IMAGO IN VANCOUVER The 9th Annual Conference
October 18–20, 2012
Clinical Excellence with
Challenging Couples 1
Welcome to
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Conference
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Welcome to the Imago Relationships International 9th Annual Conference.
For many of us in the BC Association of Imago Therapists, it is like hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics all over again! In fact, our conference logo was designed by Corinne Hunt, the acclaimed aboriginal artist who designed the Olympic medals. We hope that this visit will give you a sense of the natural beauty of this city and its amazing cultural diversity. We particularly want to welcome all “first-timers” to the conference. We suggest you attend the New Attendees Gathering on Wednesday, October 17. You’ll meet previous conference attendees who are volunteering to be mentors, or you can ask any member of the ImagoBC region to show you around. This year’s conference theme – Clinical Excellence with Challenging Couples – is the result of a first-ever canvass of the Imago membership. All of the keynote presentations and concurrent seminars are all related to the theme – reactivity, addictions and affairs – and how neuroscience can support us in our work with couples. Our first two keynote speakers, Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. and Peter Pearson, Ph.D. will speak on the theme of working with highly reactive and severely estranged couples. Bader and Pearson co-founded The Couples Institute in California and, over the years, there has been cross fertilization of their model and Imago’s. Through lecture and video clips they will explore their developmental model and its similarities and differences with the Imago model. A number of Imago Therapists have taken online training in the Bader-Pearson developmental model. We particularly want to welcome the therapists who have trained with them and are attending their first Imago conference. Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., co-founders of Imago Relationships International, will join Bader and Pearson for a lively discussion of the parallels between the two approaches. Our third keynote speaker, Paul Earley, M.D., FASAM, is both an addictions specialist and a neuroscientist. He will help attendees apply neuroscience concepts in work with couples. Later, in one of the concurrent workshops he will explore the catastrophic exit of addiction. Finally, Harville and Helen will join Imago Senior Clinical Instructors Bruce Capruchettes, Ph.D. and Francine Beauvoir, Ph.D. to speak to us about the latest methods in Imago clinical practice. We hope you will enjoy the various activities we have planned for you. Please join us at the Welcome Reception which will feature local ImagoBC talent! You can start each day with yoga, led by our own Barbara Bingham. The opening ceremony will highlight the diverse, multicultural heritage of the city of Vancouver. We hope you will join us on Thursday night for a dinner cruise on English Bay, to see the sun set, the mountain peaks behind us and the city lights as they come on, while enjoying wonderful food and great company! We wind up the conference with a gala dinner and dance, featuring the fabulous band SIDE One. There is so much to see and do, both in Vancouver and nearby. Make sure to check out the “Visting Vancouver and BC” page for some ideas on how to spend your time in our exciting area. – Members of the BC Association of Imago Therapists
Table of Contents Welcome…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1 Clinical Excellence with Challenging Couples…………………………………………………… 2 Special Guests……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 Pre–Conference Presenters………………………………………………………………………………… 6 Conference Schedule………………………………………………………………………………………… 8 Visiting Vancouver and BC…………………………………………………………………………………… 16 Registration & Accomodation Info……………………………………………………………………… 18 Hotel & Cancellation Info…………………………………………………………………………………… 21 1
About the 2012 conference logo Our logo was designed by Corrine Hunt, who created the medal designs for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Along with the familiar mountains and bridges that encircle the city, Ms. Hunt wanted to include the Raven, who is responsible for bringing sunlight into the world in First Nations of the Pacific Northwest mythos: Long ago, near the beginning of the world, Gray Eagle was the guardian of the Sun, Moon and Stars, of fresh water, and of fire. Gray Eagle hated people so much that he kept these things hidden. Gray Eagle had a beautiful daughter and Raven fell in love with her. In the beginning, Raven was a snow-white bird, and as such, he pleased Gray Eagle’s daughter. She invited him to her father’s longhouse. When Raven saw the Sun, Moon and Stars, and fresh water on the sides of Eagle’s lodge, he became curious. He stole all of them, and a brand of fire also, and flew out of the longhouse. As soon as he got outside he hung the Sun, Moon and Stars around the sky. By this light he kept flying, until he reached a place where he dropped the water. It fell to the ground and became the source of all the fresh water in the world. Raven flew on, holding the brand of fire in his bill. The smoke blew back over his white feathers and blackened them forever. When his bill began to burn, he had to drop the firebrand. It struck rocks and hid itself within them. That is why if you strike two stones together, sparks of fire will drop out. Ms. Hunt says every relationship needs a Raven because he brings a bit of everything – curiosity, playfulness, sexual energy, some shadow and capacity to change the world!
Creating change in the relational paradigm
clinical Excellence with challenging
couples
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“How do we construct a bridge of understanding between people who may disagree hotly about what’s wrong, resist self-awareness in the service of blaming each other, have unequal motivations for change, and continue to be terribly unkind to each other?” – Bader & Pearson Symbiosis plays a primary role in conflict between partners. While the couple may experience symbiosis as blissful, the uniqueness of each partner is not recognized or valued. Denied aspects of the other and of self inevitably surface and the bliss of symbiosis fades. As the actuality of the other emerges, the self becomes threatened and the survival alarm is triggered. The self seeks to quiet this alarm by forcing the other to conform to the symbiotic image. The couple’s interactions become stifling and unproductive, filled with criticism and negativity. The therapist must help the couple differentiate self from other. Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. view reciprocal dialogue as essential to achieving differentiation. The Imago Dialogue enables partners to release each other from “their symbiotic prisons” by providing a safe means of “discovering the objective other.” Even a limited understanding of brain function can help couples through this stressful period of growth, empowering them with an awareness of the brain’s role in both reactive and empathetic responses. As keynote Paul Earley, M.D. observes, psychotherapy can alter and ultimately heal the brain. For keynotes Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. and Peter Pearson, Ph.D., the developmental stages of relationship highlight the capacity of all relationships to evolve; from the identity merging of symbiosis, through the crisis brought by differentiation, and ultimately, to intimacy and connection.
