Annual Conference

Join The Family Systems Institute for our 21st Annual Conference on Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd August presenting The Family Emotional System: The Seedbed of Symptoms and the Garden of Recovery, featuring keynote speaker Dr Dan Papero live onsite at St Barnabas Anglican Church (57-61 Mountain St, Ultimo NSW 2007).

Keynote Speaker: Dr Dan Papero

How the Bowen Theory provides a way to think about the family emotional system as both a seedbed for symptoms and as a garden of recovery.

The family emotional system regulates the functioning of the human family. Operating as a single organism, the family emotional system has evolved mechanisms and processes to support the efficient functioning of the family unit. Bowen Theory provides a way to think about the family emotional system and a theoretical framework that outlines how the family system works.

When the clinician develops the skill to observe and regulate personal emotional reactiveness, it becomes possible to be in contact with a family while observing the flow of emotion through the system without participating in the flow, a condition Bowen refers to as emotional objectivity. The knowledge of how the family emotional system operates permits the clinician to anticipate roadblocks and coach motivated family members through the challenges.

Bio:

Dr Dan Papero is amongst the leading scholars and practitioners in Bowen Theory in the world. After graduate training in social work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dr. Papero entered postgraduate training in family systems theory and psychotherapy at the Georgetown University Family Center. In 1982, Dr. Bowen invited him to join the faculty of the Family Center, now the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family. Over the years he has served in many roles at the Center, and he currently organizes a research seminar and coordinates the Theory Meeting, a bi-weekly working group dedicated to the exploration and expansion of family systems theory.

He has written numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of family systems theory and family psychotherapy. In 1990, he published a basic introduction to family systems, Bowen Family Systems Theory. He and Robert Noone, PhD, co-edited the volume The Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science and Practice in 2015. He has served on the editorial board of the journal Family Systems since its founding. He gives many invited presentations yearly to various professional groups across the country and around the world on topics related to family systems theory, family psychotherapy, and the functioning of corporations and organisations.

Full Conference Program Coming Soon

Dr Dan Papero will also be running a workshop on Tuesday 27th August from 9:00am – 3:00pm in Crows Nest, Sydney. Conference attendees can purchase a discounted ticket to attend this workshop onsite or online. Please add this to your conference ticket purchase. 

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Costs (including GST)

**Once you purchase your ticket please check your junk-mail for your order confirmation. This will include a link to the Conference Resources and for those who are viewing online the live stream link will be provided here. **