Detailed Information

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