Family Reconstruction: Inside the Process
SESSION 3 : FAMILY OF ORIGIN SCULPT
➤ Dates: April 15 - 16, 2027
➤ Time: 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET daily (with a 30-minute break)
➤ Location: Live via ZOOM
➤ Translation : Live translation in Chinese
➤ NBCC Continuing Education: 8 clock hours available
About This Session
This is where the process becomes visceral. The star steps into a living recreation of their family of origin — and for the first time, gets to witness, feel, and interact with their childhood world as their grown-up self. Parents appear as full human beings, carrying their own histories and wounds. Long-held dynamics play out in real time. And the star — no longer a child without agency — can confront inequities, speak to unspoken truths, and offer healing to the parts of themselves that have waited a long time to be seen.
It is a profound experience. Not only for the star, but for everyone in the room.
Jean and Regina use Jean's recorded Family Reconstruction as the teaching text — guiding you through this final, integrative movement and what it takes to hold this kind of transformation with skill and care.
This gathering is open to English and Chinese speakers. Live translation in Chinese means language is not a barrier to being fully present with the work.
What You'll Do
Through video observation, instruction, and group dialogue, you'll explore:
☑️ How the family-of-origin sculpt integrates the maternal and paternal work
☑️ How roles and rules are distributed across the family system
☑️ What it looks like when the reconstruction moves into transformation — and how to hold it
☑️ The facilitator's role in the final arc: integration, meaning-making, closure
☑️ How this work prepares both you and your clients for the live reconstruction experience
About Family Reconstruction
In the Satir Growth Model, Family Reconstruction is a structured, experiential process that helps people understand and transform the patterns they inherited from their family of origin. The family-of-origin segment is the integrative heart of reconstruction — where the full picture emerges, and where the deepest shifts become possible.
Your Teachers
Jean A. McLendon, LCSW, LMFT, learned Family Reconstruction from Virginia Satir herself, working alongside her for nearly two decades before going on to teach the model internationally for over 40 years. As longtime Director of Training for the Virginia M. Satir Center, she has guided more live reconstructions than almost anyone practicing today. Jean brings a rare, direct lineage to this process — she isn't teaching a technique she learned about, she's carrying one she learned inside.
Regina Taggart, MSW, LSCW, is a distinguished licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience and a leading Satir trainer who has taught the Satir Growth Model extensively around the world. Renowned for her deep clinical expertise and dynamic teaching presence, Regina brings passion, precision, and profound insight to facilitating Family Reconstructions and mentoring practitioners globally.
Xu Yang, M.A., RCC, is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who has spent the past several years immersed directly in the Satir lineage — training under Jean McLendon in the Legacy Program and in ongoing supervision, while also supporting Maria Gomori's teaching of the Satir Model across China as translator and assistant since 2018. She brings a rare cross-cultural fluency to this work, having facilitated Satir-based leadership and family programs for organizations and universities in China alongside her clinical practice in Vancouver. Xu Yang co-leads with the sensitivity of someone who has carried this model between languages, cultures, and generations of practitioners.
Cost & Registration
Due to the interactive nature of this training, attendance is limited to 24 participants.
Attend Session 1: Maternal Only for $250
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Attend all 3 sessions for $600 (save $150) - View full series
⚠️ This session will be recorded. By registering, you consent to being recorded for potential future educational use by the Virginia Satir Center.