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.

Overview of Satir's Process for Change To conceptualize Satir's work, the author has created an artificial construct defining the phases of her work. The phases are a direct reflection of Satir's philosophy and her understanding of universal phases of change. In the first two phases, Satir begins to establish rapport and enhance self-worth to help people have the strength and the courage to move out of the familiar, out of "status quo." She then works to help people gain awareness and acceptance of themselves so that they can go on to make the needed changes in their lives. Finally, she helps people reinforce the changes by practicing new ways of being. The phases will be presented here in a linear fashion, each building on the other. This is for the purpose of assisting the reader in understanding Satir's process. Satir was organic in her way of working-flowing back and forth between the phases as needed.