Week 4 - February 2nd

 Takeaways: 

• Transform shame with self-compasion, understand the nature of shame, label shame, preplace judgement with curiosity, acknowledge your inner critic, and practice what is helpful, not harmful.

• Guilt is an experience while shame is a feeling that last longer. It is feeling like a bad person and not being enough.

• When we tell someone they made a mistake, we must make it clear that the action was wrong, not them.

Reflection:

Teachers have to correct students when they make a mistake during the process of learning. It is clear that we do not correct them about everything, but sometimes it is necessary. However, in many cases when someone makes a mistake, they are told bad things, such as "you are so dumb" or "you never do things right." These type of phrases are harmful for the kids and do not help them to learn. When we do something bad, we feel guilt, but feeling shame is deeper and it sticks with the person. Therefore, when correcting children or telling them that something is dangerous, we must make sure that they understand that they are not a mistake, only their actions were a bad choice.  

Activity in class:

We were asked to draw something related to how we felt in that moment and asked to crumble it, spread it out and create something new with it.

References

Wallace, K. (2021). Counselling Skills and Shame [pdf]. 

Wallace, K. (n.d.). Chapter Three: Principles of Focused Centred Art Therapy. In Approaches and Expressive Art Therapy

Wallace, K. (n.d.). . Chapter Four: Attunements. In Approaches and Expressive Art Therapy

Wallace, K. (n.d.). Chapter Five: Using Focused Centred Art Therapy in Therapy Sessions. In Approaches and Expressive Art Therapy

Took Sensory Processing Quiz (see on section "Tests and Quizzes")