Re-Run: Applying Schema Therapy within Chinese Context

Cost: HKD$ 1200 / HKD$1000 per person (For 2025 Level I graduates from Chinese Schema Therapy Academy)

Max. Participants: 30

Date: 25 Oct 2025 (Sat), 9am - 5pm

Languages: Cantonese supplement with English (all video are in Cantonese or Mandarin)

Venue: HKMA, CWB Hong Kong

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 

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