Rewriting Scripts

Date: 29 Apr 2016 - 2 May 2016

Malaysia, Selangor, Petaling Jaya

Research investigation in the field of psychology has established that personality in general and mental health in particular are often transmitted across generations. One theory argues that the transmission involves a process called scripting. Oftentimes unconscious of it, parents play a very active role in the shaping of their children’s personalities for better or for worse. In fact in the workshop speaker's own research, at least 54% of the variation of adolescents' mental health is explained by their scripts.

Rewriting Scripts is a four-day workshop on how our psychological scripts are written and on how we can 'rewrite' these - guided by the principles of psychological freedom and responsibility.

The workshop draws from the Script Theory of Transactional Analysis, Redecision Therapy, and the Constructivist Narrative Therapy approaches to promoting positive mental health.

Part A: Healing and Releasing the Inner Child

This part introduces the participants to the concept of ego states and how experiences, memories, and early “scripting” shape ones view of the self, others, and the world. Participants will then undergo experiential exercises that provide them access to these early scripting experiences – paving the way for a reconstruction of meaning and change.

Part B: Understanding the Family Tree and Intergenerational Scripts

Part two introduces the basic types of transactions and how individuals unconsciously manipulate each other. How scripts are transmitted across a generation is discussed. Psychotherapeutic exercises that break script patterns will be conducted.

Part C: Rewriting Scripts

This part stands on the assumption that identities and personalities are "storied" realities. The task of healing and changing therefore not only involves breaking free from childhood influences and fixing relationships. It also requires a reconstruction of meanings and a rewriting of scripts. This part then engages the participants in exercises that provide cognitive and behavioral handles not only to help their clients change their life scripts but their own as well.

Dr. Fredrick A. Boholst, M.A., Ph.D.

Fredrick Alesna Boholst, nickname (almost all Filipinos have one): "Ricric", holds a master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. He is currently a Faculty Mentor in the Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences – Psychology at Northcentral University, a fully on-line accredited university based in Arizona. At the same time he is an Associate Professor of psychology at HELP University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

His research interests are in Scripts, Life Positions, Attachment, Positive Mental Health, and psychobiographies of exemplary lives. He is a faculty member on mediation of the Philippine Judicial Academy and the Vice Chair of the Philippine Mental Health Association–Cebu City Chapter.

Duration: 9:00am – 5:00pm

Venue: Lighthouse Psychological Wellbeing Centre 18 – 2 (First floor), PJU 1/3d,SunwayMas Commercial Centre, 47301, Petaling Jaya

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Fees:
Normal price – RM 1800
Early bird rate – RM 1500 (Registration before 22nd March 2016)
Student rate – RM 1300

Language: English

Available Seatings: 17

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