Conference Learning Objectives Conference participants will be able to: ♦♦ Describe the foundations of Imago theory, its precepts and the theoretical assumptions that inform the process utilized in Imago Relationship Therapy
The Purpose of the IRI Annual Conference ♦♦ To provide consistent development and support for IRI Members ♦♦ To host an annual event at which the professional community of IRI can connect
♦♦ Identify the key aspects of the Developmental Model of couples therapy and how insights gained from this approach can strengthen Imago clinical theory and practice
♦♦ To expand and develop Imago clinical theory and practice
♦♦ Integrate new ideas and methods to promote successful outcomes to clinical interventions with challenging couples
♦♦ To explain the neurobiology of the human brain related to interpersonal conflict, rupture as well as repair and empathy
♦♦ Develop a more accurate framework for viewing brain function and how psychotherapy can alter and heal the brain 3
♦♦ To expand the practice, image, and resources of IRI Members
Special
Guests
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Founders of Imago Relationship International Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. is co-creator with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., of Imago Relationship Therapy and the concept of the “conscious partnership.” Harville is author of two best sellers, Getting The Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and Keeping The Love You Find: A Guide for Singles, and a third best seller, co-authored with Helen, Giving The Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents. Their books have been translated into more than 50 languages. They are co-founders of Imago Relationships International, a non-profit professional organization that supports 2,000 Certified Imago Therapists practicing in 30 countries. Harville has made seventeen appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show, one of which won her first Emmy Award and was ranked by Ms Winfrey in her top twenty shows. He is a clinical pastoral counselor with who has focused exclusively on couples for over 30 years as a therapist, educator, clinical trainer, author, public lecturer and has received many awards for his work with couples. He lives with his wife in New York and New Mexico and they have six children and five grandchildren. Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. has had the honor of being beside Harville the last 34 years. When Imago was only a glimmer in his eye, she helped in various ways with his writings and the founding of Imago Relationships International. She has also been active within the women’s movement, working in behalf of many women’s organizations. She is an inductee in the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. In 2005, Helen co-conceived and co-chaired Women Moving Millions, a campaign to give to women’s funds at unprecedented levels. Helen also wrote Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance, which was published by Atria books and co-authored seven books with Harville.
Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. and Peter Pearson, Ph.D. are founders and directors of The Couples Institute in Menlo Park, California. As therapists, workshop leaders, authors and speakers, they are dedicated to helping couples create extraordinary relationships. They have been working together for 28 years (and married for 26 of them), training therapists throughout the U.S, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Both served as Clinical faculty at Stanford University. Ellyn is a recipient of the Clark Vincent Award for an outstanding literary contribution to the field of marital therapy from the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. They co–authored the book In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment in Couples Therapy (Brunner/Mazel) and Tell Me No Lies: How to Face the Truth and Build a Loving Marriage (St. Martins Press). They have appeared on the Today Show and the CBS Morning Show, among many other programs.
Paul H. Earley, M.D., FASAM has been an Addiction Medicine Physician for over 25 years. He treats all types of addictive disorders and specializes in the assessment and treatment of health care professionals. As a therapist, he works with patients in recovery, providing long-term therapy for those who suffer from this disease. As a trainer, he teaches therapists and treatment programs how to incorporate the most effective modalities into addiction care. He advocates for professionals before agencies and licensing boards and is an expert witness across the United States in legal matters regarding professionals and addiction. Dr. Earley speaks nationally and internationally. He is the author of numerous books and articles on addiction and its treatment, including a chapter on his specialty in the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Textbook: Principles of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Earley is a Fellow of ASAM and has been on the board over 10 years. He is a currently a consultant and trainer for Earley Consultancy, LLC and maintains a small private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. He recently accepted a position of the Physicians Health Program for the state of Georgia. His work was featured in the documentary series Close to Home by Bill Moyers. Dr. Earley has disclosed the following financial relationships: Speaker for Alkermes, Inc. 5
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Brine
Cohen
Ferstenfeld
Kollman
Palmer Patterson
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PRESENTERS
Fetterman
Rawlings
Sears
Shelly
Slade
Wahrman
Webb
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Mike Borash, M.S. Ed., LPC, is a Virginia State Licensed and National Certified Professional Counselor with over 30 years of clinical experience providing individual, group, family and relationship therapy. He holds baccalaureate and graduate degrees in Psychology and Counseling from James Madison University and has studied extensively with Harville Hendrix at the Imago International Institute for Relationship Therapy. Maureen Brine, Reg.N., ICADC is a psychotherapist and International Addictions Specialist. She is an Advanced Imago Therapist and a Senior Clinical Instructor for the Imago International Institute (a faculty member since 1997), as well as a Certified Workshop Presenter. Maureen is also the current president and co-founder of the Association for Imago Relationship Therapy of Ontario and Quebec. She has practices in both Vancouver and Toronto. Ben Cohen, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and has been a Certified Imago Therapist since 1994. He is a Certified Instructor and Co-Dean of the faculty of Imago Relationships International. Ben has extensive experience teaching and training, including 10 years as Adjunct Faculty at The Naropa University, and Training Director at the University of Colorado. Marcia Ferstenfeld, MA, LLP is a Certified Imago Therapist and Workshop Presenter. Her private practice is in Southfield, MI where she lives with her husband of 43 years, Larry, who provides assistance during her workshops. She is a co-creator of Connected Parents, Thriving Kids: The Imago Parenting Workshop. Nedra Fetterman, Ph.D. is an Imago Therapist, Workshop Presenter, Clinical Instructor, and Advanced Clinician. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine where she also serves as the Supervisor and Instructor of Psychiatric Residents. She has maintained a private practice since 1982 working with adults, couples, families and adolescents.
