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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCHEMA THERAPY

2 June 2016

June President's Letter 

Vienna is approaching, with so much to offer!

by Eckhard Roediger

Read the latest President's letter, where Eckhard highlights some key features of INSPIRE 2016, including an invitation to attend the General Membership Meeting. Visit: PRESIDENT'S BLOG

Celebrate INSPIRE 2016 with a Conference T-shirt!

Order your shirt by June 8th: T-SHIRT

We designed a perfect souvenior to remember your experience in Vienna! Select your preferred style, size, and quantity. We estimate the cost will be between €8.92 to €11.41, depending on the style you choose and the amount ordered by all attendees (plus applicable taxes and exchange rate fees). We plan to deliver them to the venue in Vienna. Hurry: you must order by June 8th. Click the button below to see the size chart and reserve your shirts:

Final Reminder: Vote by June 6th! 

The winner to host INSPIRE 2018 will be announced at the Closing Ceremony in Vienna

We've created a poll for ISST members to find out what their top choice is to host the next ISST World Conference: Take a few minutes to review the choices by clicking on the images below, and you will be redirected to each city's official tourist website to read more details, and then cast your vote in our poll. The ISST Board will consider your answers to decide which city will be announced as the winner in Vienna on July 2nd at the Closing Ceremony.

The nominations are listed below, in reverse alphabetical order:

Washington, D.C., USA

Perth, Australia

Kraków, Poland

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Barcelona, Spain 

Ready to cast your vote? Click the image below:

After you vote, go to the blog to share why you made your choice to help other members decide.

The blog is open to be read and commented on by the public. To add a post, you must be an active ISST member enrolled on the website. If you're not yet enrolled, complete the required "Double Opt-In" process at: ENROLL

Go to the blog now to share your views: INSPIRE 2018

Joining Us in Vienna? Get Your INSPIRE 2016 Pass Now: There's still time to register and get your INSPIRE 2016 Pass for the Schema Therapy Event of the Year: Space is Limited, and Spots are Filling Fast!

  

Thursday June 30: Preconference Workshops | Poster Presentations & Welcome Gathering

Friday July 1: Morning Activity | Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity

Saturday July 2: Morning Activity | Conference Day 2 | Conference Banquet

— SNEAK PEAKS of Your Selections —

One of your selections for Friday Morning, July 1st from 10:45 to 12:15 is:

"Working with an Innovative e-Health App 'Secure Nest' Designed Specifically for Schema Therapy: New Avenues for Meeting Client's Needs in a Digital Era."

Watch the "Sneak Peak" interview now: NEW TOOLS

Secure Nest is a web-based application built to support schema therapists in working with clients. This workshop will demonstrate the features of the application, including how to support clients through the stages of therapy. Several uses of the application will be shown to guide therapists. Watch the "Sneak Peak" interview with Sally and Joseph Skewes to find out more about the workshop and Secure Nest: e-Health Tools

Magnificent views of both old and new Vienna: the Riesenrad Ferris Wheel

The 200-foot Ferris wheel was one of three built in Europe at the end of the 19th century, but the only one to survive. Views from the cars provide vistas of the best of Vienna. The Ferris wheel is located in the 2nd District, Leopoldstadt, not far from the Reed Messe Wien Conference venue, and open daily from 9 a.m. to midnight. €8.50.

Read the list of top activities in our Vienna Travel Planner: SEE VIENNA

See our Event Page on Facebook: INVITE

"Like Us" on our new Facebook page: FANS

Follow us on our new Google+ page: Google

Created by Travis Atkinson

ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator

"Be the Change You Help Create"

International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V

Glossop-Ring 35 

DE-61118 Bad Vilbel 

Germany

©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved. 

Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCHEMA THERAPY

24 May 2016

The Nominations Are In: Cast Your Vote Now. Winner to be Announced at Closing Ceremony in Vienna

Complete the Member Poll: Deadline is June 6th

We've created a poll for ISST members to find out what their top choice is to host the next ISST World Conference: Many members participated in the blog to nominate and support cities to host INSPIRE 2018. From those nominated, we have chosen the top five where ISST members backed up their nomination with a commitment to help organize the conference in the host city. Take some time to review the choices, and cast your vote in our poll. The ISST Board will consider your answers to decide which city will be announced as the winner in Vienna on July 2nd at the Closing Ceremony.

The nominations are listed below, in alphabetical order:

Barcelona, Spain 

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Kraków, Poland

Perth, Australia

Washington, D.C., USA

Click on each picture, and you will be redirected to the official tourism website of each city. Take some time to review each offering, then cast your vote in our poll by clicking on the image below:

After you have cast your vote, go to the blog to share your vote and let other members know why you made your choice.

The blog is open to be read and commented on by the public. To add a post, you must be an active ISST member enrolled on the website. If you're not yet enrolled, complete the required "Double Opt-In" process at: ENROLL

Go to the blog now to share your views: INSPIRE 2018

Joining Us in Vienna? Get Your INSPIRE 2016 Pass Now: There's still time to register and get your INSPIRE 2016 Pass for the Schema Therapy Event of the Year: Space is Limited, and Spots are Filling Fast!

