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Systemic Solutions: Origins & Inspiration

Brief History of Soulwork Systemic Coaching

Soulwork Systemic Solutions integrated success coaching, strategic planning, brief psychotherapy, systemic family therapy and relationship management. It was founded by Martyn Carruthers in 1988.

Martyn Carruthers served on nuclear submarines during the Cold War. He worked as a health physics officer at nuclear power stations, and for the Canadian government, liaising with hospitals, industry and universities. Later he became known as a trainer of expert modeling, NLP and accelerated learning, in Canada and Europe. He is known for his contributions to systemic psychology.

Martyn integrated accelerated learning and systems theory in an attempt to accelerate healing. Following mentorship by native Hawaiian healers, Martyn developed ways to resolve relationship entanglements and the diseases apparently associated with them. [ Interview with Martyn Carruthers ]

We offer coaching and coach training to help people resolve couple, family and team relationship challenges. We provide relationship management skills for helping professionals. Here is Martyn's first presentation of systemic coaching - to an English University Forum.

Systemic Solutions follows an overall sequence ...

Clarity   Integrity   Freedom   Motivation   Inspiration

Martyn found that motivated, responsible adults can access and stabilize a profound experience of integrity as a basis for making important decisions. Many people called this experience Soul - so Martyn called this phase Soul-Work and the overall model Soul Centered Changework. The application of this model by helping professionals was later renamed Soulwork Systemic Coaching.

Some theories incorporated into our Systemic Coaching are:

  1. Goal orientation (Henry Miller)
  2. Cybernetic theory of mind (Gregory Bateson)
  3. Social-cognitive theory of learning (Albert Bandura)
  4. Independent ego-states (parts) (Virginia Satir & Milton Erickson)
  5. Sensory representations as elements of subjective experience (William James )

Our Systemic Coaching represents a desire for cooperation. We do not represent any new age, old age, religious or political group! We are a non-prophet organization!

Sources of Inspiration

Papa Henry Hawi

Papa Henry Hawi was kahuna nui la'au lapa'au (expert healer) who lived in Hilo, Hawaii. Martyn studied with him in Hawaii, and quotes him as saying "What is the point of healing a disease if the patient doesn't know why he has that disease?" and "Your body reflects your relationships!" Papa Henry dedicated his life to healing - and we think of him as "Grandfather of Soulwork". Papa Henry's philosophy is reflected throughout our relationship coaching, particularly in the area of healing relationships (ho'oponopono) (Systems 1) and changing relationship bonds (ele'ele eke) (see Systems 5). For more on Papa Henry - click HERE. Email us for a copy of an interview with Papa Henry.

Bahá'í Faith

Most world religions provide relationship coaching. We are inspired by Bahai rules for respecting and appreciating diversity and for personal, organizational and community responsibility. Bahai inspiration is useful when coaching systems: Couple Coaching, Team Coaching and Family Coaching.

Dr Gregory Bateson

Dr Gregory Bateson was an anthropologist who studied schizophrenia, and applied cybernetic and systems theory to his work (see Steps to an Ecology of Mind). Bateson's description of Logical Types (called logical levels in NLP) define a hierarchy of abstraction that includes beliefs, values and identity, with relationships as a higher abstraction than identity. Dr Bateson's concepts are integrated into our Systemic Solutions and are taught in Systemic 3.

Dr. Milton Erickson

Dr. Milton Erickson was an American psychiatrist who redefined medical hypnosis (which had been made unpopular by Dr Sigmund Freud). Although crippled by poliomyelitis, Dr Erickson became expert in noticing and responding to non-verbal communication, constructive provocation and creating healing metaphors. (Read Uncommon Therapy by Jay Haley.) These skills are taught throughout Soulwork training, particularly in isomorphic and interactive metaphors (Systemic 3) and in provocative coaching and therapy (Systems 5).

