The Culturally Conscious Board

9 Invitation

When any key member of an emotional system can control their own emotional reactiveness and accurately observe the functioning of the system and their part in it and they can avoid counterattacking when provoked and when they can maintain an active relationship with the other key members without withdrawing or becoming silent, the entire system will change in predictable ways.

MURRAY BOWEN, M.D.38

The words were clear. They were right there, printed in black and white. And the meaning was immediately clear. “Next time, get a woman.” The secretary for that meeting was certainly terse in the summary of the discussion. Looking at the top of the page, Crystal could see that the crumpled sheet she had found, in the side drawer of ...