General Information
Program Details
Pre-Conference Workshops
Conference Presentations
Venue
Registration Information
Links and Co-Sponsors
Conference Planning Committee
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Program Details:
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| Tuesday, June 1, AM |
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7:00–9:00
8:00–12 noon
9:00–1:00pm |
Breakfast Buffet
Registration
Pre-Conference Workshops |
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- A Gestalt Therapy Group Process Marathon For Personal Growth (Full Day, with Bud Feder and Jack Aylward)
- Couples Thyerapy Revisited: Two Become One and Then There Are None (Full Day, with Bob and Rita Resnick)
- A Painless Primer On Research: How To Help The Gestalt World Develop An Evidence Base (Full Day, with Philip Brownell)
- Creativity, Process and Experiment (Half Day, with Lee Zevy)
- How Neuroscience Research Supports Gestalt Therapy's Effectiveness and Directs us to Greater Effectiveness (Half Day, with Ginny Mcintosh
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| Tuesday, June 1, PM |
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1:00-2:30
2:30-6:30
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Lunch on your own
Pre-conference Workshops |
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- I-Thou as Transcultural Dialogue in Groups (Half Day with Cornelia Muth)
- Continuity and Change: Preparing Ourselves For The Conference Through Experiments In Reflective Writing (Half Day, with Christine Stevens)
- A Gestalt Therapy Group Process Marathon For Personal Growth (Full Day, with Bud Feder and Jack Aylward)
- Couples Thyerapy Revisited: Two Become One and Then There Are None (Full Day, with Bob and Rita Resnick)
- A Painless Primer On Research: How To Help The Gestalt World Develop An Evidence Base (Full Day, with Philip Brownell)
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6:30
7:00–??? |
Dinner on your own
Conference Planner's Party |
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| Wednesday, June 2, AM |
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7:00–9:00
8:00–12 noon
9:00–1:00pm |
Breakfast Buffet
Registration
Pre-Conference Workshops |
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- Experiential Gestalt Group: Here and Now, What and How, I and Thou (Full Day, with Ansel Woldt)
- Secret Language Of Intimacy (Full Day, with Bob Lee)
- Constellations and Gestalt: A Deeper Look (Full Day, with Ty Francis, Gordon Wheeler, Deborah Ullman, and Nancy Lunney-Wheeler
- Improvising A Relationship: Contacting Through Music (Half Day, with Gary Gray)
- Elements In The Nature Of Dialogue (Half Day, with Philip Lichtenberg)
- Women and Aggression (Half Day, with Ann Bowman, Judy Graham, and Gail Feinstein)
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| Wednesday, June 2, PM |
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1:00-2:30
2:30-6:30 |
Lunch on your own
Pre-conference Workshops |
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- Exploring Nonverbal Processes Within Therapy: A Developmental Perspective (Half Day, with Ruella Frank)
- A Gestalt View Of Power and “Its” Field: And What We Can Do About I (Half Day, with Carl Hodges and Toni Gilligan
- Experiential Gestalt Group: Here and Now, What and How, I and Thou (Full Day, with Ansel Woldt)
- Secret Language Of Intimacy (Full Day, with Bob Lee)
- Constellations and Gestalt: A Deeper Look (Full Day, with Ty Francis, Gordon Wheeler, Deborah Ullman, and Nancy Lunney-Wheeler
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6:00-7:30
6:30-7:30
7:30-9:30
8:30-9:30
9:30-10:30 |
Process Group Leader' Meeting
Newcomers Orientation
Welcoming Reception (food and cash bar)
Conference Opening
Process Group Meeting (Immediately following conference opening) |
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| Thursday, June 3, AM |
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7:00–9:00
7:00–12 noon
9:00–1:00pm
11:00-11:30
11:30-1:30pm |
Breakfast Buffet and other morning acitivites
Registration
Opening Plenary: Frank Staemmler, Lynne Jacobs, Myriam Munoz, moderated by Gordon Wheeler
Break
Workshops |
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- Gestalt Philosophy of Being: Applications for Organizations (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion) (with Talia Levine Bar-Yoseph, Moderator, Robert Kolodny, Mark Magerman, and Joseph Melnick)
