Virginia Satir (1916–1988) was a pioneering family therapist whose communication stances (blaming, placating, superreasonable, irrelevant, congruent) and change model deeply influenced Weinberg's later work. She wrote the foreword to secrets-of-consulting-1985. The satir-change-model became central to qsm-vol4-anticipating-change-1997, and congruent-behavior is the core of qsm-vol3-congruent-action-1994. Weinberg and dani-weinberg developed the Change Shop workshop with Satir in 1988; when Satir died in September 1988, jean-mclendon joined them to continue her work. Satir's influence moved Weinberg from observing programmers to understanding the emotional and relational systems that drive organizational behavior.