Princeton Family Center for Education
Training programs in Bowen family systems theory, for professionals and non-professionals.
About PFCE
The Princeton Family for Education, Inc., was established in 1987 to provide a regional postgraduate training program in Bowen family systems theory, a body of knowledge that endeavors to move the understanding of human behavior toward science.
Dr. Murray Bowen, originator of the theory and founder of the Georgetown Family Center in 1967, was a teacher and trainer at the Princeton Family Center from 1987 until shortly before his death in 1990.
In 1990 the Princeton Family Center for Education secured status as a nonprofit 501(3) (c) educational institution to teach Bowen theory to members of professional disciplines, organizational leaders and members of the general public. These learning opportunities are provided through a training program, a community course, and webcasting seminars.
Our Faculty + Board
Each faculty member has worked through the years to better understand themselves within their own family system, as well as the difficulties and challenges that all individuals and families face over the course of a lifetime. Consistent with evolution, the natural systems theory of human behavior developed by Murray Bowen, M.D., provides a framework for learning and understanding how families function over many generations. PFCE offers a unique service to the community in its commitment to understanding and applying a Bowen family systems way of thinking. All faculty are interested in assisting individuals to develop and manage themselves in important family, work, school, and social relationships. Each is committed to understanding how social, physical, and emotional symptoms are natural outcomes of the multigenerational emotional process present in all families.
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Our Mission
The Princeton Family Center for Education, Inc., is dedicated to the teaching of Bowen Natural Systems Theory. Operating in accordance with the principles of this theory, the Center strives to represent this theoretical perspective to all interested individuals.
The fundamental assumption of this body of knowledge is that the human and the human family are a part of all nature on our planet. With knowledge from the natural sciences and an understanding of patterns of emotional forces that exist in all life forms, the concepts of Bowen theory guide thoughtful choices and responsible actions. Thus, Bowen theory provides the opportunity for principled direction for higher functioning for the individual, the family and the organization.
