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Understanding Shame & Humiliation

Do you struggle with shame and humiliation, sometimes stemming from past experience? Are you capable of shaming or humiliating other people, either deliberately or by accident? Would you like to better understand the structure of shame and humiliation - including the costs and benefits - so you can have more of the benefits and fewer costs?

During this series of workshops we will explore the connection between shame, humiliation and mental health. How does shame and humiliation show up in families, classrooms, workspaces and communities and how can can be detected and worked with more generatively.

Over the six sessions you will be bringing your personal experiences and working with the facilitator and other participants to develop embodied models for how you experience these two emotions. You’ll be working within the whole group or sometimes in triads - using clean, non-leading questions to enquire into and better understand the structure of shame and humiliation across this group. 

During this course you can expect high levels of care, compassion, attention, learning, healing and laughter. The Clean Language questions help us to be able to enquire into another’s experience while protecting them and us from any assumptions or projections we may be making. This will help us to develop an atmosphere of psychological safety - and if someone makes an assumption or a mistake, we will patiently explore that together. We’ll be particularly mindful of confidentiality given the private and personal nature of the topic.

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