FEST Writing Group

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.

Social Pressure and Differentiation of Self by Andrea Schara How hard is it to be who you want to be? How much do you conform to what others need or want you to be? How challenging is it to see relationship pressures? The effort to define one’s self to important others is usually a tension.

Violence appears to be on the rise. People are asking for explanations.  We are faced with a cluster of events - Sandy Hook, the Boston Bombings, the California killings, a California man arrested for a possible bombing attempt, followed by a rogue shooter in Norfolk Va., who did not even make the national news as.