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AAGT's Biennial Conference
"CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: GESTALT THERAPY NOW"
Pre-Conference: June 1st & 2nd
Conference: Evening of June 2nd-Afternoon of June 6th
 

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Program Details:

2010 Conference Schedule

Revised February 12, 2010

           

JUNE 1 

TUESDAY    

AM

7:00 - 9:00                   Breakfast Buffet

8:00 - 12:00                 Registration  

9:00 - 1:00                  Pre-conference Workshops

 

A Gestalt Therapy Group Process Marathon For Personal Growth  Full Day

Bud Feder and Jack Aylward

 

Couples Therapy Revisited: Two Become One and Then There Are None  Full Day

Robert Resnick  and Rita Resnick

 

A Dramatic Approach To Gestalt Dreamwork Full Day

Sylvia Fleming Crocker

A Painless Primer On Research: How To Help The Gestalt World Develop An Evidence Base  Full Day

Philip Brownell

     

Creativity, Process and Experiment Half Day

Lee Zevy

 

How Neuroscience Research Supports Gestalt Therapy's Effectiveness and Directs us to Greater Effectiveness  Half Day

Ginny Mcintosh

PM

1:00 - 2:30                   Lunch on your own

2:30 – 6:30                  Pre-conference Workshops

        

I-Thou as Transcultural Dialogue in Groups  Half Day

Cornelia Muth

Continuity and Change: Preparing Ourselves For The Conference Through Experiments In Reflective Writing  Half Day

Christine Stevens

Full Day Pre-conference Workshops cont.

A Gestalt Therapy Group Process Marathon For Personal Growth  Bud Feder and Jack Aylward

 

Couples Therapy Revisited: Two Become One and Then There Are None 

Robert Resnick and Rita Resnick

 

A Dramatic Approach To Gestalt Dreamwork

Sylvia Fleming Crocker

A Painless Primer On Research: How To Help The Gestalt World Develop An Evidence Base 

Philip Brownell

6:30                             Dinner on your own

7:00  - ???                    Conference Planners’ Party  

June 2   WEDNESDAY  

AM

7:00 - 9:00                  Breakfast Buffet

8:00 - 12:00                 Registration   

9:00 -  1:00                  Pre-conference Workshops

Experiential Gestalt Group: Here and Now, What and How, I and Thou Full Day

Ansel Woldt

Secret Language Of Intimacy  Full Day

Bob Lee

Constellations and Gestalt:  A Deeper Look  Full Day

Ty Francis, Gordon Wheeler, Deborah Ullman, and Nancy Lunney-Wheeler

Improvising A Relationship: Contacting Through Music  Half Day

Gary Gray

Elements In The Nature Of Dialogue  Half Day

Phil Lichtenberg

Women and Aggression   Half Day

Ann Bowman, Judy Graham, and Gail Feinstein

PM

1:00 - 2:00                   Lunch provided

2:00 - 6:00                   Pre-conference Workshops 

Exploring Nonverbal Processes Within Therapy: A Developmental Perspective  Half Day

Ruella Frank

A Gestalt View Of Power and “Its” Field: And What We Can Do About It  Half Day

Carl Hodges and Toni Gilligan

Full Day Pre-conference Workshops cont.

Experiential Gestalt Group: Here and Now, What and How, I and Thou

Ansel Woldt

The Secret Language Of Intimacy 

Bob Lee

Constellations and Gestalt:  A Deeper Look 

Ty Francis, Gordon Wheeler, Deborah Ullman, and Nancy Lunney-Wheeler

6:00 - 7:30                   Process Group Leaders’ Mtg. 

6:30 - 7:30                  Newcomers’ Orientation 

7:30 -  9:30                  Welcoming Reception, (Food and Cash Bar) 

8:30 - 9:30                   Conference Opening

9:30 - 10:30                 Process Group Meeting

                                    Immediately following Conference Opening

June 3   THURSDAY

AM

7:00 - 9:00                   Breakfast Buffet and other morning activities

7:00 -   12:00               Registration

9:00 - 11:00                 Opening Plenary 

                                    Frank Staemmler, Lynne Jacobs, Myriam Munoz

                                    Moderated by Gordon Wheeler

11:00 - 11:30               Break

11:30 - 1:30                 Workshops

Gestalt Philosophy of Being: Applications for Organizations (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion)

Talia Levine Bar-Yoseph, Moderator; Fiona Coffey, Robert Kolodny, and Mark Magerman

A Critical Exploration of the Integration of Buddhist Mindfulness Techniques in Gestalt Therapy