  

Thursday June 30: Preconference Workshops | Poster Presentations & Welcome Gathering

Friday July 1: Morning Activity | Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity

Saturday July 2: Morning Activity | Conference Day 2 | Conference Banquet

See our Event Page on Facebook: INVITE

"Like Us" on our new Facebook page: FANS

Follow us on our new Google+ page: Google

Created by Travis Atkinson

ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator

International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V

Glossop-Ring 35 

DE-61118 Bad Vilbel 

Germany

©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved. 

Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org

"Be the Change You Help Create"

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCHEMA THERAPY

11 May 2016

Nominate Your City to Host INSPIRE 2018: Winner to be Announced at Closing Ceremony in Vienna

Enter Your Proposal on the Member Blog Now

We've created a blog for members to nominate cities for the next ISST World Conference: Go to the new blog and add a post that includes all the reasons you are proposing your favorite city to host the next conference in 2018. Criteria may include potential conference venues, convenient transportation hubs, numerous hotel offerings, exciting cultural and entertainment activities, and any other factors that help your favorite city stand out.

The blog is open to be read and commented on by the public. To add a post, you must be an active ISST member enrolled on the website. If you're not yet enrolled, complete the required "Double Opt-In" process at: ENROLL

Go to the blog now to submit your proposal: INSPIRE 2018

Joining Us in Vienna? Get Your INSPIRE 2016 Pass Now: There's still time to register and get your INSPIRE 2016 Pass for the Schema Therapy Event of the Year: Space is Limited, and Spots are Filling Fast!

  

Thursday June 30: Preconference Workshops | Poster Presentations & Welcome Gathering

Friday July 1: Morning Activity | Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity

Saturday July 2: Morning Activity | Conference Day 2 | Conference Banquet

Please help promote schema therapy by sharing this email on your social media account: SHARE VIENNA

— VIENNA CONFERENCE NEWS —

One of your selections at the conference for 

Friday Morning, July 1st from 10:45 to 12:15 is:

"Differentiating Between a Parent Mode and an Overcontroller Mode" 

A "Sneak Peak" by David Edwards

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Negative voices (punitive, guilt-inducing, demanding, etc.) are often introjects from parent or authority figures and located in parent modes. They may also be part of overcompensatory modes: a "perfectionist" overcontroller incorporates rules that set standards as well as self-critical and demanding messages that motivate the individual to attain them. Such modes may begin in childhood where they shut down vulnerability to protect the child from hurtful behavior from adults.

David Edwards gives a "Sneak Peak" in an interview by Travis Atkinson of his Vienna workshop, explaining how existing parent messages may be recruited in their construction, so that what starts as an introject becomes part of a coping mode, and so of the self. In parent modes and in overcontrollers, the messages are self-directed, but in modes like "scolding overcontroller" or "bully and attack," they are turned on others, and incorporate elements from parent introjects. Knowing the source of the mode helps the therapist determine which strategy will be most helpful therapeutically.

Read more about this selection, and watch the interview with David: OVERCONTROLLER MODE

Another selection at the conference for 

Saturday Early Afternoon, July 2nd from 2:30 to 4:00 is: 

"Schema Mode Inventory (SMI): What Does It Measure, and Does It Matter?" 

An interview with Eamon Smith

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Few studies have examined the factor structure of the Schema Mode Inventory (SMI), and specifically the theorized category structure of child, parent, and coping modes. This study presents an analysis of the factor structure, internal reliability, and inter-correlations among individual modes and measures of psychological distress and well-being.

In this interview by Travis Atkinson, Eamon Smith gives a sneak peak of his hot topic, hinting at some of the results of his study that lead to some provocative suggestions that may influence clinical work. Read more about this hot topic, one of five hot topics presented as one of your selections during the Early Afternoon Session on Saturday, July 2nd in Vienna: MEASURING THE SMI

The Habsburg Collections: Royal Taste and Style in Art

The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts)

Albertina Museum

A World of Art Awaits Your Five Senses in Vienna: If you're a fan of classical works, the enormous collection at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Art) is ready to delight. The museum

houses a vast range of art collected by the Habsburgs, including works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Holbein, and Caravaggio. Seeing the sublime Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, the 16th-century Dutch master, is worth the trip to Vienna alone.

Adding to Vienna's massive art offerings, the Albertina Museum has a tremendous collection sure to satiate your appetite for the finest masterpieces, including 70 Rembrandts, 145 Dürers, and 43 Raphaels, along with works by Picasso, Rubens, da Vinci, and Michelangelo.

See our extensive guide to travel within Vienna at: Vienna Travel Planner

Share the INSPIRE 2016 Flyer with your colleagues

We created a promotional flyer to help share the details about the Vienna Conference, and we invite you to download the pdf, available in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Turkish, and Italian.

The Vienna Conference is one of the best ways other professionals can get to know schema therapy; help as many colleagues as you can to learn more. Visit: INSPIRE 2016 FLYER

Help promote schema therapy by sharing this email on your social media account: SHARE VIENNA

See our Event Page on Facebook: INVITE

"Like Us" on our new Facebook page: FANS

Follow us on our new Google+ page: Google

Created by Travis Atkinson

ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator

International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V

Glossop-Ring 35 

DE-61118 Bad Vilbel 

Germany

©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved. 

Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org

"Be the Change You Help Create"

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCHEMA THERAPY

29 April 2016

It's your last chance! The Early-Bird Pass savings end on April 30th. Save your spot now.

Take advantage of the Early-Bird Pass to save from €40 to €100

We've assembled the dream team of schema therapists for the schema therapy Event of the Year. Prepare to be inspired! If you haven't already registered for Vienna, we are extending your opportunity to save with the Early-Bird Pass through April 30th. This is your opportunity to hand-pick from 50+ training selections, including workshops, symposiums, hot topics, case presentations, and panel discussions. Early-Bird savings add up to as much as €100 off the standard, non-member rate. Save your spot now: REGISTER

"An Overview of the Vienna Conference from the ISST Board Science and Research Coordinator" 

Eshkol Rafaeli previews INSPIRE 2016

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The ISST Board Science and Research Coordinator, Eshkol Rafaeli, highlights the Vienna World Conference. In an interview, he discusses the selection process for presentations, along with the exciting new formats included in the INSPIRE 2016 conference. Watch the interview now for a preview of what you have to look forward to in Vienna.

Get Your Early-Bird Pass: There's still time to register, save from €40 to €100, and get your Early-Bird Pass for the schema therapy event of the year: Final Early-Bird Savings Expire on April 30^th

  

Thursday June 30: Preconference Workshops | Poster Presentations & Welcome Gathering

Friday July 1: Morning Activity | Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity

Saturday July 2: Morning Activity | Conference Day 2 | Conference Banquet

Please help promote schema therapy by sharing this email on your social media account: SHARE VIENNA

— VIENNA CONFERENCE NEWS —

One of your selections at the conference for 

Saturday Morning, July 2nd from 11:00 to 12:30 is: 

"Cluster-C: From Addiction to Connection. Working with the Self-Soother or Self-Stimulator in Cluster-C Patients: the Hidden Addiction Mode" 

An interview with Truus Kersten and Guido Sijbers

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Join Truus Kersten and Guido Sijbers as they dive into the hidden addiction mode: the self-soother in Cluster-C Personality Disorders. In this interview by Travis Atkinson, they give a sneak peak of their workshop, which focuses on the specific characteristics of this mode, and the differences with other avoidant coping modes. They will explain how the self-soother and self-stimulator modes can be observed in and outside the therapy session. Truus and Guido also will give a short introduction of the core elements of evidence-based addiction treatment (CBT), and suitable schema therapy techniques.

Truus and Guido will argue that the self-soother can be a hidden mode, illustrated by case examples of Cluster C-patients in different treatment settings, including general mental health, addiction, and forensic settings.

Read more about the hidden addiction mode, and other selections, at: INSPIRE 2016

Ringstrasse Tram Tour: Glide By Great Sights in Vienna

Hop aboard Vienna's Ringstrasse tram: enjoy an hour-long orientation of some of the Ringstrasse's greatest sights. The Ringstrasse was constructed in the 1860s by Emperor Franz Josef, who replaced the medieval wall with the boulevard. The self-guided tour starts and ends at the centrally located Opera house.

When to go: enjoy the Ringstrasse tram by day, or during the evening hours when buildings are beautifully lit. Allow for more time if you plan to stop at sights or visit nearby points of interest.

See our extensive guide to travel within Vienna at: Vienna Travel Planner

Share the INSPIRE 2016 Flyer with your colleagues

We created a promotional flyer to help share the details about the Vienna Conference, and we invite you to download the pdf, available in several languages. 

In addition to the English version, we have conference flyers available in the following languages:

If you would like to volunteer, or don't see your language, please help by emailing: TRANSLATION HELP.

Please share your native language flyer at other conferences you are attending, at gatherings with your colleagues, on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn), or on other professional listservs that allow for postings.

The Vienna Conference is one of the best ways other professionals can get to know schema therapy; help as many colleagues as you can to learn more. Visit: INSPIRE 2016 FLYER

Help promote schema therapy by sharing this email on your social media account: SHARE VIENNA

See our Event Page on Facebook: INVITE

"Like Us" on our new Facebook page: FANS

Follow us on our new Google+ page: Google

Created by Travis Atkinson

ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator

International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V

Glossop-Ring 35 

DE-61118 Bad Vilbel 

Germany

©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved. 

Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org

"Be the Change You Help Create"

Register now for the most essential schema therapy gathering of the year in Vienna!

Take advantage of the Early-Bird Pass to save 

from €40 to €100 before April 30th.

Whatever you're into, we've got a selection for you: Become a schema therapy champion with powerful content for every passion in the therapeutic world. Our 50+ hands-on training selections include workshops, symposiums, hot topics, case presentations, and panel discussions, and are now ready for you to hand-pick. Register today to take full-advantage of the Early-Bird Pass, and as a member, save up to €100 off the standard, non-member rate by April 30th. REGISTER

One of your selections includes the symposium:

"Utilizing the mode model to effectively meet world-wide, ever-shrinking psychotherapy session allowances: can schema therapy be relatively brief?" 

