THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE
 

Outlines for Five Workshops

The Duplex Pyramids

 
Outlines of Workshops for Facilitating Teen Growth in Maturity;  Parent Training for Relating to Their Teens;  Enhancing Intimacy in Relationships; Building and Restructuring Organizations;  Personal Growth and Creativity

by Edwin L. Young, PhD

I. Teaching individual adolescents, in a homeroom or other classroom or at home, an understanding of their transition into adult life and ways to facilitate becoming more mature and adult and still fully enjoy this exciting time of their life.
II. Parent training involves teaching parents an understanding of your adolescent children and how to creatively parent them to facilitate their maturation.
III. Enhancing Intimacy in Relationships teaches the dynamics of intimate relationships, detecting styles of relating that are not working, the nature of mature intimate relationships, and finding greater fulfillment through authenticity and mutual facilitation.
IV. Organization Building involves gaining insight into the forces that shape and determine the effectiveness of an organization and how to use these concepts to restructure your organization.
V Growth and Creativity:
    Part I Teaching concepts of how to optimize your own personal growth for happy, successful self realization. 
    Part II Teaching concepts of how to optimize your personal creativity in your career, studies, home life, recreation or hobby, or relationships.

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'Duplex Pyramids' above is the logo of the Natural Systems Institute.  The top inverted pyramid represents layers of  external structures and systems and the bottom pyramid represents layers of internal structures and systems.  The extension of the pyramid to the left represents degrees of distance into the past, while extension to the right represents degrees of projection into the future.  The underlying theoretical assumption is that effective, enduring change in humans and human social systems comes only when these multidimensional relationships of the external, internal, past and future perspectives are all addressed as change efforts are attempted.

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR WEB SITES CONTAINED IN:

 THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE

Introduction to the Theory Underlying the Natural Systems Institute

  1. Stars and Stripes: A Correctional Program for a Juvenile Institution for Felons

  2. Levels of External and Internal Structures-Processes of Intentionality-and the Art of Restructuring Organizations

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Document created by Edwin L. Young, PhD between 6/1993 and when last edited on 04/20/2010

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