S4SC2 - Schema Therapy meets Alba Emoting: using body expression patterns in facilitating the healthy adult mode
Tracks
Track 5
Body Focused Therapy
| Saturday, June 1, 2024 |
| 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM |
| Track 5 - Alder/Poplar Room |
Overview
Skills Class
Details
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The tasks of the healthy adult mode are manifold: parental modes must be limited, vulnerable child modes must be lovingly cared for, and excessive emotions must be regulated in a functional way. Patients often find it difficult to activate the emotional qualities necessary for this. Alba Emoting exercises can help with this through the targeted physical activation of the associated emotional patterns.
Alba Emoting was developed in the late 1980s by Chilean neuropsychologist Susana Bloch. After discovering the emotional effector patterns (respiratory-posturo-facial) of six universal basic emotions, Bloch conducted numerous other studies and developed a method for teaching and learning the expression patterns for basic emotions. These make it possible to activate sadness, joy, fear, anger, tenderness and erotic love in a targeted manner and with varying intensity. Consciously noticing and using the emotional expression patterns helps to understand and regulate emotions, to unmix mixed emotions and to release emotional blocks. We use the expression patterns in schema-therapeutic work to gain a more differentiated view of body signals, to recognize emotional processes in patients more confidently, to promote the expression of feelings and underlying needs, and especially to deepen emotional processing in chair dialogues.
In this skills class, participants will learn the anger and tenderness patterns and the Step Out regulatory pattern. The anger pattern facilitates access to self-empowerment energy and thus can facilitate the powerful disempowerment of dysfunctional parenting modes. The tenderness pattern allows a warm, intimate inner feeling to emerge that supports loving attention to vulnerable child modes. The Alba Emoting technique of Step Out facilitates regulation and stabilization when feelings are strong, without avoiding or suppressing them. This facilitates a functional way of dealing with difficult sensations.
The patterns are practiced and experienced in the large group. In a demonstration of a disempowerment of a parent mode in chair dialogue, we show ways to integrate the body expression patterns into the schema-therapeutic work.
Finally, we will introduce the exercise "Mode Sculpture". Participants develop their individual body sculpture for the healthy adult mode by trying out different postures, gestures and facial expressions. This allows them to embody and feel their personal "blend" of the different qualities of the healthy adult mode.
The tasks of the healthy adult mode are manifold: parental modes must be limited, vulnerable child modes must be lovingly cared for, and excessive emotions must be regulated in a functional way. Patients often find it difficult to activate the emotional qualities necessary for this. Alba Emoting exercises can help with this through the targeted physical activation of the associated emotional patterns.
Alba Emoting was developed in the late 1980s by Chilean neuropsychologist Susana Bloch. After discovering the emotional effector patterns (respiratory-posturo-facial) of six universal basic emotions, Bloch conducted numerous other studies and developed a method for teaching and learning the expression patterns for basic emotions. These make it possible to activate sadness, joy, fear, anger, tenderness and erotic love in a targeted manner and with varying intensity. Consciously noticing and using the emotional expression patterns helps to understand and regulate emotions, to unmix mixed emotions and to release emotional blocks. We use the expression patterns in schema-therapeutic work to gain a more differentiated view of body signals, to recognize emotional processes in patients more confidently, to promote the expression of feelings and underlying needs, and especially to deepen emotional processing in chair dialogues.
In this skills class, participants will learn the anger and tenderness patterns and the Step Out regulatory pattern. The anger pattern facilitates access to self-empowerment energy and thus can facilitate the powerful disempowerment of dysfunctional parenting modes. The tenderness pattern allows a warm, intimate inner feeling to emerge that supports loving attention to vulnerable child modes. The Alba Emoting technique of Step Out facilitates regulation and stabilization when feelings are strong, without avoiding or suppressing them. This facilitates a functional way of dealing with difficult sensations.
The patterns are practiced and experienced in the large group. In a demonstration of a disempowerment of a parent mode in chair dialogue, we show ways to integrate the body expression patterns into the schema-therapeutic work.
Finally, we will introduce the exercise "Mode Sculpture". Participants develop their individual body sculpture for the healthy adult mode by trying out different postures, gestures and facial expressions. This allows them to embody and feel their personal "blend" of the different qualities of the healthy adult mode.
Speaker
Gisela Henn-Mertens
Psychologische Psychotherapeutin
Praxis für Psychotherapie
Schema Therapy meets Alba Emoting: using body expression patterns in facilitating the healthy adult mode
Biography
Graduate Psychologist, Psychological Psychotherapist, Cologne. Studied psychology and education at the Universities of Mainz and Münster until 1996, trained in CBT, licensed as a psychological psychotherapist in 2003. Since then working in private practice in Cologne. 2006-2009 advanced training in schema therapy with Heinrich Berbalk, Jeffrey Young and other lecturers in schema therapy. ISST Certification as a supervisor and trainer. Since 2016 Training director of the Cologne Institute for Schema Therapy (IST-K Schematherapie Köln). Training in Alba Emoting with Dr. Sergio Lara since 2019, advanced level.
Full ISST membership. ISST Certification as Trainer/Supervisor for Individuals
Gerd Zimmek
Owner
private practise
Schema Therapy meets Alba Emoting: using body expression patterns in facilitating the healthy adult mode
Biography
After studying psychology with a focus on clinical and A & O psychology, he initially worked as a personnel consultant and in the field of vocational rehabilitation. After several years in business, inservice training in CBT. First contact with schema therapy in 2005. After receiving his license to practice, he first worked in general psychiatry. Since July 2009 practicing as individual and group therapist for CBT. Curricular further training in Schema Therapy at IST Cologne (Advanced Level, authorization to teach and supervise).
Full ISST membership. ISST Certification as Trainer/Supervisor for Individuals
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