Editing Virginia Satir (section)

==Work and influence==
Satir's entire work was done under the umbrella of "Becoming More Fully Human".<ref name="satir"/> From the possibility of a nurturing primary triad of father, mother, and child she conceived a process of Human Validation. She viewed the reconciliation of families as a way to reconcile the world. As she said: "The family is a microcosm. By knowing how to heal the family, I know how to heal the world." (Align, 1988, p.&nbsp;20) With this overview she established professional training groups in the Satir Model in the Middle East, the East Aisa, Western and Eastern Europe, Central and Latin America, and Russia. The Institute for International Connections, Avanta Network, and the International Human Learning Resources Network are concrete examples of teaching people how to connect with one another and then extend the connections. Her world impact could be summed up in her universal mantra: peace within, peace between, peace among.

In the mid-1970s, her work was extensively studied by the co-founders of [[Neuro-linguistic programming|neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)]], [[Richard Bandler]] and [[John Grinder]], who used it as one of the three fundamental models of NLP.<ref name="Dilts and Klein 2006">Robert Dilts and Roxanna Erickson Klein (2006) "[http://erickson-foundation.org/download/newsletters/Vol-26-No-2.pdf Historical: Neuro-linguistic Programming]" in ''The Milton H. Erickson Foundation: Newsletter'' Summer 2006, 26(2).</ref>  Bandler and Grinder also collaborated with Satir to author ''Changing With Families'' for Science and Behavior Books, which bore the subtitle 'A Book About Further Education for Being Human'. The Virginia Satir Global Network, originally named AVANTA by Satir, is an international organization that carries on her work and promotes her approach to family therapy.<ref name="satirglobal.org"/>

In 1984, Satir encouraged marriage and family therapists to shift their focus to relationship education:

{{Blockquote|text=We're at a crossroads, an important crossroads of how we view people. That's why it's possible now for all the different kind of therapies to go into education, education for being more fully human, using what we know as a pathology is only something that tells us that something is wrong and then allows us to move towards how we can use this to develop round people. I'm fortunate in being one of the people who pushed my way through to know that people are really round. That's what it means to me to look at people as people who have potential that can be realized, as people who can have dreams and have their dreams work out. What people bring to me in the guise of problems are their ways of living that keep them hampered and pathologically oriented. What we're doing now is seeing how education allows us to move toward more joy, more reality, more connectedness, more accomplishment and more opportunities for people to grow.|author=|title=|source=}}

[[Steve Andreas]], one of Bandler and Grinder's students, wrote ''Virginia Satir: The Patterns of Her Magic'' (1991) in which he summarized the major patterns of Satir's work, and then showed how Satir applied them in a richly annotated verbatim transcript of a videotaped session titled "Forgiving Parents". In this session, Satir works with a woman who hated her mother, and had difficulty connecting with others as a result. Using a variety of role-plays, including a "family reconstruction", this woman came to see her mother as her "best friend", as detailed in a 3½ year follow-up interview.