Understanding and Embracing Shame
Two 3hour Workshops | Sat 8th and Sat 22nd February | Mandy Atkinson | Online
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Understanding the expression and feeling of shame are essential to counselling and psychotherapy.
This online CPD event will be delivered in two 3 hour parts in February and include:
- Relevant relational and TA theory drawing on the work of Atkinson, Cornell, Shadbolt, Nathanson and De Young to understand the phenomenological experience of shame;
- Introduce the challenging relational dynamics and repeating relationship patterns of working with shame, such as the challenges of working with countertransference;
- How clients (and therapists)might respond when shame emerges;
- Explore the complexity and types of shame
- Consider the symptoms of shame and how to work creatively and imaginatively when it arises;
- Assessing for and spotting evidence of shame;
- Consider ‘how to’ address shame when it emerges between you and your client and how to attend to relational repair and relatedness;
- Consider the repeating pattern of shame in a relationship.
Why would someone want to do this workshop?
This workshop will interest you if you want to learn more about signs and symptoms of shame and the challenges of working therapeutically with shame. The course will provide:
An introduction to chronic shame and how this might emerge in the therapy room;
Consider triggers for shame and how to approach the client work when this occurs;
Consider ways that shame might present and how to address it;
How shame interrupts attachment and connection in therapy;
How to work intrapsychically when shame emerges in the countertransference;
Participants will learn how to approach shame in client work and an approach to working relationally with shame through countertransference through case material, experiential work and discussion.
Who is this event for?
- Qualified counsellors and psychotherapists.
- Trainee counsellors and psychotherapists with an interest in understanding the emergence of shame.
Additional information for participants
This is an experiential workshop and participants will take part in a range of activities and tasks throughout the training. Reading and preparatory work will be provided in advance of the first part of the training as preparatory work. Participants will take part in discussions during the training event and contribute to discussion and dissemination.
Meet the Tutor: Mandy Atkinson
Qualifications: PTSTA (P), CTA (P), UKCP Reg., BACP Accred., MA, Dip Sup., Dip Counselling, Cert.Ed., RGN 
Mandy Atkinson is a highly respected psychotherapist, PTSTA, experienced teacher, supervisor and author who has extensive experience of providing psychotherapy to people with chronic shame based client presentations and in her specialist psychotherapy of with in eating, shape and weight. She has recently published in the Transactional Analysis Journal. She adopts an integrative and relational approach, drawing on relational transactional analysis and relational psychotherapy. Her passion and unique thinking about shame has developed from a combination of her extensive clinical knowledge with her lived and felt personal experience of shame.
Mandy is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and an experienced teacher and trainer, holding two teaching qualifications.
www.mattersofthemind.org.uk
www.linkedin.com/in/mandy-atkinson-61894216
Workshop date and cost
Sat 8th and Sat 22nd February, 10:00 - 13:30
Non-IMC delegates = £90.00
IMC Students in Advanced Training = £45.00
IMC Students/Graduates = £67.50
