K1 - Keynote: Does the Healthy Adult Need a Guiding Spirit? – Navigating Emotional Storms.
| Thursday, May 30, 2024 |
| 8:25 AM - 9:30 AM |
| Track 1 - Ballroom 1 |
Overview
Keynote
Details
Poul Perris, MD, Certified Advanced Schema Therapy Trainer & Supervisor
Founding President & Honorary Member ISST
In today’s fractious landscape, the role of the Healthy Adult takes on heightened significance. This keynote posits that Healthy Adult capacities must be underpinned by a set of guiding principles that not only meet core emotional needs but also honor the sacred balance between the individual and the collective. Deliberately echoing religious motifs, the “Democratic Trinity” model is introduced not in a religious sense but as a metaphor for principles to be revered and enacted in all our dealings. This spiritual dimension represents the soul of the Healthy Adult, offering a compass through the storms of emotional turmoil and conflict.
The Democratic Trinity model elucidates the principles of universal equality and individual freedom under equal conditions. To bring these principles to life in actions, an individual must adopt a stance characterized by authentic presence and an emotionally integrated belief system that ignites a democratic impulse during interpersonal engagements and emotionally charged responses. This stance becomes the guiding spirit the informs the Healthy Adult mode, ensuring that democratic principles are deeply internalized, shaping not just a truly democratic society but also the individual’s own authentic way of being.
The presentation will illuminate how schema theory transcends its therapeutic model to also conceptualize relational processes across all strata – from intrapsychic and interpersonal to group and societal levels. This holistic lens affords a multidimensional understanding of the ways individual and collective experiences intersect and inform each other.
In today’s fractious landscape, the role of the Healthy Adult takes on heightened significance. This keynote posits that Healthy Adult capacities must be underpinned by a set of guiding principles that not only meet core emotional needs but also honor the sacred balance between the individual and the collective. Deliberately echoing religious motifs, the “Democratic Trinity” model is introduced not in a religious sense but as a metaphor for principles to be revered and enacted in all our dealings. This spiritual dimension represents the soul of the Healthy Adult, offering a compass through the storms of emotional turmoil and conflict.
The Democratic Trinity model elucidates the principles of universal equality and individual freedom under equal conditions. To bring these principles to life in actions, an individual must adopt a stance characterized by authentic presence and an emotionally integrated belief system that ignites a democratic impulse during interpersonal engagements and emotionally charged responses. This stance becomes the guiding spirit the informs the Healthy Adult mode, ensuring that democratic principles are deeply internalized, shaping not just a truly democratic society but also the individual’s own authentic way of being.
The presentation will illuminate how schema theory transcends its therapeutic model to also conceptualize relational processes across all strata – from intrapsychic and interpersonal to group and societal levels. This holistic lens affords a multidimensional understanding of the ways individual and collective experiences intersect and inform each other.
Speaker
Mr Poul Perris
Md
Swedish Institute For CBT & Schema Therapy
Does the Healthy Adult Need a Guiding Spirit? – Navigating Emotional Storms.
Biography
Poul Perris, MD, Licensed Psychotherapist and Supervisor, is the Director of the Swedish Institute for CBT & Schema Therapy in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the Founding President of ISST (2008 - 2010), and served as President of the Swedish Association for Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (SABCT) from 2010 to 2016. Poul was originally trained by Dr. Jeffrey Young in Schema Therapy and is certified as an advanced level schema therapist, supervisor & trainer for individuals and couples. He specializes in the treatment of personality disorders, and on couples therapy for complex relational problems. Poul has published a handbook on Schema Therapy (in Swedish), and also co-authored several chapters in English textbooks on schema therapy. Poul has been teaching and supervising therapists internationally for over a decade.
