SATIR BRIEF THERAPY TRAINING PROGRAMME CERTIFICATE IN SATIR
SYSTEMIC BRIEF THERAPY (CSSBT-14 (M))
The above part-time (14th Run) 12 months (CSSBT-14)
training program offered by Choice Makers Consultancy, is designed for both lay
& professional counselors in Malaysia. The program is modelled after the
well received part-time 18 months Post Graduate
Diploma in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy (DSSBT) Training Program for
professional counselors, therapists & social workers in Singapore.
The trainer for this Certificate
Course is Warren Tan, a
Malaysian residing in Singapore. Warren has over 30 years of experience in the
field of refugee work, social work, counseling & family therapy. He is
currently in private practice as a Marriage & Family Therapist and Trainer
for lay & professional counselors & therapists in Malaysia &
Singapore. He has also conducted training for NGO’s in Thailand, Indonesia, the
Philippines, Cambodia & Vietnam. Apart from seeing clients for therapy in
Singapore and Malaysia, Warren also provides clinical supervision for both lay
& professional counselors & social workers in Singapore &
Malaysia. A practitioner in the Satir Model of Brief Therapy, as a therapist
and trainer, he also conducts various workshops & seminars for the general
public. Workshop topics include stress & conflict management, marriage
enrichment, parenting, pre-marital preparation etc. Warren specializes in
treating couples with marital problems (eg. extra-marital affairs), and those
who are depressed or suicidal. He also treats clients who have phobias and
trauma victims. Professionally he is a clinical member of the American
Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT) & the Satir Institute
of the Pacific (Canada), a certified traumatologist (US) and a certified TJTA
instructor & administrator.
What is so unique
about this Certificate program?
The Certificate in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy is
especially designed for lay & professional counselors in Malaysia who in
spite of their professional training or lack of training, would like to learn
to be more skillful & effective in helping their clients. Participants
could either be teachers, coaches, mentors, pastors, priests or nuns, Christian
leaders, ministry staff in churches or para-church organizations, or volunteers
and full time staff with NGO’s eg. counseling centres, schools, drug
rehabilitation centres, halfway houses, homes for children/elderly etc. or any
individual who is interested in their own personal growth as well as that of helping
others when the opportunity presents itself.
Warren has conducted numerous 2 day training workshops in
counseling for lay & professional counselors & social workers from
churches & NGOs in Malaysia since 1997 eg. BCM, DUMC, FGA, Glad Tidings, SIBKL, The Shelter, Focus on the Family (M’sia), BCM, Woman’s Aid Organisation (WAO),
Sau Seng Nam hospital, UPM & UCSI amongst others.
These workshops have been well received for their practical
& practice orientated approach. Much of the current counselling courses
taught at local universities are understandably academic in nature. Clinical
supervision, which allows for systematic guidance, practice, and learning in
applying theoretical & conceptual knowledge to actual counseling
situations in the Malaysian context, are unfortunately either not given
sufficient emphasis and time, or are absent altogether from some of the current
courses available. There is also a lack of experienced and qualified
practitioners-cum-clinical supervisors in Malaysia who are invaluable in
providing supervision and guiding counselors in their personal growth, skills development and
practice.
The CSSBT-14 (M)
Satir Systemic Brief Therapy Training Program is especially designed to
provide effective hands-on systematic training for counselors, para-counselors
& other helping professionals. From Warren’s years of experience in the
education & training of counselors, he has found that the most
effective approach to training confident and competent lay or professional
counselors is to combine the imparting of the knowledge & principles of
counseling psychology with a robust on-going counseling practicum; i.e.
systematic clinical supervision and guidance. A lot of attention and time in the course will be given to
the personal growth of the counselor. Both the personal and professional growth
of the counselor-in-training are given the emphasis required in this training program. The Certificate in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy (CSSBT) seeks firstly to
encourage those who find it rewarding to help others, to stay or go into the
people-helping vocation. Secondly it seeks to give lay ad professional counselors the
rewarding experience of being able to make a positive difference in the lives
of clients they see. The three main goals of this course is to help course participants grow in CONFIDENCE, COMPETENCE & CONGRUENCE at both the
personal and professional level.
