Homework:

Think Ahead: 

• Monthly Check-In (you'll have about 10 minutes):  What's making you anxious this month? What keeps this issue so serious?  How would your parents advise you to manage your anxiety?  How might the theory help you to reflect on these issues?  
• Consider In your family of origin & nuclear family:  Can you identify conscious teaching and learning of things that made family members anxious? Can you identify automatic and unconscious programming of emotional reactions and behaviors? 

Read, Watch, Review:

• Review:  the concept of Multigenerational Transmission Process from the Bowen Center.
• Review: Multigenerational Transmission Process by Ken Crowford.  How to think about and diagram Multigenerational Transmission Process.
• Watch:  Differentiation as Life's Journey (28 minutes).  A discussion of parenting between two experts in Bowen Theory.
• Case presentations focused on an issue in your family of origin related to Multigenerational Transmission Process will be considered.

Schedule for the Morning 8:30 a.m. to ~12 noon:

• Check In
  
• Questions & Reflection on the past month
• Pop Quiz on the 8 concepts
• Multigenerational Transmission Process Discussion

Homework:

Think ahead:

• You'll have about 10 minutes. What do you wish to share with the group during check-in? What's giving you the most anxiety now?  How are you managing your anxiety? What keeps work so serious?   What are you curious about?  What makes you laugh?

Read, Watch, Review:

• Read:  Work Systems as Family Systems talk by Ed Friedman. (15 page transcript)
• Read:  Nothing is as Practical as Good Theory (focus on the "Thinking About Workplace Dilemmas" section)
• Watch:  Overfunctioning/Underfunctioning Reciprocity (just 8 minutes!)

Homework:

Think ahead:

• What do you wish to share with the group during check-in? You'll have about 10 minutes. What are you thinking about? What keeps work so serious? Can you predict where the next effort at sabotage will come from? What are you taking responsibility for at home and at work? What are you curious about?

Read, Watch, & Review:

• For case presentations, review the assignments from last month.
• Read: Playbook: Generation to Generation
• Read this article: The Wisdom of Play.
• Listen to this 15 minute podcast:  Non-Anxious Leaders Understand Paradox and Playfulness or you can read the transcript here.

Assignment to consider: Write a Case Presentation

• If you haven't yet prepared a case presentation consider doing one this month. Use this format: Case Presentations. One case will be selected to present during the seminar and Tim will negotiate with individuals to plan a review of the others.
  
• Identify the 8 concepts at work in your case presentation.
  
• Email the case presentation to Tim before the seminar.

Schedule for the Morning 8:30-12 noon

• Check-In
• Questions & Reflection on the last month
  
• Case Presentation #1
  
• Case Presentation #2
  
• Review Afternoon Assignments

Homework:

Think ahead:

• What do you wish to share with the group during check-in? You'll have about 10 minutes. What are you thinking about? What's making you anxious? How are you managing your anxiety? What are you taking responsibility for at home and at work?  What are you curious about?

Assignment to consider:

• Review the 8 concepts of Bowen Theory.
• Prepare a case presentation this month.  Use this format:  Case Presentations.  Two cases will be selected to present during the seminar and Tim will negotiate with individuals to plan a review of the others.
• Identify the 8 concepts at work in your case presentation.
• Email the case presentation to Tim before the seminar.

Read, Watch, & Review:

• Consider watching this 8 minute video from Bowen entitled, Clinical Example of Bowen Theory
• Consider watching this 10 minute video from Dr. Jenny Brown entitled Understanding Bowen Theory
• Read this article, Bowen Family Systems Theory and Practice Illustration & Critique, that reviews the theory in clinical practice and offers an example of a case study.

Homework:

Think ahead:

What do you wish to share with the group during check-in? You'll have about 10 minutes. What family systems work have you been doing in the last month? What are you thinking about? What's making you anxious? How are you managing your anxiety? How are you preparing for family gatherings during the holidays? What about your family makes you curious? What questions will you ask?

