From your Editor

From your Editor

Welcome back to this belated edition of the WB. I have no excuse for my tardiness. I could blame floods, fire, and plague but honestly the late arrival of this edition is mostly me having a lovely summer with our beautiful, blended family including getting to know our recent addition of a newborn baby girl!! (She was not late on arriving). However, the impact of the fires, flooding and Covid are significantly affecting our work as therapists as we help our clients regulate their nervous systems which have become dysregulated, and they are coping the best they can through a variety of addictive and unhealthy behaviours.

Birthing a Book

Birthing a book involves labour, and the gestation period can be variable. In the case of the Satir Writers Group, the gestation period has been about three years. Of course, there were complications along the way, like concussions, illnesses, computers pitching themselves into deep water, and bad falls, but the writers persisted. Our group formed in 2017 and began gathering with John Banmen with the purpose of updating the SIP curriculum with more body-focused content. Each member of the group was engaged in using the body and its energy in trainings, but not much was reflected in written form. We explored how SIP was currently teaching the use of the body, the energy around and within the body, and spiritual nature of Satir's work, with the idea of updating the training manuals. Every few months our group would meet again, to discuss and explore different aspects of these topics.

President’s Message for the Wisdom Box

The story and our experience of the summer months in British Columbia, other parts of Canada, the USA, Europe, and Asia has been dominated in many places by excessive heat, forest fires and flooding. There have been multiple stories that capture the whole range of human responses and emotions to these stressful events. 

I wonder how our SIP members are coping both at a professional and personal level with all of this.  I would encourage anyone to share your experience, reflections, and impact of these events in The Wisdom Box. How has your knowledge and practice of the Satir Model been useful in these challenging times for yourself and your work with clients and in communities?

Who are your Board Members at the Satir Institute of the Pacific?

President:

Michael Callaghan

Director of Training:

Tricia Antoniuk

Secretary: Lysandra Chan

Treasurer: Frankie Lee

Membership: Lani Kim

Research Chair: Madeleine De Little



Members at Large:

Tonda Eger-Chin,

Ng Beng Wee

Shyann Vosper

Trainings

We are the world leaders in training in the Satir Model.

And we are now able to offer online and in person trainings in Langley BC

Visit the SIP website for further details

https://satirpacific.org/our-events/

Grieving presentation

An International Satir call went out for presenters to do a Satir Global zoom presentation on Grieving. Linda Lucas was one of three that answered the call and will present Sept 6th, 8:00a.m. P.S.T. 

To obtain the FREE zoom link email: 

office@satirglobal.org

NOTE: The Grieving zoom presentation will be available at no charge a week later on.

 http://www.satirglobal.org. see EDUCATION tab zoom presentation No.128-Linda Lucas.

Your Compassionate Self

Presented by Dr. Robin Beardsley

September 6th at 5.30-October 10th 6.30pm

https://satirpacific.org/event/your-compassionate-self/

Satir and Soul Money

Workshop presented by Jennifer Nagel and Linda Lucas

The 3rd Satir Conference Thailand took place from September 16th to 18th, 2023, in Bangkok, under the theme "Heal Family, Heal the World." We were thrilled to have 150 participants join us in co-creating a vibrant Satir community in Thailand.

Regards

Pong

Use of the Body in the

Satir Model

When: November 11, 12, 26, 2023

2:00 pm to 7:15 pm Pacific Time

(4.5 hours of training each session)

Includes 2 breaks 15 min and 30 min each

With Anastacia Lundholm, SRI WELLNESS EDUCATOR

This workshop is an add-on for people who have studied the Satir Model Level One or Foundations A and B. It would be presented to those who use the Satir Model in a helping profession, or students preparing for such a profession. This three-part online workshop will focus on the context and experience of the role of the body in the therapy process, how to experience and track both your own and your client’s internal state, and access the clues and wisdom inside the body, integrating it into the therapeutic experience. Participants will also learn tools for self-monitoring and self-referencing. The program will aid professionals in becoming more competent, more confident and more congruent....

Advanced Applications Training at Bethlehem Retreat Centre in Nanaimo BC

Hold the date!

The next Vancouver Island Satir Zoom gathering/fireside chat will be on:

Saturday September 30, 2023 from 9:30 – 11:00 am.

This will be our fall season gathering. We will be sending a Zoom link closer to that date.

Anyone who has relocated to Vancouver Island is most welcome to join us.

Our gatherings are here to offer support, solace, encouragement, applause, validation and deep connection for our heart based Satir community. Contact Wendy at welum@shaw.ca and you can be added to our Vancouver Island Satir list.

This year we continued to meet on Zoom in Jan for our winter

gathering, and then in June for our spring gathering. Initially we have attempted to meet four times a year to acknowledge the four seasons. Some comments were: “my heart is filled up and full of connection”, “Balm for the soul”, “Deep sense of belonging”. We were joined by Leona, Christine, Julie, Mary, Shelley, Chris, Barb in one or both meetings. We did not manage to fit in a summer get together. As life has opened up, we all needed a free and open summer to relax, see family and friends, and get into nature!

Love Anne and Wendy 

Scholarship news from Wendy and John

Steven Keeler is embarking on becoming a supervisor/trainer and teaching the ethics and epistemology of the work of Virginia Satir (and other things) to new counsellors.

Also beginning in January, his counselling practice will accept more interns and newly registered counsellors in both Coquitlam and Vancouver Island.