Multigenerational Transmission Process: Evolution in Real Time

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This year’s WPFC 2-Day Fall Conference & Symposium will explore Murray Bowen’s concept of the multigenerational transmission process. Our keynote presenter, Priscilla J. Friesen, LICSW, will explore how emotional process is transmitted through families and societies across generations. Using the study of her own family and recent learning about the beginnings of the Mennonite tradition, she will examine how families adapt to historical challenges such as persecution, migration, religious conflict, and displacement.

How do these histories continue to live in the present? What adaptations to threat and survival become embedded in family functioning? How do these patterns shape anxiety, attachment, responsibility, belief, and relationship processes in later generations? Register now to attend (in person or online) and learn how Bowen Family Systems Theory sheds light on what we transmit across generations!

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Oct 16 2026

Multigenerational Transmission Process: Evolution in Real Time

Join WPFC on October 16-17 for the 47th Annual Pittsburgh Family Systems Conference & Symposium!

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