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Initial Session Guide: Genogram
A structured 2-page guide for the initial session with clients that gently frames the introduction of the genogram as a tool and enables a first three-generation sketch.
5-Phase Session Structure
A visualized standard session structure for genogram sessions, with time anchors, note fields, and transition phrases — a session companion and documentation aid in one.
Circular Questions — Card Collection for Systemic Practice
20 field-tested circular questions with notes on their effect, application tips, and a printable card block to cut out. Based on Karl Tomm (1987/1988) and the Milan School.
Your Own Genogram — Workbook for Professional Self-Reflection
Workbook for aspiring and practicing counselors, therapists, social workers, and coaches — six exercise blocks for developing your own three-generation genogram, with fillable note areas. Self-reflection material, not a substitute for therapy.
Resource Genogram for the Care-Planning Conversation
A two-page intake form for the care-planning procedure under § 36 SGB VIII (Section 36 of Book Eight of the German Social Code, the statutory care-planning procedure), which gathers resources before risks, brings seven interview questions to read aloud, and marks the boundary to the child-protection procedure under § 8a SGB VIII (Section 8a SGB VIII, Germany’s statutory child-protection duty).
Hypothesis Check Card
A check card with seven quality criteria against which a systemic hypothesis can be tested before it is used in a session — from a first hunch at the genogram to a tested, but still provisional, assumption.
Safety Check Before Genogram Work in Cases of Domestic Violence
A one-page check before the first line is drawn: three safety questions, three exclusion criteria, and three ways to document the outcome without endangering the affected person.
Templates
Initial Session Guide: Genogram
A structured 2-page guide for the initial session with clients that gently frames the introduction of the genogram as a tool and enables a first three-generation sketch.
5-Phase Session Structure
A visualized standard session structure for genogram sessions, with time anchors, note fields, and transition phrases — a session companion and documentation aid in one.
Circular Questions — Card Collection for Systemic Practice
20 field-tested circular questions with notes on their effect, application tips, and a printable card block to cut out. Based on Karl Tomm (1987/1988) and the Milan School.
Three-Generation Data Framework
Structured intake form for birth, marriage, separation, and death data across three generations — for preparing or accompanying the creation of a genogram.
DSGVO Consent for Genogram Work (Template)
Template consent declaration for the collection, processing and storage of genogram data pursuant to the DSGVO (GDPR) (Art. 6(1)(a), Art. 9(2)(a)). ⚠️ Important: This template does not replace legal advice — before productive use, review by a specialist lawyer for data protection law is recommended, as the specific processing (storage medium, retention period, third parties) must be adapted individually.
Counseling Agreement (Template, Self-Payer)
Template counseling agreement for self-payer settings (coaching, freelance counseling) that bundles the engagement, fee, confidentiality framework, cancellation rule, and a GDPR reference. ⚠️ Important: Legal review is recommended before productive use (legal advice within the respective field of practice) — this template is not legally binding advice.
Your Own Genogram — Workbook for Professional Self-Reflection
Workbook for aspiring and practicing counselors, therapists, social workers, and coaches — six exercise blocks for developing your own three-generation genogram, with fillable note areas. Self-reflection material, not a substitute for therapy.
Family Sculpture — A Guide for Systemic Counseling Practice
A practice guide to the rigorous systemic family sculpture in the tradition of Satir / Papp / Duhl and structural constellation work according to Sparrer / Varga. With a 5-phase sequence, indications, contraindications, and an explicit distinction from Hellinger constellations (DGSF disassociation 2003).
High-Conflict First-Contact Script
Interview script for intake sessions with high-conflict separated families — structures the escalation-to-de-escalation process, clarifies mandates separately, and prevents triangulation from the outset.
Life Event Timeline (Family Chronology)
A horizontal timeline template for capturing family events across up to 100 years — adding the historical-temporal dimension to the genogram (migrations, wars, economic ruptures, births, deaths).
Resource Question Pool — 30 Solution-Focused Questions with Guidance
30 field-tested resource- and solution-oriented questions, sorted by past / present / future, with application notes and a scaling section. Based on de Shazer / Berg (Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee) and the German-language coaching literature.
Grief Work Session Structure (Genogram-Focused)
Session structure for grief sessions in which the genogram is used as a "map of memory and connection" — with clear safeguarding phases and self-care anchors.
Resource Genogram for the Care-Planning Conversation
A two-page intake form for the care-planning procedure under § 36 SGB VIII (Section 36 of Book Eight of the German Social Code, the statutory care-planning procedure), which gathers resources before risks, brings seven interview questions to read aloud, and marks the boundary to the child-protection procedure under § 8a SGB VIII (Section 8a SGB VIII, Germany’s statutory child-protection duty).
Hypothesis Check Card
A check card with seven quality criteria against which a systemic hypothesis can be tested before it is used in a session — from a first hunch at the genogram to a tested, but still provisional, assumption.
Safety Check Before Genogram Work in Cases of Domestic Violence
A one-page check before the first line is drawn: three safety questions, three exclusion criteria, and three ways to document the outcome without endangering the affected person.
Interpreter Checklist
A practical checklist for the pre-meeting, the session, and the debrief when an interpreter is part of the genogram session — fifteen points to check off in the three-way setting of practitioner, client, and language mediator.
Nonverbal Signals Observation Log
A short log for the five recurring nonverbal observation fields of genogram-taking, which keeps facts and impressions in separate columns from the start, instead of letting them blur together on a second reading.
Note: All templates are non-binding samples, not legal advice, and have not been reviewed by a lawyer. Adapt legally sensitive templates (GDPR consent, counseling agreement) to your own situation before use and, where appropriate, have them legally reviewed.