Family as a LO LO14933

Winfried Dressler (winfried.dressler@voith.de)
Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:36:31 +0100

Replying to LO14898 -- was Intro -- Malcolm Brooks

Welcome Malcolm. What a fascinating thread:

>I became fascinated by the FAMILY as a Learning Organization and have
>been introducing my wife Barbara and my 5 year-old son Ian to "snowball"
>and "seesaw" diagrams of our behaviors.

I strictly distinguish between private and professional context and I
would never use professional interventions in my private context like the
family (I learnt this during my NLP-training). I don't mind to have
workshops with the family, but I would not be the facilitator.

I thought (without really thinking about) that the systems-archetypes are
of the same professional kind. Your mail suddenly opened my eyes. It is a
big difference whether I find out some of our family-diagrams, identify
the underlying archetype, fix the appropriate intervention and start to
behave in another way than I usually do. Or if I take the diagram and
discuss my observations with the family. And - on the top of all - a five
year old child may can understand.

Does anyone know more about diagrams of common family conflict situations?
Did the "Systems Thinker" comment on this?

I'll have to try!

Best regards,
Winfried

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