Living Systems Counselling hosts an annual conference to bring leading researchers from various disciplines to Vancouver to explore Bowen family systems theory and other fields of study.

May 1st, 2021 – Family Assessment in Clinical Practice.  Video Available!

This half-day webinar features Barbara Laymon presenting her Systems Model for Family Assessment.   The SMFA consolidates Bowen Theory in five dimensions as originally put forth by Dr. Dan Papero. These dimensions can be applied to the family, the work setting, and/or to assess one’s own work as a therapist in clinical practice. The recording includes the theoretical presentations and active question and answer periods.

The recording is available for $50.00
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Chronic Illness and the Family

This conference will explore how emotional process in the family can interact with the expression of certain genes in members of the family that affect our behaviour and our health. In addition, the conference will examine the possibility that modifying patterns of family interaction may alter the expression of genes linked to health and illness

Missed the Conference? Watch it online!
The entire conference is available as six online videos. You may purchase the videos by clicking here.

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Trauma and the Family: Widening the Lens

This conference reviewed some of the current ways in which Trauma therapy is approached while broadening the lens to consider how the relationship process contributes to the overall outcome.

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The Child’s Development of Self in the Family – A Systems Perspective

April 2015, with Dr. Dan Papero and Dr. Mark Flinn

This conference explored aspects of child development from a systems perspective.

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The Miracle of Systems Thinking

This recent conference described such a paradigm shift with a series of lectures and illustrated its clinical applications with case presentations.

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The episode below, “Bowen Theory in Everyday Life”, is one of the most viewed episodes in the series.