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February 2020
Speaker: Kathleen Cotter Cauley, MEd, LMFT If people engage in ongoing practice with navigating triangles in their family, it can be a bridge to seeing triangles in other areas of life, such as organizations, churches, and the clinical setting. This presentation will cover how one person can make a difference when triangles activate, alongside highlighting…
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Speaker: Patricia Comella, Esq (retired) Ms. Comella will describe her efforts to apply Bowen’s natural systems theory of human emotional functioning to mitigate tensions in the relationship between human societies and their sustaining environments. The human is inextricably attached to the Earth. Humans depend on nature’s bounty for their survival and cannot sustain their existence…
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Speaker: Kenton T. Derstine, MDiv, DMin This conference will explore the idea that the effort for differentiation of self in one’s own family contributes to enhanced functioning in one’s work. Increasing one’s awareness of emotional and relationship patterns across one’s previous generations informs the effort to become a more connected and a more defined self…
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Speaker: Robert J. Noone, PhD The concept of emotional cutoff was originally developed by Dr. Murray Bowen to describe the emotional process between the generations, or how individuals manage their unresolved emotional attachment to their parents. This process does not begin anew with each generation, as it is influenced by the parents’ degree of cutoff…
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Speaker: Mary Catherine “Kitty” Bass, MDiv, MSW, LCSW Private Practice, Wilmington, NC Kitty Bass will be focusing on three aspects describing the human’s part in understanding our relationship with nature. First, she will provide an overview of Bowen theory, using its principles to discuss the necessity for bridging cutoff with nature, natural systems, and evolutionary…
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Creating a Climate for Change is an opportunity for those who study and practice Bowen theory and also for educators, students, policy makers, and community organizers to think together about how to live in better harmony with nature in the midst of climate challenges. What are facts about climate changes? What is the human impact…
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Speaker: Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC Faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, Author and Therapist in Private Practice, Washington, DC Is it possible or useful to translate the ideas of Bowen theory into everyday language? Dr. Smith will talk about how she created a book about theory for a popular…
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