CE Event: The Somatics of Shame with Craig Penner
Fri, Sep 26
|Zoom
This presentation is designed to help therapists identify dynamics that make shame difficult to approach, including somatic and physiological aspects.
Time & Location
Sep 26, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Zoom
Guests
About The Event
CE Event: The Somatics of Shame
Who: SBCAMFT members and Non-SBCAMFT members (Join now!)
Where: Zoom (link will be sent in registration confirmation email).
When: September 26, 2025 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.
Description: 2 CEs
Shame is a complex “dilemma,” holding varied emotions, beliefs and somatic reactions behind dynamics of hiding and disconnecting. It all feels so awful that it makes it hard to self reflect, no less expose shame with others effectively. A compromised ability to self-reflect well is often a hallmark of dynamics that keep us from working through shame. Thus, shame is a developmental inhibitor. We try to live around it, and yet we live with its constrictions, sometimes for our entire lives. There is often a powerful dynamic that prevents certain beliefs and reactive patterns from ever truly being questioned. When this is exposed and addressed first, it can open the door to examining what has never been able…