BACK TO BASICS: 2023-2024 ONLINE CLINICAL CONSULTATION SERIES ON BOWEN THEORY AND DIFFERENTIATION OF SELF AS THE BASIS FOR THERAPY

CSNSF will offer a monthly 3-hour seminar in a Zoom Room and individual coaching for up to 9 therapists or consultants who aim to strengthen their foundation in Bowen family systems theory. This program is designed for therapists and consultants who have attended the Bowen Center Postgraduate Training Program or a regional training program and who have an active clinical or consultation practice.

Everyone comes to the study and practice of Bowen theory with prior training. Everyone practices in an environment full of competing paradigms. Relationship therapies, attachment theory, psychoanalytic theories, emotion focused therapy, other family therapies, and eclectic approaches are common. Participants can use this seminar to better recognize and address influences over their practice that arise from their own family, the mental health field, society, and the environment.

Therapy and consultation also involve a reciprocal process in which emotional influences operate between people working with each other. Working on differentiation of self in one’s own family is central to working on differentiation in clinical practice and consultation. This program will emphasize the parallel process of working on differentiation of self in one’s own family and with clients in therapy. Participants can observe the difference that family work makes in the functioning of clients and client families.