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The UNFOLDING SELF
Virginia Satir used the terms, "beliefs, "family rules" and "survival messages" interchangeably.
She believed that as children we behave according to our family's rules in order to survive. These beliefs should be blessed for helping us survive
but some may be hindering us now in terms of our ability to express ourselves or interact effectively as adults.
When We Find Ourselves
- unable to feel or unaccepting of our feelings,
- reluctant to take risks, stuck in our fear, hesitant to share our thoughts and feelings,
- unaware of our wants or frightened to ask for what we want,
- denying what is going on around us,
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"We are probably stuck in past experiences, assumptions."
-The Secrets of Satir, Sharon Loeschen
The goals of this 3-day workshop are to focus on how we communicate with one another and to become aware that:
How we communicate can affect how we feel about ourselves, each other, and our current situation. Our feelings affect our communication. We have thoughts,
feelings, and body responses at any moment, and we express them differently under differing conditions. We react to the ways others express their feelings, thoughts, and body sensations.
To promote these awarenesses, Virginia Satir has developed various experiential exercises, for example, temperature reading,
family mapping, stances, ingredients of interaction, family rules, etc..."
-The Secrets of Satir, Sharon Loeschen
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