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The following series is available for individual registration. Click below for a printable registration flyer. Contact Bob Williamson at Bob@BeliefsChart.org for further information.

The Emotional Function of Beliefs: 2011-2012 Case Study Series  (Click here for printable registration flyer)

Clergy can wonder what is going on when someone suddenly adopts a strikingly different religious stance, joins a church, or leaves. Counselors and therapists can wonder how someone can’t seem to reflect critically about their beliefs. Dr. Murray Bowen understood the family – not the individual – as the basic unit of human functioning. This series is built around the notion that beliefs – though emerging in an individual brain – can be a product of the family unit. The series will present seven case studies illustrating the emotional function of beliefs through the use of the Beliefs Chart. The Beliefs Chart is a tool to organize facts and enhance objectivity about changes in beliefs and relationships.

The Emotional Function of Beliefs Case Study Series will be led by Bob Williamson and is co-sponsored by BeliefsChart.org and the Center for Family Consultation. The Center for Family Consultation was founded in 1979 for the purpose of contributing to the learning, teaching, and research of Bowen theory.

The series will be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lombard, Illinois (western suburbs of Chicago). Sessions will be held on the first Thursday of each month from October 2010 through April 2011. See complete schedule below.

10.5 credit hours are approved for Illinois Social Workers, Professional Counselors / Clinical Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists who attend the entire series, or 1.5 hours per session.

The registration fee is $225.00 for the entire seven-session series, or $35 per session payable to BeliefsChart.org LLC.

Those who could benefit from the series include clergy, counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, spiritual directors, and religious educators; or anyone interested in understanding how thinking can be a product of the family unit.

(Click here for printable registration flyer)

Series Schedule

Thursday, October 6, 2011

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer & the Family as an Emotional Unit

Thursday, November 3, 2011 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Walter Inglis Anderson & Nuclear Family Emotional Process

Thursday, December 1, 2011

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Client A & Emotional Triangles

Thursday, January 5, 2012

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Henry David Thoreau & Unresolved Attachment to Family

Thursday, February 2, 2012

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Henry James & Emotional Cutoff

Thursday,  March 1, 2012

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

C. F. W. Walther & Leadership Within an Anxious Group

Thursday, April 5, 2012

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford & Beliefs as the Product of the Family Unit

 

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