Return to the Inner Child, Part 3 – Overcoming Your Inner Critic
We invite you to take part in a workshop devoted to recognising and quieting the toxic voices within us – the voices of the Inner Critic and Superego, which attack, limit and keep us trapped in old defensive strategies.
This workshop is part of the “Return to the Inner Child” cycle and focuses on finding your own power and strength to confront the inner parts that undermine your worth, take away joy, block expression and make it harder to participate more fully in life.
The message of the Inner Critic is often something we carry from childhood. Its aim may be to keep us imprisoned in limiting beliefs, roles, images and defensive strategies. Instead of supporting growth, these voices often cause suffering, fear, guilt, withdrawal and self-limitation.
What will this workshop be about?
Through psychoeducation, meditation and bodywork, we will deepen self-awareness and strengthen the courage to resist Superego attacks and defend ourselves – especially our Inner Child.
Instead of attacking ourselves internally, we will direct attention inward, holding and accepting the feelings, needs and vulnerable parts that need protection and care.
We will also look at childhood history to see how we were wounded and what defensive strategies and self-sabotaging mechanisms we had to develop. We will actively recognise the limiting forces that make us afraid to participate fully in life and use the potential hidden within us.
Themes of work
- what the Superego is and how it is formed,
- how to recognise the functional part of the Superego and distinguish it from the toxic part,
- how the critical part of the Superego was formed within me,
- what “comfort zone” the Inner Critic wants to keep me in,
- what roles I have to play and what image of myself I create,
- what this part says about me, the world and others,
- how I feel and behave under the influence of this voice,
- ways to confront the Critical and Demanding part within us,
- how bodywork and meditation can help us free ourselves from the toxic part of the Superego,
- how to build a healthy structure of the Adult part, which gently and firmly stands up for us.
Who is this workshop for?
- for people who experience frequent attacks from the Inner Critic and need strengthening in defending themselves,
- for people who want to recognise their potential and build a healthy structure around it – the Healthy Adult mode,
- for people who are looking for their true direction in life,
- for people who want to activate the strength and power within themselves in order to manifest themselves in life,
- for people who want to work with guilt, fear, withdrawal, inner compulsion or self-sabotage,
- for people who want to deepen their work with the Inner Child, the body, meditation and emotions.
Form of work
The workshop will combine psychoeducation, meditation, bodywork, Inner Child work, corrective experiences and sharing in the group. The work takes place in a safe space, with respect for each participant’s boundaries, readiness and individual pace.
Group work, intimacy and safety, which we create during the workshop, can become a resource for facing the inner Goliath and experiencing what it is like to live your own life more free from self-limiting mechanisms.
Organisational information
- Date: to be confirmed
- Hours: Friday 19:00 – Sunday 17:00
- Location: Centrum Bhavana, Bolesławicka 21, Warsaw
- Cost: 200 EUR
- Facilitated by: Agnieszka Wrzosek-Borodiuk and Devi Legaki
The workshop is part of the “Return to the Inner Child” cycle. You can participate in a selected part of the cycle or continue the process during the following workshops.