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Brain On Fire: Ideas Beyond Words
Navigating Systems Navigating Systems

Brain On Fire: Ideas Beyond Words

In an email to Allison Whitney in November 2020, Navigating Systems faculty member, Andrea Schara, described the first time she met Dr. Murray Bowen. The story sparked Allison’s creativity to highlight these ideas using other media.

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If the Family Is An Emotional Unit, What Is It Up To?
Andrea Schara Andrea Schara

If the Family Is An Emotional Unit, What Is It Up To?

In my coaching work I am fortunate to be able to listen to people who are willing to challenge the status quo in the family emotional unit. The effort to separate a self from the intensity with-in the nuclear and mutigenerational family unit is not for the faint of heart. Consider both how long psychology has taken to understand the family as a system. Then let us look at one person’s report on her effort to change herself.

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My Thoughts During this Time of Covid-19 - ideas to promote thinking by Andrea Schara
Andrea Schara Andrea Schara

My Thoughts During this Time of Covid-19 - ideas to promote thinking by Andrea Schara

Humans at times seem to be nothing but history stuffed into a bag of bones. But hold on, we have some ability to understand the influence of the past and to consider the choices before us.[i] If we can perceive more of “reality,” then we can choose the high road instead of being hijacked by emotional cries to join the low road. Emotions are contagious. People can lose their identity in an emotional crowd.

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Why Is Neurofeedback a Centerpiece of Navigating Systems?
Priscilla Friesen Priscilla Friesen

Why Is Neurofeedback a Centerpiece of Navigating Systems?

Each participant in Navigating Systems has the opportunity to do two neurofeedback sessions during each of the three on-site training times. Neurofeedback decreases the reactivity present to the group and to new ideas; it promotes less reactivity often present in the group learning; it promotes individual self-regulation; and it increases one’s ability to learn.

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