Mary NurrieStearns – Healing Shame: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion in Clinical Practice

Mary NurrieStearns – Healing Shame: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion in Clinical Practice

Join Mary NurrieStearns for a highly experiential day of training. Learn how to:

Teach your clients to heal shame by utilizing self-compassion to regulate their emotions
Show them how to relate to their thoughts
Release trauma from your clients’ bodies

An expert presenter, Mary’s teaching is light-hearted and relevant to your work. Infused with practical clinical examples and practices that you try for yourself this seminar focuses on how to utilize mindful self-compassion as a powerful clinical resource in your day to day work. You will leave the seminar with understandings and skill sets for yourself and your clients.

Identify the three key components of self-compassion.
Describe research supporting therapeutic benefits of mindful self-compassion.
Summarize the difference between self-compassion and self-esteem.
Explain shame roots, physiology and cognitive narrative of shame.
Apply specific mindful self-compassion practices that regulate emotions and heal shame.
Demonstrate mindful self-compassion interventions that create emotional resiliency, dis-identify from shame.

Toxic Shame

Interpersonal origins – cultural, developmental and trauma
Causes of shame in men, shame in women
Physiology and narrative of toxic shame
Self-criticism, self-protection, shame collapse triangle

Research on the Healing Power of Self-Compassion

Mindfulness as the foundation of self-compassion
Components of self-compassion
Physiology and neuroscience of compassion
Research on how yoga heals toxic shame
Self-compassion as intervention for low self-esteem
Self-compassion for emotional resiliency

Repairing Toxic Shame Using Mindful Self-Compassion Skills

First Skill set –cultivating safety with heart centered mindfulness, and/or sensory awareness practice
Second skill set– emotional regulation and calming body with body centering, gentle yoga movement and/or breathing awareness
Third skill set – naming thoughts, reflection (I am not my story), inquiry and understanding, larger perspective
Fourth skill set– naming and taking care of painful emotions, including grief, with compassionate self-talk, cultivating inner loving mother
Fifth skill set – using self-compassion to make desired changes

Practices of Self-Compassion and Clinical Uses

3 part self-compassion letter- embrace shame like loving mother
Compassion prayer to self – softening resistance to compassion
Tonglen practice – link shame to compassion
Healing self-touch, comforting self-talk – regulation of painful emotions
Self-compassion break –accessing self-compassion
Heart centered yoga – for healing the physiology of shame
Experience these practices for yourself

Necessity of Self-Compassion for Therapist

Empathy vs compassion in your brain
Importance of healing presence
Modeling self-compassion

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