September 19 – 21, 2025
October 23 – 26, 2025
November 21 – 23, 2025

10 days of training over 3 months

with Jennifer Nagel, MA, RCC and Tricia Antoniuk, MSW, RSW

Approved by Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association for 60 CEC/CEU’s

Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) Level 1 is an accredited program that offers 60 Continuing Education Credits from Canadian Counselling Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) and is also approved by American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)

This family therapy program contains 10 days of experiential learning plus participants are expected to complete :

• An additional 12 hours of triad work outside of classroom time to support skill development
• A written assignment due after completing the training to demonstrate understanding and to help integrate the concepts that have been taught,(to receive a certificate of completion).

Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (TST) Level I training program is for practicing counsellors and therapists, and for other helping professionals who are presently working with clients. The focus of the program is on learning and practicing Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy to bring about deep and lasting change with individuals, couples and families.

This program is very experiential, with lecturettes, small group discussions, structured exercises, demonstrations, and skill practice sessions as part of the training. Participants will be required to work in triads between sessions to practice what they have been learning in the program.

Satir’s Transformational Systemic Therapy Model (STST) is unique in encompassing both the intrapsychic and interactive components of therapy. Much therapy of the past has been focused only on clients’ behaviour, cognition or affect. This model is focused on the whole human being, bringing about transformational change by tapping the internal resources and universal yearnings of individuals within their personal, family, and social systems. The process requires that the therapist has a high level of therapeutic competence and congruence.

STST processes are supported by recent therapeutic and neurobiological research. Evidence-based research supports
therapeutic processes that are experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused in providing neurological changes in clients. The model’s focus on the congruence of the therapist is supported in research supporting how important it is that therapists provide the conditions for attachment, hope, positive possibilities and safety in order for clients to achieve deep and lasting change.

The experiential processes provided by the training program give participants the opportunity to have both personal and professional growth. The program will provide several therapy demonstrations and skill development opportunities.

This Program Will Help Counsellors and Therapists:

1. learn to make contact and build rapport with clients to stimulate their healing energy
2. understand and incorporate the basic therapeutic belief system of the Satir Model
3. use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions
4. surface and identify clients’ communication and coping patterns
5. prepare clients’ family of origin maps (genograms) and surface dysfunctional personal and family
   dynamics
6. sculpt relationships among family members and bring automatic coping patterns into awareness
7. transform clients’ problems into positively directional goals
8. learn the Satir process of therapeutic change through mindful process questions
9. help clients access, accept, and utilize their internal strengths and resources.
10. transform family rules that diminish clients’ self-esteem
11. help clients raise their self-esteem and increase their choice-making possibilities
12. map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings,
    perceptions and expectations
13. help clients reduce the impact of past events and negative experiences
14. help clients integrate and maintain their changes
15. become more effective counselors / therapists in using the Satir Model

Testimonial…

As a final note, I want to express my deep appreciation and gratitude for this course. I entered into it with few expectations or previous knowledge, as it was a course I needed to fulfill registration requirements so resigned myself to taking it without really knowing what it was about. I have been consistently delighted and appreciative for the content and how applicable it is in my daily life. It provides such a useful framework for exploration of so many topics and aspects of daily living. I can also see how so many different modalities grew out of this approach – although I have not really seen that acknowledged in the literature. Satir was a thinker ahead of her time and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to learn more about her work and have had the chance to apply it to my own life.
L Dietrich Level 1 2023 Online

We learned the process and the model, through its own process and model.  No finer proof of its efficacy. The weaving-in throughout, of the teachings of Satir kept us connected to the source of this genius work.

Professionally, my practice has been both affirmed and at the same time elevated to a whole new level. The approach which has been so elegantly modeled, has a flexibility which has allowed me to easily and effortlessly intertwine my existing modalities in counselling, hypnotherapy, Timeline Therapy, EFT and NLP.

I am very grateful that I was able to take the course with you. I didn’t expect to have so many takeaways for my personal growth and development. At the same time, I also learned professionally and my need for connection was met as well. I really appreciate how engaged, positive, organized, structured, creative and warm you were for our group. I am looking forward to meeting you again!”

PAYMENT INFORMATION AND CANCELLATION POLICY

Registration will be open soon.  If you are interested and want more information please contact Cindi at 604-546-1539 or admin@satirpacific.org

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

Bursaries are now available for all programs on a limited basis for those with demonstrated need. Please see application below or contact our office with any questions. Application Deadline for the program is 3 months in advance of program start.

Financial Support Application

For more info or to register by phone contact:
Satir Institute of the Pacific
Cindi Mueller
admin@satirpacific.org
604-546-1539