Goals Of This Course

• Establish an understanding of systems science and grasp the essential role of boundaries in working with complex adaptive systems like human beings.
• Internalize the Universal Principles of the Human Boundaries Model that form the foundation for theory and practice in this approach.
• Employ understanding of “Ideas-of-Self” as the systemic building blocks of human identity, especially how Ideas-of-Self and their boundaries operate together as mutually defining and mutually reinforcing elements of the identity system.
• Explore how Ideas-of-Self use powerful boundaries to maintain their own stability and existence by fighting against the threat of change.
• Learn the skills needed to hack the identity system – leveraging the system’s own boundary rules to help even the most complex and challenging client create deep change they never thought possible.
• Discover the nature, importance, and implications of the five boundary personalities that shape each of us and how the different boundary personalities affect our interaction with others in predictable ways.
• Develop new understanding of how the identity and boundary systems of one person interact with those of another and how to apply this knowledge to improve relationships and capacity for mutual problem-solving.
• Acquire powerful new therapeutic skills, concepts, tools, and techniques including:
  • • The Boundary Constriction Point
    • True Choice
    • Moments of Meaning
    • Boundary Networks
    • The Proto Idea-of-Self
    • The Relational Triad
    • PIT Stop Communication 
    • The Three Boundary Interactions
    • The Normal Relationship Cycle
    • Systemic Forgiveness
    • Victim and Villain