Insight Garden Program
4.4: Family Systems
Section 1
Purpose: To empower participants to OBSERVE and then reflect on their role in the family and to understand that by making changes to self, while relating well to important others in the family system, the system will over time change.
(I always start with the idea that we are learning to.
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Yearly Archives: 2015
Insight Garden Program
Lesson 4.5 – Family Systems – Handout
FAMILY SYSTEMS SUMMARY
● Every family is an emotional system with ancient ingrained action and reaction patterns of behavior that are inherited over generations. We all inherit a guidance system and automatic ways to manage anxiety. By developing awareness of these ‘seeds’ of behavior each person can alter.
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I have begun a project to try to say who my professional self is. The first part of that will be to try to describe the precursors of my current professional self, as best as I can.
It is already clear that the precursor section will include at least three parts:
1. The chronology.
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This piece is an introduction to an article focussing on a clinical case that will be elaborated to illustrate the clinical use of Bowen theory in addressing a prolonged symptomatic adjustment in a person following the death of a family member. For those who know about the findings on resilience that George Bonanno produced in his research, this.
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Following is just a collection of (somewhat) related ideas, more like questions really, begun as a planned talk that was uncompleted for the New England Seminar on Bowen Theory’s Societal conference, 10/02/15. Thank you for any ideas, objections, or questions!
I got started by an interest in Pope Frances and the statements by many that what.
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Women After All
Posted by Stephanie Ferrera
Women After All
Stephanie Ferrera
I am reading Melvin Konner’s new book, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy. As the title suggests, Konner has a point to make. He introduces it with his opening statement: “This is a book with a very simple argument: women are not equal.
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Note to everyone: I have bitten off way more than I can chew as I continue to observe and think about New Bedford, a poor city near to me that is trying to revive itself against multiple challenges. It has gotten me thinking about immigration, self rule, the role of the natural environment, the larger.
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Reflections
Posted by Ann Nicholson
I have just read all the current posts as well as earlier posts. It made for a thought provoking morning for which I am most grateful.
I am thinking of how I maintain the status quo and what it will take for me to move differently. Along side of this, I think of society's response to.
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Jim Edd Jones
June 5, 2015
Nuclear Family Emotional Process, Beliefs, and Learned Nonuse
In nuclear family emotional process, beliefs about self and each other in the family are consistent with the pattern of the emotional process and become self-fulfilling. The phenomenon of learned nonuse is one important part of that self-fulfilling process which intensifies and solidifies.
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Thoughts on altruism
Stephanie Ferrera
David Sloan Wilson has published a new book: Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others. I haven’t yet read it, but I did read H. Allen Orr’s review in New York Review of Books, March 19, 2015.
Orr begins: “Altruism may seem a good thing—unless you.
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