You're One of Us!

In this gripping account of her work, Marianne Franke-Gricksch speaks from her experience as a teacher and therapist, describing how systemic ideas enable fundamentally new and effective learning and encourage creative cooperation between students, teachers, and parents. Rather than viewing the participants in this process as isolated individuals, she shows how people and their environment constantly influence and change each other. Franke-Gricksch's own systemic view connects Bert Hellinger's work on the power of one's bond with his or her family of origin with various other approaches within systemic theory. The author's reports are consistently supported by practical examples from the everyday classroom situation. Especially fascinating is the children's enthusiasm and array of ideas that they use to pick up and transfer the new impulses and procedures. Readers who are new to these methods will also be amazed at the powerful effect that is released by systemic thinking and action.



Marianne Franke-Gricksch was born in 1942 in Munich, Germany. She is the mother of two sons and is divorced. Following a twenty-five year career in teaching at various Grundschulen and Hauptschulen while concurrently training and practicing psychotherapy and Family Constellation work, Franke-Gricksch now has a private practice for psychotherapy and family therapy. Beginning in 1975, she trained in primary therapy, Family Constellation work with Bert Hellinger, hypnotherapy with Gunther Schmidt, brief therapy with Steve de Shazer, and she is also trained as a healer. Today she facilitates group workshops for Family Constellation and offers couple and individual therapy. Her particular focus of attention is on the experience that she gains in occupational supervision with teachers and therapists, as well as in systemically oriented therapy groups for young adults between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two.