An interview with Joan Farrell

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Watch a "sneak peak" interview with Joan Farrell, previewing her symposium that she will cochair with Jeff Young. The symposium will address the development and testing of time-limited schema therapy treatment programs that combine group therapy with a limited number of individual therapy sessions. Can this treatment protocol help produce results that are both effective and safe?

Schema therapy is generally seen as a long-term treatment, not usually considered for limited session numbers of 20 or 30 group therapy sessions, and 10 to 12 individual therapy sessions. Some people question whether it is even safe to include the essential experiential work of schema therapy within the confines of brief treatment.

Answering the key questions of effectiveness and safety, the symposium brings together schema therapists from the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands who work with time-limited schema therapy treatments. Each discussant will present the protocols they are testing, along with preliminary results for a variety of disorders, including: borderline personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, mixed personality disorder, and complex trauma, working in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Chairpersons: Joan Farrell, Jeff Young

Joan Farrell: a brief, trans-diagnostic 'Foundation Treatment Program of Schema Therapy' using the Mode Model and combinations of group and individual sessions.

Rita Younan: a pilot study of a four-week inpatient program using group schema therapy for adults with complex trauma.

Sally Skewes: a pilot study using short-term group schema therapy for mixed personality disorders.

Michiel van Vreeswijk, Tamara May, Ida Shaw, Rachel Samson: additional speakers. 

Read more about this symposium at: BRIEF SCHEMA THERAPY

Get Your Early-Bird Pass: There's still time to register, save from €40 to €100, and get your Early-Bird Pass for the schema therapy event of the year: Current Savings Expire on April 30th

  

Thursday June 30: Preconference Workshops | Poster Presentations & Welcome Gathering

Friday July 1: Morning Activity | Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity

Saturday July 2: Morning Activity | Conference Day 2 | Conference Banquet

Please help promote schema therapy by sharing this email on your social media account: SHARE VIENNA

Wiener Staatsoper: Delight Your Eyes and Ears 

One of the World's Great Opera Venues: construction of this Neo-Renaissance State Opera House began in 1861, and opened in 1869 with Mozart's Don Giovanni, securing the title "heart of the music world" for Vienna. The State Opera House was the first of the grand buildings constructed on the Ringstrasse in Vienna. After being nearly destroyed by World War II bombs, it reopened in 1955 with new technology. From the exterior, the majestic stone survived the war, and is dominated by the original loggia. See the two fountains on each side by Josef Gasser, representing music, dance and joy on the left, and sorrow, love, and vengence on the right.

The state subsidizes the opera company, so both pricey and affordable seats are available. Since the opera company is on summer break between July 1st through August 31st, take in a performance at the beginning of your Vienna adventure. Make your reservation in advance by visiting the opera website: STAATSOPER

See our extensive guide to travel within Vienna at: Vienna Travel Planner

Share the INSPIRE 2016 Flyer with your colleagues

We created a promotional flyer to help share the details about the Vienna Conference, and we invite you to download the pdf, available in several languages. 

In addition to the English version, we have conference flyers available in the following languages:

We are asking for volunteers to help with the Swedish, Norwegian, and Greek translations. If you would like to volunteer, or don't see your language, please help by emailing: TRANSLATION HELP.

Please share your native language flyer at other conferences you are attending, at gatherings with your colleagues, on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn), or on other professional listservs that allow for postings.

The Vienna Conference is one of the best ways other professionals can get to know schema therapy; help as many colleagues as you can to learn more. Visit: INSPIRE 2016 FLYER

"Like Us" on our new Facebook page: FANS

Follow us on our new Google+ page: Google

Created by Travis Atkinson ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator

International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V

Glossop-Ring 35 

DE-61118 Bad Vilbel 

Germany

©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved. 

Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org

"Be the Change You Help Create"

