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
- How to create a safe space
- Non-judgmental awareness
- Welcoming confrontation without losing your ground
- Video demonstration
- Duo practice
3b) Desensitization: aversion of emotion
- Building up tolerance: slice of emotions skill
- Assessment of emotional intolerance or avoidance
- Demonstrative chair work techniques
- Video demonstration
- Duo practice
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
- How do shame show up in the collectivist culture and the unmet needs behind it
- Understanding the coping modes of Shame
- How to resolve shame by self-compassion
- Video demonstration
- Duo practice
