Philadelphia 2010
"CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: GESTALT THERAPY NOW"
Pre-Conference: June 1st & 2nd
Conference: Evening of June 2nd-Afternoon of June 6th
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
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
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
Anne Teachworth
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 1:00 Closing Community Meeting
2:30 - 4:00 New Board Mtg. over lunch