Teacher

Virginia Satir



Virginia Satir, MSSA, (1916–1988) was an American psychotherapist, lecturer, and author. Considered the “Mother of Family Therapy,” Satir is internationally known for her approach to family therapy and for developing a psychological model called the Virginia Satir Change Process Model, which has been widely adopted to explain how change affects organizations.

Virginia Satir
FindCenter Video Image
02:21

Virginia Satir Family with a Drug Problem Video

In this video, Virginia Satir firmly but lovingly confronts a large family about their son’s longstanding substance abuse.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Use of Self in Therapy

One of the most powerful factors in therapy is that it involves the intensive relationship between two (or more) human beings.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Helping Families to Change

With an emphasis on learning to change through other modalities than speech, this book discusses the importance of non-verbal body experience and awareness of kinetic cues in interpersonal relationships. A number of meditative exercises are included.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageWe must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
15:28

Communication Stances-Role Playing Triads -Virginia Satir, Part 2

This is a demonstration of Virginia Satir's choreography around her communications stances. It includes what she has referred to as the "stress ballet rag" and the "dance of inclusion." In the first instance, people will change stances in three movements.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Satir Step by Step: A Guide to Creating Change in Families

Annotated transcript of Satir conducting family therapy—showing what she’s thinking and how she selects a particular phrase or intervention—and then an account of her theoretical foundations and methods.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
02:17

Virginia Satir Blended Family with a Troubled Boy Video

In this engaging video, Virginia Satir helps a blended family of four untangle longstanding parenting and communication issues.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageI am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond

This book represents the evolution of Satir’s ideas over the last twenty years. In clear, plain terms, it details her theoretical position, her strategy in therapy, and how she tailored her interventions to address people’s particular issues.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
09:42

Virginia Satir Video - Pioneer of Family Therapy in a 1985 NLP Keynote, Part 1

Virginia Satir was one of the pioneers of family therapy. She was also a major source of NLP patterns and distinctions. In 1985 she presented a morning and afternoon keynote address to the National Association for NLP in Denver, Colorado.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Loader Image

UP NEXT

Gregory Bateson