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- Explore inclusive, compassionate, and self-compassionate therapy when working with survivors of trauma and oneself as a therapist.
- Learn trauma-sensitive self-compassion techniques with a focus on applying culturally-aware methods to support survivors.
- Integrate effective trauma-sensitive practices by combining trauma-sensitive approaches with mindful self-compassion in therapy.
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This session invites me to say,
at the age of 75,
considering how to live the rest of my life,
I dedicate my self to love.
I dedicate my life to love.
and how
making this dedication public invites all of us in.
I was in one group self-compassion session with Dr. Sydney Spears and it was the start of some important self-acceptance in a world where my identity and history has been consistently denied. I highly recommend her wise teachings.
I am grateful for your presentation and slides. I don’t see a way to get a copy of them all. Thank you.
Excellent tips. Thank you.
Thank you for the lecture. I hope to overcome this trauma; it is not easy, but I pray and will practice to become better so that I can serve others who are in need. Thank you very much, Dr. Spears.
This is excellent. There have been so many errors in my care simply because of a lack of understanding of the world I’ve come from. In general, I don’t feel ashamed when I’m with people, but I had to endure some group therapy where I was the only person who’d been trafficked. In CSE children are often forced to do things to or with other children. In a group setting where people are talking about their feelings over the abuse they suffered, sometimes the things described are things I might have been forced to do. The shame then can feel like annihilation. There is a huge moral injury here that is of a different order of magnitude. Essentially, mixed group therapy identifies the sex-trafficked child as a perpetrator in their own mind. I had no choice and the shame shouldn’t really belong to me. In CSE children are often forced to choose others for punishment so that we don’t bond with each other. A compassionate understanding of my distress would have saved me so much anguish. There are so many layers to my context. Compassion is essential.
Dr. Spears incorporated participatory activities in her talk and provided examples of how to incorporate self compassionate practices when meeting with clients. Very practical, very user friendly.
This was enlightening, also re-assuring in terms of patience and genuine connectedness with people who are suffering