Our Work

What does Bowen Theory Academy (BTA) do? BTA provides learning opportunities for people new to the theory as well as those interested in developing and extending Bowen Theory. The following presentations from BTA’s Think Tank and conferences are described below.

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A Bowen Theorist in Public Administration

A public service administrator is embedded in societal emotional process, and Bowen theory is about trying to enhance regulation of emotional process based on an understanding of natural systems. This presents difficulty. If it has been addressed in the literature, I’ve missed reading it

A Little More Systems Rationality: Bayesian Reasoning

Bayesian reasoning assigns probabilities of certainty/uncertainty to hypotheses about various parts of reality. Then it uses any additional new information to update the probabilities of these hypotheses

Brief Book Review “How to Tame a Fox,” Lee Alan Dugatkin & Lyudmila Trut

Two reasons for my interest: Desire to anchor the individuality-togetherness concept in evolution, and develop a systems theory of the individual. The brain beyond the long-term research this book describes was Russian geneticist Dimitri Belyaev. Lyudmila Trut has been involved since the beginning.

Plant intelligence (PI) and Bowen Theory

Plants compose 99% of the biomass on earth. Animals are just traces. Plants have been on earth a lot longer than the human