
Learn to understand and transform guilt by following practical steps from a world-seminar leader, and grow toward freeing yourself from a heavy conscience.
Explore guilt and bad conscience across cultures, how hurting others triggers guilt, guilt as protection, and survivor guilt, with steps to heal or let go.
Practice exploring your personal feelings of guilt through body awareness, breath, and relaxed attention, then place the guilt in a box and return with a sense of freedom.
Giving and receiving: The need for balance
Dissect how modern society imposes new demands on both men and women, creating guilt when one cannot fulfill perfect roles as providers, caregivers, professionals, and partners.
Explore how guilt arises from an inner, multi-part self—where a pushy critic, an inner drive, and other voices pull us in different directions, shaped by external influences.
Explore how an inner rebel battles a critical part that pushes for restraint, while a hidden part resists, triggering cravings and sabotaging plans to quit sweets.
Explore your inner world with a guided breathing exercise, listening to your inner voice and identifying the pushing, rebellious, and critical parts that shape your plans and actions.
Explore how the inner critic, especially the pushing part, enforces tribe-based rules to secure belonging, triggering guilt and fear when we break social norms.
Explore your inner critic by relaxing, breathing, and visualizing its image to observe at a safe distance. Acknowledge its intention, set boundaries, and respond with curiosity before returning to breath.
Explore how inner turmoil becomes a public spectacle, as guilt and self-judgment emerge after moral slips, with public figures and the call to forgive and own truth.
Explore how to release guilt and end the inner schism by accepting every part of yourself, nurturing the inner child, and integrating the parts into a united sense of self.
Guilt arises from hurting somebody else, and it contrasts with self-critique and standards while examining examples like not doing sports or being told you're rude.
Through a constellation role-play with representatives for each important person, a facilitator guides a client to embody the victim, explore guilt, anger, and compassion, and gain deep insight into guilt.
Explore systemic constellation techniques to address abortion, using representatives for the woman and the aborted child to reveal pain, responsibility, and healing through facing what happened.
As adults, you cannot avoid hurting others, and guilt is inevitable when choosing between cherished commitments and new relationships, especially during stressed moments and imperfect decisions.
Identify common excuses that shield you from responsibility. Confront the reasons behind harsh actions, and practice seeing others' pain to reduce guilt and cultivate freedom.
Examine a fatigued therapist who hurts a client and the client's shock and withdrawal. Learn strategies such as accepting truth, apologizing, and rebuilding trust through human connection.
Explore how the two forms of guilt mix in daily life, illustrated by a couple's heated fight and the guilt felt after hurting another.
Compare two responses to wrongdoing: 'please forgive me' and 'i'm sorry,' illustrating grown-up accountability versus excuses and childish blaming in relationships.
Distinguish two kinds of guilt: a self-centered bad conscience that traps you, and guilt that prompts growth when you see harm and choose change through action.
Explore the victim's side of guilt, explaining how hurt leads to a need for compensation or revenge, and how victims can become perpetrators in an ongoing balance.
Explore the impulse of revenge after hurt, especially in divorce, and examine why this emotional response rarely leads to peace or effective compensation.
Explore the humanity of both victim and perpetrator by examining guilt and shared pain. See how consolation and empathy bridge distance, prevent objectification, and reveal the universal burden of hurt.
Explore guilt as a protective response to unbearable emotions, a third type that arises after hurting standards or others, and learn how it can shield deeper feelings.
Explore how couples cope with the sudden death of a baby by confronting guilt and blame, and learn why accepting pain and helplessness, not blame, builds resilience.
Explore how blame and responsibility arise after a close person's suicide, and how a family consultation ritual after some time helps the involved parties face the death and find relief.
Explore how guilt, dismay, responsibility, and anger mingle after a loved one's suicide, and learn to permit anger to surface, opening space for sadness and healing.
Explore the aftereffects of aggressive thoughts and guilt, illustrating how anger and conflict in a couple lead to a fatal accident, and how remorse blocks grieving and moving on.
Explore how guilt acts as protection from pain and helplessness in relationships, driving blame and responsibility for control during a separation, and learn to accept limits and let go.
Explore survivor's guilt, the feeling that arises when you survive while others die, such as after catastrophes or accidents, and examine its deeper roots and effects on human connections.
Explore how survivor guilt emerges after war and danger, as shared peril dissolves walls, creates intimate bonds, and makes loss feel personal in daily life.
Examine how family connections birth deep rooted guilt carried into adulthood, including guilt from siblings' death, parental illness after birth, and parental divorce.
We finish the course and say goodbye, acknowledging the intense work and long journey of many lessons and topics.
So many are tortured by their bad conscience! About things they did, they should do or things they did not or they should not do. Sounds familiar to you? Then this course is for you: It will help you to overcome your feelings of guilt!
But guilt does not have only one reason, it is not an unity. Sometimes you feel guilty because you act against your inner standards, sometimes you feel guilty because you hurt someone. Sometimes guilt serves as a protection against feeling pain and helplessness, sometimes it shows you the deep connection you have with the misery of other human beings.
The solutions for these diverse types are totally different! In this course you will discover and differentiate the most important types of guilt in your life and in the life of others. And with this understanding you can transform your guilt or – sometimes - forgive yourself. In order to have a happier and peaceful live!
Feedback on udemy
“It’s an eyeopener”
“Gosh Bertold, he has this gentle lovely voice that is so deeply soothing. For that alone, even if the content wasn’t rich, I would say get the course if your are suffering. The content though is rich and full of wise observations, ie about our inner rebel who contradicts what we set out to do and then sabotages our efforts which then of course produces guilt. The only flaw is not his, I don’t know if I am missing a feature but I have to keep pressing the screen to move to the next part which is v annoying because I can’t ever multi task etc. Anyway though, thank you B, for a lovely voice, a thoughtful course and soothing my guilty insides.”
“It’s really very helpful. simple practices but very powerful.”