New! LIVE Expert Spotlight Training with Q&A
Healing Emotional Shutdown
A Path to Authentic Connection
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 @ 11 am MT | 1 pm ET
Learn why emotional shutdown is a natural response to emotional pain—and how to restore deep, authentic connection through attachment-based healing. In this free 90-minute training, you’ll explore how shame, avoidance, and early wounds create emotional withdrawal—and what you can do to reconnect.
Why does emotional shutdown happen and how do we break the cycle?
Emotional shutdown isn’t about not caring.
It’s a learned protective response to past wounds, shame, and emotional overwhelm.
Men often suppress feelings, retreat, or avoid connection when emotions feel too intense—leaving loved ones feeling distant and frustrated.
This masterclass reframes emotional withdrawal as a protective pattern, not a character flaw.
You’ll learn how relational bids go missed or deflected, how shame spirals take hold, and how to gently create the conditions for emotional safety and re-connection.
This FREE 90-minute masterclass is for anyone who wants to break the emotional shutdown cycle.
Whether you’re the one who withdraws…
Love someone who shuts down…
Or work with clients caught in patterns of avoidance and shame…
This masterclass will help you understand emotional shutdown as a protective response—and give you tools to gently reconnect.
In This FREE, 90-Minute Live Masterclass, You’ll Learn...
In this all-new live training, Daniel Vose and Dr. Diane Poole Heller will explore how shame and early wounds lead to emotional shutdown in men—and share somatic tools to support reconnection and emotional safety.
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Why Emotional Shutdown Is a Response to Shame—Not Rejection
Learn how emotional overwhelm, past hurt, and performance pressure can lead men to develop protective shutdown behaviors like stonewalling, silence, and deflection.
2
The Male Cycle of Repression
Daniel will introduce his signature framework—hurt → shame → guarding → compensation → shutdown—so you can recognize where you or your loved ones may be stuck.
3
How to Interrupt the Shutdown Cycle Without Triggering More Withdrawal
Discover how to engage shutdown patterns with compassion and clarity—so connection becomes possible again, without forcing or pressuring.
4
Somatic Tools That Foster Emotional Safety
Experience short, guided practices like the “Brick Wall” demonstration and the “Kind Eyes” visualization—powerful tools for rebuilding trust and presence.
5
A Framework for Connection Without Pressure
Learn how to distinguish emotional overwhelm from avoidance and make invitations that invite openness rather than trigger shame.
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Who Should Join Us?
New! Free LIVE Masterclass with Q&A
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Emotionally Shutdown Men
Understand why you withdraw—and gain tools to reconnect without becoming overwhelmed. -
Partners of Shutdown Men
If you feel like your partner is emotionally distant and you’re unsure how to break the silence, this masterclass will show you how to understand him better and heal the divide. -
Therapists, Coaches, and Healing Professionals
Gain practical, somatic tools to support clients struggling with shame, avoidance, and relational disconnection. -
Anyone Affected by Emotional Distance
If you’ve felt unseen, unheard, or emotionally disconnected, this training offers new insight—and a path forward.
Join us live for 90 minutes of teaching and Q&A—exploring how shame and early wounds lead to emotional withdrawal.
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Healing Emotional Shutdown
A Path to Authentic Connection
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 @ 11 am MT | 1 pm ET
Meet the Experts
Emotional shutdown isn’t a character flaw—it’s a survival strategy. When we stop taking it personally, we can finally start reconnecting.
Daniel Vose MA S.E.P. is an educator and coach. He has helped train hundreds of therapists and other helping professionals in attachment and somatic methods. He has helped over 1,000 individual clients, run continuing education groups for therapists at the renowned Sierra Tucson treatment center, helped in and learned from Indigenous people’s communities in the US and Canada, and authored a book. He has a master’s degree in somatic psychology and many postgraduate certificate trainings. Daniel started his professional somatic work in 2008 and has since acquired more than 10,000 intentional practice hours.
Our goal is to uncover secure attachment, allowing it to prevail over relational trauma or attachment disruptions—or to help us recover more quickly from distress.
Diane Poole Heller PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.
She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.