%0 Journal Article
%T A Transpersonal Feminist Approach to Family Systems
%A Irene Sheiner Lazarus
%J International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
%D 2010
%I 
%X This paper presents a preliminary description of A Transpersonal Feminist Approach to Family Systems (ATFAFS) as taught at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) between 1995 and 2002. In this approach, students studied the principles of Murray BowenĄ¯s family systems theory with attention to feminist revisions of the theory while simultaneously investigating their own multigenerational family histories. Additionally, students kept a journal, recordedand worked with their dreams, and worked with a chosen creative expressive modality. They may also have worked with other transpersonal modalities. Student narratives, informed byorganic inquiry, illustrate aspects of the approach. The paper concludes with a detailed look at studentsĄ¯ perceived benefits and drawbacks of the approach.
%K multigenerational family systems
%K transpersonal
%K feminist
%K dreamwork
%K journaling
%K organic inquiry
%K creative expression
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