"Most of us don’t know we’re in shame. It’s like a fish swimming in water—the fish is unaware and doesn’t know the medium it’s in. We - and our clients - don't realise we are feeling shame."

— Juliet Grayson

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In this email there are FOUR things:

Three courses for therapists with the same trainer - Sue Parker Hall - and a free video that we think is worth watching!

1) Grief: The Gateway to Transformation Workshop

EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNT IF BOOKED BY 27th AUGUST 2025

2) Anger, Rage and Relationship Workshop

EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNT IF BOOKED BY 6th OCTOBER 2025

3) Working With Shame Workshop

EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNT IF BOOKED BY 7th DECEMBER 2025

and

4) A 9 minute video about Toxic Shame Healthy Shame by Juliet Grayson and William Ayot

Grief: The Gateway to Transformation

Saturday 27th September 2025

The workshop will focus on an exploration of grief through:

the lens of two of our professions traditional models of grieving and other familiar writers’ contributions to the field
Sue’s own definition and model of grieving
looking at a wide range of sources of grief, beyond bereavement, including losses through separation and divorce, child development difficulties, Adverse Childhood Experiences and adverse adult experiences and looking at the grief involved in coming to terms with our existence
exploring the idea of big ‘G’ Griefs and little ‘g’ griefs including complicated grief
differentiating between grief and depression, and between grief and trauma
relational debriefing and processing of the creative exercise
the articulation of Sue’s relational models for reflection, processing and transformation of grief

EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNT IF BOOKED BY 27th AUGUST 2025

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Anger, Rage & Relationship

Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th December 2025

define and differentiate between anger and rage
makes the link between rage and trauma
explore the positive aspects of anger and
identify a wide range of ways in which anger gets distorted

EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNT IF BOOKED BY 6th OCTOBER 2025

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Working With Shame

Saturday 7th February 2026

Exploring the nature of shame (definitions and symptoms)
Differences between guilt and shame
Sources of shame
Models for thinking about shame
Metaphors of shame
Understanding our inner critic
Creative exercise with relational debrief and processing
Articulation of relational models for reflection and processing of shame
Shame resistance techniques for the management of shame prior to processing it