WELCOME TO THE

VIRGINIA SATIR® GLOBAL LEARNING CENTER

The Virginia Satir Global Learning Center provides training in the Satir Model for therapists, counselors, helping professionals, students, and individuals interested in personal and professional growth.

Inspired by the pioneering work of Virginia Satir, our courses bring her systemic, experiential, relationship-centered approach to learners around the world. Through live online training, self-paced learning, and opportunity for certification, participants develop practical tools for strengthening communication, increasing self-awareness, navigating change, and creating healthier relationships.

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Who Is Satir Training For?

Whether your goal is to strengthen your clinical practice, improve how you work with individuals and families, deepen your understanding of human relationships, or continue your own journey of growth, there is a place for you in the Satir learning community.

Virginia Satir Global Learning Center programs may be valuable for:

  • Therapists, counselors, psychologists, and social workers
  • Coaches, mentors, educators, and other helping professionals
  • Graduate students and professionals beginning their study of the Satir Model
  • Experienced Satir practitioners seeking advanced training or certification
  • Individuals interested in communication, relationships, self-awareness, and personal growth

Learn More About Our Course Offerings

Virginia Satir Global Learning Center courses are open to anyone interested in learning and applying the Satir Model. Everyone is welcome to take any course offered. 

If you are a clinician interested in becoming a Certified Satir Model Certified Clinician, see below to learn more about the certification process.

Learn More About Certification

Current Course Offerings

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Welcome to this self-study course on the Satir Model, created by Sharon Loeschen, LCSW, and Stephen Buckbee, LSW, LPC, M.Ed. This course introduces key concepts for understanding and applying Virginia Satir’s work.

Through course materials, including original recordings of Virginia Satir, you will explore the Threat and Reward Model and Seed/Growth Model, the universality of the human experience, family-of-origin influences, family systems, inner resources and self-worth, the process of change, and the role of the therapist. While the video quality reflects the age of the recordings, they offer a valuable opportunity to experience Satir’s teaching and process firsthand.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Differentiate between the Threat and Reward Model and the Seed/Growth Model.

  • Describe the universality of the human process.

  • Recognize the influence of family of origin on relationships.

  • Understand the systemic process of families.

  • Explain the importance of inner resources and self-worth.

  • Understand the universal process of change.

  • Describe the therapist’s role according to Satir.

Continuing Education

Successful completion of this course provides 6 CE hours. The Virginia Satir Global Network is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP #5224). Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. VSGN is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Course Creators

Stephen Buckbee, LSW, LPC, M.Ed. has extensive experience in counseling, social services, and higher education. He began studying with Virginia Satir in 1986 and has since trained thousands of professionals in Satir concepts in the United States and internationally.

Sharon Loeschen, LCSW is a longtime clinical social worker, educator, and author who began studying with Virginia Satir in 1986. She has shared Satir’s teachings through clinical practice, university teaching, training, and books including The Satir Process and Enriching Your Relationship with Yourself and Others.

To continue, select the next lesson at the bottom of the page. Please also complete your student profile so we can contact you if there are any issues with your course.

Thank you for learning with Satir Global!

Register Here: Satir Fundamentals Registration

This self-study course is based on Sharon Loeschen’s book, The Satir Process, which explores the phases and skills Virginia Satir used to support growth and change.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

  • The philosophical foundations of the Satir Process
  • Making contact and building connection
  • Validating and strengthening self-worth
  • Facilitating awareness and acceptance
  • Supporting meaningful change
  • Reinforcing and practicing new ways of being

Successful completion of this course provides 2 CE hours.

Overview of the Satir Process for Change

The Satir Process organizes Satir’s work into phases that reflect her philosophy and understanding of change. The process begins with building connection and self-worth, then moves toward greater awareness and self-acceptance, creating change, and practicing new ways of being. While presented sequentially for learning purposes, Satir worked organically, moving between phases based on each person’s needs.

Register Here: Satir Process Registration