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In life, some patterns of change are created by our force, our power moving it forward and some patterns of change are created because they simply can't go on anymore.
Sometimes we need UnShame your Anger, Speak your Truth and Unearth your Power and other times we need to tap into the energy of Death, Deadliness and Renewal.
Join us this summer for two TRANSFORMATIVE master classes with David Bedrick.
MASTER CLASS ONE:
ANGER, TRUTH & POWER
UnShame your Anger, Speak your Truth and Unearth your Power
Most people meet anger with a shaming attitude.
In this class your anger will be honored - not treated it as a secondary emotion, but instead as a POWER and a seed that, once taken root, can open doors, erect boundaries, speak truths to power, and give support to life long agendas of relationship with self, with others, and your calling to live a purposeful and authentic life life.
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In our class we will:
Explore and talk about anger— What’s it like? What do you know about it? What are the somatic experiences of what people call anger? What does anger sound like and how can it be expressed in sounds and in words?
Learn about the shaming witness— What is against anger? Why not be angry? Who says you shouldn’t be angry and to allow the angry energy to speak back to that? How can we use somatic experiences to speak back to the internalized shaming witness?
Work with the radical soma - not just the somatic feeling exprience but also movement and voice. Why? Because anger moves through you and it’s very hard to feel our anger when we’ve been taught to hide it, to suppress it in a way that our body isn’t free to move with it.
Be guided through exercises to tap into, feel, move and express your anger AND learn how to integrate this into your life.
MASTER CLASS TWO:
DYING TO BE BORN:
Death, Deadliness & Renewal
If I asked you now, “Do you know you're going to die?” You would say yes.
But then if I asked, “Do you act like you're going to die soon?” Most would say no.
We live our lives like we have many years left, infinite time for all of the plans and goals we have for ourselves. There’s nothing wrong with that BUT the intimate sense of our mortality proceeds differently.
Change can come through action and intention; AND change can come by letting go, by “DYING."
Would you be open to taking this journey with me – learning to die and integrate aspects of your own ‘deadliness’?
The class recording is now available for instant access.
In this class we will:
Die. Ok, I don’t mean literally die. BUT, You will actually be led into the somatic experience of being dead. This can be done; I’ve done it 100’s of times, including with people who are literally near the end of their life. AND, don’t worry, I’ll make sure you come out of it :-)
Discover your deadliness: You’ll make contact with the energy, the spirit, that could kill you. It’s a shamanic ally. And that will allow you to build a relationship with that source and even integrate it.
Discuss issues of suicide, hopelessness, chronic difficulties that don’t change, depression, and changing life long patterns.
And OF COURSE, as always, you will get a chance to watch David do his magic by facilitating indivduals, modeling his Unshaming
What Past Students Are Saying…
“David Bedrick is a gentle warrior. His methodology is phenomenal. The most kind, soft, powerful vehicle I’ve ever encountered to heal trauma and release shame. I wish everyone would adopt this way of helping people through pain. Known and unknown.”
— Sue
“David has a lovely wisdom and skill for liberating a truth you didn't know was there! I'm in the process of my third workshop with him and it's changed my life in ways I could've never imagined.”
— Paula Retter
“I’m savouring every moment of being in the program, and slowly feeling those deep internalised beliefs and voices shift.
This is life- changing work and the reverberations are enormous. Thank you for sharing your life’s work and experience with us ❤️”
“David, this experience has been shifting bedrock level things inside me in ways I can sense are only just opening. It’s beautiful!
I feel like I’m birthing a new me. And I’ve shared ideas and the exercises with my mom who was abused as a child and she’s finding healing she’s never felt 😭 Thank you for these gifts!”
— Shanna
“Thank you for helping me see myself, my story, with a brighter, more empathetic and humane lense. Your course on shame was profoundly transformative, leaving me with a renewed consciousness of the poetry of life.
—Tatiana St-Louis
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR:
David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is a teacher, counselor, and attorney. He was on the faculty for the University of Phoenix and the Process Work Institute in the U.S. and Poland and is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies where he offers facilitation training to deepen the skills and awareness of healers as well as workshops for individuals to further their own personal development. David’s embodied way of teaching is far more than informational, students are often brought to tears and face to face with their beauty, power, life path and soul.
David’s passion for studying shame arose from his childhood, growing up with a father who used fists and belts to express his rage and a mother who coped by denying and gaslighting his experience. Over thirty years of research, teaching and working with individuals awakened his heart and mind to how the dominant healing paradigm pathologizes people - seeing our sufferings and ills as something to fix and cure, instead of messages to be understood and invitations to deepen our relationships with ourselves and the world around us. In this way, David understands our difficulties to be “dreams” - invitations to insight, soul, and the divine unfolding of our lives.
David writes for Psychology Today and is the author of three books: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change. His new book is You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption.
His upcoming book, The Unshaming Way, will be published by North Atlantic books in 2024.