This two-page client handout introduces the ISI cycle — the deeper mechanism beneath the MOD cycle that explains how experience becomes identity. It breaks down how sensory and emotional intake is interpreted through available frameworks (Synthesis), and how those meanings gradually become self-concept (Integration).
Explains why understanding the mismatch framework intellectually doesn't immediately feel true — and why that gap is normal, not a sign of doing something wrong. Includes a practical reference table to help clients identify where their own cycle is breaking down: Intake overwhelm, Synthesis distortion, or an Integration gap.
Shows how NST's two tracks work together: Systems Alignment addresses depleting intake; Narrative Repair changes the synthesis framework; both together support new integration over time.
Part of the Neurocontextual Systems Therapy (NST) client resource library.
This two-page client handout introduces the ISI cycle — the deeper mechanism beneath the MOD cycle that explains how experience becomes identity. It breaks down how sensory and emotional intake is interpreted through available frameworks (Synthesis), and how those meanings gradually become self-concept (Integration).
Explains why understanding the mismatch framework intellectually doesn't immediately feel true — and why that gap is normal, not a sign of doing something wrong. Includes a practical reference table to help clients identify where their own cycle is breaking down: Intake overwhelm, Synthesis distortion, or an Integration gap.
Shows how NST's two tracks work together: Systems Alignment addresses depleting intake; Narrative Repair changes the synthesis framework; both together support new integration over time.
Part of the Neurocontextual Systems Therapy (NST) client resource library.
