Extraordinary Leadership Seminar Lecture Series now available


Year I:  Extraordinary Leadership

  1. Ten Unique Ideas for Extraordinary Leaders
  2. Emotional Systems:  the family, the organization as a unit
  3. Congregations/Organizations as Emotional Systems
  4. Differentiation of Self – Part I
  5. Differentiation of Self – Part II
  6. High Level Leadership
  7. Clergy as Counselors
  8. Thinking Systems About Death and Dying/Leadership in Today’s World

Year II:  The Eight Concepts of Bowen Theory for Leaders

  1. Emotional Systems:  the family, the organization as a unit
  2. Differentiation of Self:  The Concept, The Action
  3. Triangles
  4. Emotional Cutoff
  5. Family Projection Process/Multigenerational Transmission Process
  6. Sibling Position/Functional Positions
  7. Emotional Process in Society
  8. The Ninth Concept:  The Supernatural

Year III:  Differentiation of Self in Leadership 

  1. Emotional Systems:  the family, the organization as a unit
  2. The Scale of Differentiation of Self
  3. Differentiating a Self in One’s Family
  4. Differentiating a Self in a Congregation/Organization
  5. High Level Leadership:  Leading From Principle
  6. Presidents, Pastors and Parents:  Differentiation in Leadership
  7. Dr. Gilbert’s story
  8. High Level Leadership in Societal Regression


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2015-16 Extraordinary Leadership Seminar
Roslyn Center in Richmond, VA
Meets for three-day sessions, three times during the year
October 13-15, 2015
February 16-18, 2016
May 17-19, 2016

2015-16 Extraordinary Leadership ADVANCED Seminar
Advanced Seminar in Falls Church, VA (at Christ Crossman United Methodist Church)
Prerequisite: three years of the Extraordinary Leadership Seminar
Meets for two-day sessions, twice a year - preceding the Bowen Center spring and fall meetings
November 10-11, 2015
April 12-13, 2016


  • FREE FOR 3-year seminar participants
We are happy to inform you that anyone who has completed three years of the Extraordinary Leadership Seminar is welcome to attend any of the Extraordinary Leadership Seminar lectures anywhere at any time in the future, free of charge.


  • VIRGINIA UNITED METHODIST CLERGY
VA UMC clergy can apply to be subsidized through the Office of Ministerial Service by downloading an application for funding from the www.vaumc.org Clergy Development Application.  

Please note: applications must be submitted and reviewed, and funding is not guaranteed.  Contact person is Rev. Beth Downs.


  • SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE FOR UNITED METHODIST DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS.
Please contact the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for more information.


Click here to view the interview transcript of Dr. Roberta Gilbert interviewed by Hugh Ballou of Synervision International on CreatorMagazine.com


  • Dr. Gilbert's book, Extraordinary Relationships, is available on Kindle.

  • PRICE REDUCTION FOR ALL DVDs! 
Check out the books page and get your DVDs at a new lower price.


All inquiries about Dr. Bowen's book Family Therapy in Clinical Practice should be referred to the publisher, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.  To go to their website, click here.
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