Mode of training
The above program is person-skills-based, with emphasis on
growing the person of the counselor and in the practical application of the
Satir Brief Therapy Model in the counseling room. It is for professional
counselors as well as lay counsellors who are involved as people-helpers where
counseling skills are required, who wished to be better equipped, more
confident, more congruent and more competent in helping their clients. Warren
will utilize a combination of lecturettes, small group discussions, structured
exercises, live demonstrations with clients & participants, experiential
learning, skills practice sessions and video tape presentations of his sessions
with clients as part of the training. Warren who is also the clinical
supervisor for the program, will supervise students during the entire 12 months
duration of the program in the application of the Satir Model of Brief Therapy
with clients in the Malaysian context. Except for scheduled breaks, clinical
supervision for students will be offered at regular intervals throughout the
entire duration of the 12 months training. Participants are required to attend
a total of 12 days (3 days x 4 times) of intensive (7 hours) day long training
during the 12 months programme. Students will be required to meet for clinical
supervision at regular intervals once every 1-2 months for 6 hours of
clinical supervision & feedback sessions.
SATIR SYSTEMIC BRIEF
THERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM CSSBT-14 (M)
Duration: 12 months, commencing 23 March 2017
This training program is for professional & lay &
para-counselors, whose work on either a voluntary or full time capacity
requires them to counsel people who come to them with their problems &
difficulties.
The focus of the program will be systemic brief therapy to
bring about transformational change. The approach will be systemic, and is applicable to working with individuals, couples and families.
The trainer & supervisor Warren Tan, will utilise a
combination of lecturettes, small group discussions, video tapes, structured
exercises, live demonstrations, experiential learning and skill practice
sessions in the training.
The program will provide some hands-on skill development
opportunities during the intensive teaching workshops & supervision
sessions. Participants will be required to apply personally &
professionally what they have learnt in between the intensive teaching Class time, in order to get the most out of the training. Participants will also
be taught how to work with their own two generational family of origin maps to
further increase their personal/professional learning and to fulfill the course’s written
assignment requirement.
Participants will be encouraged to add to their own
experience and uniqueness in developing their skills in working with
individuals, couples & families.
Much therapy of the past has been focused changing a
client’s behaviour. Satir’s systemic brief therapy is focused on bringing about
change at the level of the being or self, as well as changes in doing,
feelings, expectations, perceiving and yearnings. This process taps the
universal yearnings of individuals within their personal, family and social
systems and helps them work toward a sense of responsible wholeness. The
process requires that the counselor themselves seeks to develop an acceptable
level of professional competence and personal congruence.
This Training Program will help participants:
1. Learn to connect & engage clients at the level of
being in order to create openness and
healing.
healing.
2. Understand and incorporate the basic therapeutic belief
system of the Satir Model in
therapy.
therapy.
3. Learn how to use experiential process throughout their
counseling sessions.
4. Surface, identify and change client’s communication and
coping patterns to one that is
more effective and congruent.
more effective and congruent.
5. Prepare client’s family maps (genogram) and surface
dysfunctional personal and family
dynamics and resolve unfinished business from the past.
dynamics and resolve unfinished business from the past.
6. Transform client’s problems into positively directional
goals to bring about positive
outcomes.
outcomes.
7. Learn the Satir process of therapeutic change.
8. Help clients surface, access, accept, and utilise their
internal strengths and resources to
change and grow.
change and grow.
9. Learn how to change and transform family rules that
diminish client’s self-esteem.
10. Help client raise their self-esteem and increase their
choice making possibilities.
11. Map the internal process of clients (Iceberg) and help
them change their behaviours,
feelings, perceptions, expectations, yearnings & self.
feelings, perceptions, expectations, yearnings & self.
12. Help client reduce and resolve the negative impact of
past events and experiences.
13. Help client integrate and anchor the positive changes.
14. Learn how to deal with different types of presenting
problems.
15. Learn how to help individuals, couple & as well as
families.
16. Become more confident, effective and congruent
counselors through using the Satir
Model of Brief Therapy.
Model of Brief Therapy.
Satir Systemic Brief Therapy Training Program CSSBT-14 (M)
(Course Outline)
The Satir Model: A
Systemic Approach
1. Overview of the program & participant’s individual
learning goals.
2. Satir’s therapeutic beliefs and goals.
3. Application of Satir’s therapeutic beliefs and goals.
4. Personal Iceberg Metaphor.
5. The Iceberg Metaphor – as Assessment & Intervention
tool.
