Introduction to Shame Competence Training (20.03.24)

Birmingham Community Safety Partnership would like to invite you to attend an Intro to Shame Competence workshop delivered by The University of Exeter. This project is funded via the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.

This 2-hour introductory online session looks to introduce you to how shame is a strong driver of decision-making and behaviour, and as a result is a significant force to consider when delivering services such as tackling youth offending, policing, social care, teaching, healthcare, foster care among other services.

The Introduction to Shame Competence aims to enable individuals and organisations to begin to create and systematise nuanced and collaborative understandings of how shame is produced and experienced as a result of particular interactions, experiences, policies and practice, enhancing organisational and individual emotional intelligence, in order to understand the impacts and effects of shame within professional practice. Shame experienced in encounters with professionals, such as healthcare workers, police, social workers and other care professionals, can lead to withdrawal, avoidance, inaccurate disclosures and other forms of disengagement. Shame also impacts professionals, and evidence shows that shame is related to burnout, stress and trauma.

The training will be delivered by Professor Luna Dolezal from the University of Exeter, who has developed this evidence-based training in collaboration with the Devon and Cornwall Police and the OPCC.

Luna is an expert on shame, and has worked extensively researching shame's role in professional practice. She is the PI on the Shame and Medicine project and the UKRI-AHRC Covid Rapid Response project Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 and a co-I on the Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures project. She has worked closely with the Trauma Informed Plymouth Network and her book COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities). London, Bloomsbury Academic was published in February 2023.

More information about Shame Competence Training:

Shame and trauma are inextricably bound together. Recent research in trauma studies has argued that “post-traumatic shame” is a key experience that shapes post-trauma states (Theisen-Womersley, 2021), and others have come to theorise and describe PTSD as a “shame disorder” (Herman, 2011). Shame is a world-organising emotion for many trauma survivors, and shame is also behind much of the maladaptive behaviour associated with trauma, PTSD and other post-trauma states. As a result, it is clear that trauma-informed practitioners will benefit from a deeper awareness and understanding of shame, along with competence about how to recognise and manage shame dynamics. Shame is also directly related to disengagement, withdrawal, non-attendance and is a profound force that can impact outcomes in care and social services. As a result, practitioners will benefit from a deeper awareness and understanding about shame, along with competence about how to recognize and manage shame dynamics.The aim of the shame competence training is to enable individuals and organizations to begin to create and systematise nuanced and collaborative understandings of how shame is produced and experienced as a result of particular interactions, experiences, policies and practice, enhancing organizational and individual emotional intelligence, in order to understand the impacts and effects of shame within professional practice.

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