Cohort and Structure
Held Virtually
ONE-ON-ONE
One Individual Interview
One 50 minute conversation, meant to create connection between the facilitator and participant, and to provide a reflective space that helps the participant get clearer about what they want to work on, and how they'd like to use the workshops
SESSIONS
Four Workshops
Four two-hour workshops, consisting of the presentation of systems concepts, a dialogue among the participants and facilitator, and a space for participants to work-out their thinking about real challenges.
Tuition
$500 per participant
CONCLUSION
A Closing Event
Each participant will have ample time to share what they've been working on, how their thinking has changed, and what they are planning moving forward.
The Seminar Text
Bowen Theory's Secrets:
Revealing the hidden life of families
Michael Kerr
Individual Conversations
One-on-Ones
These will be scheduled with the facilitator during the week before the first workshop.
Oct. 26 - Nov. 5
50 minutes
The Hidden Life of Families & the Self You Bring to Them
Workshop 1
Why a family behaves as one unit rather than a set of individuals, and what it
means to hold a position of your own inside it.
November 7
2 hrs.
Triangles & the Patterns a Household Settles Into
Workshop 2
How tension between two people reliably pulls in a third, and the familiar
shapes that follow: conflict, distance, over-functioning, and worry about a child
November 14
2 hrs.
Across the Generations
Workshop 3
What travels down a family line without anyone deciding it should, and what it
takes to reopen a relationship that has gone quiet or been cut off
November 21
2 hrs.
Where Anxiety Lands & the Wider World
Workshop 4
How worry in a family comes to rest on one person; how birth order shapes the
roles we grow used to; and the same process at work in workplaces and society.
December 5
2 hrs.
Closing Event
Conclusion
Each participant takes twenty minutes to speak about the challenge
they came in with — what they now see in it, what they tried, and what
changed. There is nothing to perform and no expertise to demonstrate.
December 19