Making Contact

The noted family therapist presents innovative concepts and techniques conducive to changing one's habits of communication and to establishing open, constructive, and life-enhancing modes of contact and communication within family relationships The path to better communication begins with learning about contact. You have eyes, ears, feelings, speech, thought, movement, actions through which you make contact with yourself and with others. Very often people ignore the essence of this process. In Making Contact Virginia Satir brings into focus how you can use all these elements, how things got this way and, above all, how change can begin. She uses techniques developed in her workshops to make clear what habits and experiences influence you in subtle ways.

The object of her work is to bring about change in perceptions and action. In clear and concise terms, Making Contact will make it possible for you to use these principles and put them to work for change in your own life.

Satir draws on years of experience and observation to show how to better understand and use the basic tools for making contact with others.

Brings into focus how you can have better communication with yourself and with others through the contact of eyes, ears, feeling, speech, thought, movement, and actions. Satir shows how we can use all of these elements; uses techniques developed in her workshops to make clear what habits and experiences influence you in subtle ways; with ideas for enhancing self-esteem