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What is Neurofeedback and Why Use It?
NS Faculty Member, Priscilla Friesen discusses why Neurofeedback is a useful tool when integrating the work of family systems theory.
Three Failures on a Couch Video Series
Rave reviews from their first video blog titled “Three Failures on a Couch” prompted the faculty of Navigating Systems to continue their dialogue addressing the real-world application of Bowen Family Systems Theory to family and professional life.
Why Is Neurofeedback a Centerpiece of Navigating Systems?
Each participant in Navigating Systems has the opportunity to do two neurofeedback sessions during each of the three on-site training times. Neurofeedback decreases the reactivity present to the group and to new ideas; it promotes less reactivity often present in the group learning; it promotes individual self-regulation; and it increases one’s ability to learn.
Aging Parents and Working with My Stepsiblings
This time in the lives of our parents has required more time and energy from each of the siblings. An unforeseen benefit is that it has also given me a chance to work with my siblings and stepsiblings rather than simply visit. I have had a chance to see the gifts of my family members, to cooperate with them and to work together towards a common goal. There was no master plan, but the way each of us was, promoted a high level of cooperation.
Totality of an Emotional Eclipse
Sometimes it seems like the whole world is in disarray! Pressures and changes are from everywhere – the family, the country, the world politic, mother nature, the planets.
Moving Towards Aging and Dying
I am challenging myself to be emotionally connected with my parents as they are in later stages of aging, still with vigor yet with more actual challenges than they have ever faced. My father, 97 is the communicator, and my stepmother has the incisive memory, still doing their taxes this year at 92 with only a bit of help seeing.
Can Changing the Past Change the Present?
Over the years, Bowen theory has enabled me to see the relationship between one's emotional experience and connection to generational family network. My personal experience suggests that nurturing these relationships (within my extended family) decreases a sense of overwhelm and supplies energy I hadn't realized was available.