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Unravelling
Unworthiness Training

One participant shared:

"Unravelling Unworthiness 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.

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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 Unravelling Unworthiness training comprises six one-hour sessions, designed to teach you new ways of relating to yourself. 

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You can also book individual session that will be tailored to you immediate needs.

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In this training you will learn skills that you can continue to use as you go deeper in your healing.

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The outline below is a guide and will be adapted to match your individual needs.

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Week 1- Getting oriented

  • Explore your experience of self-doubt, the way it affects your life & the stories that underlie it. 

  • Learn what is going on in your nervous system that gets in the way of shifting negative beliefs.

  • Begin to learn some self-compassion practices as the first step to disempowering these beliefs.

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Week 2 - Building resources to deepen safety and resilience​

  • Explore embodied and externalised practices to help establish and maintain stability when exposed to vulnerable inner experiences and sensations.

  • Develop awareness of ways to enhance resilience by building inner resources and internalising positive experiences.

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Week 3 - Exploring somatic awareness

  • Learn about the window of tolerance and its relation to the activity of the nervous system. 

  • Begin to recognise when your nervous system is moving outside the window of tolerance, and understand ways to anchor awareness to avoid overwhelm. 

  • Learn how manage difficult emotions by locating them in the body and practising the process: 'soften - soothe - allow'.

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Week 4 - Meeting the inner critic with compassion

  • Explore the role your inner critic has played in attempting to keep you safe.

  • Discover how your self-compassionate voice can be a kinder source of motivation.

  • Learn to savour and assimilate a more positive relationship with yourself.

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Week 5 - Working with shame

  • Understand the components of shame and how it is created and sustained.

  • Recognise how unworthiness is one of the core beliefs that underlies shame.

  • Practice antidoting the impacts of shame with self-compassion.

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Week 6 - Bring it all together

  • Review all that you have learned over the past five sessions.

  • Identify how the approaches learned can support you and which practices have been most valuable for you.

  • Develop a plan to work with these practices in the future. 

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Fees:

Series of six sessions                    $540.00 

Six sessions paid in two lots        $300.00 x 2

Single session                               $110.00 

Concession available for students and pensioners. Also for those who have taken Nurturing Self-Compassion course. 

Contact me re concession prices. 

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.

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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.

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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:

  • Chris Germer (Mindful Self-Compassion)

  • David Treleaven (Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness)

  • Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing)

  • Pat Ogden (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy)

  • Rick Hanson (Positive Neuroplasticity)

  • Rajan Sankaran (Wise Processes)

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