ADVANCING NAVIGATING SYSTEMS
2022-2023
Advancing Navigating Systems is a learning/thinking forum for individuals with a substantive background in and engagement with Bowen family systems theory.
The forum is the opportunity to think and learn with other system thinkers with the focus on being one’s best self, by engaging the process of differentiation of self.
Bowen Theory offers a different way of seeing and understanding the challenges each of us face. The world around us is steeped in individual thinking. When the anxiety is up, it is automatic to revert to cause-and-effect thinking. Then you have lost a family system’s perspective. But what happens when one is working on differentiation? Dr. Bowen developed and tested out his ideas. He wrote about the effort he was making to understand human behavior.
Course Dates
Oct. 20, 2022
Dec. 15, 2022
Feb. 16, 2023
Apr. 20, 2023
June 15, 2023
This course provides you with time to test out your new ideas and get feedback from knowledgeable people. Setting aside time to develop one’s best thinking while still listening to others, is both challenging and stimulating. Taking steps to enhance one’s creative thinking is crucial to one’s life work.
Catherine Rakow’s new book Making Sense of Human Life: Murray Bowen’s Determined Effort Toward Family Systems Theory is the selected resource for the learning. With scheduled reading assignments for each session, participants will have the opportunity to discuss, question, respond and apply the reading to their own life experiences. Each session will provide time for the participants to present their own thoughts and questions, or just listen. Participants may also choose to provide reading or video material to supplement their discussion.
Our meetings will be focused on the reading and answering questions like: What is the emotional process and how does it affect my life? In what ways can I observe it? How can I better define the way I see and respond? In what ways have I left room for new ideas? How can I predict my own behavior?
“There is a value in listening to others think systems to help reorient. As you evolve through the challenges of life, without a place to think in a systems way, you can get drawn back.”
This year’s online course includes:
Bi-monthly online meetings via Zoom
Individual coaching every other month
Prior participation in Navigating Systems or another Bowen Theory training program is a prerequisite to Advancing Navigating Systems. Space is limited to 9 participants.
Should you have additional questions about this year's program email us at admin@navigatingsystemsdc.com or call (202) 812-1449.
Course Schedule:
Online group meetings are held on a Thursday every other month from 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST.
Tuition:
$5,500 via electronic payment or credit card
$4,900 via check payment
Tuition payments are non-refundable.
Application and fees are due by the 27th of September.