Changing with Families: A Book about Further Education for Being Human PDF
Preview Changing with Families: A Book about Further Education for Being Human
^anging^With^amilies 1L LJKJKJIK jC ther Educat Human Being \r by Richard Bandler John Grinder Virginia Satir The process of writing this book was, for the three of us, an opportunity to change and grow and integrate parts of our ex- perience of doing family therapy and in- dividual therapy. We came to understand explicitlyhow the communications skills we use in those contexts applied to writ- ing this book together. Taking three very different models of the world, three dif- ferent types of background, we found a way to use those same communication skills to communicate with each other and then finally to translate the com- munication we found effective among the three of us onto paper. So, we wanted to tell those of you who are reading this book that this book contains some of the ways which we found delightful and use- ful to use to communicate not only with families in the context of therapy, but also with each other in the process of writing. The very same patterns that we identify in this book as patterns of effec- tive communication with members of a family in the context of a therapy session are precisely the patterns of communica- tion that we used to write this book. And (continued on backflap) CHANGING WITH FAMILIES by Richard Bandler John Grinder and Virginia Satir A Book About Further Education For Human Being Science and Behavior Books, Inc. Palo Alto, California 94306 © Copyright 1976 by Science and Behavior Books, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. Allrightsreserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form without written permission of the Publisher. Library of Congress Card Number 76-15450 ISBN 8314-0051-X Typography by Penguin %Santa Clara, California To Bob Spitzer, who has madepossible so much ofthe actualization ofour creativity. . Table of Contents About This Book and Us vii Preface 1 PART I Introduction 9 Patterns of Effective Family Therapy, Level I ... 12 Patterns of Effective Family Therapy, Level II . . 54 Summary 86 PART II Introduction 95 Calibrated Communication Cycle 101 Feedback Communication Cycle 112 Gathering Information 117 Transforming the System 137 Consolidating Changes 166 Summary 173 . Epilogue 179 Further Reading 181 Bibliography 185
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