Understanding the Power, Impact and Recovery Journey from Shame

Betsy de Thierry MA, is a psychotherapist with over 30 years experience leading trauma recovery teams in multiple organisations that she has founded to help children and young people recover from complex trauma. Betsy has developed a trauma recovery model of practice called the Trauma Recovery Focused Model which charities and practitioners partner with to facilitate recovery rather than just management of trauma symptoms.

Betsy is a sought after speaker who has trained over 32,000 people in 34 nations in the last 10 years. She has authored 8 books on trauma recovery, many of which are best sellers with the publisher. She has a new book coming out in 2025 called How to Navigate A child Through to Trauma Recovery and she also written a chapter in a book ‘The Clinical Guide to Complex Trauma and Dissociation In Children’ which will also be out in 2025.Betsy is passionate about helping families recover from trauma and she is a consultant for many charities and projects due to her commitment to the field.

Her trauma informed framework is the subject of many roundtables and policy consultations in meetings in parliament and her paper about her work is in the latest publication sent to every clinical commissioning group and parliamentarian ‘Addressing Adversity’ which explores her work at the TRC and with the TM rooms in schools.

Betsy founded the national organization The Childhood Trauma Recovery Network (CTRN) (https://www.traumarecoverynetworkuk.org/) which is a network of professionals who work in a trauma informed approach who are on a map for people to find help. The associates are arguably some of the key leaders in the trauma recovery world within the UK.
She has had interviews in many mainline journals including BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) and Adoption UK.

Description of course
In this training day Betsy will lead us through an exploration of what shame is and how it is experienced. Her definition in her book on shame is: When shame is experienced, it functions as an urgent signal that danger is here: the danger of rejection, failure, exposure and abandonment. It is an experience rooted in interpersonal relationships. It threatens the very basic human experience of being alive and needing to belong, be loved and be accepted. p15 The Simple Guide to Understanding Shame. (2018).

We will reflect and consider the impact of shame on children who have experienced developmental trauma.

We will consider what recovery can look like and how we can facilitate it.

Objectives and outcomes from the course
The learning objectives of the Seminar are:

• Explore the impact of shame on the children and families.

• Consider the behaviours and reactions that can be communicating shame and how these can inform the support we offer.

• Reflecting on how we can create shame reducing environments and communications.

• How we can communicate the power of shame and make it a central refection for those supporting families with developmental trauma.

Who should attend
This day is open to anyone wishing to attend who is working with children and young people.

Pre-requisite
No pre requisites are required for this course.

Additional Info
With full attendance you will be issued a certificate of attendance.

Fee of £125 includes VAT