bower(knowledge)

Systemic theory and family practice knowledge developed at Bower Place about therapeutic work with individuals, relationships, and families whose lives are paralysed by a raft of complicated, co-occurring, problems and symptoms, in complex family, health, mental health, legal, justice, disability, and other system circumstances. Bower(knowledge) has  been developed out of therapeutic and support work with people experiencing a major mental illness, addictions, acquired brain injury, child sexual abuse, child protection issues, intellectual disability, all forms of violence, criminal matters, education, school issues, child and adolescent behavioural problems, eating disorders, and many other symptoms and problems.

Bower(note) is a radical Practice and Notes protocol for all therapeutic practice and support work in helping and human services. Bower(note) is fully contemporaneous, transparent, and inclusive of the client – especially useful in work with people challenged by processing speed, working memory, and capacity for abstraction. Bower(note) is applicable to work with children and adolescents. The Bower(note) contemporaneous and transparent Notes process significantly reduces the common misunderstandings that occur in service delivery with people with compromised cognition – that often result in complaints.

Bower(method) is a multi-theoretical, multi-modal, multi-systemic, methodology for all forms of service delivery in the domain of helping and social assistance – including therapeutic practice, family therapy, support coordination, and support work. Bower(method) provides the service delivery practitioner with an analysis of a human symptom or problem from a developmental, political, spatial, and temporal perspective. It has a contextual analysis of inequality, and a powerful time-future orientation. It is a genuine platform for therapeutic intervention and change.

1000-Days is a fully systemic programme developed at Bower Place from 1983, for the management and treatment of long-standing problems and symptoms including most substances and actions of addiction. It takes 30-days to produce a change and 1000-days to make that change permanent. 1000-Days is a demanding programme that produces extraordinary compliance from the individuals, couples, and families who undertake the programme. 1000-Days is a paradox – it is structured, extremely accountable, future focussed, and exploits features of the problem or symptom to recover the prefrontal persistence and determination required to invent a future powerful enough not to include that problem or symptom. Compliance is the major issue for the efficacy of all intervention and change programmes. 1000-Days is only used with clients of Bower Place and enjoys a cult following.