Podcast

How Bowen Theory Applies To Personal Life Experiences?
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How Bowen Theory Applies To Personal Life Experiences?

This second conversation relates how each person addresses the opportunities to be more of a self in their family and work relationships. Sometimes successful, often a continuing work in progress, each effort provides ways to evaluate and consider new strategies for the listener to become more of a self.

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Why Bother With Bowen Theory?
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Why Bother With Bowen Theory?

Why Bother with Bowen Theory ? A three part video blog series. Using personal experiences and a systems perspective the conversation informs and teaches in a light hearted manner as it addresses challenging topics and the participants’ effort to be more of a self in their relationship systems.

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Tales from Older Sisters: Examining Sibling Relationships
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Tales from Older Sisters: Examining Sibling Relationships

Three oldest sisters come together to discuss the impact they had on their siblings and what their siblings contributed to their own life course. Walter Toman's conceptualization of sibling position with all things being equal is examined. Murray Bowen stated that the family emotional process created variation in sibling position. Tales from Your Oldest Sister highlights the experiences of three oldest sisters and the impact of the family emotional process on sibling relationships.

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3 Failures on a Couch
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3 Failures on a Couch

Navigating Systems faculty members Priscilla Friesen, Andrea Schara, and Kathy Wiseman sit down and discuss the challenges of thinking systems and building capacity.  Calling themselves 3 Failures on a Couch, they discuss their work on selves over a combined 120 years. 

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