It is a privilege to be taking up the role of Executive Director of the Family Systems Institute. My first foray into systems thinking was at the FSI’s Annual Conference in 2008 when Dan Papero presented on triangles. What he described fit with my own experience of relationships – personally, professionally and in the workplace […]
Read moreOn Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th October the Family Systems Institute held its Annual Clinical Conference: Dialogue with Difference. Its aim was to explore Bowen Family Systems Theory alongside other approaches to clinical practice. Theories explored included Bowlby’s Attachment Theory, Gestalt Psychotherapy, CBT, Gottman and the Dialogical Approach. Day 1 Day 1 introduced us to […]
Read moreBy Ken Morgan, Sunday, 5 April 2020 The COVID19 crisis is the most disruptive phenomenon our society has experienced since the Second World War. It’s social, psychological, and economic impacts are yet to be fully appreciated. Different leadership is required in a crisis to the more stable and predictable periods, where strategy can be developed […]
Read more“A person’s entire multigenerational system lives in each moment—in the present” – Keynote speaker Priscilla Friesen “It only takes one person – a family member, or professional who is able to “think systems” – to help a family become more mature and thoughtful”–Keynote speaker – Kathy Wiseman The Annual Family Systems Institute Conference held in […]
Read moreSee below for an excerpt from Dr Annemaree Bickerton’s [Child and Adolescent and Family Psychiatrist, FSI Director and Faculty Member] presentation on from our 2017 New Year Symposium – Contagious with Calm, Clarity, Connection and Safety: Some Useful Frameworks for Shared thinking when Reactivity is High.
Read moreSee below for an excerpt from Dr Jane De Matteis [Clinical Psychologist & Member of the FSI Certificate program] presentation on from our 2017 New Year Symposium: The Societal-Emotional Process – A Perspective on America’s Current Political and Cultural Climate in the context of Murray Bowen’s Concept of Societal Emotional Process.
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