- A Critical Exploration of the Integration of Buddhist Mindfulness Techniques in Gestalt Therapy (with John Bennett)
- Chasing Rainbows: Ethics in Gestalt Therapy–External Ethics, Foundational Ethics– and the “Rainbow,” Emergent Ethos (with Dan Bloom)
- Adolescent Phenomenology and the Intimate Witness (with Marlene Moss Blumenthal and Mark McConville)
- Discovering Embodied History Within Postural Pattern: A Relational Perspective (with Ruella Frank)
- Our Internal Critic and the Cult of Individualism (with 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 (with Liz Mellor and David Tune)
- Developing Mutuality: The Techniques of Relational Gestalt Therapy (with Ken Meyer)
- Five Levels of Experiential Interventions to Enhance Gestalt Group Work (with Ansel Woldt)
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| Thursday, June 3, PM |
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1:30-3:00
3:00-5:00 |
Lunch on your own; RCP Meeting with lunch provided
Workshops |
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- Tuning In and Tuning Out: Exploring Contact and Withdrawal through Music-Making in Gestalt Therapy (with Jon Blend)
- Evidenced-Based Movement, Research and the Regulation of Gestalt Therapy (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion) (with Philip Brownell, Moderator; Christine Stevens, Vincent Beja, Brad Larsen, and Meghann Case)
- From Abandonment to Embodiment and Beyond (with Gail Feinstein)
- Creating Exact Moments of Healing (with 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 (with Kevin McCann)
- Dialogue from the Classroom to the Boardroom: An Approach for Human Development (Mary Grace 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)
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5:00-5:30
5:30-7:00
7:00-8:00
7:30-9:30
9:30-??? |
Break
Process Groups
Process Group Leaders' Check-in
GestaltPress/Routledge Reception Honoring All Authors; Dinner on your own
Evening Event: Ceilidh (in the Hamilton Room) |
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| Friday, June 4, AM |
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7:00–9:00
7:00–11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-1:30pm |
Breakfast Buffet and other morning acitivites
Plenary Honoring Philip Lichtenberg, Ph.D. (with Jean-Marie Robine, Erv Polster, Mary Lou Schack, and Philip Lichtenberg)
Break
Workshops |
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- Gestalt: Sustainability of Our Global Environment (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion) (with 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 (with Elinor Greenberg)
- Sex and Brain and Gestalt Therapy (with Marta Helliesen)
- Social Location and Marginalization: Contextual Constraints on Contacting Possibilities (with Lynne Jacobs)
- Self in Body Relation (with Peter Philippson)
- Time Travel: Healing the Inner Adult (with Marcy Stern and Deborah S Kaufman)
- How Does Supervision Inform Our Practice? Presentation of a Supervision Research Project Using Video Data (with Christine Stevens)
- Gestalt Community Living: 50 Years of Continuity and Change in the Esalen Gestalt Community (with Gordon Wheeler and Nancy Lunney-Wheeler)
- Deconstructing Shame and Other Intense Bodily Feeling States (with Lee Zevy)
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| Friday, June 4, PM |
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1:30-2:30
1:30-2:30
1:30-2:30
2:30-4:30
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Lunch prvoided
Newcomers' meeting – Lunc provided
Board Meeting – Lunch provided
Workshops |
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- Cultivating Intimacy in the Shared Earth Community: Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, Buddhism, and Gestalt Therapy (with Will Adams)
- Changing Times, Changing Families – Exploring Stepfamily Situations (with Claire Asherson Bartram and Jon Blend)
- The Field of the “Field” (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion) (with Dan Bloom, Moderator; Sylvia Crocker, Donna Orange, and Gordon Wheeler)
- Intentional Spirituality: A Contemporary Phenomenological Perspective (with Philip Brownell)
- Between the Generations: Living Your Parent/Adult-Child Relationship in the Present (with Joan H Cole and Peter H Cole )