John Bennett

Chasing Rainbows: Ethics in Gestalt Therapy–External Ethics, Foundational Ethics– and the “Rainbow,” Emergent Ethos

Dan Bloom

Adolescent Phenomenology and the Intimate Witness

Marlene Moss Blumenthal and Mark McConville

Discovering Embodied History Within Postural Pattern: A Relational Perspective

Ruella Frank

Our Internal Critic and the Cult of Individualism

Robert Lee

How Does Gestalt Theory Inform the Changing Face of Researcher Identity? An Exploration of Gestalt Theory within the Context of Research, Singing, Pedagogy and Music Education

Liz Mellor and David Tune

Developing Mutuality: The Techniques of Relational Gestalt Therapy

Ken Meyer

Five Levels of Experiential Interventions to Enhance Gestalt Group Work

Ansel Woldt

PM

1:30 - 3:00                   LUNCH on your own  

                                    RCP Meeting - lunch provided                  

3:00 - 5:00                   Workshops    

Tuning In and Tuning Out: Exploring Contact and Withdrawal through Music-Making in Gestalt Therapy

Jon Blend

Evidenced-Based Movement, Research and the Regulation of Gestalt Therapy (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion)

Philip Brownell, Moderator; Wen Chun Cho, Christine Stevens, Brad Larsen, and Meghann Case

From Abandonment to Embodiment and Beyond

Gail Feinstein

Creating Exact Moments of Healing

Mariah Fenton Gladis

Two-You Work–The Same As Gestalt Two-Chair Technique Only Different

Bea Mackay

Working With Men Who Are Gay From A Process Based Gestalt Perspective

Kevin McCann

Dialogue from the Classroom to the Boardroom: An Approach for Human Development

Mary Grace Neville and Richard Hancock

Couples Therapy Revisited Two Become One and Then There Are None: From a Fusion Model to a Connection Model

Robert Resnick and Rita Resnick

Eastern Wisdom Can Empower Western Psycho-therapies

Kailash Tuli

The New Evolutionary Psychology:  A Gestalt Perspective

Deborah Ullman and Gordon Wheeler

5:00 - 5:30                   Break              

5:30 -7:00                    Process Groups                    

7:00 - 8:00                   Process Group Leaders’ Check - in                       

7:30                             GestaltPress/Routledge Reception Honoring All Authors

                                    Dinner on your own

9:30 -   ???                   Evening Event–Ceilidh (Hamilton Room)        

           

June 4

FRIDAY                                                        

AM

7:00 - 9:00                  Breakfast Buffet and other morning activities

9:00 - 11:00                 Plenary Honoring Philip Lichtenberg, Ph.D.

                                    Jean-Marie Robine, Erv Polster, Mary Lou Schack

                                    and Philip Lichtenberg

11:00 - 11:30               Break                                                                                      

11:30 - 1:30                 Workshops    

Gestalt: Sustainability of Our Global Environment (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion)

Billy Desmond, Moderator; Will Adams, Bruce Aaron, Gail Feinstein, Marilyn Myles, and Kailash Tuli

How to Undo A Self-Hating Depression: Using Gestalt Therapy Principles of Figure/Ground Formation as an Agent of Change

Elinor Greenberg

Sex and Brain and Gestalt Therapy

Marta Helliesen

Social Location and Marginalization: Contextual Constraints on Contacting Possibilities

Lynne Jacobs

Self in Body Relation

Peter Philippson

Time Travel: Healing the Inner Adult

Marcy Stern and Deborah S Kaufman

How Does Supervision Inform Our Practice? Presentation of a Supervision Research Project Using Video Data

Christine Stevens

Gestalt Community Living:  50 Years of Continuity and Change in the Esalen Gestalt Community

Gordon Wheeler and Nancy Lunney-Wheeler

Deconstructing Shame and Other Intense Bodily Feeling States

Lee Zevy

PM

1:30 - 2:30                   Lunch provided

1:30 - 2:30                   Newcomers’ meeting - Lunch provided

1:30 - 2:30                   Board Meeting - Lunch provided

2:30 - 4:30                   Workshops    

Cultivating Intimacy in the Shared Earth Community: Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, Buddhism, and Gestalt Therapy

Will Adams

Changing Times, Changing Families – Exploring Stepfamily Situations

Claire Bartram and Jon Blend

The Field of the “Field” (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion)

Dan Bloom, Moderator; Sylvia Crocker, Brian O’Neill, Donna Orange, and Gordon Wheeler

Intentional Spirituality: A Contemporary Phenomenological Perspective

Philip Brownell

Between the Generations: Living Your Parent/Adult-Child Relationship in the Present

