The Genogram
Learn to map your family dynamics and uncover generational patterns that shape your relationships and emotional life.
The Genogram
Learn to map your family dynamics and uncover generational patterns that shape your relationships and emotional life.
- Two in-depth instructional videos with Patrick Teahan, LICSW (56 minutes total)
- 4-page workbook with genogram structure template, dysfunctions key, and hypothetical example
In this course, you will learn
How to build your own genogram — Learn the structure and symbols of a family genogram, including how to map multiple generations, mark relationship dynamics, and use text labels, symbols, lines, and color-coding to represent dysfunction patterns
How to identify abuse dynamics and family roles — Use a detailed dysfunctions key to label family members with patterns like emotional abuse, passive aggression, codependency, narcissism, volatility, neglect, and addiction
How to uncover the family myth — See how families construct narratives that minimize dysfunction and protect the system, and learn to map the gap between the myth and the reality of how your family actually operated
How to use your genogram for insight and direction — Connect the generational patterns in your family tree to your own relationship struggles, emotional reactions, and stuck places in adult life
Overview
The Genogram is a foundational trauma-therapy exercise that helps you visually map your family of origin and uncover the generational patterns that shaped your emotional life and relationships. Using a detailed system of symbols, text labels, relationship lines, and color-coding, you'll build a multi-generational picture of your family that captures what words alone often can't — the abuse dynamics, the roles people played, the unspoken rules, and the myths that held the system together.
Patrick walks you through the entire process across two in-depth videos, using a hypothetical family genogram as a teaching example. The 4-page workbook provides the genogram structure template, a comprehensive dysfunctions key with symbols and relationship lines, and a completed hypothetical genogram to reference as you build your own. This is the first experiential exercise Patrick uses in his childhood trauma groups — because understanding the full picture of where you come from is essential to knowing what you're healing from and how to rebuild.
What's included?
Two in-depth instructional videos (56 minutes total) walking through the genogram process
4-page workbook with genogram structure, dysfunctions key, and hypothetical example
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