The Satir Institute of the Rockies

Satir’s Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program
Level I

Registration Form  for Boulder Trainings
(print and mail)

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Level 1 (Ten days) Total cost $900 for therapists, $625 for graduate students in internship

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Mail registration to: Sandy Novak, 1480 Lee Hill Rd. #7, Boulder, CO. 80304

Questions? Call Sandy Novak at 303-629-2960 or 303-931-4004 or email snovak19@hotmail.com.

THIS PROGRAM WILL HELP COUNSELORS AND THERAPISTS:

1. Learn to make contact and build rapport with clients to stimulate their healing energy
2. Understand and incorporate the basic therapeutic belief system of the Satir Model.
3. Use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions.
4. Surface and identify clients’ communications and coping patterns.
5. Prepare clients’ family maps (genograms) and surface dysfunctional personal and family dynamics.
6. Sculpt relationships among family members and bring automatic coping patterns into awareness.
7. Transform clients’ problems into positively directional goals.
8. Learn the Satir process of therapeutic change.
9. Help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources.
10. Transform family rules that diminish clients’ self-esteem.
11. Help clients raise their self-esteem and increase their choice-making possibilities.
12. Map the internal processes of the clients and help them access and change their behaviors, feelings and perceptions and expectations.
13. Help clients reduce the impact of past events and negative experiences.
14. Help clients integrate and maintain their changes.
15. Become more effective counselors/therapists using the Satir Model.

Text: The Satir Model: Family Therapy & Beyond.
By Satir, Banmen, Gerber, & Gomori, (1991)
Reading: The New Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir.

LEVEL ONE

Day One 
The Satir Model. A Systemic Approach
I. Overview of the training.
II. Therapeutic beliefs and goals
III. Satir in action –video session
IV. Intrapsychic and interactive systems
V. Congruence
VI. Skill development

Day Two 
Satir’s Three Generation Family Maps
I. Making three-generational family maps
II. Reading family maps and sculpting family members
III. Externalizing the internal coping process through Satir stances
IV. Assessing family dynamics and communication patterns through the primary triad
V. Surfacing family resources and strengths
VI. Skill development

Day Three
Preparing to Change: The Initial Interview
I. The role of the therapist
II. Making contact and building rapport
III. Assessing the presenting problem
IV. Focusing the problem into a positively directional goal
V. Getting a commitment for change
VI. Assessing the client’s internal experience through process questions and the “iceberg”
VII. Bringing about transformational change through process questions
VIII. Skill development

Day Four 
Intrapsychic Change
I. Changing the impact, not the event
II. Changing three types of expectations
III. Reframing perceptions
IV. Owning and transforming feelings: anger, hurt, and fear
V. Tapping the life energy through universal yearnings
VI. Skill development

Day Five 
Therapy from the Inside Out
I. Surfacing the impact of family rules
II. Transforming the impact of family rules
III. Resolving internal conflict and integrating internal resources
IV. Satir in action – video session
V. Skill development

Day Six 
Interactive Change
I. Practice sculpting triads and sculpting family maps
II. Assessing family maps for treatment formulation
III. Case presentation and practice
IV. Skill development

Day Seven 
Working with Internal Parts of the Individual
I. Working with an “external” parts party
II. Working with parts in individual therapy
III. Satir supervision
IV. Skill development

Day Eight 
Couples Therapy using the Satir Model
I. Stages of relationship development
II. Working with “differences”
III. Enhancing communication & intimacy
IV. The ingredients of an interaction
V. Skill development

Day Nine 
Symptoms as Solutions
I. Working with anger and rage
II. Working with depression
III. Satir in action – video session
IV. Skill development

Day Ten  
Integrating Learnings
I. Reviewing personal and professional growth
II. Question and answer period
III. Appreciating participants’ uniqueness within the Satir Model
IV. Triad work completion
V. Feedback, evaluation and closure of Level I
VI. Celebration

Here is the latest Brochure for the Level One Training (Updated August, 2008). You'll need Adobe Reader to read it.

The program is for practicing counselors and therapists who are currently working with clients. Satir’s Systemic Brief Therapy Model is unique in encompassing both the intrapsychic and interactive components of therapy. Much therapy of the past has been focused only on clients’ behaving, beliefs or feelings. This model is focused on bringing about change at the level of being, as well as changes in doing, feelings and perceiving. The process taps the universal yearnings of individuals within their personal family and social systems and helps them work towards a sense of responsible wholeness. This work requires that the therapist develop a high level therapeutic competence and congruence.
Level 1: The focus will be on the theoretical base of the Satir Model and learning to bring about transformational change with individuals and couples. The training will focus on experiential learning including demonstrations, hands-on practice, and triad work. Sandy Novak will facilitate this level, assisted by Michael Palmer, MA.
Level 2: Dr John Banmen will join us and be the main teacher for this level. The focus will be on enhancing skill development, deepening the change process and working systemically with individuals, couples and families to bring about transformational change.

ABOUT THE TRAININGS

The program will provide some hands-on skill development opportunities and participants will be required to work in triads between sessions, practicing some aspects of the program. Participants will also work with their own three generational family-of-origin maps to increase personal learning opportunities in applying a systemic therapy model.

Virginia Satir (1916-1988)
is internationally recognized for creativity in the practice of family therapy. Based on a conviction that people are capable of continued growth, change & new understanding, her goal was to improved relationships & communication within the family unit.
Referred to as the “Columbus of Family Therapy” and “everybody’s family therapist”, Satir stayed at the forefront of human growth and family therapy until her death in 1988.
Virginia Satir, founder of the Satir Model, believed that therapy is an intense experience with the inner self. The counselor/therapist helps and encourages the client not only to accept and deal with the pain and problems but also accept and live an inner joy and peace of mind.