The Unshaming Way

WEEKEND WORKSHOP

June 20 & 21 2026 | Prague

with David Bedrick

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Location: Central Prague, To Be Announced

Saturday, 20th of June, 2026: 10am – 5pm

Sunday, 21st of June, 2026: 10am – 5pm

Most of us, consciously or unconsciously, are imprisoned by shame, creating a wall that separates you from your true gifts and essential aliveness. Unshaming helps you remove that wall, access your deep wisdom, and celebrate the authentic self you were born to be.

Join David Bedrick in London for The Unshaming Way, a powerful two-day workshop that is open to everyone.

When you try to silence or change parts of your personality because they’re “too much”...

When you wish for a different body because you believe yours isn’t attractive enough…

When your inner voice abuses you with words like “I’m not smart enough,” “I’m too ugly,” “I’m a failure,” “I’m a procrastinator,” “I’m undisciplined,” “I self-medicate”...

When you hide, self-censor, and reject yourself before others have a chance to…

When you wonder, “What will people think of me?”...

When you find certain feelings disturbing or problematic and try to make them ‘go away’...

When you experience yourself as not powerful, beautiful, and intelligent…

When you constantly try to heal, fix, or change parts of yourself…

All of these are ways shame can have a hold over your life.

Shame is not a feeling, it is a way of looking upon yourself and others.

Shame prevents you from truly knowing yourself and sharing your gifts with the world.

It keeps you small and invisible, afraid to fully explore the parts of your soul that are yearning to be brought forward and celebrated.

Over the course of our lives, layers and layers of shame build up based on ideas about who we’re supposed to be. It comes from external voices – your family, society – but as a child, you internalize it. And all of those “shoulds” become a wall that separates you from who you truly are: your gifts, your purpose, the essential aliveness you were born with.

In this way, shame prevents you from fully knowing yourself and sharing your gifts with the world. It keeps you small and invisible, afraid to fully explore the parts of your soul that are yearning to be brought forward and celebrated.

When you learn how to Unshame, you transform the internal viewpoint you have about yourself and it feels like meeting yourself for the first time.

The result is a life where you are liberated from judgment, connected to your inner intelligence, freer to express your true self, and able to create YOUR own path that is aligned with your soul purpose and the unique medicine you are here to share with the world.

Unshaming is one of the most impactful and fast-working techniques available to help you understand the true value and intelligence you have to share.

ABOUT THE TRAINING

In this training, you will forge a new, loving and compassionate relationship with your authentic feelings by addressing shame at the root and learning techniques to divest it from your consciousness.

You will see how shame pervades the way you look at your own development, how it leads you to try and heal yourself of yourself. You may even be shocked to learn how rare it is to be looked at with Unshaming eyes - eyes that delve fiercely and gently into what it’s really like to be you.

When you Unshame, you are nurturing the garden of your healing by allowing the seeds of your true purpose to flower within you.

Every “bad” thing you see within yourself is a seed with profound potential to blossom into something wonderful.

That means the things you most desire to change about yourself. Your depression, your body image, your insomnia, your relationship problems, your codependence, your migraines, your parenting…

Each of these things is a seed inside you.

When you learn how to witness them without shame, you will find that they become the most beautiful flowers in your garden.

Shame is how you face what disturbs you. Shame twists your healing path, leading you to turn against yourself, wishing you were someone else, or simply believing that something is wrong with you.

But there is another option: Facing your difficulties as if there is a deep message and meaning in them, as if they are offering doorways to the shadow’s gold, as if they are invitations to embracing your wholeness like never before.

In this 2-day workshop, you’ll immerse yourself in the Unshaming paradigm + witness Unshaming in action.

You will leave Unshamed with new eyes and a new relationship with yourself.

There will be 3 parts of this training over the two days:

Day 1:

I. Introduction to Shame


In part 1, we will define shame and elucidate its meaning. You will have the opportunity to experience unshaming firsthand as David takes student questions and guides you through unshaming your difficulties and feelings in real time.

You’ll understand how shame shows up in your own narrative, which is the vital first step to welcoming greater self-awareness, love, and compassion into your life.


II. Unshaming Your Feelings:
Deepening Your Relationship with Your Body/Soma


Our feelings are a living world within us. Many of us were shamed for our emotions as children, especially if you’re highly sensitive or people in your life told you to “toughen up, ” or if you had a powerful voice and expression and silenced, censored, or muted.

In part 2, we will work with the intelligence of your emotions, including how they show up in the body and how you can identify feelings that have been stifled by shame. You will learn to identify how shame fits into your narrative around emotions, so you can release it. You will practice the specific skill, through somatic experiencing, of Unshaming feelings that create difficulty for you.

When you unshame your feelings, you will open a doorway to the intelligence they are here to share with you.

Day 2:

III. Unshaming Inner Criticism and Internalized Oppression:
Abuse and Trauma


Shame has its origin in the painful experiences we have when we are young. When you are denied, dismissed or gaslighted at a young age, you internalize these ways of witnessing yourself. That is to say, you learn to treat yourself internally as you were treated as a child AND learn how to deny, dismiss, and gaslight your inner experience.

The result: You fall prey to destructive inner criticism, which lives in the shadows of your mind, under the radar of your awareness. In essence, the abuse continues internally, AND you remain unconscious of it and, therefore, don’t address it, stop it, or care for yourself properly.

In part 3, you will learn drama-therapeutic techniques to begin processing the inner dialogue (this is similar to one of the central tenets and approaches of internal family systems).

You will work on your deepest responses to these forms of abuse and criticism, develop your power to defend yourself from these abuses, and develop compassion for yourself.

Imagine a life where…

  • You understand where shame appears in your story, and you can begin the process of liberating that energy from where it lives your body.

  • Your somatic work feels richer and more transformative because you have woven UnShaming into your inner work practice.

  • No matter where shame appears in your life – towards your feelings, boundaries, abuse, trauma, addiction, lifestyle, relationship, or needs – you have a sense of how you can apply UnShaming techniques to soothe your suffering.

  • You’ve taken the first steps to building psychological immunity to shame, and self-criticism and judgment begin to fall away from your daily experiences (while remembering that UnShaming is a lifelong process).

  • You know how to bring this work beyond your own individual healing and into the broader culture to UnShame your family, community, and the world.

REGISTRATION DETAILS:

Location: Central Prague, To Be Announced

Two Day Event:

Saturday, 20th of June, 2026: 10am – 5pm

Sunday, 21st of June, 2026: 10am – 5pm

Prices are in USD.

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MEET YOUR FACILITATOR:

David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is a teacher, counselor, and attorney. He was on the faculty for the University of Phoenix and the Process Work Institute in the U.S. and Poland and is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies where he offers facilitation training to deepen the skills and awareness of healers as well as workshops for individuals to further their own personal development. David’s embodied way of teaching is far more than informational, students are often brought to tears and face to face with their beauty, power, life path and soul. 

David’s passion for studying shame arose from his childhood, growing up with a father who used fists and belts to express his rage and a mother who coped by denying and gaslighting his experience. Over thirty years of research, teaching and working with individuals awakened his heart and mind to how the dominant healing paradigm pathologizes people - seeing our sufferings and ills as something to fix and cure, instead of messages to be understood and invitations to deepen our relationships with ourselves and the world around us. In this way, David understands our difficulties to be “dreams” - invitations to insight, soul, and the divine unfolding of our lives. 

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

His newest book, The Unshaming Way, was published by North Atlantic books in November 2024.