Satir’s Systemic Brief Therapy - Level I Training Program    (Prerequisite for Satir’s Systemic Brief Therapy, Advanced Level)   This Program Will Help Counselors 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 counselors/therapists in using the Satir Model.