The Bridge and the River:
Using the Orders in Realtime to Orient Facilitation
with Richard Wallstein
Richard Wallstein PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, UKCP, EMCC
Richard’s background is in psychology, Gestalt psychotherapy, and long-time membership of the Ridhwan School. He began studying Hellinger’s work in 1993, and hosted, in the UK, practitioners including Hellinger, Hunter Beaumont, Gunthard Weber and others of that generation. He was a founder-trainer of the forerunner to CSC, a founding board member of ISCA, and led international workshops and trainings. He is a psychotherapist, senior-executive coach, and supervisor.
This Masterclass will be recorded and made available for those who could not attend the live event.
Richard’s email: [email protected]
Who is it for?
This session is for those wishing to understand more clearly the process of creating systemic hypotheses. While important for those intending to facilitate systemic work, it is valuable also for those wishing to apply systemic approaches to types of work other than therapy. A basic understanding of the Orders, is essential.
What you will learn/develop
The Orders are fundamental to forming a hypothesis and initial orientation to systemic work. Developing a capacity to relate what one hears from the client to the Orders is thus essential.
What is the goal when we work systemically? To create an emotional response? To make something previously opaque suddenly clear? These events may occur but are not the aim of systemic work. Systemic work loosens the client’s present comprehension allowing an experience of an alternative present. Thus, we need to understand our client’s issue to support their movement from a state of fixed unease to one of greater ease with respect to that issue. Systemic work bridges these two states. The metaphor is apt: Bridges have structure, and, if we wish to work effectively, we need to understand systemic therapeutic structures and learn to utilise them. The Orders are the structure. Absent this knowledge, what often happens is that facilitators imagine that ‘the field’ will supply and apply that knowledge for them. This view leaves the client at risk and is based on a comprehension error – that the systemic field is oriented toward, understands, and provides what human beings (our clients) want and also saves the facilitator in the process. Rather, the facilitator, having learned and understood enough from the client to form a hypothesis, poses an experiment oriented toward the alternate present: the client and the field can then confirm, but not direct, the work the facilitator does.
Course Dates
This course will be run online
Date – Tuesday 24th January 2023 9.30 – 12.30 UK time. Please check your local time zone here
Cost
The cost of this course is £80. If you would like to take advantage of our early bird price, your course fee will be £65 by 1 December 2022.
Please note: CSC is a Not for Profit organisation and does not, therefore, charge VAT.
How to apply/book your place
To book a place on this Masterclass, please complete the booking process by clicking the ‘Click here to book’ button at the bottom of this page.
You will then receive an email confirming your place. If this does not arrive please contact the office at [email protected] as your booking may not have gone though.
The Facilitator
Richard Wallstein PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, UKCP, EMCC
Richard’s background is in psychology, Gestalt psychotherapy, and long-time membership of the Ridhwan School. He began studying Hellinger’s work in 1993, and hosted, in the UK, practitioners including Hellinger, Hunter Beaumont, Gunthard Weber and others of that generation. He was a founder-trainer of the forerunner to CSC, a founding board member of ISCA, and led international workshops and trainings. He is a psychotherapist, senior-executive coach, and supervisor.
