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Virginia Satir: The Patterns of Her Magic

© 1991

• Brief Description
• Contents
• Foreword by Richard Bandler
• Introduction
• The Major Patterns of Satir's Work
• A Solution-oriented Focus on the Present and Future
• Positive Intentions
• No Blame
• Equality
• Providing Positive Alternative Choices
• Reframing Behaviors and Perceptions
• Action
• Association/Dissociation
• Expressiveness
• Humor
• Shifting Referential Index
• Amplifying Positive Feelings and Behaviors, and Interrupting Destructive Communication
• Identifying Limiting Beliefs and Challenging Them
• Specific Verbal Patterns for Gathering Information Gracefully
• Specific Verbal Patterns for Helping People Change
• Presuppositions
• Embedded Commands
• Linkage
• Specific Use of Generalities
• Temporal Predicate Shifts
• Distinction Between Perception and Reality: 'Model of the World'
• Physical Contact