Dr. Viktor Frankl

Dr. Victor Frankl is known for developing Logotherapy - an existential psychotherapy - inspired during his imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The philosophy he presented in Logotherapy is well reflected in our coaching, particularly in assisting people to search for meaning and integrity as a basis for change. Dr Frankl's philosophy is reflected in 16 types of provocative therapy (Systems 5) and in the ways to stabilize integrity (Systemic 3).

Dr. Clare Graves

Dr Clare Graves was a post-doctoral student of Abraham Maslow. Dr Graves described "values" as a basis of human evolution and created a useful model of societal evolution that predicts the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations. Dr Graves work is integrated into Soulwork, particularly into goal coaching (Systems 2), mentorship (Systems 7) and team coaching (Systems 10). For articles about Graves work in Soulwork, click HERE.

Annegret Hallanzy

Annegret Hallanzy lives in Germany where she created a synthesis of NLP with psychotherapy - Vision Oriented Changework or VoVa. Annegret inspired our Goalwork Coaching (Systemic 2) and Couple Coaching (Systemic 8) See Relationship Bonds. Annegret wrote about her synthesis in her book Ekologie NLP Redefiniert (NLP Ecology Redefined) - which we recommend to German NLP practitioners. This book evaluates the ecology and consequences of many NLP techniques and introduces VoVa. Here is an excerpt from NLP Ecology Redefined.

Bert Hellinger

A German therapist, Bert Hellinger redefined brief psychotherapy by examining the responsibilities and spatial positions of relatives in a client's subjective awareness. Hellinger's books reveal the effects of family actions on a family member's perceptions of reality. We appreciate Hellinger's concepts on relationship entanglements (taught in Systemic 1) and on how to recognize and dissolve personality identification (taught in Systems 6) as a basis for subsequent coaching of identity loss, relationship bonds and trauma.

Aunty Mona Kahele

Aunty Mona Kahele was a native Hawaiian kupuna (elder) skilled in ho'oponopono (family therapy) and la'au lapa'au (herbal medicine) which she was taught by her kahuna grandfather. She lived on Hawaii, where, she helped many people resolve relationship and emotional problems. We received from Aunty Mona over 50 years of her handwritten notes on healing body, mind and spirit. Aunty Mona inspires us to translate the healing ritual of ho'oponopono into an appropriate format for all people (Soulwork 1). Aunty Mona continues to mentor her ohana or community. For more on the cultural beauty of old Hawaii, click HERE. (I am sad to say that Aunty Mona died recently - Martyn)

Uncle John Kaimikaua

John Kaimikaua was a native Hawaiian expert on Hawaiian traditions. John lived on Molokai - traditionally known as the "Island of Sorcerers" - where he was taught by a mysterious kahuna lady. Martyn studied with Uncle John in Hawaii. John Kaimikaua's teaching prompted research into the rapid re-evaluation of relationships with passive, aggressive and deceased family members (see Systems 6) and relationship bonds generally (Systems 5). For more about Uncle John, click HERE.

Dr Ronald D Laing

Ronald D Laing was director of British psychiatric clinics. He perceived mental disease as a social problem, rather than a biochemical imbalance, and argued that mental diseases make sense in their family contexts. (Read: The Divided Self). He wrote about communication patterns in dysfunctional families - describing the effects of family actions on perceptions of reality. Martyn incorporated Dr Laing's philosophy about family politics and disease (Soulwork 1); family meta-rules (Systems 5) and Dr Laing's perception that "insanity is a sane reaction to insane situations". (Dr Laing also wrote "Family patterns are not laid out in front of us like the stars in the sky" (Massey Lectures II, 1969) - Systemic Diagnosis shows how to do this!)

