Society’s Emotional Process
A Seminar Using Bowen's Natural Systems Theory of
Human Emotional Functioning
This program will not be held during the 2008-2009 year due to the Spring Conference, Conference on Emotional Process in Society, which will be held April 18-19, 2009.
It is expected to resume for the 2009-2010 year.
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The Society’s Emotional Process Seminar meets for three weekends during the
academic year of the Bowen Center. Faculty will present the theoretical framework that will guide consideration of emotional process at the societal level, illustrated by examples based on experience in using that framework.
Bowen family systems theory describes human emotional functioning and behavior at the individual, family, and societal levels and interelationships among individual, family and societal functioning. The theory posits a direct relationship between emotional functioning in human social systems and the human’s relationship with the earth that sustains all life forms.
Using that frame of reference, seminar participants will have the opportunity to explore and develop their thinking about:
Humans as part of life on earth;
Emotional process in the workplace;
Emotional process in human social systems;
Emotional process in non-human social systems; Methodological approaches for observing human emotional functioning.
Each seminar participant will define a specific project to study the application of Bowen theory to observing and understanding emotional process in society.
Projects have included: Family as a basic unit of society; Tracking changes in family and societal structures from subsistence to barter to market economies; Passing wealth and leadership to the next generation in family owned busiseses; Bowen theory as a framework for consulting; Societal emotional process in law and regulation; Societal emotional process in law and regulation; Societal regression in a non-human society; Comparative study of differences in societal reactivity around the collapse of the cod fisheries in two countries; Emotional process in church & charitable organizations; Conflict at the societal level.
Seminar Dates:
Location:
The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family
4400 MacArthur Boulevard, NW Suite 103
Washington, DC 20007
Between meetings participants will be expected to test what they have learned, improve their observational capability and develop better understanding of the frame of reference and its application to the relationship systems they are studying.
Tuition for the program was $800 for the 2006-2007 academic year . There is a $35 application fee. A deposit of $250 is due upon acceptance to the program.
The faculty coordinator for this program is Patrica A. Comella.
For further information, please contact the Center at 202-965-4400
or by email at info@thebowencenter.org
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