Symposium
Psychotherapy of the Heart
Seeing the Therapy Relationship as "Soul to Soul" Rather Than Role to RoleIn this selection from her 2017 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium Keynote address, Joan Borysenko, a pioneer in the integrated healthcare movement, emphasized... Read more
VIDEO: Julie Gottman on Making Couples' Life Dreams Come True
The Importance of Creating "Shared Meaning"According to renowned couples therapist Julie Gottman, one of the main predictors of a romantic relationship's success or failure is how well partners can... Read more
VIDEO: Stephen Porges on How Trauma Affects Our Ability to Connect
The Science Behind Healthy RelationshipsStress responses aren't only vested within the sympathetic nervous system’s capacity to support fight-or-flight behaviors. There’s another defense... Read more
VIDEO: Diane Poole Heller on the Hidden Capabilities of Trauma Survivors
Watch as a Traumatized Client Taps Into a Wellspring of Healing in an Actual SessionThink all traumatized clients are shut-down and energy-sapped? Think again. In this clip from her Networker Symposium Keynote, "Creating a Corrective Emotional... Read more
VIDEO: Susan Johnson on the Power of Emotion
The Secret Ingredient in Good TherapyEmotion is the most important motivating force bringing clients to our offices in the first place. Nevertheless, therapists are often strangely queasy in the... Read more
From Attachment to Creativity
Highlights from the 2016 SymposiumAt a time in which our society seems immersed in a toxic stew of fear and anger, this year's Symposium provided a celebration of human values and ideas that... Read more
Addressing Race Therapeutically in Black Relationships
Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker SymposiumToday I attended a workshop called “Working with Black Couples: Overcoming Myths and Stereotypes,” led by Dr. Christiana Awosan. Being an African American... Read more
Meditation for Slow Learners
Mindfulness Goes Big TimeOver several thousand years, different cultures around the world have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity for mentally stepping... Read more
A Conference for People Who Hate Conferences
Networker Symposium 2014: Psychotherapy’s Most Celebrated Anti-ConferenceGenuine learning is conveyed via experience; something happening that resonates emotionally as well as intellectually, something that literally alters the... Read more
On With The Show
Celebrating the Craft at SymposiumThis year, 3,000 practitioners came to our annual Symposium to explore the fundamental question: are we any closer to unraveling the mysteries of psychotherapy... Read more
Mapping The Future
Symposium 2011 Charts Terra IncognitaEmerging from their monastic little cells, 3,000 psychotherapists had a schmooze-fest celebrating the power of face-to-face connection and joined forces to... Read more
Fostering the Moral Imagination
Empathy is a radical actIn a world where differences between people have become increasingly demonized, more than ever, the therapist's job is to help people expand their circle of... Read more