Aunty Margaret Machado

Aunty Margaret Machado is a native Hawaiian healer, famous for her expert knowledge of lomilomi (massage) and la'au lapa'au (herbal medicine). She lives on Hawaii's Big Island where she was trained by her kahuna (expert) grandfather. Her teaching inspired the "Soul to Soul" relationships found throughout Martyn's work. Martyn lived with Aunty Margaret and her family while he studied with her in Hawaii. For more about Aunty Margaret Machado - click Here.

Dr. Murray Bowen

Dr. Murray Bowen (1913-1990) developed a theory of human functioning based upon studies of the natural sciences and upon his own research. First called family systems theory, Bowen theory is a natural systems theory distinct from general systems theory, psychiatry, medicine, psychology and group theories in sociology and sociobiology. Bowen Theory is about the interaction of systemic variables in human families that predict individual health. See Systemic Change

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

NLP is known for hypnotic communication, influence skills and modeling. Martyn was certified as a NLP trainer by four NLP training institutes, and taught NLP until he investigated the long-term consequences of NLP on relationships. Soulwork derives from NLP some concepts of non-verbal communication (taught in Systems 2), and some notions about timelines and re-imprinting (taught in Systems 6) and behavioral modeling (taught in Systems 7). Martyn occasionally presents NLP master practitioner certification trainings, focusing on the work of Steve and Connirae Andreas, Robert Dilts and Wyatt Woodsmall. (Comparison of Huna, Soulwork and NLP Meta Model)

Systems Theory, Complexity & Chaos Theory

Systems theory was proposed in the 1940's by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, who noted that systems that interact with their environment can evolve. Systems theory focuses on relationships between parts or members of complex systems and subsystems - and how these relationships shape a system's behavior and survival potential.

Exchanging matter and energy with other systems or with the environment can destabilize a system, as systems transition to more complex configurations. Hence self-organizing systems can increase or decrease their survival potential. Systems theory is integrated throughout systemic coach training. See Systems Theory and Chaos Theory.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

Phineas Quimby was the most well-known American mental healer in the late 1800's, credited for healing 15,000 people. Quimby's manuscripts about his science of healing were the basis for the New Thought movement, which was later promoted as Positive Thinking. Quimby's science of healing opposed religion, education and medicine, which Quimby perceived as sources of toxic beliefs.

In 1863, one of Quimby's patients, Mary Patterson, whom Quimby had healed of spinal cancer, borrowed Quimby's manuscripts. She later remarried twice to become Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. Martyn integrated Quimby's work into Systems 5 (see Model of a Healer)

Virginia Satir

Virginia Satir's systemic psychotherapy provided practical models of family therapy, and emphasizes the use of humor and paradox. Her assumption of functional, fragmented identity parts encompasses both conscious and unconscious processes. Reflections of her humor and love of paradox are found throughout our training, and applications of her work on partial identities are taught in Systems 3.



 

 

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Systemic Coach Training

Systems 1 How to evaluate relationships and recognize common entanglements
Systems 2 How to define life goals, and identify blocks, objections & conflicts
Systems 3 How to continue goalwork using interactive metaphors and Dreamwork
Systems 4 How to dissolve the consequences of abuse and trauma and rebuild motivation
Systems 5 How to change limiting beliefs and codependence for emotional freedom
Systems 6 How to recognize and resolve identity loss: recover lost qualities and lost skills
Systems 7 How to heal therapist or spiritual damage and provide inspirational mentorship
Systems 8 How to coach partners to build lasting happiness (and to separate peacefully)
Systems 9 How to coach parents to resolve family problems
Systems 10 How to coach team leaders and teams ... together
Systems 11 How to coach community leaders and communities
Specialty Advanced workshops and specialty training tailored to your goals

Copyright © Martyn Carruthers 1996-2010 All rights reserved. Soulwork Systemic Coaching was primarily developed by Martyn Carruthers. We coach and train people to define and achieve goals, to resolve emotional blocks and to improve relationships. This information is for your general knowledge only. Please consult a physician about medical conditions and before changing any medical treatment. You must get Martyn's written permission to post or publish his work.