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David Bedrick presents…
The Foundations of UnShaming Training
Learn the framework. Watch it work on real people.
Stop fixing yourself. Start understanding yourself.
Most healing approaches treat your symptoms, struggles, and difficult behaviors as problems to correct. UnShaming takes a fundamentally different view: the parts of you that you've been taught to hide carry intelligence. Your anger, your shutting down, your hunger, your inner critic: each one is a messenger, not a malfunction.
Shame is not a feeling. It is a way of looking upon yourself, a lens installed by every moment your pain was denied, dismissed, or met with a turned back. UnShaming replaces that lens. Not with positive thinking. With witnessing.
This training is the clearest first step into that work.
What happens in the training
A 1 hour and 45 minute recorded training, in three movements
01 The teaching
The complete introduction to the UnShaming paradigm
What shame actually is, where it comes from, why the things you've tried haven't dissolved it, and the core moves of the approach: witnessing, following the body, and finding the intelligence in what you've been taught to call a symptom.
02 The live work
David works with real people, in real time, on their real struggles
Then the part no book can give you. You'll watch what happens when a human being is finally witnessed instead of fixed. Students consistently say this is the moment the framework becomes real: something in your own body recognizes it. Oh, that's what I've been waiting for.
03 The questions
David's response to a Q&A
Answers that address the depth of the model in response to real student questions.
Optional · your call to include or hold
The perfect companion
The Unshaming Way Workbook
A full program of exercises and reflection questions in David's approach, from North Atlantic Books. The print edition for writing your way through, or the audiobook, which came out beautifully. Available wherever books are sold.
Where this leads
This training is the ground floor. From here, students go on to the live courses and masterclasses, and, for practitioners, the Trauma-Work Bundle and the 10-month certification. Wherever you're headed, this is where the path begins. And if all you ever do is this training and the free essays, that's a complete journey too.
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About David
David Bedrick, J.D., Dipl. PW
David is the founder of the UnShaming Way, a depth-psychology approach built on one conviction: your symptoms, struggles, and survival strategies carry intelligence, not pathology.
He is the author of five books, including The Unshaming Way (North Atlantic Books), endorsed by Gabor Maté, MD. He has trained hundreds of clinicians and taught thousands of individuals. Before psychology, he practiced law; before law, he survived the home that taught him everything the books later confirmed.