CERTIFICATE IN SATIR
SYSTEMIC BRIEF THERAPY (CSSBT-15 (M))
The above part-time 12 months (CSSBT-15) training program offered by Choice Makers Consultancy
(S’pore), is designed for both lay &
professional counsellors in
Malaysia. The program is modelled after
the well received part-time 18 months Post-Graduate Diploma in Satir
Systemic Brief Therapy (DSSBT) Training Programme for professional
counsellors, therapists & social workers in Singapore.
The trainer
for this Certificate Course is Warren Tan, a Malaysian residing
in Singapore. Warren was a
staff with the Fellowship of Evangelical Students (FES M’sia) for 8 year (1981-89)
and has over 30 years of experience in
the field of refugee work, social work, counselling, family therapy and training. He is currently in private practice
as a Marriage & Family Therapist and Trainer for lay & professional
counsellors, therapists & social workers in Malaysia & Singapore. He has also conducted numerous 2-3 day training
workshops for NGO’s & Christian leaders in Thailand, Indonesia, the
Philippines, Cambodia & Vietnam.
Apart from doing therapy & providing clinical supervision for
counsellors in Singapore & Malaysia,
since 1997 he has conducted numerous 1-2 day training workshops in counselling
for lay & professional counselors,
pastors & church leaders & NGOs in Malaysia eg. BCM, DUMC, FGA, Glad
Tidings, SIBKL, The Shelter, Focus on the Family (M’sia), 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
& theoretical in nature. Clinical
supervision, which allows for systematic guidance, practice, and learning in
applying theoretical & conceptual knowledge to actual counselling
situations in the Malaysian context, are unfortunately either not given sufficient emphasis and
time, or are absent altogether from some of the current courses & training available.
There is also a lack of experienced and qualified practitioners-cum-clinical
supervisors in Malaysia who are invaluable in providing supervision and guiding
counsellors in skills development and practice.
A practitioner in the Satir Model of Brief
Therapy, he also does workshops & seminars for the general public, schools and private companies on
topics ranging from stress & conflict management, marriage enrichment, parenting, pre-marital
preparation etc. Warren specializes in treating couples with
marital problems (eg. extra-marital affairs), as well as those who are
depressed or suicidal. He also treats
clients with phobias and
victims of trauma. 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 specifically designed for lay &
professional counsellors 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/friends either as a
professional counsellor or a lay person. Participants
could either be teachers, coaches,
mentors, pastors, priests, nuns, Christian leaders, ministry staff in churches
or para-church organizations, volunteers or full time staff with NGO’s eg.
counselling centres, schools, drug rehabilitation centres, half-way houses,
homes for children/elderly etc. or any individual who is interested in their own
personal growth as well as that of helping others as part of their work or when
the opportunity presents itself.
The CSSBT-15 (M) Satir Systemic Brief Therapy Training
Program is especially
designed to provide effective hands-on systematic training for counsellors,
para-counsellors & other helping professionals. Warren’s years of experience in the education
& training of counsellors have convinced him that the most effective
approach to training confident and competent lay or professional counsellors is
to combine the imparting of the knowledge & principles of counselling
psychology with a robust on-going systematic clinical supervision and guidance.
Both the personal and professional growth of the counsellor-in-training are
given due emphasis 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 and others to go into the people-helping vocation. Secondly it seeks to give lay &
professional counsellors the rewarding experience of being able to make a
positive difference in the lives of clients who seek their help. 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-focused,
with emphasis on growing the SELF of the counsellor through the application of the
Satir Growth Model for personal growth and professional effectiveness. It is
for both professional as well as
lay counsellors (who are involved as people-helpers where counselling 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 counselling demonstrations with clients
& class participants, experiential learning, skills practice sessions and video tapes 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 Growth Model of Brief Therapy the
Malaysian context. Except for scheduled
breaks, clinical supervision for students will be offered at regular intervals throughout
the 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 program. Students
will be required to meet for clinical supervision at regular intervals of once every
1-2 months for 6 hours of clinical supervision & feedback sessions.
SATIR SYSTEMIC BRIEF THERAPY
TRAINING PROGRAMME
CSSBT-15 (M) Duration: 12 months, commencing 5 April 2018
This training program is for professional & lay counsellors, 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 will be
applicable to working with individuals, couples and families.
The trainer & supervisor Warren Tan,
will utilize a combination of lecturettes, small group discussions, video tapes, structured exercises, live session demonstrations,
experiential learning and skill practice sessions during class.
The program will provide some hands-on
skill development opportunities during the intensive classroom teaching &
supervision sessions. Participants will
be required to apply personally & professionally what they have learnt in
between each intensive class teaching, in order to get the most out of the
training. Participants will also be taught how to work with their own two generation
family of origin maps to further increase 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 behavior. 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 counsellor
themselves seeks to develop an acceptable level of professional competence and
personal congruence.
This Training Program will help
participants:
1. Learn
how to do assessment and develop goals to work towards change.
2. Learn
to connect & engage clients at the level of the being in order to create openness
& healing.
3.
Understand and incorporate the basic therapeutic belief system of the Satir Growth
Model in therapy.
4.
Learn how to use experiential process throughout the counselling sessions.
5.
Surface, identify and change client’s communication and coping patterns to one that is
more effective and congruent.
6. Prepare
client’s family maps (genogram) and surface dysfunctional personal and family
dynamics and resolve unfinished business from the past.
7. Transform
client’s problems into positively directional goals to bring about positive
outcomes.
8.
Learn the Satir process of therapeutic change.
9. Help
clients surface, access, accept, and utilize their internal strengths and resources to
change and grow.
10.
Learn how to change and transform family rules that diminish client’s self-esteem.
11. Help
client raise their self-esteem and increase their choice making possibilities.
12. Map
the internal process of clients (Iceberg) and help them change their behaviors,
feelings, perceptions, expectations, yearnings & self.
13. Help
client reduce and resolve the negative impact of past events and experiences.
14.
Help client integrate and anchor the positive changes made.
15.
Learn how to deal with different types of presenting problems.
16.
Learn how to handle strong emotions during sessions such as anger, fear & sadness.
17.
Learn how to help individuals, couple & as well as families.
18. Grow
to become more confident, competent and congruent counsellors through the use
of the Satir Growth Model of Brief Therapy.
Satir
Systemic Brief Therapy Training Program CSSBT-15
(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
3. Focusing the problem into a positively
directional goal.
4. Getting commitment for change.
5. Assessing the iceberg & what needs to
change.
6. Demonstrating the initial session.
7. 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. Low self-esteem, self-harm &
self-mutilation, eating disorders
8. Learning how to bring changes at the level of
the being (SELF)
9. 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 participants in 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 individual learning needs of each
participant.
Requirement for
award of Certificate in Satir Systemic Brief Therapy (CSSBT-15)
1. 32 hours comprising: 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).
3. To log a minimum of 20 client contact hour with 3 different clients.
4. Submission of a written assignment on your
Family of Origin (12-18 pages) at
the
end of the course.
5. Oral examination at
the end of the course.
6. Supervision
a) Participants
will meet as a class 8 times for supervision over 12 months. Each
supervision
meeting is 6 hours in duration, and participants will take turns to present
their
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.
c) Supervision
will take the form of a combination of discussion, live demonstration
demonstration
sessions with students or clients & viewing of video tapes of counselling
sessions, case
presentation & discussion, practice sessions.
7. The course shall run from: 2018 April May June
2018 July
Aug Sept
2018 Oct Nov Dec
2019
Jan Feb
March April
