Satir’s Systemic Brief Therapy

Level I Training Program

(Prerequisite for Satir’s Systemic Brief Therapy, Advanced Level)

This Program Will Help Counsellors and Therapists:

• Learn to make contact and build rapport with clients to stimulate their healing energy.
• Understand and incorporate the basic therapeutic belief system of the Satir Model.
• Use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions.
• Surface and identify clients’ communication and coping patterns.
• Prepare clients’ family maps (genograms) and surface dysfunctional person and family dynamics.
• Sculpt relationships among family members and bring automatic coping patterns into awareness.
• Transform clients’ problems into positively directional goals.
• Learn the Satir process of therapeutic change.
• Help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources.
• Transform family rules that diminish clients’ self-esteem.
• Help clients raise their self-esteem and increase their choice making potential.
• Map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations.
• Help clients reduce the impact of past events and negative experiences.
• Help clients integrate and maintain their changes.
• Become more effective counsellors/therapists in using the Satir Model.