Currently, we are offering the following programs and services:
This course increases the person’s emotional intelligence, i.e., the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.
It is a positive-directional model for facilitating change and self-leadership.
Learning Objectives for Satir Coaches and Mentors:
- Making contact with your self involves pausing, slowing down, breathing and paying attention to your thoughts and feelings; whereas, when mentoring others, it involves attending to them physically, mentally and spiritually.
- Validating yourself involves acknowledging and accepting your feelings as well as reminding yourself of your inner resources and values; whereas, validating others involves being able to reflect their feelings as well as highlight their inner resources and values.
- Becoming aware of yourself involves noticing your behaviors, both congruent and defensive, as well as what is driving them; whereas, when mentoring others, it involves helping them become aware of when they are being congruent versus defensive and what is driving their defensiveness.
- Opening to greater understanding and acceptance involves gaining greater understanding and acceptance of your disliked parts as well as those that you dislike in others; whereas, when mentoring others, it involves helping them to open for a greater understanding of their disliked parts and those of others.
- Making changes involves helping yourself to make positive choices and changes; whereas when mentoring others, it means eliciting positive choices and new possibilities of change for them.
- Reinforcing change for oneself involves being able to seek support in times of stress; whereas, when mentoring others, it means being able to encourage and guide them as they work on making changes.
The program consists of three levels, each to support the growth and knowledge acquisition as well as have time to practice and learn the necessary skills. It is comprised of 20 individual or group lessons across the full calendar year, with a dedicated Satir Coach and Satir Trainer Supervisor. The program can be done fully online (through Zoom) or in person.
Level 1—Enriching Your Relationship with Your Self and Others: A Personal Growth Program consisting of 12 individual lessons, or 3 days of group training.
- Lesson 1. Introduction into the Enriching Your Relationship with Yourself and Others
- Lesson 2. Validating
- Lesson 3. Becoming Aware
- Lesson 4. Opening to Greater Acceptance of Differences
- Lesson 5. Making Changes
- Lesson 6. Seeking Support
- Lesson 7. Deepening the Connection with One’s Self
- Lesson 8. Deepening One’s Sense of Value
- Lesson 9. Deepening Awareness of Defensive Behaviors and What Drives Them
- Lesson 10. Opening to Greater Acceptance of One’s Disliked Parts
- Lesson 11. Making Changes
- Lesson 12. Integrating the Skills
Level 2—Satir’s Theoretical Concepts and Satir’s Process consisting of 8 individual sessions, or 4 days of group training.
- Lesson 1. The Use of Self
- Lesson 2. A Growth Mindset
- Lesson 3. Families as Systems
- Lesson 4. Individuals as Systems
- Lesson 5. The Self-Mandala and the Inner Levels of Experience of the Self
- Lesson 6. Healthy Communication
- Lesson 7. A Process Mindset
- Lesson 8. Research on the Elements of the Program That Are Evidenced Based
Level 3—Satir Coaching and Mentoring Specialist Training consisting of 20 individual sessions or 5 days of group training and completing a supervised practicum working with three individuals for six sessions each or one group for six sessions.
- Lesson 1. Introduction to Satir Coaching and Mentoring Training for Individuals
- Lesson2. Making Contact with Yourself
- Lesson 3. Making Contact with a Mentee
- Lesson 4. Validating Yourself by Using Your Inner Resources
- Lesson 5. Validating Yourself by Affirming Your Values
- Lesson 6. Validating Mentees by Affirming Their Values and Highlighting Their Resources
- Lesson 7. Validating Your Self by Acknowledging Your Feelings
- Lesson 8. Validating Mentees by Reflecting Their Feelings
- Lesson 9. Becoming Aware of Your Defensive Behaviours
- Lesson 10. Facilitating Awareness in a Mentee of Their Defensive Behaviours
- Lesson 11. Becoming Aware of What Drives Your Defensive Behaviours
- Lesson 12. Facilitating Awareness in a Mentee as to What is Driving Their Behaviour
- Lesson 13. Accepting Your Disliked Parts
- Lesson 14. Promoting Acceptance in a Mentee of Their Disliked Parts
- Lesson 15. Making Changes for Yourself
- Lesson 16. Reinforcing Change for Yourself by Seeking Support
- Lesson 17. Eliciting Positive Choices and Changes for Mentees and Reinforcing the Changes
- Lesson 18. Eliciting Change by Helping a Mentee Choose to Live by Their Values
- Lesson 19. Demonstrating Ability to Integrate All Six Phases in a Helping Interaction
- Lesson 20. Reviewing Your Growth and Assessing Readiness for Certification
The program is accredited by the Global Satir Network, the Official Training Organisation of Virginia Satir.
