SATIR MODEL FAMILY THERAPY ONE DAY INTENSIVE TRAINING 2009

The Satir Centre of Australia is an accredited clinical, educational and family therapy training affiliate whose mission is to support, connect and empower people and organisations through the Satir Growth Model to respect differences, transform conflicts, develop possibilities and enable people to take responsibility for their lives, health, work and relationships.  The Satir Centre of Australia is a training affiliate of The Virginia Satir Global Network, the Virginia Satir Family Therapy Network. This programme is under the personal direction of Dr. Sandra E. S. Neil, Director of The Satir Centre of Australia.  Dr. Robert L. N. Silverberg will run some sessions involving the relationship between physical and emotional help, and family well-being.

The Satir Centre of Australia will award a Certificate of Satir Model Therapy to participants.

The course will cover the following areas:

1. Overview of the Satir Model
   • understanding Satir's philosophy
   • becoming more fully human
   • ways of perceiving the world
   • use of self in therapy
   • personal identity in relation to the Basic Triad
   • the importance of connecting with the family
   • relationship and integration with traditional and alternative therapies
     
     
2. Stages of Change in the Change Process
   • dealing with chaos as an expected component in the process of change
   • identifying and transforming family 'rules'
   • working through grief and loss processes
   • understanding universal levels of change
     
     
3. Reframing at Six Levels: The 'Iceberg'
   • uncovering yearnings
   • expectations
   • perceptions
   • feelings
   • coping skills
   • transforming beliefs about the self to bring about new possibilities
     
     
4. Coping Stances: The Defences
   • using coping stances for diagnosis, assessment, and planning for change
   • understanding the steps towards congruence
   • transforming responses from survival-based coping to balance and growth
     
     
5. Ingredients of Interactions
   • identifying the seven basic ingredients of all interactions
   • planning interventions to enhance communication and congruence
     
     
6. Mapping the Person/Family/Organisation
   • using the family map to discover patterns of belief, rules and values, as well as the wheel of influence, and life fact chronology
   • advanced family mapping, including the Chessboard technique (Neil & Silverberg)
     
     
7. Sculpting
   • sculpting family and group patterns as therapeutic interventions, using the Satir Model, the Chessboard technique, and an abbreviated family reconstruction method
     
     
8. The Management of Change
   • using meditation, humour and metaphor to effect change
   • using oneself as the metaphor for change
   • process by which touching changes the other(s)
     
     
9. Using the Negative and Positive 'Parts'
   • a very important vehicle designed by Satir to facilitate recognition and acceptance of the parts of self and other(s)
   • designing a Parts Party and its assistance in diagnosis and planning therapeutic interventions
   • creating a Parts Party as a Chessboard technique
     
     
10. Integration
    • case presentations as learning simulations for Family Reconstruction and other Satir vehicles for change
    • the use of self in therapy

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Satir Model Therapy Training One Day Intensive 2009
Fees are non refundable and are payable upon acceptance of application.
Enrolment in a single module is not possible.

DATES: Satir Model Therapy Training One Day Intensive 2009
($850.00 GST inc) Saturday 14 March 2009 from 9am.

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION:
Ph: (03) 9824-7755
Fax: (03) 9824-7865
Email: office@satiraustralia.com