Seeing our place in a system enables us to anticipate, to learn, and to change.
Interrupt the binds of social pressure, find your place, and define your own path.
Become a more thoughtful and creative participant in your personal and professional life.
Harness the capacity to observe and manage self in your personal and professional life.
Welcome to Navigating Systems, a learning forum for experienced business professionals, consultants and responsible family members who work in the enterprise and appreciate that there is more to learn about how families function over generations and how to manage themselves optimally at home and at work.
Family is a system
You’ve probably heard this concept before. But what exactly does it mean? And more importantly, what does it really mean to you as a part of the system?
Navigating Systems provides a roadmap to help garner a deep understanding of what it means to be a part of a family system. Through a combination of learning the principles of Bowen Theory, neurofeedback and applied personal experiences, Navigating Systems focuses on understanding yourself, the systems you are a part of, and how to become a more self defined individual. This learning gives you the ability to see your part in the system, take on challenging situations and contribute with more robust capacity in your personal and professional life.
Our programs challenge participants to observe, manage self, and to be a more thoughtful, less reactive person at home and at work.
“One’s personal and professional life can be greatly enhanced by understanding the system of your family and the system of your clients.”
What is Bowen Family Systems Theory?
Believe it or not, humans are as vulnerable as other social animals in maintaining and growing healthy relationships over generations. Our brains simply are not wired to see or think carefully about relationships. It requires discipline to avoid going “automatic” with the people we love, are related to, and work with. It turns out that to be able to think and see how the forces in a family and other social system operate on all the individuals is a difficult skill to learn and maintain.
Bowen Family Systems Theory, developed by Dr. Murray Bowen, is a theory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional unit and uses systems thinking (a process that understands the parts of a system as they relate to the whole) to explain the complex interactions that exist within and between a family unit. Gifted at observing the human behavior in relationships, Dr. Bowen, was able to conceptualize a totally different view of human behavior and to describes the emotional process over generations, and the way it influences how individuals function at home and at work.
Dr. Bowen’s discovery about individuals and how they function in a system helps people see how families function, just like other social organisms.
So why bother with Bowen Theory?
The ability to be a self in an emotional system, whether at home or at work, prepares you to deal with the unseen forces as they evolve over time.
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What do animals have to do with success in business or family?
The playful pictures of animals that you encounter throughout our website are a gentle reminder that we are a part of them. We (humans) carry the imprint of these magnificent creatures, who have learned to adapt and passed on their formulas to us.
Consider the primitive life form, prokaryotes, that appeared almost four billion years ago. One may have swallowed another to make a cell with a nucleus and that was enough to begin the journey to form our complex tree of life. Because of our successful lineage, we often forget the long struggle to form our unique genetic and biological makeup.
Each day individuals must adapt and manage in a unique sea of life that forms the emotional system. The system often pressures us beyond our ability to see the larger picture. Sometimes it pays to look at the wildlife around us to recognize the ancient behaviors we inherited.
The fact is, we are constantly living in a system that is in turn part of other systems. We are born into a family system, are a product of multiple generational systems, join work systems, are part of community, friendship and religious systems. Systems influence our life and we influence the systems that we are a part of. A group of interconnected pieces working together as a whole to produce a result that, on its own, no single piece within the system could achieve. And every piece within that system is influenced, not only by its own actions, but by its surrounding environment as well.
“Man is conceived as the most complex form of life that evolved from the lower forms and is intimately connected with all living things.”
Understanding emotional systems and differentiation of self can change the course of one’s life in significant ways.
Neurofeedback is a centerpiece to the Navigating Systems learning forum.
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