Suggested Reference
Ayres A & Wilson J (2015). Normalising Shame. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.onlinevents.co.uk/normalising-shame-alison-ayres/. [Last Accessed 09/06/2015].
Event Details
In this hour, I introduced the 'Innate Affects', (Tomkins 1962, Nathanson 1992) and offer a brief introduction to shame in this context, including the Compass of Shame (Ayres 2014), relating this material to Berne’s existential Life Positions.
We discussed how we can use and perhaps share these ideas with our clients, in order to help them to normalise their experience and I offered the Compass of Resilience, my development of Nathanson’s model, as a process through which we can learn to stay in contact with others and with ourselves.
- Ayres, A., (2014) 'Shame and Resilience' UKATA Conference Paper
- Ayres, A., (2014) 'Resilience and Shame' Parts 1 & 2 Strokes: STAA-ezine
- Nathanson, D. (1992) Shame and Pride: affect, sex, and the birth of the self US: Norton
- Nathanson, D (1994) 'Shame Transactions' TAJ 24:2
- Tomkins, S. (1962, 1963, 1991) Affect, Imagery, Consciousness NY: Springer
#TATuesdays are a series of events organised in collaboration with the UKATA, we are looking forward to working with a number of practitioners from the field of Transactional Analysis as a way of getting to know more about TA theory and getting the chance to meet other practitioners in the chat room.
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About Alison Ayres
CTA, TSTA, UKCP Reg Psychotherapist, and COSCA Accredited Trainer
Alison has been involved with TA for more than 25 years, after a career as a music teacher in both the primary and secondary sectors. She recently stepped back from her role as a trainer with Physis Training in Edinburgh, but she continues to run a small clinical practice and on-going supervision groups, in addition to a PTSTA development group, a TEW preparation group and clinical Seminars.
For several years, she has been exploring and developing her interest in shame and affect theory, and, more recently, thinking about pride, resilience and courage – how we can develop our own capacity to be fully present and active in living our lives in the best way we can.
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