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 yourself 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 on 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 up 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. Making Contact
- Lesson 2. Validating
- Lesson 3. Facilitating Awareness
- Lesson 4. Promoting Acceptance
- Lesson 5. Making Changes
- Lesson 6. Reinforcing Changes
- Lesson 7. Deepening the Connection with Oneself
- 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 and Reinforcing Them
- Lesson 12. Integrating 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
- Lesson 6. The Inner Levels of Experience of the Self
- Lesson 7. The Ultimate Driving Force in Communication: Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
- Lesson 8. The Spiritual Dimension
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 Program
- Lesson2. Phasing of Helping in Satir Coaching and Mentoring
- Lesson 3. Making Contact with Yourself and Others
- Lesson 4. Validating Yourself Using Your Inner Resources
- Lesson 5. Affirming Your Values
- Lesson 6. Affirming Values and Highlighting Coachee’s Resources
- Lesson 7. Responding Empathically to Oneself and to a Coachee
- Lesson 8. Deepening the Ability to Respond Empathically to a Coachee
- Lesson 9. Becoming Aware of Defensive Behaviours
- Lesson 10. Facilitating Coachee Awareness of Defensive Behaviours
- Lesson 11. Becoming Aware of What Drives Defensive Behaviours
- Lesson 12. Facilitating Coachee Awareness of What Drives Defensive Behaviour
- Lesson 13. Accepting One’s Disliked Parts
- Lesson 14. Promoting Coachee Acceptance of Disliked Parts
- Lesson 15. Making Changes in Oneself
- Lesson 16. Seeking Support for Making Changes
- Lesson 17. Eliciting and Reinforcing Changes in Coachee
- Lesson 18. Helping a Coachee Choose to Live by Their Values
- Lesson 19. Applying All the Phases of Helping
- Lesson 20. Reviewing Growth and 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 have you 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?