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Unpacking and Healing Shame

This interactive presentation offers practitioners theory and tools for understanding and healing the widespread individual and collective issues around shame. It aims to equip participants with insight and skill to support clients in overcoming shame-related challenges and to help transform the systems that cause and perpetuate shame. We will explore the underlying causes, manifestations and profound individual and collective impact of shame, the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression and paths to individual and collective healing and social change.

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Unpacking and Healing Shame

Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 6:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
$59.99 Shira Sameroff

This interactive presentation offers practitioners theory and tools for understanding and healing the widespread individual and collective issues around shame. It aims to equip participants with insight and skill to support clients in overcoming shame-related challenges and to help transform the systems that cause and perpetuate shame. We will explore the underlying causes, manifestations and profound individual and collective impact of shame, the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression and paths to individual and collective healing and social change.

About the Presenter

Shira Sameroff, LCSW is a therapist, coach, teacher and group facilitator with over 30 years of practice with people of diverse identities, ages and life stories in a wide array of settings. Professional roles have included therapy, supervision, group design and facilitation, professional development training, teaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half on the leadership team of a community-based social work agency.

Shira weaves a range of therapeutic healing modalities including IFS, Hakomi and other holistic, somatic, nature-based and anti-oppressive practices into her work with individuals, groups and organizations. She works around themes including ending oppression, shame, loneliness, group facilitation, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth and tending to self as a practitioner. Shira’s approach is collaborative, intuitive, creative and full of heart and is rooted in my own lived experience of healing, learning and emerging.

This workshop Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

Unpacking and Healing Shame

Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 6:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT

Presenter: Shira Sameroff

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Course Length: 3 Hours

Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the origins and development of shame, and the role it plays in clients emotional well being and relational patterns.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of the difference between shame and guilt.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural and societal influences on shame and its expression.

This workshop Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

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This interactive presentation offers practitioners theory and tools for understanding and healing the widespread individual and collective issues around shame. It aims to equip participants with insight and skill to support clients in overcoming shame-related challenges and to help transform the systems that cause and perpetuate shame. We will explore the underlying causes, manifestations and profound individual and collective impact of shame, the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression and paths to individual and collective healing and social change.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the origins and development of shame, and the role it plays in clients emotional well being and relational patterns.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of the difference between shame and guilt.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural and societal influences on shame and its expression.

Agenda:
This course can be 1.5-3.5 hours and agenda depends on length.


This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
  • CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
    CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.
  • Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
  • Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
  • Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0774.

Refund Policy: Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
48 hours before: full refund less $5.00 processing fee. After event no refund will be given.
*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.