Ann Manning
Homeopathy
Self-Compassion
Restoring Self- Worth Training
One participant shared:
"Restoring Self-Worth is a wonderful course
that helped me to know myself better
and gave me a smorgasbord of useful tools
to manage difficult feelings, like anxiety and stress.
I feel much better about myself and past events.
I’m happier, calmer, and quietly confident that I can face
any tough times that might lie ahead." M.Z.
When you understand how the body responds to threat, it is easier to appreciate why self-worth can be so elusive.
This training draws on several complementary approaches:
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Self-compassion — the heart of this work. Learn to meet difficult feelings with support and encouragement, so they gradually lose their grip on you.
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Building resilience — a full session devoted to embodying positive experience and countering our innate negativity bias, so good moments.
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Somatic awareness — learn to notice the sensations and signals in your body, connecting with emotions and experiences on a deeper level. A valuable tool for processing trauma and difficult experiences.
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Working with the inner critic — understand that self-criticism often comes from a misguided need to keep you safe, and learn practices that replace it with a more compassionate voice.
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Working with shame — recognise shame as an innocent emotion at its core, and learn practices that loosen its hold on you.
The Restoring Self-Worth training comprises six one-hour sessions, designed to teach you new ways of relating to yourself.
You can also book individual session that will be tailored to you immediate needs.
In this training you will learn skills that you can continue to use as you go deeper in your healing.
The outline below is a guide and will be adapted to match your individual needs.
Week 1- Getting oriented
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Explore your experience of self-doubt, the way it affects your life & the stories that underlie it.
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Learn what is going on in your nervous system that gets in the way of shifting negative beliefs.
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Begin to learn some self-compassion practices as the first step to disempowering these beliefs.
Week 2 - Building resources to deepen safety and resilience
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Explore embodied and externalised practices to help establish and maintain stability when exposed to vulnerable inner experiences and sensations.
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Develop awareness of ways to enhance resilience by building inner resources and internalising positive experiences.
Week 3 - Exploring somatic awareness
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Learn about the window of tolerance and its relation to the activity of the nervous system.
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Begin to recognise when your nervous system is moving outside the window of tolerance, and understand ways to anchor awareness to avoid overwhelm.
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Learn how manage difficult emotions by locating them in the body and practising the process: 'soften - soothe - allow'.
Week 4 - Meeting the inner critic with compassion
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Explore the role your inner critic has played in attempting to keep you safe.
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Discover how your self-compassionate voice can be a kinder source of motivation.
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Learn to savour and assimilate a more positive relationship with yourself.
Week 5 - Working with shame
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Understand the components of shame and how it is created and sustained.
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Recognise how unworthiness is one of the core beliefs that underlies shame.
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Practice antidoting the impacts of shame with self-compassion.
Week 6 - Bring it all together
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Review all that you have learned over the past five sessions.
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Identify how the approaches learned can support you and which practices have been most valuable for you.
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Develop a plan to work with these practices in the future.
How I came to this work
During over 40 years of meditation practice, I would often find myself paying attention to the sensations in my body where I could feel energy was stuck. And I learned that if I stayed present, accepting that energy as it was, that it would gradually soften and shift. There would be a sense of release, and a corresponding positive shift in my state of mind.
In 2018 I was introduced to Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and that same year I took part in a MSC teacher training. Applying what I have learned from MSC I now bring an attitude of caring
when I am sitting with inner discomfort, and this helps the tension shifts with greater ease.
In recent times there have been important advances in psychological research and techniques, applying the knowledge and experience of mindfulness and of somatic or bodily awareness.
I have been fortunate to study with many of these great-hearted teachers, including:
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Chris Germer (Mindful Self-Compassion)
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David Treleaven (Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness)
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Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing)
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Pat Ogden (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy)
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Rick Hanson (Positive Neuroplasticity)
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Rajan Sankaran (Wise Processes)