The FSI End of Year Symposium is an opportunity to hear from FSI scholars about their own thinking and application of Bowen family systems theory in their own family, work or clinical contexts. It is an excellent professional development event to round off the year and an opportunity to network with program participants, faculty and trainers.
Join us on the evening of Monday 18th November 2024 for the FSI’s End of Year Symposium as we consider the context and early years of Dr Murray Bowen’s research.
The evening program will include a presentation “Blast from the Past” by Dr Ursula Ptok, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, on the history of psychiatry. We will then hear from Dr Jenny Brown with a pre recorded interview with Catherine Rakow, author of Making Sense of Human Life: Murray Bowen’s determined effort toward family systems theory covering both Rakow’s reflection on Bowen’s research and also what it took over the years to stay with the archives project. Plus the opportunity to connect with colleagues and peers at the end of the year!
DATE: Monday 18th November, 2024
TIME: 5:30pm – 8:00pm
LOCATION: Crows Nest Centre, 2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest or Online via ZOOM
Cost:
$45 onsite (Drinks and canapes will be included with onsite ticket purchase)
$25 online
*FSI Graduates and Core Program students are FREE to attend (please RSVP by purchasing an onsite or online Ticket using your code).
Dr Ursula Ptok is a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist in private practice in Parramatta. She is originally from Germany and came to Australia 22 years ago with her Australian husband. Ursula first encountered Bowen Family Systems Theory when she worked at Redbank House as a psychiatry trainee in 2006.
She completed the Advanced Certificate in Bowen Family Systems Theory and Practice in 2019. She draws on the theory to think about her work with patients and their families, to attempt to tolerate institutions and complex systems better, and to try and bring her best to her personal relationships.
Catherine M. Rakow is an independent researcher, has spent nearly 30 years reviewing Murray Bowen archival materials at the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division in Bethesda, MD and the Bowen family collection in Williamsburg, VA.
Catherine is a member of the Board for The Murray Bowen Archives Project, Murray Bowen Archives Project, 2010 – Dec 2023 and a faculty member of the Western Pen Family Center.
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