Discover Healing Below the Iceberg
A deeper way to support meaningful and lasting change with your clients

DATES: February 20-22, March 13-15, April 24-26, 2026
TIME: 9:00 am – 5 pm
LOCATION: Union Boardroom & Hall, 427 Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC
HOSTED BY: Discover Signature Events
PRESENTER: International Trainer & Author Jennifer Nagel, MA, RCC
EARLY BIRD: $1,195 + taxes
GENERAL REGISTRATION: $1,595 + taxes

Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) Level I training program is for practicing counsellors and therapists, and for other helping professionals who are presently working with clients. The focus of the program is on learning and practicing Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy to bring about deep and lasting change with individuals, couples and families.

This program is very experiential, with lecturettes, small group discussions, structured exercises, demonstrations, and skill practice sessions as part of the training. Participants will be required to work in triads between sessions to practice what they have been learning in the program.

Satir’s Transformational Systemic Therapy Model (STST) is unique in encompassing both the intrapsychic and interactive components of therapy. Much therapy of the past has been focused only on clients’ behaviour, cognition or affect. This model is focused on the whole human being, bringing about transformational change by tapping the internal resources and universal yearnings of individuals within their personal, family, and social systems. The process requires that the therapist has a high level of therapeutic competence and congruence.

STST processes are supported by recent therapeutic and neurobiological research. Evidence-based research supports therapeutic processes that are experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused in providing neurological changes in clients. The model’s focus on the congruence of the therapist is supported in research supporting how important it is that therapists provide the conditions for attachment, hope, positive possibilities and safety in order for clients to achieve deep and lasting change.

The experiential processes provided by the training program give participants the opportunity to have both personal and professional growth. The program will provide several therapy demonstrations and skill development opportunities.

WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR:

• Counsellors/Therapists
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Professionals working in the helping & wellness field
• Family Physicians, Nurses
• SLT, OT
• Clergy
• Teachers and/or instructors in family studies, human services, social work, childcare, family therapy
• Students in any of the above studies

THIS PROGRAM WILL HELP PARTICIPANTS:

• Learn to make contact and build rapport with clients to stimulate their healing energy
• Understand and incorporate the basic therapeutic belief system of the Satir Model
• Use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions
• Surface and identify clients’ communication and coping patterns
• Prepare clients’ family of origin maps (genograms) and surface dysfunctional personal and family dynamics
• Sculpt relationships among family members and bring automatic coping patterns into awareness
• Transform clients’ problems into positively directional goals
• Learn the Satir process of therapeutic change through mindful process questions
• Help clients access, accept, and utilize their internal strengths and resources.
• Transform family rules that diminish clients’ self-esteem
• Help clients raise their self-esteem and increase their choice-making possibilities
• Map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations
• Help clients reduce the impact of past events and negative experiences
• Help clients integrate and maintain their changes
• Become more effective counselors / therapists in using the Satir Model

This family therapy program contains 9 days of experiential learning plus participants are expected to complete:

• An additional 12 hours of triad work outside of classroom time to support skill development
• A written assignment due after completing the training to demonstrate understanding and to help integrate the concepts that have been taught, (to receive a certificate of completion).

*Pre-approval for Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) has been submitted to the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association for this training.  Confirmation of approved credit hours will be shared once finalized.

MEET OUR TRAINER:

Jennifer Nagel, MA, RCC has extensive training in the Satir Model and has been leading trainings for a diversity of groups including therapists, educators, school programs, communicant groups, at-risk adolescents, therapeutic programs, non-profit organizations and corporate groups. She has presented many workshops and training programs internationally, including working in Canada, China, Kenya, and Thailand. Jennifer is a member of the British Columbia Association for Clinical Counsellors, the International Family Therapy Association, the Virginia Satir Global Network and a clinical member of the Satir Institute of the Pacific (SIP). She is the Director of Trainer Development for the Satir Institute of the Pacific (SIP), and on faculty as a senior trainer for the Banmen Satir China Management Centre. Jennifer also works with individuals, couples, families and youth in private practice, and provides clinical supervision to other therapists. She is the author of “Magic in the Muck: Finding Grace in Chaos”, a co-author of “Virginia Satir’s Evolving Legacy: Transformative Therapy with a Bodymind Connection”, and is passionate about teaching Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy programs around the world.

Open to a maximum of 24 participants

PAYMENT INFORMATION & CANCELLATION POLICY:

EARLY BIRD RATES – $ available until January 23, 2026
GENERAL RATES – $ applicable from January 24 – February 13, 2026
Deadline for registration – February 13, 2026

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Full Payment is due at the time of registration, a full refund will be honoured if registrant is not accepted into program. If the organizers of this event need to cancel the training, participants will receive a full refund.  There will be no refunds after February 2, 2026 . Refunds will be subjected to a $200 administration fee before February 2, 2026. **Installments may be available upon request, and full payment must be completed by February 2, 2026

FOR MORE INFO OR TO REGISTER BY PHONE, CONTACT:

Corrinna Douglas
Discover Signature Events
778.538.8368
Corrinna@DiscoverSignatureEvents.com

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