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The following series is available for individual registration. Click below for a printable registration brochure. Or use the form below to request further information.

Charting Self: A Beliefs Chart Monthly Series  (Click here for printable registration brochure)

Beginning in January 2009, a monthly series held in Franklin Park, Illinois, will invite participants to build their own Beliefs Charts and to reflect on how they’ve come to believe what they do.

Charting Self: A Beliefs Chart Monthly 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 the First United Methodist Church of Franklin Park, 9857 Schiller Boulevard (Schiller & Emerson),  Franklin Park, Illinois. Sessions will be held monthly (except June, July, and August). See complete schedule below.

16 credit hours are approved for Social Workers, Professional Counselors / Clinical Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists who attend the entire series.

The registration fee for the Charting Self series is $350.00 if received by BeliefsChart.org LLC by December 31, 2008 ($425.00 thereafter). The fee covers sessions, manual, and handouts.

During the series, participants will create a Beliefs Chart – a timeline of their lives – showing changes in their beliefs alongside changes in important relationships. They will assess which of their beliefs are more likely to be “pseudo-self,” functioning to support comfort in relationships, and which are more likely to be “basic self,” a resource for maintaining a more steady life course. They will reflect on how they decide what they believe, and what actions grounded in basic self they may take next. They will also be ready to use the Charting Self curriculum in their own professional settings.

Those who could benefit from the Charting Self series include clergy, religious educators, counselors, social workers, organizational leaders, spiritual directors; anyone interested in understanding how they have come to believe as they do.

The Charting Self series will most frequently use religious beliefs as examples and invite reflection on the shaping of religious beliefs. Participants will be free, however, to explore beliefs they hold in any area of life: beliefs about their work, about family, etc.

Series Schedule

Thursday, January 15

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

What's a Beliefs Chart...and What's It For?

Thursday, February 19

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

The Challenge of Undifferentiation

Thursday, March 19

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Reading the Beliefs Chart

Thursday, April 16

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Heightened Togetherness on a Beliefs Chart

Thursday, May 21

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Emotional Distancing on a Beliefs Chart

June-July-August

 

   No Sessions

Thursday, September 17

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

What Do I See on My Own Beliefs Chart?

Thursday, October 15

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Deciding What I Believe

Thursday, November 19

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Taking an Action Stand


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