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCHEMA THERAPY 4 April 2016   Register now for the schema therapy event of the year in Vienna! We're proud to host the Schema Therapy World Conference in Vienna. Take advantage of the Early-Bird Pass to save €40-€50 before April 15th. We never want to stop learning, and one of the best ways to grow is through the collaboration with other colleagues. Nowhere this year is there a better opportunity for schema therapists to gather for inspiration than Vienna for the ISST INSPIRE 2016 World Conference. Whatever you're into, we've got a selection for you: We now have the entire program of the Vienna Conference online, with details about each selection, along with bios of presenters, at: INSPIRE 2016. You will see workshops, symposiums, hot topics, case presentations, and panel discussions focusing on how to apply schema therapy to a vast number of populations, with an emphasis on mode work. You will also see summaries of the keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops by some of the key leaders in the field, both from within and outside of schema therapy. Are We Prisoners of Our Personality? Keynote address by Will Fleeson Can we change who we are, or are we prisoners of our personality? Are personality traits permanent and unwavering? How do schemas relate to traits? Will Fleeson will discuss Whole Trait Theory, offering a detailed model of traits with optimistic evidence suggesting that our personality is plastic, to a greater extent than previously thought. This plasticity provides us freedom to create the lives we want, but also reveals consequences of symptom variability from moment to moment, on a greater scale than once thought.  Will Fleeson is a Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, USA. His interests include the nature of personality, consistency, self-regulation, development, well-being, borderline personality disorder, and moral character. Will's studies on the distributions of behavior and their implications for personality won SPSP's Theoretical Innovation Prize, and the Carol and Ed Diener Award in Personality Psychology in 2015. Read more about Will Fleeson's keynote address, along with details of the many other distinguished presenters in Vienna, on the conference website: INSPIRE 2016 Get Your Early-Bird Pass: There's still time to register, save €40-€50, and get your Early-Bird pass for the schema therapy event of the year: Savings Expire on April 15th    Thursday June 30: Pre-conference Workshops | Poster Presentations & Welcome Gathering Friday July 1: Morning Activity | Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity Saturday July 2: Morning Activity | Conference Day 2 | Conference Banquet     Please help promote schema therapy by sharing this email on your social media account: SHARE VIENNA — VIENNA CONFERENCE NEWS — Join TEAM INSPIRE: promote the conference by getting the word out to your friends and colleagues We are forming a team to help promote schema therapy throughout the world, and to help spread the word so that as many people as possible will get to experience INSPIRE 2016! If you have an interest in marketing or publicity, or just want to lend your talents to a great cause, take a moment to sign-up to help promote the Vienna conference to colleagues in your area! Go to: VOLUNTEER FOR TEAM INSPIRE The Hofburg: Walk in the Footsteps of Emperor Franz Josef Walk through the Imperial Palace to see some of the finest Baroque interiors in Europe. Until 1918, the Hofburg was the home of the Habsburgs. Today, it is a vast sightseeing destination, including the Imperial Apartments, two imperial treasuries, six museums, the National Library, and the famous Winter Riding School. Don't miss the latest Hofburg attraction, a museum devoted to "Sisi," the beloved Empress Elisabeth and beautiful wife of Franz Joseph who was the talk of Europe. See it all with the €23 "Sisi Ticket," including the Kaiserappartements, Silberkammer, Imperial Furniture Depot, Vienna Furniture Museum, and a Grand Tour of the Schönbrunn Palace. Review our complete guide to travel within Vienna at: Vienna Travel Planner   Share the INSPIRE 2016 Flyer with your colleagues We created a promotional flyer to help share the details about the Vienna Conference, and we invite you to download the pdf, available in several languages. So far, Lydia Tineo has helped with the Spanish translation, Sevinc Goral-Alkan with the Turkish version, Danielle Sauvé with the French translation, and Paula Guths will be translating the Portuguese flyer. If you don't see your language, or see needed edits in your native language, please help by emailing: TRANSLATION HELP.  Share the flyer at other conferences you are attending, at gatherings with colleagues, on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn), or on other professional listserves that allow for postings. The Vienna Conference is one of the best ways professionals can get to know schema therapy; help as many colleagues as you can to learn more. Visit: INSPIRE 2016 FLYER Help promote schema therapy by sharing this email on your social media account: SHARE VIENNA See our Event Page on Facebook: INVITE "Like Us" on our new Facebook page: FANS   Created by Travis Atkinson ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator   International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V Glossop-Ring 35  DE-61118 Bad Vilbel  Germany ©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved.  Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org "Be the Change You Help Create"

INSPIRE 2016 isn't just a conference - it's an experience

Share the inspiration with your colleagues and friends in Vienna

Researchers, clinicians, educators, and trainers who effectively practice schema therapy know firsthand how the results of the model can lead to real recovery in clients, not just symptom reduction. We never want to stop learning, and one of the best ways to grow is through the collaboration with other colleagues. Nowhere is there a better opportunity for schema therapists to gather for inspiration than Vienna this summer for the ISST INSPIRE 2016 conference.

Whatever you're into, we've got a selection for you: We now have the entire program of the Vienna Conference online, with details about each selection, along with bios of presenters, at: INSPIRE 2016. You will see workshops, symposiums, hot topics, case presentations, and panel discussions focusing on how to apply schema therapy to a vast number of populations, with an emphasis on mode work. You will also see summaries of the keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops by some of the key leaders in the field, both from within and outside of schema therapy.

Together Again: If you attend the conference in Vienna, you’ll have the opportunity to meet our Honorary President, Jeff Young, the creator of schema therapy, and Arnoud Arntz, our Honorary Scientific Director, a pioneer researcher in the field of schema therapy. Jeff will be presenting a Welcome Address, and will be participating in panel discussions, including a special Plenary Panel focusing on the role of mode work in schema therapy. In his Keynote, Arnoud will talk about the scientific foundation of the mode model and its effectiveness in clinical practice. During the conference, he will participate in a case conceptualization, symposium, and more. Read the details about Arnoud and Jeff, and the many other distinguished presenters in Vienna, on the conference website: INSPIRE 2016

We hope you take advantage of this opportunity in Vienna to learn from schema therapy’s most provocative and influential leaders, and to contribute to your fellow colleague’s growth by sharing a part of your own experience—a way of learning that only the Vienna conference can offer to so many schema therapists from around the world.

