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"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Resolve Family Differences

Yes, you can resolve your family’s differences without disrupting your connection as a family.

We grow up thinking that family members should not disagree. Yet life is based on variety; family members have differences. As difficult as it is to think about addressing differences in a family, there is no question that allowing them to go undiscussed results in long-term consequences.

In the environment that we create, family members articulate their differences and go beyond them to create common goals and direction. This is not a therapeutic process of airing grievances; rather, it is an opportunity for individual members to calmly articulate what they believe and how they came to believe it. Structured in the right way, these types of conversations bridge generational, gender, and sibling differences. While families vary in their ability to tolerate differences, we find that over time our process permits families to understand and integrate the differences rather than discount or reject them.

Using Family Systems Theory as our guide, we are able to articulate the differences in a way that builds connection among family members rather than challenges it.

If you wonder if your family can resolve its family’s differences without disrupting your connection as a family, Yes, you can.