The Virginia Satir Global Network consists of individuals, institutes and organizations dedicated to furthering the creation of healthy and just relationships with self and others based on the teachings of Virginia Satir. The network was founded in 1977 by Virginia Satir and was first called the Avanta Network.

Our network includes people from around the globe practicing Virginia’s vision of being “more fully human” working to make all interactions more genuine and all experiences ones which satisfy our souls and our goals. Among our numbers are true “living treasures” – experts, who learned from and worked with Virginia; practitioners, who embody her teachings; and cherished friends who supported her cause and ours. We hope you will find that the information and connections here support and expand your interest in how the Satir Process can work in the world today – for all of us and each of us.

We invite you to learn and share and carry forward Satir’s lessons about the universality of the human experience, our behaviors, hopes and wishes, our deepest fears, and our resources to face them.

Perhaps you will be touched, as we have been, by the practical, yet extraordinary process model that Virginia Satir developed. With it people have learned to make new choices in how they work and live. Our problems are not the problem, but how we cope and move through them. Satir’s model has resources that have been used by and are useful to therapists, business people, community organizers, legislators, educators, students, health care and social workers, and individuals of all types.

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• Who was Virginia Satir
• Who is in the Network
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• How you can become a Member
• Training Events – where you can meet others face to face and can experience the simple and powerful process that Virginia Satir left as her legacy