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