Tracing Family Ties
The Open Psychotherapy Centre, the Institute of Family Therapy, and the Association of Family and Couples Therapists organized a one-dey conference on Saturday, November 6, 2021, with the theme:
“Tracing Family Ties: Family Relief, Genogram.”
We are born and raised in families. There we form the foundations of our first experiences in the world, our first relationships, our first feelings of belonging to a group. We shape ourselves by moving and developing within the matrix of family relationships and communications (S.H. Foulkes, 1975), which is contained within the broader socio-cultural context. The functions that families perform (reproductive, economic, educational, care/welfare, psychological) create strong bonds between their members. A.C.R. Skynner (1987) points out that we constantly seek to repeat our experiences in our family ties, thus perpetuating our family relationships in every group we participate in, with the result that they behave in a similar way.
At the workshop, we will have the opportunity to trace our family ties through theoretical presentations and, above all, through experiential techniques, such as the Family Relief and the Genogram.