abroad (Russia, South Africa, Namibia, Estonia and Vancouver, Canada).
Eugene Shelly, M.Div. is a Pastoral Counselor and an Imago Therapist in private practice. From 1986 to 1999 Gene was a member of the teaching and Maya Kollman, M.A. is a psychothera- supervising faculty of the Blanton-Peale pist and former Assistant Professor of Graduate Institute. For the past 25 years, Women’s Studies at Rutgers Univer- Gene has been known for his work as a sity. She is in a loving relationship with Certified Imago Therapist. Additional Barbara, her partner in work and love, IRI roles: Advanced Clinician, Workshop and in parenting four children. Maya Presenter, Clinical Instructor. is currently writing a book on gay and Sophie Slade, Ph.D. is a psychololesbian relationships. gist with a private practice in Montreal, Wendy Palmer Patterson, LCSW, Quebec since 1986. She is an Imago TherLMFT has been in private practice in apist, Workshop Presenter, and faculty Atlanta since 1981, specializing in couples, member who works internationally. She families, and groups. Wendy has been an has helped to develop advanced trainings Imago faculty member since 1996 and is for IRI and also to update IRI’s training also an Imago Supervisor and Consultant. and workshop manuals. She has also delivered a variety of seminars for professional, religious, and busi- Orli Wahrman, MSW is a Imago Therapist, Workshop Presenter, Consultant, ness organizations. faculty member, and the Israeli RepreBrenda Rawlings, BSW (Hons), sentative for IRI. Additionally, she is MNZAC, an Imago Clinical Instructor a qualified Somatic Experiencing (SE) along with her husband, Peter McMillan, and Trauma therapist, and Family and lives in New Zealand and teaches Basic Couples therapist. Just after 9/11 Orli Clinical Training both in New Zealand started The Imago Peace Project, which and Australia. She and her husband led to the development of Communoalso present Imago Couples Workshops. logue, a way to safe communication in She currently serves as Co-Dean of the groups. Combining Imago work and faculty of Imago Relationships Interna- Communologue, she created the Palestional. When Harville and Helen visited tinian-Israeli Imago Project, which brings New Zealand in 2011, Brenda organized together couples from both peoples. FACTs (Flexible Access Clinical Trainings) for over 500 therapists and a public Shelly Webb is a Certified Imago lecture in Christ Church just two weeks Educator and is currently IRI’s “Educator Coordinator.” She has a Masters of after the earthquake. Divinity from Harvard University and Rebecca Sears, M.Div, LPC has been has spent most of her career working as in practice as a pastoral psychotherapist an Educator, currently through teaching in Washington, DC since 1986, an Imago the Imago Relationship Education semiTherapist since 1994 and an Imago faculty nars. She and her partner Jen have done member since 2003. She trains clinicians Imago together for 14 years, and plan to and other professionals in Imago Rela- integrate Imago into their work with the tionship Therapy both in the US and Shambhala Buddhist community.
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SCHEDULE
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Pre-Conference Events, Monday October 15–Wednesday, October 17
Pre-Conference Events
master this dance we as therapists are also energized and enlivened. In this training, Wendy and Maya will share with you strategic interventions that greatly enhance our technology as well as in depth experiences to help you find your own unique gifts and be more fully present. (16 CEs)
Monday, October 15 Monday, October 15 – Wednesday, October 17, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Characterological Growth (ID: 001) Sophie Slade, Ph.D.
