Kids & Family
This program will explain, with reference to interpersonal neurobiology, how consistent failures of interpersonal attunement and recognition lead to fragmentation and dissociation, the genesis of chronic shame.. It will distinguish between the processes of adaptive or useful shame events and maladaptive or destructive chronic states of shame. It will describe how various kinds of misattunement lead to various configurations or “flavours” of shame. It will discuss how shame is related to trauma, addiction, and certain kinds of family patterns. With all this as context, it will propose that “right brain” listening is an antidote to shame.