Questions to consider:

• Can you identify the four basic relationship patterns in your family of origin?
• Where do you see these patterns at work in your family tree as you go back a generation or two?
• Which pattern was most common in your nuclear family?
• Which pattern is most common in your family of origin? 

Read, Watch, & Review:

• Watch:   Period of Adjustment (on YouTube, on Amazon Prime, Google Play) a 1960 play by Tennessee Williams that was adapted in the film version of 1962.
• Read:  Nuclear Family Emotional System and Family Projection Process in Tennessee Williams’s Period of Adjustment
• Read: Fundamentals of Family Theory - Nuclear Family Emotional System

Schedule for the Morning:

• Check-In
• Questions & Reflection on the last month
• Define & Review Leadership through Self Differentiation.
• Review Afternoon Assignments
• Case Presentations? (doc & pdf)
• Family of Origin Presentations 2-4 p.m. in the afternoon

Homework:

Think ahead:

What do you wish to share with the group during check-in?  You'll have about 10 minutes.  What family systems work have you been doing in the last month?  What are you thinking about?  What's making you anxious?  How are you managing your anxiety?  How are you preparing for family gatherings during the holidays?  What about your family makes you curious?  What questions will you ask?

Read,  Watch, & Review:

• Read: Leadership Through Self-Differentiation
• Read:  Differentiation of Self Scale
• Watch:  Three Steps to Differentiating One's Self (Murray Bowen 4 minutes)
• Watch:  Differentiation of Self in a Family (Murray Bowen 3.5 minutes)

• Watch:  Differentiation as Life's Journey (28 minutes)  Dr. Mariana Martinez talks about thinking of differentiation as a developmental process from birth onwards. She shares thoughts about how parents can promote differentiation in themselves to benefit their children.

Schedule for the Morning:

• Check-In
• Questions & Reflection on the last month
  
• Define & Review  Leadership through Self Differentiation.
• Review Afternoon Assignments
• Case Presentations? (doc & pdf)
• Family of Origin Presentations 2-4 p.m. in the afternoon

Homework:

Submit:

Prepare a Case Presentation (doc) or Family of Origin issue you'd like to review if you were assigned this month for the afternoon.  Submit a write-up of the case or a basic Family Map ahead of time.

Think Ahead:

What do you wish to share with the group during check-in?  You'll have about 10 minutes.  What family systems work have you been doing in the last month?  What are you thinking about?  What's making you anxious?  How are you managing your anxiety?  

Read, Watch & Review:

• Watch:  The Family Projection Process (5 min) by Murray Bowen & Parents as Leaders (7 min)  Read accompanying guide with Parents as Leaders Video
• Read:  Bullies, Worries – Mindsets and the Family Projection Process
• Read:  We Don't Need Your Help...But Please Fix Our Children
• Consider:  Questions Related to Family Projection Process  

Schedule for the Morning:

• Check-In
• Questions & Reflection on the last month
  
• Define & Review Family Projection Process.
• Review Afternoon Assignments
• Case Presentations? (doc & pdf)
• Family of Origin Presentations 2-4 p.m. in the afternoon

Homework:

Submit:

Prepare a Case Presentation (doc) or Family of Origin issue you'd like to review if you were assigned this month for the afternoon.  Submit a write-up of the case or a basic Family Map ahead of time.

Think Ahead:

What do you wish to share with the group during check-in?  You'll have about 10 minutes.  What family systems work have you been doing in the last month?  What are you thinking about?  What's making you anxious?  How are you managing your anxiety?

Read, Watch & Review:

• Watch:  Triangles in Relationships
• Read:  Leadership and the Triangle - Israel Galindo
• Read:  Summary of Edwin Friedman’s ‘A Failure of Nerve’: Part 6

Schedule for the Morning:

• Check-In
• Review Seminar Procedures
• Questions
• Define & Review triangles.
• Afternoon Assignments
• Case Presentations (doc & pdf)
• Family of Origin Presentations