🌀 The Mechanics of Belief Systems – Puig-reig Workshop
📅 Sat 23 May 2026
⏰ 10:00-10:45am
📍 Picnic tables in the park, Puig-reig
What is experienced as reality is largely constructed through belief. These are not neutral thoughts. They operate as mechanisms that filter perception, shape behaviour, and define identity.
In this workshop, Mats explores the mechanics of belief systems and how they function beneath conscious awareness. The focus is on how beliefs are built, maintained, and reinforced through repetition, emotion, and early conditioning.
Core beliefs sit at the foundation of this structure. They are deep assumptions such as “I am not enough” or “I am unsafe”, continuously generating interpretations of experience.
A central layer of this system is shame, particularly in the context of complex trauma. Shame operates as a stabilising mechanism for identity formation. It shifts from isolated experience (“something went wrong”) to global identity (“something is wrong with me”), locking patterns in place and restricting perception and behaviour.
You will explore:
- How belief systems function as psychological mechanisms
- The formation and reinforcement of core beliefs
- The role of shame in complex trauma and identity structure
- How these mechanisms shape perception, emotion, and action
- How recognition of the system begins to loosen its grip
In direct inquiry traditions, a belief is not seen as truth but as a thought structure appearing in awareness. Its authority depends on unexamined identification. When the mechanism is seen clearly, it loses its automatic influence.
Offered either online or in-person in Berguedà.
