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Introduction to Shame Competence Training Sessions


When

12/02/2025    
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Introduction to Shame Competence Training is a 2-hour online training workshop that will introduce the idea of ‘shame competence’, relevant for those interested in trauma-informed approaches to policing and related care and social services.

The training will cover the following topics:

  1. I) Why is Understanding Shame Important?
  2. II) What is Shame?

III) The Shame Compass

  1. IV) Recognising Shaming

The training will be delivered by Professor Luna Dolezal from the University of Exeter, who has developed this evidence-based training in collaboration with the Devon and Cornwall Police and the OPCC. Training will be delivered via MSTeams.

Within policing, along with other care and human services, understanding shame, and its impacts and effects, has, to date, not be an explicit focus of training or practice. There exists evidence and research that demonstrates links between shame and a number of policing relevant issues and behaviours, such as: trauma, violence and violent crime, domestic abuse, sexual violence, exploitation, terrorism and radicalization, offender decision making, mass shootings, anti-police attitudes, gang violence, honour killings, looting and spontaneous street violence, among others. Shame is also directly related to disengagement, withdrawal, non-attendance and is a profound force that can impact outcomes in care and social services. As a result, practitioners will benefit from a deeper awareness and understanding about shame, along with competence about how to recognize and manage shame dynamics.

The aim of the shame competence training is to enable individuals and organizations to begin to create and systematise nuanced and collaborative understandings of how shame is produced and experienced as a result of particular interactions, experiences, policies and practice, enhancing organizational and individual emotional intelligence, in order to understand the impacts and effects of shame within professional practice.

There are 6 upcoming sessions, anyone who is interested can attend at no-cost, on a first come, first served basis:

Registration via these Eventbrite pages: Click here


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