Tuesday, October 16
This three-day experience deepens theoretical understanding of characterological adaptations to pain through experiential processing at a personal level. In the Talmud there is a quote, “We can’t see the world as it is; we see it as we are.” This profound training takes the defense of projection and highlights the many ways we put it to use. As long as projection is available to us, we are out of connection with ourselves and others. This personal training is both exquisitely simple and complex, at the same time. Previous participants describe the training as “extraordinary and transformational.” This is a required course for Advanced Clinician Status. (24 CEs)
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Communologue – The Genius of Imago in Groups (ID: 004)
Orli Wahrman, MSW, together with the Members of the Peace Project
Communologue is a powerful dialogical process for safe communication, conflict resolution and connection in groups. Communologue empowers participants to move from entrenched conflict into compassion, deep understanding and the free exchange of ideas. The purpose of this experiential workshop is to train participants to lead Communologue in the setting of their choice. In this session we will hear from Al Turtle and others about their experience, look at the question of whether to dialogue or not to dialogue and the benefits of choosing the dialogue option, and examine our ability to accept and validate the other without necessarily agreeing with their position. Participants will learn the Norms and Guidelines of Communologue, how to set up and lead a Communologue session, how to explore potential blocks to unsuccessful Communologue, and will be exposed to a history of Communologue in practice. (8 CEs)
Monday, October 15 – Tuesday, October 16, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Imago Relationship Therapy and Addiction Recovery; The Rationale, The Relevance, The RELATIONSHIP (ID: 002)
Maureen Brine, Reg. N., I.C.A.D.C., Senior Clinical Instructor & Mike Borash, M.S.Ed., LPC, Imago Clinical Instructor
This two day pre-conference session will highlight the extensive work of the Imago Relationships International Task Force on Addictions. We will present an integrated model of Imago meta-theory and addiction recovery and the vital yet unique contribution Imago Relationship Therapy is able to offer the recovering community. We will review the American Academy of Addiction Medicine’s recently revised and comprehensive definition of addiction and how it will impact our understanding of the struggles and consequent challenges facing many of the couples we see in our offices including sex, gambling, food, work, drugs, and alcohol addiction. We will also review our new weekend workshop for recovering couples, “Recovering Our Connection,” an adaptation of the GTLYW Workshop for couples recovering from an addictive co-addictive disorder. Attendees can expect to learn: The natural attraction of the addict and co-addict; The application of Imago Relationship Meta Theory to the etiology of addiction and its recovery; Imago Relationship Therapy as the therapy of choice for treating the addict/co-addict dynamic; The ASAM comprehensive definition of addiction and its far reaching applicability to the couples we see in our office; Addiction as an attempt to self-regulate in the absence of connective self-regulation; The unique attachment challenges facing both the addict and co-addict in recovery. (16 CEs)
Wednesday, October 17 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brilliant at the Basics: An In-depth Day for New and Experienced Imago Therapists (ID: 005) Ben Cohen, Ph.D. & Rebecca Sears, M.Div, LPC;
Now that you have the structure of the Dialogue down, let’s take a closer theoretical and clinical look at the processes for deepening and re-imaging interventions that will help create safety, lower reactivity and move a couple forward. This day is for you if you: find yourself thinking that the Dialogue is not enough with those difficult couples; are still hesitant to use the Behavior Change Request; can’t remember the last time you did a ParentChild Dialogue or put a couple into the Holding Position. We will also explore the subtleties of using the basic skills: Sentence Stems, Doubling, and Focusing. Learn when, and with which clients, each of these methods is most effective, and how to sharpen your skills with these techniques. Join us for a day packed with useful clinical skills and relational learning. (8 CEs)
Monday, October 15 – Tuesday, October 16, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Embodied Therapist: Advanced Skill Building and the Art of Presence (ID: 003)
How to Avoid Ethical Missteps Online (ID: 006)
Maya Kollman, M.A. & Wendy Palmer Patterson, LCSW, LMFT
Nedra Fetterman, Ph.D. & Gene Shelly, M.Div.
Dialogue is a great technology and, as beginners, we need to master the facilitation of that technology. Once this is mastered, we can grow into exploring the incredible depth available in this theory and practice. The dance between doing and being is vital in creating the attuned environment to facilitate change. As we
With each passing day, more and more people are using social media. Businesses and corporations, quick to make use of digital technology, are beginning to consider the ethics of this media. Is it appropriate for employees to engage with social media during the workday? What is the impact of social media on interoffice 9
Pre-Conference Events, Wednesday, October 17 – Welcome Events, Wednesday, October 17
Welcome Events
relationships? What does social media reveal about the employee and can Human Resources ethically use that information in their evaluation of an employee?
Wednesday, October 17
In the mental health field, ethical issues also abound. Is it ethical to “Google” a client to learn more about them? How does a therapist 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM maintain boundaries in a world of social media? As more and more Volunteer Meeting (ID: 010) people are reaching out for counseling online, what are the benefits, If you would like to be a Volunteer at the IRI 9th Annual Conference, dangers and potential risks or harm? Regardless of our reservations, please attend this meeting. Thank you to all those who give their there seems to be a new reality facing us. As an Imago community, time to make our annual conferences such a success, year after year! we need to establish “best practice” criteria and ethical guidelines. We need to become knowledgeable about ethical considerations 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM when using texting, email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype and webiNew Attendees Gathering (ID: 011) nars. These digital modes of interaction are becoming increasingly Whether you are new to the Imago community, attending your commonplace and are the primary modes of communication for first IRI Conference or just want to meet new people, this is the younger generations. This three hour workshop will take a look at place for you. First-time conference attendees will be introduced to the impact digital and virtual technologies are having on our prac“mentors” who will serve as a resource of information and introductices and how to use them wisely and ethically. (3 CEs) tion throughout the conference. Don’t be shy, come on by! 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Consultation Methods [Consultants’ Update]
Welcome Reception (ID: 012)
(ID: 007)
This traditional opening reception will feature plenty of food, a cash bar, and live entertainment provided by local jazz and blues artist Jennifer Scott. Ms. Scott is a singer and pianist born in Vancouver and is considered one of the more important jazz artists working in Canada and the United States today. She will be accompanied by her husband, Rene Worst, whose virtuosic and supportive bass playing has been a Canadian treasure for many years.
