What is the Difference Between Life Scripts & Script Modes?
This episode delves into the differences between life scripts and script modes within the context of Schema Therapy. Life scripts are strategies for navigating life, while script modes represent the various parts of the self that enact these strategies. We discuss the mode model, which simplifies the complex inner landscape of multiple scripts into four main constructs: Healthy Adult & Parent Modes, Inner Child Modes, Maladaptive Coping Modes, and Maladaptive Parent Modes.
Key Modes Explored:
Healthy Adult Mode: Responsible for problem-solving and fulfilling adult functions.
Inner Child Modes: Includes variations like Lonely Child, Abandoned and Abused Child, and Happy Child.
Maladaptive Copied Modes: Three styles of coping: surrender, avoid, and fight the script.
Maladaptive Parent Modes: Critical parent influences that push for unrealistic standards.
Therapeutic Techniques:
We outline the seven steps for working with modes, including identifying primary modes and linking them to current issues. We also explore the integration of Don's LSPM Model and Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems therapy into Steve Karman’s Drama Triangle to simplify the healing process even more. We emphasize throughout the importance of understanding emotional triggers, rapid shifting from one mode to another, and the need to develp a dual awareness of survival-mode, recognized as the “Language of Reactivity” to growth mode, the “Language of Self-Leadership”. Learn more at Serenity Cafe Academy.
Conclusion:
Listeners will gain insights into recognizing their own modes, understand the need to speak FOR our Parts, not FROM our parts, and how to access a healthier, more integrated self by fostering curiosity, compassion, and creativity. Join us for a journey into self-discovery and healing!
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