"Schema Therapy has been shown to be significantly more effective than traditional treatments for a broad range of personality disorders, contributing to real recovery, not just symptom reduction" 

The International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) is the member organization committed to the principles and practice of schema therapy. Bringing together a community of clinicians, researchers, educators, and supporters from throughout the world, ISST provides standards of excellence for the practice of schema therapy, including trainings, workshops, research, and certifications. 

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WARSAW MAY 30 - JUNE 1, 2024!

The 9th biennial ISST INSPIRE 2024 Conference will convene with hundreds of makers and innovators from across the globe–exceptional leaders and doers shaping the future of psychotherapy–for three days of inspired conversation, purposeful networking, and meaningful takeaways.

The upcoming INSPIRE 2024 will be all about STRENGHENING THE HEALTHY MODES and facilitate your work by building up resources and resilience within the patient, but also within yourself as a psychotherapist. Explore with us the many ways of facilitating your schematherapeutic treatment by integrating new and exciting topics and interventions like positive schemas, explicitly addressing the child or healty adult modes or integrating the body or positive psychology into schema therapy.

The conference will encourage participants to play around with new complimentary techniques and dive deeper into what „being or getting healthy“ is really about: be in connection with your needs and manage to fulfill them in a healthy way and thereby feel a deeper sense of being alive and satisfied in life. Want to find out? Join us in Warsaw, Poland.

A warm welcome awaits you in Warsaw the capital city of Poland and the first constitutional democracy in Europe. Warsaw is a multi-cultural, multi-national vibrant city full of history and home to almost 2m people and many international companies that have made Warsaw their European hub.

Poles are a very hospitable and courteous people and treat visitors and guests as special- as the old Polish proverb states: ‘The guest visiting our home is a God visiting our home”. Warsaw is fantastic for it’s hospitality sector as it boasts a wide variety of Polish and international restaurants, bars and night life. Do try the local cuisine, beers and vodkas. They are excellent conversation pieces when discussing your visit.

Warsaw and its surroundings offer culture, art, palaces, castles, nature and adventure… you name it! For those who are visiting Warsaw for the first time and even those returning, Warsaw will surprise and amaze you. This is a fast growing and dynamic capital city in the heart of Europe.

Join us - we would love to see you in!

INSPIRE BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2024

May 30 - June 1, 2024 / HYBRID Conference

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