Wendy Palmer Patterson, LCSW, LMFT & Maya Kollman, M.A.
This session will offer ideas and approaches that can help Certified Imago Consultants to assist therapists who are working with challenging couples. We will talk about what makes a case difficult, what a consultant listens for, what you need to self supervise, the use of self in consultation, the use of the relational space, integrating what we know about the brain into consultation, and trauma work with couples. (3 CEs) 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Methods and Best Practices for Imago Educators (ID: 009)
Shelly Webb, Certified Imago Educator
This full day of programming for Educators is designed to help solidify the growing IRI Educator community through a variety of updates, hands-on workshops, panel discussion, presentations on the Imago Relationship Education Seminars, marketing solutions and social action goals. The Educators will have time to brainstorm, get to know each other, form networks of peer groups and envision how to “change the world” through relationship education. Note: This day is designed for both Certified Imago Educators and Certified Community Educators. 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Latest Methods in Workshop Presentation [Consistency and Creativity] (ID: 008) Marcia Ferstenfeld, MA, LLP & Brenda Rawlings, BSW (Hons), MNZAC
Our annual opportunity to meet and review theory while expanding and enhancing workshop presentations. We invite you to participate in finding the balance in workshops between developing appreciation and positivity, and honouring the pain many of our participants come in with. Come and enjoy a sharing of creative innovations and current clinical thinking! (3 CEs)
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Conference Events, Thursday, October 18 – Friday, October 19
Conference Events
collapsing. Harville and Helen will discuss the video with Pete and Ellyn, comparing and contrasting Imago with Pete and Ellyn’s Developmental Approach.
Thursday, October 18
Participants should expect to learn how to utilize neuroscience findings to interrupt hostility in angry couples; demonstrate how to confront ineffective hostility and uncover vulnerable feelings; describe the distinctive similarities and differences between the Developmental and Imago Models. (2 CEs)
6:30 AM – 7:15 AM
Yoga Join instructor Barbara Bingham and start your day with a gentle, conscious, joyous dialogue between body, mind, and breath. Please bring water and a mat if you have one. Towels will be provided.
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
7:15 AM – 8:45 AM
Social Event: Boat Tour
Upscale Continental Breakfast
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Join your colleagues for a dinner cruise on The Queen Of Diamonds and enjoy the beautiful views of the shorelines and mountains of Vancouver. The dinner selection, “The West Coast Trail,” includes tiger prawns, chicken and vegetable kebabs with a variety of fresh salads, prepared vegetables, breads and desserts. Round-trip transportation from the Sheraton Wall Centre is included. Boarding is between 5 and 6 PM. The boat leaves at 6 PM and returns at 9 PM.
Keynote: Meeting the Challenge of Highly Reactive, Severely Estranged Couples
Friday, October 19, 2012
Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. & Peter Pearson, Ph.D.
6:30 AM – 7:15 AM
Volatile couples come to therapy with a fearsome mixture of trauma, devastated dreams and negative attitudes. If you ask about their goals or objectives for therapy, you quickly get intense cross complaints and pressure on you to fix their partner.
Yoga
Learn how to have each person identify their own role, accept accountability for change, do it with a good attitude, and develop an atmosphere of cooperation – all within the first 30 minutes of your initial session. Pete will delineate groundbreaking steps from our Developmental Model to creatively approach the first interview. You can also apply this approach to your difficult couples and re-energize your work with them.
9:00 – 9:45 AM
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Opening Ceremony This unique opening event will highlight the diverse, multicultural heritage of the city of Vancouver.
7:15 AM – 8:45 AM
Upscale Continental Breakfast An update from the IRI Board of Directors 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Keynote: Brain Models, Healing, and Empathy: What the Therapist Must Know about Neurophysiology Paul H. Earley, M.D., FASAM
Dr. Earley’s keynote address will begin by canvassing the many ways neuroscientists view brain functioning, differentiating what we really know from what we would like to believe. The presentation will delineate the limitations on the brain models – with an eye to differentiating research fact from populist and often inaccurate interpretation of the literature. The lecture will help all of us develop a more comfortable and accurate framework for viewing brain function. This framework will be expanded to describe how psychotherapy alters and ultimately heals the brain.
Ellyn will follow this up by teaching our version of “Dialogue,” the Initiator-Inquirer process. She will explain how to use Continuums of Empathy and Differentiation to promote development when partners falter, get defensive and begin to blame or attack. Learn key principles from neuroscience and differentiation theory that help partners stop hurting one another and start generating the love and teamwork they desire. (2.25 CEs) 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Several important brain functions will undergo examination during the keynote. These include: a deeper examination of how man’s evolution structures thinking and feeling, the nature of Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., Peter Pearson, Ph.D., Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. consciousness as a human experience, and the neurophysiology of & Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. empathy in the conscious couple. The presentation will challenge Despite their expressed desire for change, many couples underand entertain the participant to rethink commonly held beliefs mine your best efforts to penetrate their fusion. Blame, withabout the mind, such as “How does language shape and limit our drawal, whining, resentful compliance and confusion are common understanding of reality?” and “What happens during an epiphany?” defenses that keep their partner – and you – at bay. When these A suggested bibliography for further study will accompany the interactions dominate the relationship, they can lead to intense handout materials. (2 CEs) conflict and other relationship ruptures.
