Presented by Hidden Water, Inc.

CSA: Disgust, Shame and Unconscious Contracts We Made to Survive

About This Event

Meeting day: Monday
Date: July 6, 2026
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Facilitator: Ann Malabre
Location: Virtual - Zoom
Theme:  Self Care

What I would like to offer is an exploration focusing on shame and disgust, what the healthy intention of these emotions that effect motivation and how they become entangled into identity when CSA happens. I would like to support participants in identifying unconscious contracts they may have made to make sense of their experience as children. Beside circle discussion, there will be some explanation, a demonstration, and some journaling. I hope to help people see the wisdom of these contracts when they were made as well as the costs over time including how they effect present day life. To release or loosen contracts, it is through making them explicit that helps recognition as to what parts are no longer needed, what parts can be replaced, and what parts still make sense as they are. Through this process I hope to bring understanding to why things like breaking silence are so anxiety provoking, why dissociation happens still, and what underlies some of the ways we as survivors see and understand ourselves. My hope is this workshop will bring  more freedom within these bodies we live in so full of our experience.

Ann is a green circle keeper at HiddenWater. This summer, Ann will assist HiddenWater’s Safe(r) Adults Program, a program she supported in its creation. As a trauma support and recovery coach, Ann works with survivors of childhood trauma. In addition to direct support, Ann assists Sarah Peyton, a neuroscience educator and author working with her in programs on the aspects of healing and recovery of many childhood traumas. Focused on the research behind why traumatic events are so devastating, this program emphasizes and provides resonance and accompaniment in the healing process. 

As a survivor of sexual assault by two teachers in high school, Ann is the leader of a survivor support and advocacy group working toward  systemic change within educational institutions in how sexual abuse is addressed.

All summer workshops will have a component of Circle, and participants with or without Circle experience are welcome.

About This Event

Meeting day: Monday
Date: July 6, 2026
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Facilitator: Ann Malabre
Location: Virtual - Zoom
Theme:  Self Care

What I would like to offer is an exploration focusing on shame and disgust, what the healthy intention of these emotions that effect motivation and how they become entangled into identity when CSA happens. I would like to support participants in identifying unconscious contracts they may have made to make sense of their experience as children. Beside circle discussion, there will be some explanation, a demonstration, and some journaling. I hope to help people see the wisdom of these contracts when they were made as well as the costs over time including how they effect present day life. To release or loosen contracts, it is through making them explicit that helps recognition as to what parts are no longer needed, what parts can be replaced, and what parts still make sense as they are. Through this process I hope to bring understanding to why things like breaking silence are so anxiety provoking, why dissociation happens still, and what underlies some of the ways we as survivors see and understand ourselves. My hope is this workshop will bring  more freedom within these bodies we live in so full of our experience.

Ann is a green circle keeper at HiddenWater. This summer, Ann will assist HiddenWater’s Safe(r) Adults Program, a program she supported in its creation. As a trauma support and recovery coach, Ann works with survivors of childhood trauma. In addition to direct support, Ann assists Sarah Peyton, a neuroscience educator and author working with her in programs on the aspects of healing and recovery of many childhood traumas. Focused on the research behind why traumatic events are so devastating, this program emphasizes and provides resonance and accompaniment in the healing process. 

As a survivor of sexual assault by two teachers in high school, Ann is the leader of a survivor support and advocacy group working toward  systemic change within educational institutions in how sexual abuse is addressed.

All summer workshops will have a component of Circle, and participants with or without Circle experience are welcome.

If this workshop is full, please join the waiting list.