Intensive Session: Healing Toxic Shame in Yourself and Others

SESSION INFO

Sunday, January 5, 2020
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Session Type: Intensive

Shame as a healthy human emotion can be transformed into a state of being. As a state of being shame takes over one’s whole identity, which becomes toxic and dehumanizing. Toxic shame essentially the “murdering of the soul.” Recent research has found that pervasive, toxic shame can manifest into personality disorders in adulthood. In this session we will bring shame out of hiding by examining its many faces and exposing its origins and major cover-ups. We will discuss why the healing of toxic shame is critical for therapeutic and restorative interventions with offenders and victims of crime. In addition, participants will learn techniques for reducing toxic shame they can use themselves or with individuals they are working with.

SESSION PRESENTERS

Jennine Hall
Probation Supervisor, 18th Judicial District Probation (CO)


Jennine Hall is employed as a Supervisor for the Probation Department in Arapahoe County. She has worked in various roles within the justice system for twenty years. Jennine earned her Doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado in Psychology and her Master of Social Work degree from Denver University. She has conducted research in the use resiliency and protective factors to reduce criminal risk. She has taught graduate level criminology and psychology courses for the University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado and Metropolitan State College and volunteers her time to instruct graduate seminars in Motivational Interviewing and Leadership at Colorado Christian University. She is a self- professed “ life-long learner” and has an insatiable curiosity regarding how to motivate and change human behavior.