Free live class
Focalizing for Shame
In this intro to somatics gathering, Nick Werber and Jo Miller will teach how helpers of all kinds can introduce somatic (body-based) practices to help clients when they’re struggling with shame and unworthiness.
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- Date
- Monday, October 5, 2026
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- 1:00 – 2:30 pm EDT10:00 – 11:30 am Pacific6:00 – 7:30 pm UKFind your time
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- Cost
- Free
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In this workshop Nick and Jo will share
- What questions to ask to help explore the client’s relationship to shame and how it operates
- Some common ways shame presents not only as a thought, but as a nervous system state that drives repetitive beliefs
- A handful of powerful practices to meet shame in new ways which you can use to support yourself and others
- A little bit about the lineage of the practices shared, where they come from and why they’re helpful
- A closing with some recommendations for how people can go further if they want to get trained and certified as a somatic coach
Your next step
Focalizing Practitioner Course
If the class resonates, the practitioner course is where the work deepens. Nick and Jo teach it together, online, starting in November.
- Starts Monday, November 2, 2026
- Mondays at 1pm Eastern, online via Zoom
- Early bird ends October 6th
The free welcome pack has the full program. At the end of it you’ll find a link to book a free one-to-one call with one of our lead trainers.
About The Teachers
Nick Werber
Nick Werber is a writer, educator, and Somatic Experiencing® practitioner whose work explores belonging, identity, and the imprint of family systems on the nervous system. His teaching focuses on how survival patterns form and how people can move from coping and rumination toward greater steadiness in their emotions and bodies.
Nick serves as a director and lead trainer at The Focalizing Institute, a 501(c)(3), where he trained for nearly ten years. He has trained hundreds of therapists, coaches, and helping professionals across more than 15 countries and maintains a private coaching practice.
His work has been featured by The Omega Institute, The Embodiment Conference, and the MyWellbeing Therapy Network. His writing and videos have been viewed more than 50 million times online.
Jo Miller
Jo is a Trainee Elder, Somatic Teacher, and engaged citizen who has specialist interests in developmental, collective, and systemic trauma and shame. She is a Board Member and Senior Trainer of the Focalizing Institute, a somatic training institute that trains therapists and healers in somatic skills internationally. Having trained directly with some of the leaders in her field, she is forever the student and a very grateful teacher.
If you meet her you will feel her relaxed style, hear her deep Northern accent and sense her grounded sense of being. She comes from a long line of working class, big-hearted folk from the north of England and home is currently the blue sea of Margate with her two cats, Zac and Poncho.
There is a deep belief that runs through her bones that when we become more intimate with our body's wisdom, we get to change the world around us from the inside out.