Basic Seminar Application

The deadline for application submissions has been extended to September 29, 2023.

Once you've submitted your application, please email the course organizer, Cynthia Larkby, PhD, ACSW (clarkby@icloud.com) to confirm your submission and move forward with the interview process.

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Please describe any current or past experiences you have had working professionally with families, groups, organizations, or other human systems.

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Please list below any prior coursework or training in work with families, groups, organizations, or other human systems.(Required)

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Prior Study of Bowen Family Systems Theory

If you have previously studied Bowen theory, when and where did you study? What learning was most significant for you? How has Bowen theory been useful in your personal and/or professional life?(Required)

Basic Concepts in Systems Theory

Even if you have never formally studied family systems theory, you likely already know something about it by virtue of belonging to a family and, at times, observing how you and others function in emotionally significant groups. Please share your thoughts in answer to the following questions:

What is your definition of "family"?(Required)

How do you think about the relationship between stress and anxiety?(Required)

Bowen’s concept of the “emotional triangle” describes a three-person interactive system. Describe an emotional triangle of which you are a part. What might be the function of that particular triangle?(Required)

Learning Goals

What are your reasons for starting this course at this time? What specific goals do you want this course to help you achieve?(Required)

Family System Information

Understanding systems theory begins with understanding our own families, even if we intend to apply the theory in our work with other families, groups, or organizations. As part of each course, you will be asked to study your own family. To begin that process, please answer the following questions?

Write a short description of your extended family system, including your family-of-origin and any family you have formed since (i.e., partners/spouses, children, and/or other significant relationships). Note dates of births, marriages, divorces, and deaths where available.(Required)

What is the frequency and intensity of contact and/or conflict among members of your family system?(Required)

What are other typical patterns of behavior and interaction in your family?(Required)

NOTE: If you would like to include a family diagram with your written description, you may scan and upload it as an attachment.

Family diagram. (Optional)

Max. file size: 10 MB.

Potential Course Impact

Systems thinking can be a very different way of understanding human behavior. Some find that learning to think within a systems framework raises anxiety or emotional reactivity, whether within self or within others in our personal or professional lives.

As you study this material, what reactions would you predict arising in yourself or in others in your system? How might you anticipate managing that reactivity given what you already know about yourself and those significant others?(Required)

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