Training Content:

1) Explaining cultural background and common manifestation of schema in Chinese:

-Emotional avoidance / experiential avoidance

-expecting judgements and hierarchy in interpersonal relationships

-Enmeshment and intimacy: subjugation/self-sacrifice and Enmeshment schema

-modes reinforcement

2) Reflection: common schema in Chinese as a therapist

3) How to work up before experiential interventions:

3a) Building Trust: beware of our authority figure

3b) Desensitization: aversion of emotion

4) How to carry out experiential interventions in Chinese

4a) Navigating relationships with parents (inner critics and real parents)

Differentiating demanding parent mode and punitive parent mode in Chinese culture
Understanding the guilt inducing parents mode in our culture
Possible source of demanding critics, knowing its function and leverage in therapy
How to do empathetic confrontations to our clients' parents in imagery and chair work
Video demonstration
Duo practice

4b) Shame handling within the shame culture

Re-Run: Applying Schema Therapy within Chinese Context