an amazing two days! I got more, on every level, than I hoped for. Many take away skills and Janina’s sharing was so helpful. Her normalizing of the therapists’ experiences was invaluable to me. Thank you!”
– Nicole Tarasiuk | Burnaby, BC | May 12 & 13, 2015“Would love to have more workshops with Janina!”
– Bett McLean, Trauma & Abuse Counsellor | Burnaby, BC | May 12 & 13, 2015“Janina was wonderful – warm, engaging, and knowledgable. She was very open to participants’ questions and receptive. She used examples which brought the material to life. She also has a great sense of humour!”
– Burnaby, BC | May 12 & 13, 2015“Dr. Fisher was so enjoyable to listen to and learn from. I appreciated her authenticity and skillful expertise.”
– Burnaby, BC | May 12 & 13, 2015“Fantastic workshop. Learned so much. Wonderful facilitator. Part of the time I was learning to help my clients, and part of the time I was learning to understand myself.”
– Burnaby, BC | May 12 & 13, 2015
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