The Satir Journal, Volume 1 No 3
ISSN - (print) 1718-2050
ISSN – (online) 1718-2069

Satir’s Internal Process, Self-Esteem and Non-Defensive Responses

Stanley J. Gross, Ed. D.
Quincy, Massachusetts

Abstract

This article pays homage to Virginia Satir’s exercise “Ingredients of an Interaction.”  The author describes its adaptation to a series of educational workshops for the public and for professionals.  The exercise takes her concept of an internal process and the author’s view of self-esteem to a structure designed to bring the two together.  It is followed by a self-test for defensive and non-defensive responses to threat.

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