- Gestalt Therapy in Community Mental Health: Expanding the Boundaries of Gestalt Practice (with Sean Coyle and Adrienne Newman)
- Flying Without Wings: Life With Arnold Beisser, MD (with Liv Estrup)
- Freeforming a Co-Creative, Dynamic, Meditative Practice (with Peri Mackintosh)
- Good Moments in Gestalt Body Process Psychotherapy (with Barbara Jean Nagrant)
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4:30-5:00
5:00-6:00
6:00-8:00
8:00-9:00
8:00-??? |
Break
Process Groups
Community Meeting
Process Group Leaders' Meeting Check-in
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. |
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| Saturday, June 5, AM |
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7:00–9:00
8:30-10:30 |
Breakfast Buffet and other morning acitivies
Workshops |
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- Gay Clients Seeking Meaningful Relational Contact: Scared of the Sacred (with Billy Desmond)
- Opening to the World through the Lived Body: Relating Theory and Practice (with Robert Farrands)
- Holy Holism! Is It Time for a Change? (with Charlie Bowman)
- Is Mindfulness Just Gestalt Therapy by a Different Name? (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion) (with Eva Gold, Moderator; Brian Arnell, Victor Daniels, Iris Fodor, and Steve Zahm)
- A Gestalt Therapist Teaches Singing (with Susan Gregory)
- Imposing Non-Judgmental Values: Paradoxes of Gestalt Ethics (with Eric Hoffman)
- A Four-Step Gestalt Game: A New Egyptian Approach for Facilitating Therapeutic Change (with Refaat Mahfouz and Mohamed Taha)
- Managing Conflict-Introducing the Concept of Contempt (Joseph Melnick)
- The Function of the Boundary Layers with Japanese People (with Noriyoshi Okada)
- A Brief Introduction to Family Constellations for Gestaltists (with Carol Siederer)
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10:30-11:00
11:00-1:00 pm |
Break
Invitational Workshop |
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- The Seeds of Community: Optimism, Co-Creation, and the Cape Cod Model (with Carol Brockmon)
- Embodiment as Continuity (with Michael Clemmens)
- The Now-for-Next in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Explained through Clinical Examples (with Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb)
- How to Teach Intersubjectivity (with 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 (with Robert Resnick)
- The Id of the Situation (with Jean-Marie Robine)
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| Saturday, June 5, PM |
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1:00-2:00
1:00-2:00
1:00-2:00
2:00-3:00
3:30-4:30
4:30-5:00
5:00-6:00
6:00-7:30
7:30-8:00
8:00-??? |
Interest groups (lunch provided)
Process group leaders's check-in lunch (lunch provided)
Newcomer's lunch (lunch provided)
Community Meeting
Richard Kitzler Memorial Gathering (with Dan Bloom and Margherita Spagnuoloa Lobb)
Break
Annual Meeting (includes elections)
Process Groups
Free Time
Hors d'oeuvres; Dinner/Dance and Auction |
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| Sunday, June 6, AM |
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7:00-9:00
8:00-9:00
9:00-11:00 |
Breakfast Bufet and other monring acitivites
Process Group Leaders' Meeting–evaluation
Workshops |
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- Working with Children & Adolescents (Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion) (with Jon Blend, Moderator; Ruella Frank, Neil Harris, Mark McConville, Bronagh Starrs, and Denise Tervo
- A Fresh Look at Phenomenology in Husserl and Gestalt Therapy (with Sylvia Fleming Crocker)
- Dimensions of Dialogues: Their Forms and Uses (with Victor Daniels)
- Gestalt Therapy Training Integrating Buddhist Psychology and Mindfulness Methods (with Evan Gold and Steve Zahm
- Escape from Your Internal Bondage–Change Your Introjected World: Loosening the Root of the Tongue (with Seishi Harada)
- A Phenomenology of Sexual Intrusion (with Des Kennedy)
- Ego, Anger, and Attachment: A New Way of Looking at and Working with Aggression in Gestalt Therapy (with Frank-M. Staemmler)
- If You Could Change Your Parents–You Could Change Yourself: Introjected Family Patterns and Birth Order Transferences (with Anne Teachworth)
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11:00-11:30
11:30-1:00pm
2:30-4:00 |
Break
Closing Community Meeting
New Board Meeting over lunch |
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