Systemic Therapy Teachers
Bradford Keeney & Wendel Ray
Dr. Bradford Keeney and Dr. Wendel Ray are firends and mentors to the MindForTherapy team. Brad's contributions to the field are vast and range from his seminal writings on the application of cybernetics to family therapy to his work studing healing practices across the globe. Brad's current work as the Clinical Director at the Center for Children and Families has had a direct influence on the development of MindForTherapy. His new book, The Creative Therapist, and his clinical supervision of creative therapy sessions at the Center for Children and Families' Family Systems Institute has resulted in intriqueng and innoviative therapeutic encounters.
Wendel has been a dedicated teacher and historian of the field of family therapy. He has painstakingly commited himself to the perservation of the groundbreaking work of the forefathers in the field through the Don D. Jackson archives. His work will outlast us all. Wendel takes a special place for those of us involved at MindForTherapy in that his passion for systemic thinking and therapy directly inspired many of us. He is personally responsible for my desire to be a family therapist. He is and will always be my teacher.
Both Brad and Wendel helped to evagulize a group of eager and open minded thinkers to carry on the early traditions of family therapy and to pursue an ever evolving understanding of systemic interaction.
Check out Brad's website at The Creative Therapist
Check out Wendel's website at The Institute for Relational and Interactional Studies (IRIS)
Wendel has been a dedicated teacher and historian of the field of family therapy. He has painstakingly commited himself to the perservation of the groundbreaking work of the forefathers in the field through the Don D. Jackson archives. His work will outlast us all. Wendel takes a special place for those of us involved at MindForTherapy in that his passion for systemic thinking and therapy directly inspired many of us. He is personally responsible for my desire to be a family therapist. He is and will always be my teacher.
Both Brad and Wendel helped to evagulize a group of eager and open minded thinkers to carry on the early traditions of family therapy and to pursue an ever evolving understanding of systemic interaction.
Check out Brad's website at The Creative Therapist
Check out Wendel's website at The Institute for Relational and Interactional Studies (IRIS)
 2005. Matthew Thornton, David Hale, Van Frusha, Bradford Keeney, Wendel Ray | "The most dramatic shift imaginable in the field of psychotherapy is to free it from the tight embrace of medicalism and scientism and connect it to the creative wellsprings of the arts." Brad Keeney, Improvisational Therapy |
"Becoming an artist invovles moving away from impersonating others and developing one's own improvisational style. An artist fully utilzes his or her personal resources and limitations to create a unique style that is an aesthetic portait of self-in-context" Brad Keeney, Improvisational Therapy.
 Ritchie Sheridan, Bradford Keeney, Cynthia Murray, Amanda McMullen. 2007 |  Bradford Keeney, Pearl Wong, Marc Fager. 2007 Visit Marc Fager's page on MindForTherapy
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Proceed Irreverently
Wendel Ray, Gianfranco Cecchin, Gerry Lane
"The therapist is not interested in knowing what really produces change, only in the change that actually occurs. Irreverence is to never accept one logical level of a position but rather, to play with varying levels of abstractions, changing from one level to another." Cecchin, Lane, Ray in alphabetical order (1992) Irreverence
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