FEST Writing Group

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.

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.

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.

  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.

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.

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.