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November 2018
Speaker: Stanley Proffitt, BS This discussion will explore the impact that working toward Differentiation of Self can have on one’s leadership effectiveness. Questions for exploration during the discussion include: How does multigenerational family history influence one’s leadership functioning? What leadership advantages can emerge from working on Differentiation of Self in one’s family of origin? How…
Find out moreThe Bowen Center is closed Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 in observance of Thanksgiving
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Speaker: Anne S. McKnight, EdD, LCSW Director of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, Washington, DC John Bowlby and Murray Bowen were contemporaries, each basing their ideas about relationships on clinical observations influenced by evolutionary thinking. Bowlby focused on the interactions between the mother and the infant while Bowen examined the multigenerational…
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Speaker: Carrie E. Collier, PhD, LPC, CRC Excitement and anxiety come with parenthood. Parenthood holds an instinctual concern and adaptation to help, provide for, and secure one’s offspring. The nature and intensity of parent-child relationships varies. The intensity is exacerbated with a history of ongoing unresolved family anxiety. Growth is stunted in the parent and…
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Speaker: Mignonette N. Keller, PhD This study applies Bowen family systems theory to investigate the factors influencing the functioning of slave owners, slaves, and their descendants from a systems perspective. The findings in this investigation reveal the extent to which there is a direct correlation between the quality of a person’s family relationships and how…
Find out moreThe Bowen Center is closed Monday, December 24 and Tuesday, December 25 in observance of the Winter Holidays
Find out moreThe Bowen Center is closed Monday, December 31 and Tuesday, January 1 in observance of the New Year
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Speaker: Phillip Klever, MSW Clinical Private Practice, Kansas City, MO How much energy and attention does a family require of its members to sustain stability? How much room does the family allow for its members to pursue their individual interests and directions over time? This presentation explores variation in goal direction and its impact on…
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Speaker: Kathleen Cotter Cauley, MEd, LMFT When unexpected challenges emerge in one’s life, family emotional process is always in the background. Whether symptoms present as physical, mental-emotional, or behavioral in nature, the family unit can light up with reactivity. This conference will address ways to observe reactivity in the family and to manage self accordingly.…
Find out moreThe Bowen Center is closed Monday, January 21 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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