Foundational Courses
Tree Planting Workshop
Making Contact Workshop
Group Dynamics Workshop
Family Tracing Workshop
Online Book Club
Tree Planting Workshop
The 「Tree Planting Workshop」 is a key introductory course in the Huawushi family therapy, where helpers are metaphorically compared to trees, helping them nurture both their personal and professional selves. Transitioning from individual counseling to the perspective and language of family therapy is not an easy process. This course will use case studies to learn assessment frameworks and promote members’ ability to see family dynamics from a systemic perspective. The training of perspective often involves a process of shock, deconstruction, and reconstruction.
This course is led by Senior Psychologist Huang YaLing and Psychologist Shi LiRu, who have both followed Professor Wu JiuJun for over ten years. They will share their learning journeys, offering participants a glimpse into the process of becoming a family therapist. In the Tree Planting Workshop, they will gradually guide participants from seeing individual problems to seeing the whole family system, developing their ability to engage and understand people, and helping participants develop two key aspects of themselves:
「Professional Self」, Practice how to view families, collect information to form an assessment framework, create a therapeutic map, and engage with families to initiate individual or family sessions.
「Personal Self」, Whether in a professional or daily life setting, conversations often happen between roles rather than human beings. Through course exercises, participants will engage with themselves, learn how to utilize their own resources in working with others, and even create their own framework, becoming their own tree.
This course is led by Senior Psychologist Huang YaLing and Psychologist Shi LiRu, who have both followed Professor Wu JiuJun for over ten years. They will share their learning journeys, offering participants a glimpse into the process of becoming a family therapist. In the Tree Planting Workshop, they will gradually guide participants from seeing individual problems to seeing the whole family system, developing their ability to engage and understand people, and helping participants develop two key aspects of themselves:
「Professional Self」, Practice how to view families, collect information to form an assessment framework, create a therapeutic map, and engage with families to initiate individual or family sessions.
「Personal Self」, Whether in a professional or daily life setting, conversations often happen between roles rather than human beings. Through course exercises, participants will engage with themselves, learn how to utilize their own resources in working with others, and even create their own framework, becoming their own tree.
Learning Objectives
- Learn to use assessment frameworks to develop a collaborative working mindset.
- Train to assess families using a systemic perspective.
- Promote the alignment of helpers’ personal and professional selves in practice.
Course Format
- Case Discussions
- Dynamic Experiential Activities, such As Family Sculpture, Family Dynamics Activities, Or Family Dance
Courses over the years
