Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma
Psychotherapy with Chronic Mind/Body States
Presented By Ken Benau
May 19 | May 26 | June 2 | June 9 | June 16, 2023
12 PM -1 PM Eastern Time
$195 | 5 CE credits
Enroll NowChronic shame lies at the heart of most psychological suffering, particularly in survivors of relational trauma (RT), that includes abuse, neglect, and pervasive attachment wounds. While most trauma therapists intuitively know this to be true, they often haven't learned how best to understand traumatic shame nor how to transform these painfully intransigent mind/body states. Pride is hardly discussed at all in the literature, particularly with regard to its beneficial role in psychotherapy with RT survivors. Using verbatim, psychotherapy session transcripts, this course shows therapists how to help RT survivors "go beyond" alleviating shame states and enhancing adaptive pride to more fully embody their aliveness, what I term "pro-being pride", in which their unique ways of being and relating are celebrated within, with others, and in the world.
Learning Objectives
What to expect:
- Five 1-hour sessions, exploring how to better understand and work integratively with shame and pride in Relational Trauma (RT) survivors
- Course is designed for psychotherapists and graduate students at all levels (some experience with RT survivors is beneficial)
- Neurofeedback experience is not required
- Powerpoint slides and handouts will be made available to participants
Session 1: What are shame, pride, and relational trauma (RT), and why do they matter in psychotherapy?
Session 2: Shame, pride, and dissociation: Psychodynamics and transformation
Session 3: Patient-therapist shame state dynamics: From reactivity to therapeutic responsivity
Session 4: Neuroscience of shame states: Understanding and therapeutic applications
Session 5: Psychotherapeutic transformation from shame states, to adaptive pride, and pro-being pride
Intro to the Course & Faculty
Research Articles by Dr. Benau
Dr. Benau's Bio
$195
Five 1-hour sessions | 12pm - 1pm ET
May 19 | May 26 | June 2 | June 9 | June 16, 2023
Psychotherapeutically transform chronic shame states into adaptive pride and beyond; help relational trauma survivors access embodied states of aliveness where their unique ways of being and relating, their "pro-being pride", are celebrated within themselves, others, and in the world.
$195.00
One-time Payment.
$97.50
2 installments at 0% interest.
Offer expires April 18, 2023
$65.00
3 installments at 0% interest.
Offer expires March 18, 2023
