This conference invites you to explore the deep and intimate questions we have all gone through at some point in our lives – “What’s wrong with me? Why am I like this? How come I can’t change? Why do I keep feeling this way?”

Social and relational constructs tend to approach healing as if our difficulties are exclusively indicators of illness, promoting the fact that something is wrong with us when we suffer. While this view may motivate us to find answers and act towards our well-being when it comes to our psychological and spiritual healing, it fails to leave room for responsible and broader exploration and sometimes rejects the deeper intelligence embedded in our difficulties – who is the essence behind our struggles. As a social phenomenon, this perception of human struggles blurs our humanity, our gifts, and our way of life. What holds us captive in our inability to take responsibility as a simple ability to respond to reality and see ourselves is shame.

We invite you to experience a shift in perspective from shame to love. Combined with real stories and real healings, David Bedrick offers a path to healing through un-healing. A journey of shame through physical health,
spiritual bypass
, sexism, hunger and difficult feelings, followed by an analysis and your questions.

About the speaker:

David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is a teacher, counsellor and lawyer. He has served on the faculty of the University of Phoenix and the Process Work Institute in the US and Poland, and is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-Based Studies, where he offers facilitation courses to deepen the skills and awareness of therapists, coaches and healers, as well as workshops for individuals to further their personal development.

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. Her new book is You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption. “

His next book, UnShamed, will be published by North Atlantic books in 2024.