Get Your Early-Bird Pass: There's still time to register, save €40-€50, and get your Early-Bird pass for the schema therapy event of the year: Savings Expire on April 15^th

  

Thursday June 30: Preconference Workshops | Poster Presentations & Welcome Reception

Friday July 1: Morning Activity | Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity

Saturday July 2: Morning Activity | Conference Day 2 | Conference Banquet

Join TEAM INSPIRE: promote the conference by getting the word out to your friends and colleagues

We are forming a team to help promote schema therapy throughout the world, and to help spread the word so that as many people as possible will get to experience INSPIRE 2016! If you have an interest in marketing or publicity, or just want to lend your talents to a great cause, take a moment to sign-up to help promote the Vienna conference to colleagues in your area! Go to: VOLUNTEER FOR TEAM INSPIRE

Schönbrunn Palace: the Glories of Imperial Austria

Spend a half day experiencing the Habsburg's former summer home, a highlight for both Rococo romantics and Habsburg followers. This is the top tourist site in Vienna for a reason, since nowhere is the history of imperial Austria more prominent. Designed by Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach in 1696, with significant alterations for Maria Theresa 40 years later, this is the Habsburg summer residence that lies within the Vienna city limits. Take time to wander through the beautiful grounds, open from dawn to dusk. Gather more inspiration as you look out from the beautiful vistas inside the palace that Maria Theresa, Napoléon, and Franz Josef viewed. See our complete guide to travel within Vienna at: Vienna Travel Planner

Share the INSPIRE 2016 Flyer with your colleagues

We created a promotional flyer to help share the details about the Vienna Conference, and we invite you to download the pdf, available in several languages. So far, Lydia Tineo has helped with the Spanish translation, Sevinc Goral-Alkan with the Turkish version, and Danielle Sauvé will be helping with the French translation. If you don't see your language, or see needed edits in your native language, please help by emailing: TRANSLATION HELP.

Share the flyer at other conferences you are attending, at gatherings with colleagues, on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn), or on other professional listserves that allow for postings. The Vienna Conference is one of the best ways professionals can get to know schema therapy; help as many colleagues as you can to learn more. Visit: INSPIRE 2016 FLYER

Created by Travis Atkinson

ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator

International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V

Glossop-Ring 35 

DE-61118 Bad Vilbel 

Germany

©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved. 

Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org

"Be the Change You Help Create"

Schema Therapy Bulletin

March 2016: Schema Couples Therapy

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Few intimate relationships commence and develop with the prospect thoughts of tough times ahead, however conflict, challenges and emotional pain are often side effects from are a natural accompaniment to being close to someone.

At the centre of our psychological makeup lies vulnerability, and interpersonal relationships are often where human beings feel that vulnerability. Often the epicentre of vulnerability is observed in the couples relationship, where feelings are magnified by love, romantic bonds, family and ties.

Dysfunctional schemas and modes can be perpetuated by unhealthy, relationships or healed and transformed by healthy and satisfying ones. More recently, the complex interplay between 2 people and their history has become a focus of Schema Therapy. This model suggests ways to explain, improve and resolve some of the obstacles to successful relationships, through its focus on meeting basic human needs. The basic human need to feel safe, secure, connected and cared about,  and the factors that interfere with getting those needs met in healthy and adaptive ways, are explored in this issue.

Co- Editors,

Chris Hayes (Australia)  

Lissa Parsonnet (USA) 

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FEATURE ARTICLES INSIDE MARCH'S ISSUE 

Mode Tracking^SM with Couples

by Chiara Simeone DiFrancesco, Ph.D.  (USA) 

Mode Tracking^SM and Need Talk^SM are service marks created by the author and belonging to Dialog International Press, LLC

What is Mode Tracking^SM and how does it work? Mode Tracking^SM comes from the conceptualization of Schema Therapy. It involves the activation of the developmental history of a person, particularly in their childhood. Because we do not live in a perfect world, most children have at least some of their core needs unmet. How core needs are or are not met will impact the individual’s emotional development and their capacity for connection with others. The vantage point of adulthood does not necessarily bring recognition of the lessons learned in childhood, and the consequent formation of early maladaptive schemas (schemas).  Schemas are complex patterns that arouse the autonomic nervous system into a familiar way of coping that maintains the unmet need. These schemas can generally be classified into 18 different patterns. This helps us have some meta-awareness of their activation. 

One can track the activation of the schemas like pistons firing in an engine. Together they more or less, depending on their state of repair, get the car moving.  When schemas are activate, often many of them in rapid succession, people exhibit schema modes. We can observe this from a three-dimensional perspective of core emotions activated (Child Modes), the cognitively mediated “voice in one’s head” (Parent Modes) providing commentary about self and others, and the actual ensuing behaviors (Coping Modes). These layers can be diagrammed in a Mode Map or Mode Cycle Clashcard. They can also be experienced through the exercise of placing the modes in chairs, as their layers are “peeled off” like thin onion skins occurring at some moments nanosecond by nanosecond. MODE TRACKING

A Schema Therapy Approach to Affairs

by Professor Bruce A Stevens, PhD (Australia)

Affairs are often part of the breakdown of relationships. Sadly, it seems that few people have much psychological insight into what happened or are wiser after the event. ST can help us to understand and possibly find some resources to deal with this common challenge in couple counseling.

