Symposium East 2008
The Power of Relationship
March 13-16, 2008 Washington, DC
The 31st-Annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
We live in a hyperkinetic, high-tech world that often seems to conspire against building strong, close, intimate relationships. Who has the time anymore to really get to know someone? So we depend increasingly upon technology--cell phones, faxes, e-mail,TV, iPods--to get what used to be almost entirely supplied by face-to-face interactions with real, live people. Even therapists, whose stock in trade is relationship, find themselves pressured to cut short the “relational” part of their jobs.
This year’s 31st-Annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, The Power of Relationship: From Isolation to Connection, will explore the nature of human relationship--what we mean by it in all its variegated guises, how we use it in psychotherapy, what neuroscience is telling us about its power to alter the very connections in our brains. We’ll investigate how our understanding of relationship and its power to transform human beings has evolved over the past few decades and how the notion of relationship is challenged by the frenetic pace at which we live our lives. Finally, we’ll discuss what therapists can do to help people expand their notion of “relationship” beyond the immediate family and social network to encompass the broader world.
Every year, at the Networker Symposium, we provide a rich, vibrant, emotionally sustaining experience of relationship in a gathering that’s less a conference than a combination of educational event, springtime camp, and four-day party. You can choose from a menu of more than 150 different workshops and keynotes, presented by the foremost practitioners and teachers in the field, to nourish your intellect and revive your spirit. There’ll be a multitude of enlivening creative events and numerous occasions for socializing, so you can network like crazy or just relax and hang out in the company of 3,500 of your closest friends. So come to the Symposium, renew your sense of what it means to be a therapist, reconnect with your own people, and leave feeling smarter, better informed, and happier than when you came.
