The Satir Journal, Volume 1
ISSN - (print) 1718-2050
ISSN – (online) 1718-2069

Alleviating Prejudice and Hate:
The Strategies of Virginia Satir

Sandy Novak, MS, MA, LPC
Psy.D. Candidate,
Southern California Univ. for Professional Studies
Senior adjunct faculty member,
Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado

ABSTRACT

The author offers her experience of growing up with prejudice as a child in a mixed-racial neighborhood  in Milwaukee. Now a trainer in the Satir model, she offers how Virginia Satir connected prejudice to the erroneous hierarchical paradigm about human beings and their relationships. Through a recorded session, the author demonstrates how Satir connected these beliefs to feelings of vulnerability and low self-esteem with a client. This transformational strategy is compared to contemporary social psychology research on transforming prejudice.

 

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