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The Understanding and Application of the Satir Self-Mandala
The Understanding and Application of the Satir Self-Mandala
Explore Virginia Satir’s Self-Mandala as a tool for personal growth, self-awareness, and strengthening relationships.
In this interactive online course, participants will explore the eight dimensions of the Self-Mandala: intellectual, emotional, spiritual, sensory, nutritional, contextual, interactional, and physical. Through guided reflection, demonstrations, and practical exercises, participants will discover how these dimensions influence one another and connect to family systems.
The course also integrates other Satir Model tools, including the Iceberg, Five Freedoms, coping stances, congruent communication, and Change Model. Participants will learn ways to apply these concepts to personal growth, relationships, and work with individuals, couples, and families.
Course Instructors
This course is taught by Stephen Buckbee, MSW, LPC, and Michael Dupont, MSW, who will guide participants through reflection, demonstrations, and practical applications of the Satir Self-Mandala.
Course Schedule
This 10-session live online course meets monthly from February through November.
Dates: February 13, March 13, April 10, May 29, June 12, July 17, August 14, September 11, October 16, and November 13.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
All sessions will be recorded and available to participants for review or to catch up on missed sessions.
What You'll Learn
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Explore the eight dimensions of the Self-Mandala and their influence on personal well-being.
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Understand connections between self-awareness, personal growth, and family systems.
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Integrate the Self-Mandala with other Satir Model tools to support reflection, communication, and change.
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Strengthen relationships through greater awareness of emotions, coping patterns, and underlying needs.
Who Can Participate?
This course is open to therapists, counselors, educators, helping professionals, and anyone interested in applying the Satir Model to personal or professional growth.
Self Study Course: Satir Fundamentals
This is a self-study course. Thank you for joining! We will present what we think are key concepts for understanding and using Satir's methods. This course was created by Sharon Loeschen and Stephen Buckbee.
Upon successful completion of the course, you will earn 6 CE hours. The Virginia Satir Global Network has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP #5224. Programs that do not qualify for the NBCC credit are clearly identified. VSGN is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Stephen Buckbee, LSW, LPC, M.ED., has a broad range of experience in the social service field, including being a counselor for families of addictions, an emergency services counselor and a professor of Sociology at Bay de Noc College in Michigan for twenty-four years. He began learning from Virginia in 1986 and from there he partnered with Michael Dupont and Dan Doyle to establish BDD Associates and together they have trained thousands of persons in Satir concepts over the years. In addition, he is faculty of the Banmen China Management Center, where he trains professionals in the social service and educational fields.
Sharon Loeschen, LCSW, has worked as a clinical social worker for 37 years, practicing at Family Service of Long Beach, California, for thirty of those years and is now in private practice. During this time, she also taught in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at California State University for 19 years. As with Stephen, Sharon began learning from Virginia in 1986 and from there has gone on to share her teachings through her books, The Satir Process, Systematic Training in The Skills of Virginia Satir and Enriching Your Relationship with Yourself and Others.
During this course, the student will be introduced to the core concepts of Virginia Satir's work. The course begins with Satir’s concept of the different ways of viewing the world, proposing that the world has historically operated from a Threat and Reward Model of dominance and conformity and needs to move to a Seed/Growth Model where people are viewed as equal in value and celebrated for their uniqueness.
After which, you will learn about Satir’s understanding of the universality of being human; the influence of the family of origin on relationships; the systemic process of the family; the importance of helping people access their inner resources and their self-worth.
Satir worked on these tapes before the end of her life she was very interested in demonstrating her process as well as the underpinnings of her work.
The quality of the videos is fair, but the content is pure gold. Take your time.
The course ends with a focus on the universal process of change and the role of the therapist.
The learning objectives for the course are, that the student will be able to:
- Understand the difference between the Threat and Reward Model and the Seed Model.
- Understand the universality of the human process.
- Understand the influence of the family of origin on relationships.
- Understand the systemic process of families.
- Understand the importance of helping people access their resources and self-worth.
- Understand the universal process of change.
- Understand the role of a therapist according to Satir.
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Thank you for taking this course. Please check the Satir Institutes and Affiliates section on our Website if you are interested in what is being done to promote and teach about the Satir Model.
Self Study Course: The Satir Process
This is a self-study course based on the book, The Satir Process, which describes Sharon Loeschen's concepts of the phases and skills Satir used when working with people. The learning objectives for the course are as follows:
- To understand the philosophical assumptions of the Satir Process.
- To understand the phase of making contact and the skills involved.
- To understand the phase of validating and the skills involved.
- To understand the phase of facilitating awareness and the skills involved.
- To understand the phase of promoting acceptance and the skills involved.
- To understand the phase of making changes and the skills involved.
- To understand the phase of reinforcing changes and the skills involved.
Upon successful completion of the course, you will earn 2 CE hours.
