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Affiliates and Institutes

Welcome to the Virginia Satir Global Network

These organizations have joined together with the Virginia Satir Global Network to promote human growth and understanding using the model of the late Virginia Satir. Each organization is self-governing and solely responsible for their program development and content. Virginia Satir Global Network logo is a trademark and used with permission of the Virginia Satir Global Network.  VSGN, its directors or employees, exercise no control over the actions of the Organization or its members. Organizations may not state or imply by their actions, that they are the agent, subsidiary, partner, or have a business relationship with VSGN.

To become an affiliate, permission to use the name, Virginia Satir, or any copyrighted materials, please contact the VSGN office.

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Affiliates and Institutes Offer Training

Most of the following institutes and affiliates offer high quality Satir-based training. To locate a specific institute’s or affiliates’ training, choose the organization you are interested in and click the link to their website. (If you don’t see a link, try clicking on the organization’s name or logo.)  This will open their website where you can locate the training they offer.

Affiliates and Institutes

The Haven is a not-for-profit Centre for Transformational Learning on beautiful Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada. We have been offering experientially based programs for over 40 years, including Satir based programs, for those looking to understand themselves, others, and relationships, and to create the life they want. Our programs are offered in-person and are grounded in a fundamental respect for the uniqueness of each person and the belief that everybody matters.

Programa desenvolvido por Sharon Loeschen, LCSW, baseado nos ensinamentos de Virginia Satir (1916-1988), foi mundialmente reconhecida, pioneira no campo do trabalho social e precursora das “Terapias Familiares”. Satir, promoveu a ideia de que a maneira de ajudar as pessoas é focar em seus potenciais e recursos internos, em vez de sua patologia e também foi uma das primeiras a enfatizar a importância que a autoestima desempenha no comportamento humano. 

Satir Human Growth and Family Therapy Institute trains professionals in Turkey with it’s competency based Family Therapy Training Program towards becoming clinically competent family therapists deepened in the Satir model therapy. Also therapy using Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) is provided in helping individuals, couples, children, and families. The founder, developer, and the lead trainer of the program Sibel Erenel is a California licensed marriage & family therapist, an AAMFT (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy) approved supervisor. She is the recipient of SIP 2013 Unsung Hero Award and Satir Transformational Therapy Leadership Award for the family therapy training she had developed using the STST.

The Virginia Satir Institute of the UK envisions a world that is love-rich and violence-free. We aim to educate and teach Satir Systemic Tools (such as Family Reconstruction, Satir Growth Model, Communication Toolbox, Parts Party: Integration of Inner Parts, Systemic Coaching and Mentoring and Enriching Skills) to the general public as well as to health care practitioners in the UK and beyond. Please visit the Programs and Past Events sections to find out more.

The Haelan Centers®, services are provided to individuals, schools, non-profits, and community businesses. Those services are offered as therapy, consultation, education, and mediation. We work from a systemic framework understanding the importance of each part of the community and seek to achieve greater goals together.