Keynote (Continued): Surviving and Thriving with Reactive Couples – Clinical Video Demonstration
Bios for all our keynote speakers appear on page 5 of this guide.
We will demonstrate via video how to make targeted interventions with a high-conflict couple with a history of abuse and addiction. The video will demonstrate a couple learning to define themselves, regulate affect, manage anxiety, and face differences without
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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Concurrent Sessions I, Friday October 19
Concurrent Sessions I
2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Differentiation Through the Sweetness of Connection (ID: 101)
Antoinette Liechti Maccarone, MA, MS & Kobus van der Merwe
Reactivity is often the result of symbiosis, where the uniqueness of each partner is not held with respect and curiosity, but rather ignored, denied or rejected. By helping reactive couples to become aware of what happens in their brain when they get reactive and by teaching them how to self-soothe and stay connected, we help them start differentiating. When this is coupled with fostering the sweetness of connection, difference is no longer seen as dangerous and separating and connection is no longer seen as fusion and loss of oneself. Then the couple can really start celebrating the richness of being different and connected at the same time. Participants will learn: to see and experience practical skills to manage the polarity of differentiation and connection at the same time while working with a highly reactive couple; how to combine dialogue, brain science and whole body awareness in practical ways to help couples manage reactivity; how to help couples develop positivity in the relationship as a way to change the brain and the relationship, itself. (3.5 CEs)
Antoinette Liechti Maccarone, MA, MS is trained as a psychologist, Imago therapist, and a sexologist. She has a private practice in Geneva, Switzerland and travels worldwide to train therapists both in Imago Therapy and in the Sexocorporal Approach.
Sylvia Rosenfeld, MSW, LCSW is an Imago trainedAASECT Certified Sex Therapist with 30+ years experience with individuals and couples focusing on relationship and sexual issues. Sylvia offers trainings, teleseminars, supervision, and consultation to psychotherapists across the country.
Bio for Sophie Slade, Ph.D. appears on page 7 of this guide.
Blueprints for Wholeness and Growth (ID: 103) Nedra Fetterman, Ph.D.
Two timeless and therapeutic teaching tales will be used to illustrate the very human and innate wish for wholeness and full aliveness. A treatment model to help individuals and couples on their journey towards these ends will be presented and specific interventions will be demonstrated. This workshop is especially designed for working with reactive couples and introduces a “brain-wise” and Imago-based blueprint to help couples end blame, cultivate curiosity and become more relational with denied, disowned and rejected aspects of themselves and the relationship. This work tends to increase the level of differentiation between partners and within each partner as well. (3.5 CEs) Bio for Nedra Fetterman, Ph.D. appears on page 7 of this guide.
Imago and Affairs: Maneuvering the Landmines Now That the Affair has Been Discovered (ID: 104) Francine Beauvoir, Ph.D.
Kobus van der Merwe is a Certified Imago Therapist, Imago Workshop Presenter, Advanced Clinician, and Imago Clinical Instructor. He was the first Imago Workshop Presenter and Clinical Instructor in South Africa. Before being involved with Imago, he was ordained as minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.
Finding the Sex You Lost: Choreographing the Erotic Dance (ID: 102) Sylvia Rosenfeld, MSW, LCSW & Sophie Slade, Ph.D.
Using lecture, demo, personal and professional sharing, and experiential exercises, we will explore how the repressive and conflicting messages we receive from family and the culture impact our core sexual self, our choice of partner and our erotic dance. While the different ways of functioning and associated anxiety can create difficulties for couples navigating the turbulent waters of their sexual passions, these very differences have the potential for creating more variety and increasing pleasure. Participants will receive a dialogue process for re-integrating the Lost Sexual Self. Participants will be able to: Assess the role of the Socialization Journey in couples’ sexual difficulties; Provide couples with information to help them move from the sexual power struggle to a new erotic dance through an integration of lost self parts; Apply the Lost Sexual Self Dialogue to their work with couples. (3.5 CEs)
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This is a case presentation of the various dialogues and tools used for one couple dealing with an affair, who has come twice a week since September, 2011. The presentation will include a 45 minute video of a dialogue regarding what they have accomplished so far, and what their hopes for the future are. We will end with Q & A.
Francine Beauvoir, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice with her husband, Bruce Crapuchettes, with whom she has presented Imago trainings and workshops all over the world. She is translating Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendrix into French.
When Addiction Invades the Partnership: Discovery, Assessment and Languaging Recovery (ID: 105) Dr. Paul Earley, M.D., FASAM
This workshop will explore how the addiction disrupts the development of the conscious couple. Addiction is a powerful biological process that distorts reality and stalls growth for both halves of a couple. The workshop will start by presenting the basic brain biology of addiction relevant to couples therapists. This neurobiology will be compared to information provided earlier in the conference producing a lucid brain map, and thus a focused approach for the Imago Therapist who identifies or stumbles upon addiction during the course of their practice. We will then outline how this drive derails the development of a trusting relationship,
Concurrent Sessions I, Friday October 19 – Concurrent Sessions II, Saturday, October 20
whether from a chemical addiction or a process addiction such as gambling and sexual dependency.
