Satir Work

Image via Wikipedia

Virginia Satir, an internationally acclaimed author, teacher and therapist, developed a universal approach to systems that has allowed her concepts and techniques to be among the most useful and dynamic approaches for increasing leader effectiveness.

Do you wish to …?

• Connect your strengths and development needs with what you learned from your family of origin?
• Assess system health and esteem, and team dynamics?
• Handle emotionally intense interactions more effectively?
• Manage and lead change with actual results?
• Think systemically to clear your mind?
• Resolve conflict to move the energy forward?
• Manage stress  to have a relaxed focus?
• Increase your authenticity as a leader?
• Foster two-way trust in relationships?
• Develop healthy and responsive work cultures?

For example, you can use the …

• Satir Coping Stances to connect your strengths and development needs with what you learned from your family of origin and increase leader authenticity
• Satir Change Model to assess system health and esteem, and team dynamics, and to manage and lead change
• Satir Ingredients of an Interaction to handle emotionally intense interactions, foster trust and resolve conflicts
• Satir mandala to think systemically and develop healthy and responsive work cultures

And much, much more … This is just the beginning!

Because …

In order to understand the nature of consciousness, I must here and now in this present moment be searching for a better state of consciousness. All definitions, no matter how profound, are secondary.

Satir Hologram - image links to larger version

Related Articles

• 21 Quotes that Celebrate Family (beliefnet.com)