Joan H Cole and Peter H Cole

Gestalt Therapy in Community Mental Health: Expanding the Boundaries of Gestalt Practice

Sean Coyle and Adrienne Newman

 

Flying Without Wings: Life With Arnold Beisser, MD

Liv Estrup

 

Freeforming a Co-Creative, Dynamic, Meditative Practice

Peri Mackintosh

Good Moments in Gestalt Body Process Psychotherapy

Barbara Jean Nagrant

 

4:30 - 5:00                   Break

5:00 - 6:00                   Process Groups

6:00 - 8:00                   Community Meeting

8:00 - 9:00                   Process Group Leaders’ Meeting check-in

8:00 -   ???                   Dinner on your own

                                    The Irish Interest Group invites you to join them for dinner or anytime later in the evening at an Irish pub to be announced. 

June 5

SATURDAY                                                 

AM

7:00 - 9:00                  Breakfast Buffet and other morning activities

8:30 - 10:30                 Workshops   

Gay Clients Seeking Meaningful Relational Contact: Scared of the Sacred

Billy Desmond

Opening to the World through the Lived Body: Relating Theory and Practice

Robert Farrands

Holy Holism!  Is It Time for a Change?

Charlie Bowman

Is Mindfulness Just Gestalt Therapy by a Different Name? (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion)

Eva Gold, Moderator; Brian Arnell, Victor Daniels, Iris Fodor, and Steve Zahm

A Gestalt Therapist Teaches Singing

Susan Gregory

Imposing Non-Judgmental Values: Paradoxes of Gestalt Ethics

Eric Hoffman

A Four-Step Gestalt Game: A New Egyptian Approach for Facilitating Therapeutic Change

Refaat Mahfouz and Mohamed Taha

Managing Conflict-Introducing the Concept of Contempt

Joseph Melnick

The Function of the Boundary Layers with Japanese People

 Noriyoshi Okada

A Brief Introduction to Family Constellations for Gestaltists

Carol Siederer

10:30 - 11:00               Break

11:00 - 1:00                 Invitational Workshops

The Seeds of Community: Optimism, Co-Creation, and the Cape Cod Model

Carol Brockmon

Embodiment as Continuity

Michael Clemmens

The Now-for-Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Explained through Clinical Examples

Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb

How to Teach Intersubjectivity

Cornelia Muth

Our Fifty-Five Year Journey with the Gestalt Model: Lessons Learned and Applied: A Conversation with Sonia Nevis and Edwin Nevis

Facilitated by David Henrich

Pathways to Connectedness

Erving Polster

Video Demonstrations with Bob Resnick:  A Contemporary Approach: Phenomenological, Dialogic, Field and Process Based

Robert Resnick

The Id of the Situation

Jean-Marie Robine

PM

1:00 - 2:00               Lunch provided (Interest Groups)

                                    Process group leaders’ check in lunch

                                    Newcomers’ lunch

2:00 - 3:30                   Community Meeting

3:30 - 4:30                   Richard Kitzler Memorial Gathering

                                    Dan Bloom and Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb

4:30 - 5:00                   Break

5:00 - 6:00                   Annual Meeting (includes elections)       6:00 - 7:30

Process Groups                                            

7:30 -   8:00                 Free Time 

8:00 -   ???                   Hors d'oeuvres

                                    Dinner/Dance          

                                    Auction         

June 6

SUNDAY

AM

7:00 - 9:00                   Breakfast Buffet and other morning activities

8:00 - 9:00                   Process Group Leaders’ Meeting - evaluation and closure

9:00 - 11:00                 Workshops    

Working with Children & Adolescents  (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion)

Jon Blend, Moderator; Ruella Frank, Neil Harris, Mark McConville, Bronagh Starrs, and Denise Tervo

A Fresh Look at Phenomenology in Husserl and Gestalt Therapy

Sylvia Fleming Crocker

Dimensions of Dialogues: Their Forms and Uses

Victor Daniels

Gestalt Therapy Training Integrating Buddhist  Psychology and Mindfulness Methods

Eva Gold and Steve Zahm

Escape from Your Internal Bondage–Change Your Introjected World: Loosening the Root of the Tongue

Seishi Harada

A Phenomenology of Sexual Intrusion

Des Kennedy

 

Ego, Anger, and Attachment: A New Way of Looking at and Working with Aggression in Gestalt Therapy

Frank-M. Staemmler

 

If You Could Change Your Parents--You Could Change Yourself: Introjected Family Patterns and Birth Order Transferences

Anne Teachworth

           

11:00 - 11:30               Break  

11:30 - 1:00                 Closing Community Meeting

 2:30 - 4:00                  New Board Mtg. over lunch