Concurrent Sessions II
Using this map, we will develop a framework for the early identification of addiction within a couple and provide guidelines for couples therapy. We will demonstrate addiction symptoms and, through role-play, entrain appropriate therapist interactions and interventions. The workshop will display common addiction scenarios and use group oriented problem solving to train everyone who attends in more effective interventions. (3.5 CEs)
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM
The use of Trauma Work to Mitigate Reactivity in Highly Reactive Couples (ID: 201) Mimi Dickman, M.S. Psych., M.Ed.
Because the nature of highly reactive couples is their difficulty with containment in the dialogue, it is clear that some additional mechanism is required to help monitor the fight/flight impulse, which sabotages the ability to dialogue. By using SE, a somatic trauma treatment, which re-regulates the body homeostasis by grounding and balancing the physical system, it is possible to calm the client and increase his capacity to “hold” and “contain” his partner in the dialogue process. In a mini-training of this modality, I will demonstrate through theory and practice how to use the body to create discharge of trauma energy and balance to system, while increasing containment capacity within the dialogue. I will then show a video demonstrating how this method is implemented in work with a highly reactive couple. Therapists will be able to facilitate actual healing of the original traumata, while at the same time, activate healing within the couple unit. (2 CEs)
5:45 PM – 6:45 PM
Grieving Circle Jim Wisecup, D. Min., LPC
An opportunity to collectively share our grief and offer support as we remember our friends and loved ones who are no longer with us. We invite you to join us and celebrate their lives and contributions.
Dr. James Wisecup, D. Min., LPC is a Certified Imago Therapist and the founder and Executive Director of the Riverside Counseling Center. He provides pastoral counseling, relationship therapy, holistic education, personal development, workshops and retreats.
Saturday, October 20 6:30 AM – 7:15 AM
Yoga 7:15 AM – 8:45 AM
It Takes One to Know One: The Highly Reactive Couple Integrating Imago Dialogue Process with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (ID: 202)
Upscale Continental Breakfast 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Katherine Calvert, LCSW
Latest Methods in Imago Clinical Practice Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., Francine Beauvoir, Ph.D. & Bruce Crapuchettes, Ph.D.
The clinical methods general session will have two parts. Harville and Helen will show a video clip called “The Still Face Experiment.” Harville will identify how ruptured connection creates the anxiety and desire that shows up as the problem in couples therapy. Helen will discuss a shift in the Imago Dialogue that regulates this primal anxiety, thus integrating the brain and restoring connection. Francine and Bruce will present some practical ideas about “Keeping Clients Safe.” They will demonstrate the use of the Mutual Relationship Vision, and will present a tape of an “Initial Imago Interview.” An initial interview is potentially the most unsafe of all sessions since therapist and clients don’t know each other. This couple is dealing with an affair, a topic which is also potentially very unsafe. The session will end with a Q & A with all four presenters. (3 CEs)
Mimi Dickman, M.S. Psych., M.Ed. has been a practicing psychologist for over thirty years. Over the last 15 years she has specialized in treating and supervising students in trauma work. She is an Imago Therapist and leads Imago Workshops with her husband, a clinical neurologist and lecturer.
The workshop will show how Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills can enhance Imago Dialogue with highly reactive couples. It will help workshop participants: Understand how the DBT skills can be used to co-create a relationship with mutual respect; Create an agreed upon plan to manage reactivity; Help couples practice new skills daily to build joy into their relationships. The presenter will demonstrate how in her practice she teaches DBT skill groups for couples engaging in the Imago Dialogue Process. In the workshop, she will work with a client couple using the skills of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness to achieve an Imago conscious partnership. Workshop participants will engage in activities to learn how to teach these skills to couples to reduce emotional reactivity leading to the “transformational journey toward mutual healing.” (Hendrix, 1992) (2 CEs)
Bruce Crapuchettes, Ph.D. is a Master Trainer and has been an Imago faculty member since 1993. He is a licensed psychologist in Pasadena, CA where he practices with his wife, Francine Beauvoir, Ph.D. They have presented Imago trainings and workshops together all over the world.
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Katherine Calvert, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and certified Imago Therapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She has trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and EMDR. Katherine integrates these modalities as therapist, group leader, consultant and trainer.
Concurrent Sessions II (cont.), Saturday, October 20
Imago in Collaborative Mediation: Helping Families Achieve Reconciliation or a Healthier Divorce (ID: 203)
Imago and Working with Sexuality Issues in Couples Therapy (ID: 205)
Stacey Langenbahn, J.D. & Linda Miller窶電eBerard, LCSW, ITC
Merry Frons, Ph.D., LCSW
Imago techniques do not have to be used exclusively with couples who are trying to save their marriages. In early collaborative mediation, Imago techniques for safe communication can help couples end their marriage in a respectful way that allows them to transition from husband and wife to successful co-parents. This new model combines an Imago therapist and a family attorney as co-mediators in an environment that provides privacy, manages reactivity, and opens the door for reconciliation or a healthier divorce. Attendees will: Learn how Imago techniques are being used in divorce; Find out the real reasons the legal system traumatizes families; Investigate a new option for couples to get an amicable, non-adversarial divorce; Help couples to continue to communicate and connect even if there is an affair or a marriage ending event. (2 CEs)
This workshop will explore how sexuality concerns often cause problems for couples and how Imago theory and techniques can be helpful for clinicians working with these concerns. The workshop will explain some basic concepts that need to be explored when couples are experiencing desire discrepancies. Specific treatment strategies and techniques will be explained that utilize Imago dialogue and other Imago concepts. Participants can also expect to learn: when it might be helpful to refer the couple to a sex therapist; how to work with sexuality issues when the couple would prefer not to seek sex therapy at this time; what issues should be explored when desire discrepancy is the presenting problem or part of the presenting problem. (2 CEs)
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International presenter and legal entrepreneur Stacey Langenbahn, J.D. is President of Dﾃｩtente Collaborative Mediation, LLC. Named one of the Best Lawyers in America for 2012, Stacey pioneered civil collaborative law, and has practiced for over two decades in Texas as trial lawyer, family lawyer, and mediator. Linda Miller-deBerard, LCSW has been a mental health practitioner for 28 years. She is a Certified Imago Therapist, trained in collaborative divorce and advanced mediation. She has worked in developing Dﾃｩtente Mediation since 2009.