Almost all people enter a romantic relationship, whether marriage or living together, with a conscious intention of remaining sexually faithful, so an affair is inevitably a falling from an initial ideal, whether a religious or a personal value. It is usually secretive, guilt-inducing in the person involved and anywhere from infuriating to shattering for the partner who finds out. Although most of our discussion of this topic focuses on the affair in relation to a marriage, the dynamics are similar for an engagement, de facto partnership, or longer term committed relationship. In those cases, there may be less of a public dimension than with vows made in a marriage service, but often there are children involved and the legal situation can easily become entangled. AFFAIRS

Healing relationships: How to extend the mode model into an interpersonal perspective

by Eckhard Roediger, MD (Germany) 

The conventional mode model is based looking at a single person and their biographical imprints resulting in schemas and coping styles. Schemas result from interpersonal experiences and tend to be acted out in current relationships (Young et al. 2003). So there is already an implicit interpersonal thinking underlying the schema model. Additionally, our partner selection is schema driven based on what Jeff Young called “chemistry”: In a nutshell that means that we  choose what we already know and do what we already can. We often end up in what Jeff Young called “life traps” (Young 2012). 

Understanding current relations problems including the therapeutic interaction based on an interpersonal schema therapy model seems helpful – if not necessary - to improve them. Such an adjusted mode model for supervision purposes and for treating couples has been outlined (Roediger & Laireiter 2013; Simeone-DiFrancesco et al. 2015). The core concept of the interpersonal mode model focuses on the mode cycles between the coping modes of the partners. Relationships tend to stabilize themselves in a number of mode cycles, in a more or less functional way. HEALING RELATIONSHIPS

Ruptures in the Therapeutic Alliance: Repairing and Rebuilding Trust with a Couple

by Travis Atkinson, LCSW (USA)

Challenges in the treatment room are constantly present for the individual therapist. These may include obstacles to developing and maintaining a strong therapeutic alliance, barriers to the ability to empathize with the client, and hurdles in working with the client to establish goal consensus and collaboration during treatment. With two clients in the room, double the possibilities for obstacles, and the challenges faced by the therapist working with a couple become more apparent.

Of the many hurdles the couples therapist faces, one of the biggest threats to successful outcome lies in a rupture to the therapeutic alliance. The therapeutic bond between clients and therapist stands out as crucial to successful couples therapy, along with the treatment methods used, the characteristics of the client, and the qualities of the therapist (Norcross, 2011). When tension or breakdowns in the therapeutic relationship occur, the success of the treatment often diminishes, and failure to resolve the ruptures may lead to the end of couples therapy. RUPTURES IN COUPLES THERAPY

Created by Travis Atkinson

ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator

International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V

Glossop-Ring 35 

DE-61118 Bad Vilbel 

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Schema therapy's most celebrated event is back

Share the inspiration with your colleagues and friends in Vienna

The gathering that started in 2006 is returning, and this year, it will be hosted in Vienna: the ISST INSPIRE 2016 Conference. From the beginning, the biannual conference has been the most essential and celebrated schema therapy gathering.This is the place to get practical guidance and the latest information on applying schema therapy. No other gathering brings together so many schema therapists from throughout the world. INSPIRE 2016 will give you the inspirational spirit and creativity that will take you to new levels in your work. 

Online registration for this year's conference is up and running: What is it with Modes? The transdiagnostic power of mode work in schema therapy. You can choose from multiple workshops and presentations to enhance your work, and experience a full lineup of keynote speakers, from both inside and outside of the schema therapy world, including: Arnoud Arntz, Wendy Behary, Eckhard Roediger, David Bernstein, Will Fleeson, Richard Chefetz, and Marvin Goldfried. A highlight will be a special welcome address from Jeff Young, the creator of schema therapy. He will also head a plenary presentation that all attendees will surely enjoy. 

You will have options during the Preconference Workshops: a full-day on couples, group work, children and adolescents, chair work, or fine-tuning imagery rescripting; or one or two half-day workshops on discovering schema modes within yourself and your patients, or working with sexual difficulties. Conference Day offerings will be posted on the website shortly, along with the complete schedule.

The conference is being designed to truly inspire you, from presentations to activities. We will focus special attention on helping you meet new friends, and connect with colleagues you know from around the world, all while gaining new skills and insights in the work you care so much about.

We trust that in Vienna, you will be exposed to some of the greatest advances in the field of schema therapy, and reach new levels of inspiration in your work, expanding your vision of the schema therapist you want to become.

Check out the conference details, and register online before the April 15th early-bird savings expire.

Thursday June 30: Preconference Workshops | Welcome Activity

Friday July 1: Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity

Saturday July 2: Conference Day 2 | Conference Banquet

Join TEAM INSPIRE: promote the conference by getting the word out to your friends and colleagues

We are forming a team to help promote schema therapy throughout the world, and to help spread the word so that as many people as possible will get to experience INSPIRE 2016! If you have an interest in marketing or publicity, or just want to lend your talents to a great cause, take a moment to sign-up to help promote the Vienna conference to colleagues in your area! Go to: VOLUNTEER FOR TEAM INSPIRE

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Share the INSPIRE 2016 Flyer with your colleagues

We created a promotional flyer to help share the details about the Vienna Conference, and we invite you to download the pdf, available in several languages. If you don't see your language, please help by emailing to offer a translation of the text, and we will upload that to the website for you to download and distribute: TRANSLATION HELP. 

