Day-by-day Course Detail for Level 1 Training

Day One

The Satir Model. A Systemic Approach

  • Overview of the training.

  • Therapeutic beliefs and goals

  • Satir in action –video session

  • Intrapsychic and interactive systems

  • Congruence

  • Skill development

Day Two

Satir’s Three Generation Family Maps

  • Making three-generational family maps

  • Reading family maps and sculpting family members

  • Externalizing the internal coping process through Satir stances

  • Assessing family dynamics and communication patterns through the primary triad

  • Surfacing family resources and strengths

  • Skill development

Day Three

Preparing to Change: The Initial Interview

  • The role of the therapist

  • Making contact and building rapport

  • Assessing the presenting problem

  • Focusing the problem into a positively directional goal

  • Getting a commitment for change

  • Assessing the client’s internal experience through process questions and the “iceberg”

  • Bringing about transformational change through process questions

  • Skill development 

Day Four

Intrapsychic Change

  • Changing the impact, not the event

  • Changing three types of expectations

  • Reframing perceptions

  • Owning and transforming feelings: anger, hurt, and fear

  • Tapping the life energy through universal yearnings

  • Skill development

Day Five

Therapy from the Inside Out

  • Surfacing the impact of family rules

  • Transforming the impact of family rules

  • Resolving internal conflict and integrating internal resources

  • Satir in action – video session

  • Skill development

Day Six

Interactive Change

  • Practice sculpting triads and sculpting family maps

  • Assessing family maps for treatment formulation

  • Case presentation and practice

  • Skill development

Day Seven

Working with Internal Parts of the Individual

  • Working with an “external” parts party

  • Working with parts in individual therapy

  • Satir supervision

  • Skill development 

Day Eight

Couples Therapy using the Satir Model

  • Stages of relationship development

  • Working with “differences”

  • Enhancing communication & intimacy

  • The ingredients of an interaction

  • Skill development

 Day Nine

Symptoms as Solutions

  • Working with anger and rage

  • Working with depression

  • Satir in action – video session

  • Skill development

 Day Ten

Integrating Learning

  • Reviewing personal and professional growth

  • Question and answer period

  • Appreciating participants’ uniqueness within the Satir Model

  • Triad work completion

  • Feedback, evaluation and closure of Level I

  • Celebration

 

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