Experiencing and Working with Shame, with Jim Thomas

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This training will take place on Friday, September 27th and Saturday, September 28th, 2024 in Bloomington, MN. 9:00 - 4:30 pm Central Time each day.

Location: Best Western Plus Bloomington Hotel (1901 Killebrew Dr, Bloomington, MN 55425)

Use this link to get hotel rooms at a discounted rate. The deadline to get the discounted rate is 8/26/24.

Shame often exists as a hidden or overt barrier to work using Emotionally Focused Therapy and/or an Attachment Lens.  Jim Thomas, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Fellow AAMFT, brings 35 years of both personally experience and professional work/exploration to this persistent problem.  "To recognize the soft signs of covert, implicit shame and be able to work with more overt, consuming shame with a couple or family, transforms our work," Jim shares. 

Jim has presented this material to therapists on four continents, the feedback is overwhelmingly positive.  This 2 day workshop will lean towards an experiential focus with didactic material presented to support the personal/professional learning experience.

About The Workshop 

A powerful, engaging, and transformative view of working with shame presented by international EFT educator, speaker and experienced MFT, Jim Thomas, LMFT (EFT Trainer, 2011-2023). Jim trains therapists worldwide on working well with Shame. Shame is a common thread between 3 related hard to treat issues of trauma, addiction, and healing childhood wounds. Join us to get up-to-date research on understanding shame, and video examples of working with shame. Jim uses his knowledge of shame and interventions with clients he works with during 2- and 3-day intensives, and people come to work with him from around the U.S. 

“Much of what I talk about regarding shame, I learned from my couples and families, followed by my own lived experience,” Jim says. The workshop includes didactic presentation, interactive small group work, video examples and brief role play practices. 

Objectives 

  1. Understand the core functions of shame, allowing for a holistic view of shame within relationships and across cultures. 

  2. Improve ability to recognize how and when shame blocks connection, how to recognize healthy shame and understand that shame experience may differ across cultures and context.   

  3. Learn to bring to the surface and work with this often-hidden barrier to progress and engagement, and avoid minimizing, cheerleading or moving away from shame.   

  4. Learn to slow down negative cycles in Stage One, surface shame, and begin exploring how shame fuels the cycle. 

  5. Develop skills for applying EFT to transform shame in Stage Two work.   

  6. Recognize ways shame presents with addiction, trauma, and childhood abuse, and ways to work with it proactively.   

About Our Presenter

Jim Thomas’ understanding of shame arose both from personal experience and early in his career. Jim’s study of shame spans over three decades. He observed how shame worked as a hidden barrier to establishing therapeutic alliance and against treatment progress. Jim has trained therapists to work effectively with shame from an attachment lens. He’s facilitated workshops on working with shame for therapists across the US, as well as Turkey, Iran, South Africa, and France. Jim is an internationally renowned EFT educator.  As a Certified EFT Trainer (2011 - 2023), Jim developed 8 unique advanced classes including Healing Childhood Wounds in couples therapy, Gaining Traction, Get to Softenings, and the Core Skills Plus approach to core skills training. His gaining traction stage 2 workshop was the first and only to show 5 couples in Stage One and then seeing those same couples engaged in bonding events.  

Amongst his many positive reviews, Dr. Sue Johnson wrote “When Jim talks about EFT, I always learn something new myself.”  Dr Bill Doherty said of Jim, "He is one of the leading edge thinkers in the couples therapy world; I would go out of my way to hear what Jim is saying about this work today."

Cost:
Early Bird Rates (Through July 1, 2024):

Fully Licensed: $400

Pre-Licensed: $350

Students/Interns: $300

Full Rates (Starting July 2, 2024):

Fully Licensed: $450

Pre-Licensed: $400

Interns/Students: $350

$10 discount for MNCEFT members.

The last day to register will be September 22, 2024.


Continuing Education Credits: We have been approved for 12 hours of continuing education credits from the MN Board of Marriage and Family Therapists. Check with your licensing board if you have a different credential.

Cancellation Policy: If you need to cancel. please email info@mnceft.com. If you cancel before September 13th, 2024, you will receive a full refund, minus a 5% administrative fee. If you cancel on or after September 13th, 2024, no refund will be issued.

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