Pavel Somov – 2-Day Intensive Training – Shame, Guilt and Self-Criticism Course

Outline

Shame, Guilt and Motivational Apathy as Impediments to Clinical Progress​

• Therapy as a trigger and affect avoidance
• Clinical impasses (underutilization, stagnation, premature termination)
• Shame on you, guilt and A sense of not-Deserving
• Self-help secrets and From therapist

Tools to catalyze progress in therapy

• Normalizing, de-pathologizing, un-Diagnostics
• Evolutionary psychology and dialectic reframing
• Mindfulness and metacognition
• Self-Acceptance and self-acceptance-Show compassion
• Neuroplasticity and internalization

Shame: Clinical Techniques to Move Therapy Forward

• Debunking the self-deception myth-Sabotage
• Use a self-regarding approach to manage outside judgment-Referred identity
• Techniques to discredit broad generalizations
• Promote self-reliance-Motivational innocence and forgiveness

Guilt: Help clients overcome debts Guilt

• You can distinguish guilt from regret
• Self-improvement & ordinary perfection-Acceptance
• Fear of making mistakes? Learn how to master it

Self-Doubt, Dilemmas & Indecision: Interventions for clients paralyzed or uncertain

• Normalizing strategies to dissipate self-In doubt
• Uncertainty training can help you manage anxiety and unpredictability
• The art of arbitrariness makes it easier to make decisions
• A dilemma can be reframed as a choice between 2 rights

Motivational Apathy & Self-Inefficacy: Motivation Strategies and Autonomy

• Find a reason-To-Change with the change equation
• Techniques to harness intrinsic motivation
• Freedom!-To-Change with Choice Awareness Training (CAT)
• Pattern interruption for habit change – get clients off autopilot

Self-Criticism and Self-Stigmatization: Quiet Your Client’s Inner Critic

• Different types of self-deprecation (self-criticism, self-loathing, etc.)
• Techniques for redefining symptoms to make them more powerful
• Self-compassion exercises to address problematic behaviors-care
• Recover from the disease model

Affect Avoidance – Working Through

• Exposure, mindfulness and metacognition
• Top-Down & Bottom-Uplift your emotional self-Regulation
• Cue-Conditioning your self-Regulation

Use Specific Strategies to Treat:

Trauma

• Damaged goods, survivor’s guilt & avoidance of conflict
• Restore the original goodness with somatic interventions
• Strategies for surviving without guilt
• Conflict avoidance: Paper tigers v. real tigers
• Exercises to rediscover yourself-Worth

Stress and Anxiety

• Meditate on the paralysis and perfection of self-Acceptance
• Non-neurotic, stress-free perfectionism
• Social anxiety can be a source of shame and self-doubt-Doubt: Self-inoculation & disapproval-referencing
• Mindfulness-Non-based-Anxious self-consciousness

Emotional Eating and Binge Eating

• How shame drives clients to binge eat
• Choice Awareness Training Moderation & Presence
• Self-Acceptance strategies for emotional eating
• By dismantling body shame, you can transcend it-Identifying from the Physical

Anger

• Shame of fear: Shame to cover anger
• The cruel guilt-anger loop
• Self-acceptance techniques for internal damage control
• For anger to be let go, do compassion exercises

Depression

• Depression as self-Exile
• Shame can be a suicide risk factor
• Mindfulness to manage rumination
• Metacognitive silence: From negative self-Talk to Selfaccepting Non-Talk

Substance Abuse

• The shame of relapse
• Self-assertive trigger avoidance
• Use choice awareness techniques to change your habit
• Develop craving/impulse control skills

Betrayal, Secrecy & Deception

• Separation & divorce as self-care & progress
• The secrets of a therapist without rupturing the rapport
• De-Pathologizing deception and lying motives

Research and Limitations and Potential risks