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The Bowen Center FacultyAndrea Maloney-Schara, LCSWA
Ms. Schara met Murray Bowen in 1976 while working on an alcoholism unit in a psychiatric hospital in Virginia Beach. Dr. Bowen suggested she apply to the Special Postgraduate Program. Having only completed two years of college it was a challenging opportunity to begin a formal training program.
Four years later she was offered the position of Audiovisual Coordinator and moved to Washington to continue her interest in understanding Bowen theory. The dual track of clinical work plus documenting the life and lectures of Dr. Bowen has expanded along different pathways. In the mid eighties, she oversaw the donation of fifteen years of Dr. Bowen’s clinical tapes to the National Library of Medicine. This laid the groundwork for the donation of the remaining tapes to the NLM. Ms. Schara became a faculty member at the Bowen Center in 1990. Ms. Schara organized a pilot research project - a ten year study (1985-1995) of 50 families, where one person had AIDS - which won a poster presentation at the NIH. Biofeedback was used during this study to demonstrate the shifting of symptoms within a family after a life threatening illness in one member. The ability to document physiological and behavioral shifts in the family unit has to allow her the theoretical necessity of lowering anxiety before, during, and after one begins to alter one’s multigenerational relationship patterns. In 1994 she incorporated neurofeedback into her clinical practice. Ms. Schara taught in the special postgraduate training program from 1993 until 2005 when she moved to Darien, CT. In 2003 she began a non-profit, Leaders for Tomorrow (LFT), to bring the ideas of Bowen theory into the business community. She is currently writing a book, tentatively titled Natural Leaders: The Cost and Benefits of Taking off the Relationship Blinders. Ms. Schara continues her primary interest in and support for the preservation of Dr. Murray Bowen’s videotapes. She stays in contact with the Bowen family and has made attempts to find much-needed large donations to digitize and to make available the entire video collection. This is a complex and far reaching project, which could have a great affect on how the world remembers Dr. Bowen and understands the depth of his contributions. Contact Information: arms711@aol.com, 703-598-5953, www.ideastoaction.com |
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