Healing Shame in the Inner Child

Healing Shame in the Inner Child: A De-colonized somatic approach

Latinx Therapy Sponsored CEU Virtual Course for LCSWs, LMFT, ACSW, MFTI

3 CEUs provided by CALMFT

Course Syllabus

Curated and Led by: Cynthia Alonzo Perez, LCSW of Rooted in Reflection

BBS CA#29856

Date: Monday April 24, 10am-1pm

Materials to bring to Virtual Course: A journal, a pen/pencil, colors or markers, a picture of yourself as a child (on your phone is fine).

Course Objective: Increase Knowledge of the ways Capitalism and Colonialism have fostered shame in our nervous system and ways to honor our inner child authenticity. Client’s will understand their subconscious reactions and learn how to regulate their nervous system when feel shame from an inner child wound using self compassion and a decolonized approach to self acceptance.

Goals: In this course, you will learn the neuroscience behind why our brain is wired for old patterns from childhood and how we can change our inner critic into a safe mentor for our Inner Child(ren). We will learn how to incorporate Self Compassion as a scientifically proven way to calm your nervous system and create new pathways for joy and self-acceptance of your resilient & hopeful inner child. This course is a follow up to the Inner Child series and dive deeper into healing shame by feeling it in our bodies and detaching from the limiting beliefs using radical self compassion.  You will learn self-healing tools like EFT Tapping and guided visualization to heal shame from the nervous system and the brain to the individual spirit.

Outcomes:

1. Participants will be able to name 3 ways in which society has perpetuated shame to trigger our nervous system

2. Participants will be able to identify 3 ways shame is empowered internally

3. Participants will be able to provide 3 ways of helping clients work through inner critic shame using self compassion tools

4. Participants will be able to identify 3 clinical considerations to increase their connection with the client with safety and compassion

This is a LIVE group, you can purchase and will have access to the recording afterwards. 

*3 CA CEUs provided for qualifying clinicians.

**YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CLINICIAN TO TAKE THIS COURSE.

***This course centers the experience of historially marginalized communities and is presented as such. The humanity and dignity of the inner child will be respected and re-written. This space is inclusive. 

(Not 4CEUs, that was a typo)

Any questions or to see the Works Cited List, email cynthia@rootedinreflection.org