SCT Intermediate Level Training

The focus in Intermediate training is on learning to use systems-centered methods and techniques to build working systems with others. This builds on Foundation level work, in which members learn the basics of using systems-centered methods with themselves. At the Intermediate level:

• Skill training and leadership training give intensive practice in basic systems-centered techniques;
• Mentor training hones the challenging skill of working in role, goal and context;
• theory and consultation groups fill out the understanding of constructs and their application;
• Experiential learning groups (practicums) continue the exploration of the many driving and restraining forces that members bring to the task of building functional systems for work

Guidelines for assessing readiness

Members move from Foundation to Intermediate level training based on readiness. Members have worked in an SCT experiential group sufficiently to have:

1. Learned to subgroup, recognizing the fork in the road between explaining and exploring

2. Learned how to work with SCT techniques to undo their own anxiety, tension, depression and outrage

3. Recognized their pulls to compliant and defiant roles and role-locks

4. Developed a sufficient awareness of their own authority issues to be able to contain and explore them, rather than act them out

5. Developed a good ability not to take others and themselves ‘just personally’

6. Ability to recognize and shift from a person-centered to a member perspective

Also, members have a basic working knowledge of systems-centered theory, methods and techniques.

Entering SCT Intermediate training

• Making this shift signals members' intention to make SCT a major orientation in their work.
• Intermediate level work is the bulk of training toward becoming eligible to apply for licensing as an SCT Practitioner.

Want to know more?

• Read a detailed description of Intermediate Level Training, including information on applying for specific training events.