6. Five As of the therapeutic change process.
The Satir Coping Stance & Family of Origin Maps
1. Satir’s 4 major coping stances.
2. Demonstrate intervention skills through sculpting coping
stances of a family.
3. Externalizing the internal coping process.
4. Doing family of origin maps: A two generational window.
5. Family maps - impact from the past in present coping.
6. Surfacing resources and patterns of coping.
7. Using family history in therapy.
The initial Interview: Preparing for change
1. Connecting and engaging clients for change.
2. Assessing the presenting problem.
3. Goal setting - sessional, short term & long term
goals.
4. Focusing the problem into a positively directional goal.
5. Getting commitment for change.
6. Assessing the iceberg & what needs to change.
7. Demonstrating the initial session.
8. Bringing transformational change in therapy.
Resolving Unfinished “Business” of the Past: Family Rules
& Patterns
1. The role of the therapist.
2. Transforming rules using the iceberg.
3. Surfacing individual and family process.
4. Using process questions for diagnosis and assessment.
5. Demonstration of process questions.
6. Using stances to assess the internal process.
7. Skill development.
Resolving Unfinished “Business” of the Past: Working on
Change
1. Changing three types of expectations.
2. Reframing perceptions.
3. Owning and changing feelings, especially anger, hurt and
fear.
4. Changing the impact, not the event.
5. Empowering the victim instead of the event.
6. Skill development.
Therapy with individuals, couples & families
1. Individual therapy.
2. Couple Therapy.
3. Family Therapy.
4. Demonstrate & practice individual/couple/family
therapy.
5. Practice family therapy with individuals using process
questions and the Iceberg.
Therapy with clients with the following presenting problems
1. Anger issues.
2. Depression.
3. Marital conflict, spousal violence, divorce and
extra-marital affairs.
4. Parenting issues
with young children & teens.
5. Addiction – substance abuse, pornography, internet
addiction.
6. Suicidal ideations and attempts.
7. Learning how to bring changes at the level of the being
(SELF).
8. Skill development.
Case Presentation and Supervision
Participants will have an opportunity to present their cases
during class & for supervision, have it reviewed through either a
demonstration or case discussion, and receive feedback from the trainer and the group. Skills development practice will be included in the process.
Emphasis throughout the program will be to help
participants grow the 3 Cs, namely Confidence, Competence and Congruence. There
will be equal emphasis on personal & professional growth in the program.
There will be opportunity to address the individual learning needs of the
participants.
Requirement for award
of Certificate in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy (CSSBT-14)
1. 132 hours comprising:
a) Trio & Group Supervision (6 x 8) 48 hrs
b) Intensive Teaching (7 x 12) 84 hrs
Total 132 hrs
a) Trio & Group Supervision (6 x 8) 48 hrs
b) Intensive Teaching (7 x 12) 84 hrs
Total 132 hrs
2. To graduate, students must clock no less than 80%
attendance of the total 84 hrs of
intensive teaching (ie. 67.2 hrs) and not less than 75% attendance of the total 48 hrs of
supervision (ie. 36 hrs).
intensive teaching (ie. 67.2 hrs) and not less than 75% attendance of the total 48 hrs of
supervision (ie. 36 hrs).
3. To clock a minimum of 20 client contact hour during sessions with 3
different clients.
4. Submission of a written assignment on your Family of
Origin (12-18 pages) at the end of
the course.
the course.
5. Oral examination at the end of the course.
6. Supervision
a) Participants will meet as a class for 6 hours duration
but will take turns to present their
cases for supervision.
cases for supervision.
b) Emphasis at supervision will be on the understanding
& application of the Satir Model in
therapy with clients. Participants will have the opportunity to present & discuss cases
where they have attempted to or are attempting to apply the Satir Model.
therapy with clients. Participants will have the opportunity to present & discuss cases
where they have attempted to or are attempting to apply the Satir Model.
c) Supervision will take the form of a combination of
discussion, live demonstration
sessions with students or clients & viewing of video tapes of counseling sessions, case
presentation & discussion, practice sessions.
sessions with students or clients & viewing of video tapes of counseling sessions, case
presentation & discussion, practice sessions.
7. The course shall run from: 2017 March April May
2017 June
July Aug
2017 Sept Oct Nov
2017 Dec
2018 Jan Feb March
