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Saturday, March 23
7:45 AM Coffee and Danish
Exhibit Hall
Posted in Morning Only, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Highlights
9:00 AM Keynote Address
Deliberate Practice and the Inner Life
Tara Brach
One of the foremost American teachers of Buddhist meditation, Tara Brach is also a clinical psychologist nationally known for her unique flare for bridging Western Continue reading
Posted in Morning Only, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Featured Speaker, Highlights, Keynote, Tara Brach
401/501 Emotional Healing
Tara Brach • Saturday All Day
Perhaps never before has it been so important to offer clients tools for training their attention so they can find a sense of refuge and calm in the face of life’s tumultuous challenges. In this experiential workshop, you’ll practice meditation and guided Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Mindfulness, Open Workshops, Tara Brach
402/502 Neuroscience & Couples
Susan Johnson & James Coan • Saturday All Day
Understanding of the neurobiology of the brain not only explains how change happens, it also translates into more effective psychotherapy. Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Brain Science & Psychotherapy, Couples, James Coan, Open Workshops, Susan Johnson
403/503 Adolescence to Adulthood
Ron Taffel & Martha Straus • Saturday All Day
We’re used to thinking about adolescents as learning to stand ever more securely on their own two feet as they emerge into young Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Children & Adolescents, Martha Straus, Ron Taffel
404/504 Trauma-Related Dissociation
Kathy Steele • Saturday All Day
The widely accepted treatment of adult survivors of severe, chronic childhood trauma and neglect is to work through the traumatic memories and provide symptom relief. But this approach often underestimates their need for basic developmental Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Kathy Steele, Trauma
405/505 Un-distracting Clients
Danie Beaulieu • Saturday All Day
In our head-spinning, attention-fragmenting, cyber-screen culture, our words and face-to-face conversation may not be enough to get and keep clients’ attention, much less help them focus on their internal emotional and physical experience. In this Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Danie Beaulieu, New Tools & Methods
406/506 One Couple, Two Therapists
Richard Schwartz & Terry Real • Saturday All Day
If you’ve ever wondered how two therapists with strikingly different theories and clinical styles would treat the same couple, this is your Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Couples, Open Workshops, Richard Schwartz, Terry Real
407/507 Anxious Kids & Parents
Lynn Lyons • Saturday All Day
Research shows that children with anxious parents are many times likelier than other children to develop anxiety. Usually, both parents and children in these families have trouble with uncertainty, anxious feelings, and problem-solving. In this workshop, Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Anxiety, Children & Adolescents, Lynn Lyons
408/508 The Relational Moment
Diana Fosha • Saturday All Day
Too often, therapy gets bogged down in talk in ways that diminish possibilities for connection and change. In this workshop we’ll explore Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an approach that begins by focusing on “glimmers of Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Diana Fosha, New Tools & Methods, Open Workshops
409/509 Treating Chronic Pain
Maggie Phillips • Saturday All Day
More than half of all individuals over the age of 50, and many younger people, suffer from chronic or persistent pain, which standard medical approaches—including drugs, physical therapy, surgery, acupuncture, and biofeedback—may actually worsen. In this Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Challenging Cases & Treatment Populations, Maggie Phillips, Open Workshops, Trauma
410/510 Therapeutic Breakthroughs
Bruce Ecker & Sara Bridges • Saturday All Day
A remarkable transformational change discovered by brain researchers—known as memory reconsolidation—appears to lie at the Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Brain Science & Psychotherapy, Bruce Ecker, Sara Bridges
411/511 Kids’ Skills
Ben Furman • Saturday All Day
The problems of children and adolescents all over the world today are, too often, treated with drugs or behavioral management plans that only disempower the kids, as well as their parents and teachers. In this workshop, we’ll discuss Kids’ Skills, a Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Ben Furman, Children & Adolescents
412/512 Transforming Self-Loathing
Janina Fisher • Saturday All Day
Shame and self-loathing are often part of trauma’s aftermath—responses so powerful they can shut off the capacity to absorb positive experience, block the ability to connect with others, and frustrate the best efforts of therapists to build self-esteem. Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Janina Fisher, MindBody, Open Workshops
413/513 Collaborative Confrontation
David Schnarch • Saturday All Day
Most therapeutic training revolves around creating a safe, nurturing atmosphere to ease clients into the psychotherapeutic alliance. The provocative premise of this workshop is that this emphasis on an attachment-based model is fundamentally Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged David Schnarch, New Tools & Methods
414/514 The Myth of “Resistance”
Clifton Mitchell • Saturday All Day
You know you’re facing resistance when your client shrugs or mumbles “I don’t know” to most of your questions and seems terminally bored. Ditto when therapy seems to be at a dead-end and you feel insecure, incompetent, frustrated, even angry. Yet, Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Challenging Clients & Treatment Populations, Clifton Mitchell
415/515 Trauma: Core Skills
Deany Laliotis • Saturday All Day
Underlying all the techniques and methodologies for treating trauma today is a core set of fundamental skills that determine a clinician’s effectiveness in this challenging arena of practice. This workshop will identify and explore in depth the clinical Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Deany Laliotis, Trauma
416/516 Mind-Body & Depression
James Gordon • Saturday All Day
Most people who come into a therapist’s office continue to repeat the same self-defeating stories to themselves, respond to stress in ways that inhibit their psychological growth, and perpetuate disease-producing behavior patterns. This is Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged Anxiety, Depression & Grief, James Gordon, MindBody
417/517 Wonder in Therapy
Robert Fisher • Saturday All Day
With our emphasis on therapeutic technique, we frequently overlook the role of the therapist’s own energy, emotional range, sense of aliveness and celebration, and openness to possibility. In this interactive, experiential workshop, rooted in the Continue reading
Posted in All Day, Saturday, March 23
Tagged New Tools & Methods, Robert Fisher
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