To apply for the registration, please write to info@virginiasatir.co.uk mentioning your name, surname, age, country of residence and answering the following questions:
- What Personal Growth Work you have done so far?
- What kinds of experiences and/or education have you had that you think would help you in your role as Satir Coach and Mentor?
- What is your reason for wanting to be a Satir Coach and Mentor?
- Family & Business Systemic Enrichment sessions
What is it?
It is a process of reconciliation inside a family of origin to improve communication and state-management in families and businesses.
What will you get out of it?
Practical tips and insights to improve communication inside your home or office. You will transform some part of your story by re-structuring and re-shaping it the way you deep fruitful for you to make healthy choices in life.
- Experiential Workshops around the world: Enrich Your Relationships
What is it? It is an experiential training to explore new ways to enrich relationships with your Self, your parents, partners, children, colleagues, friends or anyone else. It is a great platform for everyone who wants to dedicate some time to learn new tools to create a relationship that lasts, strengthen the bond between the beloved or help others do that.
What will you get out of it? You will learn effective strategies to ‘deal’ with difficult people or with yourself in a difficult situation and how to create more acceptance, joy and love even in the toughest relationships you may have. You will explore both helpful and not so helpful patterns to cope with stress and will learn new ways to live and communicate with others. The workshop is based on the teachings of Virginia Satir and her systemic approach to families as well as new research in the area of neuroscience, behavioural & social psychology, NLP & coaching. Trainers, coaches and people interested in self-development are especially welcome.
- Integrative Movement Therapy: STANCE-DANCE (STASIS-KINESIS)
What is it?
STANCE-DANCE beautifully combines movement, stillness and rhythm to create an opportunity to release fear, relax from stress and move into more congruent behaviours and fruitful states such as joy, happiness, lightness, peace, confidence, strength and serenity.
The practise stems from Siberian shaman dance, dynamic yoga meditation and systemic family therapy originally created by Virginia Satir. It is an easy to practice method of self-expression that helps create a healthy dialogue between your mind and your body.
What will you get out of it?
Highly beneficial for people who…
- lack movement in every-day life
- have low self-esteem
- are in need of self-expression
- suffer mood-swings
- go through a stressful period
- feel stuck in their life
Especially recommended for those who…
- want to have more joy and happiness
- want to feel light and free
- seek confidence and inner-strength
- look for bliss and serenity
- want to raise self-esteem
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- ENRICHing Program
What is it and what will you get out of it?
It is a world-class online programme of 8 modules that are based on the latest research in neuroscience, somatic work and communication tools. During the programme you will go through a simple 6-skill process to discover new ways to discover yourself and better communicate with each other. These six skills are as follows.
Skill 1. Explore vs. routine. You will learn how to experiment with your relationships and how to rekindle the toughest one – your intimate relationships.
Skill 2. Nourish vs. deplete. You will learn new ways to nourish your bonds rather than deplete them.
Skill 3. Respond vs. react. You will learn a new way to talk about the toughest and most stressful topics in a calm and effective way.
Skill 4. Imagine vs. will-power. You will learn that imagination is more powerful than will and how to use it to your advantage.
Skill 5. Communicate vs. assume. You will learn better ways to communicate and not to assume the meaning that you attribute to certain events and people’s reactions.
Skill 6. Hug & Humour vs. withdraw. And of course, you will have lots of hugs and fun. You will explore your capacity for humour in your relationships.
You will learn with your open heart and inquisitive mind and explore with your body new states, emotions and feelings as well as underlying turbulences and protection mechanisms that you have learnt from the past in order to become aware and choose new ways to enrich relationships with your Self and Others.
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