Created by Travis Atkinson

ISST Board Public Affairs & Member Benefits Coordinator

International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V

Glossop-Ring 35 

DE-61118 Bad Vilbel 

Germany

©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved. 

Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org

"Be the Change You Help Create"

Share the flyer at other conferences you are attending, at gatherings with colleagues, or on other professional listserves that allow for postings. The Vienna Conference is one of the best ways professionals can get to know schema therapy; help as many colleagues as you can learn more. Visit: INSPIRE 2016 FLYER

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SCHEMA THERAPY 18 February 2016

A new logo for a new era ISST moves forward with a new design After a rigourous design process to come up with a new symbol to represent our rapidly growing society, we are happy to introduce our new logo. From the sans serif font to the new color scheme, it welcomes ISST into the present, with an eye toward the future. Together with the many features on our website for clinicians, researchers, educators, and supporters, we are proud to offer members the most up-to-date technologies to help every member connect with others, and to spread the message that schema therapy offers throughout the world. Our new logo symbolizes our movement forward, helping you be the change you help create.

— LATEST NEWS & WEBSITE POSTS — The Ambassador Program for the 2016 ISST Vienna Conference Designed for professionals from developing and evolving countries from throughout the world Dear Fellow ISST Members... On behalf of the Brainstormers and the ISST Board, I am delighted to write you to keep you apprised of another exciting event emerging from the collaborative efforts of the ISST Executive Committee and the ISST Brainstorming WorkGroup...  The Executive Board members have unanimously decided to make possible an opportunity, for a group of specially selected individuals, to attend our Bi-Annual ISST Conference this year.  These carefully chosen individuals will have demonstrated a remarkable enthusiasm for the schema therapy model, combined with pioneering efforts—in their part of the world—to promote schema therapy in their professional and academic communities. We will be extending an invitation for them to join us at this year's Conference as an “ambassador” of schema therapy, representing their country of origin.  The Ambassadors Program will be comprised of a group of professionals, from developing and evolving countries around the world, who have shown enthusiasm for schema therapy through significant contributions in areas such as, academia, research, writing, teaching, and/or clinical practice, and who would not have the financial capacity to join us without our support. Therefore, the ISST will provide 50% financial assistance toward some of their costs as well as free access to the conference and the conference banquet party, held on Saturday night.   The “Ambassadors” will also be invited to participate in a special meet-and-greet session that I will facilitate with other generous volunteers... where they will have a chance to share their experiences with other ambassadors as well as the opportunity to meet and discuss their areas of interest with prominent members of our schema society’s global community.  I am so grateful for the inspiring support of fellow Brainstormers who have volunteered their time and commitment to help out with the Ambassadors Project both before and during the Conference.  We, of course, welcome other members to become a part of this exciting and important addition to the ISST Conference event.  We look forward to offering our ambassadors a warm welcome as we recognize their contributions in promoting and expanding the reach of schema therapy around the world, especially in places where it might be otherwise challenging to receive the formal training without some form of subsidy or scholarship. We look forward to learning more about how the ISST might best help them with their specific needs for further development of their programs and projects. Looking forward to seeing you once again this year, in the beautiful city of Vienna! With Warmest Wishes, Wendy Wendy T. Behary, President (2010-2014) The International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST)  The Cognitive Therapy Center Of NJ, Director The NJ Institute For Schema Therapy, Director A top activity in Vienna: an extended break at a Kaffeehause This summer during your ISST conference activities in Vienna, savor the flavor together with a schema therapy friend or colleague of some of the world's best coffee at a cafe landmark with the ritual at a Kaffeehause, where coffee is served from one end of the city to the other. Legend has it that an Austrian spy infiltrated the invading Ottoman armies laying siege to Vienna in 1683, who learned about the Turk's "drug" called coffee. Once the Ottoman armies retreated, the ecstatic Habsburg emperor in Vienna granted this spy his wish: to retain the bags of coffee beans the retreating armies left behind. He took the beans, and opened the first coffee shop in Vienna, giving birth to Kaffeehause. Read about the many activities you can do during your conference visit in Vienna on our website: VIENNA TRAVEL PLANNER SAVE THE DATES: INSPIRE 2016 ISST VIENNA CONFERENCE Thursday June 30: Preconference Workshops | Evening Welcome Reception Friday July 1: Conference Day 1 | Evening Social Activity Saturday July 2: Conference Day 2 | Evening Conference Banquet FORUM: Want to connect with other members attending the conference? Visit the INSPIRE 2016 Forum to post comments, questions, or suggestions, only accessible to members who have enrolled on the website: CONNECT IN VIENNA

Created by Travis Atkinson ISST Coordinator for Public Affairs & Member Benefits Questions: EMAIL     International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. - ISST e.V Glossop-Ring 35  DE-61118 Bad Vilbel  Germany ©Copyright 2016 ISST e.V. All rights reserved.  Visit us at www.SchemaTherapySociety.org "Be the Change You Help Create"