Mar 19, 2025

Shame and Guilt

9:00 am - 4:15 pm
CEUs: $ 80.00
No CEUs: $ 45.00
6.0 CEUs available for:

  • LSW/LISW/SWA (CSWMFT #: MCST05237731)

  • Nurses ​(via reciprocity with the CSWMFT board)

  • LNHA (Pending)

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Summary: 

Shame and Guilt are two different ways in which human beings feel bad. They usually suffer from both. Because shame and guilt are healed differently, they must be treated differently.
Although the therapies in which professionals are trained are well designed to heal guilt, professional education does not transmit the skills required for the identification and healing of shame. Shame often involves an involuntary responseand can be triggered by the apparently trivial things. Because shame is in some way an experience of nothingness, any understanding of it must involve the shared honesty of mutual vulnerability. Participants will be deepened by the insights they gain into our own bakground and development, and therefore will be more able to detect signs of disabled shame in clients and families.

This is a program that deals with the ediology and development of our very humanity. Shame and guilt as separate phenomena in the human experience are distinguished, thereby allowing the participant to begin to identify the specific qualities of each. Although these two experiences of feeling bad are often experienced together, the healing required for each mandates that this distinction be clear. The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous cast a light on this distinction and this workshop is based on Ernest Kurtz's study of the development of these principles and their relationship to the phenomenon of shame.

Objectives:

  • Distinguish between shame and guilt in the human condition
  • List specific qualities of shame that enable its identification
  • Describe modalities for dealing with the phenomenon of shame

About the Speaker: Marcella Balin RN, BSN

Marcella Balin is well known and highly regarded as an educator and presenter. She is an independent nurse entrepreneur and lecturer with forty-one years of experience. She began her nursing career in Brookly, N.Y. and spent a decade as an emergency room nurse while moving into the field of education. She parlayed years of widely varied teaching experience into a career of independent teaching and presenting. Since then, Marcella has concentrated on areas of development most empowering to herself and to those around her.

REGISTRATION & CANCELLATION INFORMATION:

​Class sizes are limited, so register early.  Classes with low registrations may be canceled.  If the class is canceled or moved, participants will be contacted via email at least 24 hours in advance.

Classes start and end on time.  To ensure a quality experience for all, please arrive (in-person) at least 15 minutes prior to the class start time.  

SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU credits will be adjusted 0.25 credit hours for every 15 minutes not in attendance; adjusted certificates will be emailed to participants within 3 business days after the training.  LICENSED NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS: full participation is expected, no partial credit will be awarded. Hard copies of certificates will be mailed upon request.

Refunds will be make ONLY for cancellations received three business days prior to the event. If received less than three days prior to the event, a credit can be issued for use at another program within the next 6 months. If notice of cancellation is not received before the date of the program, no refund will be issued. PLEASE NOTE: No show will be charged the full registration fee.

It is difficult to control room temperature to everyone's comfort level.  We suggest you dress in layers that can be adaptable to warm and cool temperatures.

For auditing purposes, arrival and departure times and signature are required on attendance sheets.