🌻【Guest speaker】

📣Dr. John Banmen

Dr. John Banmen is a registered psychologist of the B.C. College of Psychologists, and an approved supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. He worked for twelve years for the Manitoba Government in Canada as Director of provincial school counselling, and as Director of In-service Training of Public School Teachers and School Administrators. Later he became Assistant, Associate and then the Deputy Minister of Corrections and Rehabilitation before returning to his home province in British Columbia. He is a former Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is also a former honorary associate professor at the Hong Kong University and a former visiting professor (2014-2019) at the Beijing Normal University.

He has been on the Board of Directors (mostly for six year terms) of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (it’s president in 1973-1975), the British Columbia Psychological Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the International Family Therapy Association and the Satir Global Network.

He is the co-author of the Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond, the editor of Application of the Satir Growth Model, Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy, Virginia Satir...In Her Own Words and Satir Model in Action. He also edited three Virginia Satir Meditation Books and recently co-edited a book of Virginia Satir’s Simple but Profound Sayings. Most of his books are translated and published in Chinese.

He was one of the three senior faculty members with Virginia Satir at the International Summer Institute in Colorado, USA, during the 1980 decade.

Presently he is the President of the Banmen Satir China Management Center working to assist 65,000,000 million people in China to be healthier, happier and more successful using the Satir Model. He is currently living near Vancouver, Canada practicing physical social distancing during the coronavirus crisis and helping eight authors with their Satir Model writings while enjoying listening to his large collection of classical music. He was born in the Ukraine and immigrated with his family to Canada during his adolescent years making English his fifth language.

📣 Dr. Marie Lam

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Dr. Marie Lam is the Senior Supervisor and Senior Counsellor of Hong Kong Satir Center; Certified Clinical Supervisor and Certified Marriage and Family Therapist of Hong Kong Marriage and Family Therapy Association. She is also the faculty member of BSCMC (Banmen Management Center) and provides co-training for the course of Clinical Supervision with Dr. John Banmen for the Hong Kong Satir Center for Human Development and Taiwan Satir Association, as well as in Shanghai and Beijing.
 

After graduating from Fu Jen University, Taiwan, Dr. Marie Lam later obtained a Master Degree in Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a PhD in Therapeutic Counselling from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines and Medicine Alternative Institute Sri Lanka.

Inspired by the first Satir Model workshop led by Satir’s associates Dr. John Banmen, Dr. Maria Gomori and Jane Gerber in 1986 and Virginia Satir herself in 1988, Dr. Marie Lam embarked on her spiritual journey.

In the next two years, Dr. Marie Lam fervently followed Satir’s workshops in Hong Kong delivered by Satir’s three associates. These workshops deepened her spiritual growth and gave her an in-depth study of the Satir model. In 1988, Dr. Marie Lam began to interpret all the workshops of Dr. Maria Gomori and Dr. John Banmen in Hong Kong and Taiwan, expanding her understanding of the essence of their works and laying a solid foundation for the teaching of the Satir model.

In 1989, Dr. Marie Lam began to teach Satir model workshops in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. To continue the teaching of Satir to the Chinese community, Dr. Marie Lam and several other like-minded friends established the Hong Kong Satir Center for Human Development on April 13, 1989, in the mission to fulfilling the mission of Virginia Satir, through the commitment to promote human kindness through Satir Model.

Dr. Marie Lam was the former President, Vice President, Program Director of Courses and Training and Board Member of the Hong Kong Satir Center for Human Development. Besides, she was a former board member of Taiwan Satir Center established by Shiuh-Li Cultural and Educational Foundation. She is also one of the founders of Taiwan Satir Association.

In the past two decades, Dr. Marie Lam has worked tirelessly in contributing to Satir Centers worldwide. In addition to developing the Satir training courses, she also actively nurtures torch-bearers in their professional counselling and ensures the quality of Satir courses. In 2011, she received the Living Treasure Award by the Virginia Satir Global Network and later the Pacific Satir Leadership Award by the Satir institute of Pacific.

Her translation works include “Meditation & Inspirations”, “The Satir Model, Family Therapy and Beyond” and “Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy - Sample Iceberg Process Questions of the Satir Model (A Beginner’s Manual)”