Utilizing Body Awareness and Movement to Enhance Regulation in Imago Couples Therapy (ID: 204) Maya Kollman, MA, Master Trainer in Imago Relationship Therapy & Barbara Bingham
This workshop will address how to use the body through breath, movement and postures to help highly reactive couples calm their reactivity so they can engage in a meaningful and connecting dialogue. Participants will learn: a clear understanding of the physiology of breath to calm reactivity; how to help a reactive couple use breath, postures, and movement to prepare to dialogue; how to intervene using body awareness and breath when reactivity surfaces mid-session; how to understand the three phases of body therapy and integrate them into Imago Sessions with couples. (2 CEs)
Barbara Bingham is a Certified Imago Educator. Trained by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. in the clinical program and in other trainings for Imago Relationship Therapy, she has assisted her partner, Maya, in over 250 couples workshops. She brings thirty years of teaching, parenting and lived experience to the workshops and trainings.
Bio for Maya Kollman, MA appears on page 7 of this guide.
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Merry Frons, Ph.D., LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice in New York City specializing in relationship issues for couples and individuals. She is a Board Certified Clinical Sexologist, AASECT certified sex therapist, Diplomat of the American Board of Sexology as well as a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. She is certified in EMDR and trained in clinical hypnosis.
Concurrent Sessions III, Saturday, October 20
Concurrent Sessions III 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM
Therapist’s Countertransference While Working with Affairs (ID: 301) Ljiljana Bastaić, M.D. & Orli Wahrman, MSC
Our attitudes towards the topic of affairs are colored with our own experience, value system, prejudices and biases. As we are constantly yearning to learn new methods and skills to help us work with these emotionally challenging, relationship-threatening situations, we’re sometimes not aware that our new learning might be shaped and influenced by old unconscious prejudices. To be able to work effectively with the couples who bring affairs to our clinic, we need to have to look frankly and openly into our inner selves. Our intention is to open a dialogue about ourselves, therapists, faced with the topic of an affair in our work, and look at the pitfalls that can potentially undermine the outcome of our efforts as therapists. After a short introduction about affairs, we will introduce structured dialogue to help us obtain additional knowledge about ourselves in relation with the affair and betrayal topics. Then we will present research and different ideas concerning the countertransference dealing with affairs in marital therapy. This process will enable participants to review their own positions, learn more about themselves, and help them make better use of research, methods and skills. (2 CEs)
Dr. Ljiljana Bastaić, M.D. is a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist certified both in Gestalt therapy and in Imago Relationship Therapy. She is a clinical trainer for Wurzburg Gestalt Institute and a Couples Workshop Presenter for IRI. She lives in Zagreb, Croatia and teaches internationally.
Bio for Orli Wahrman, MSC appears on page 7 of this guide.
So, This is Your Brain on Reactivity! (ID: 302) Marcia Ferstenfeld, M.A.
Dealing with highly reactive couples can be the stuff of a therapist’s nightmares. This workshop will look at today’s brain science and what it contributes to understanding reactivity as well as ways to manage it in the couple session. Attendees will learn how to identify and describe brain activity trajectory during reactivity; how to set up a session for maximum engagement in the process; new strategies to manage in-session reactivity; and how to incorporate brain science to support differentiation and personal responsibility. The presentation will include Power Point, lecture, demonstration and discussion. (2 CEs) Bio for Marcia Ferstenfeld, M.A. appears on page 7 of this guide.
RE-Imagining Messages in Resistance and Reactivity: How Reactive Couples Help us Grow as Skilled Relationship Therapists (ID: 303) Rebecca Sears, M.Div., LPC
Just like conflict is a message that growth is trying to happen in a relationship, so too resistance and reactivity invite us to take a deeper look at what is trying to change in the process. With the use of video clips/ live demo/ role-playing we will jump into 15
empowering you with tools to change the energy, boost your theoretical understanding and move the process toward safe connection and forward movement with far fewer reactive detours! Therapists will learn to validate reactive behaviors, methods for intervening safely when reactivity occurs, and how to differentiate when to use interventions from the therapist and when to coach more/less from one of the partners. (2 CEs) Bio for Rebecca Sears, M.Div., LPC appears on page 7 of this guide.
Integrating Imago Therapy & Sex Therapy (ID: 304) Gail Guttman, MSW, LCSW
Imago therapists often know little about sex therapy or even how to begin to integrate sex therapy and Imago therapy. In this workshop, we will explore personal blocks to bringing up the subject of sexuality in couples’ therapy sessions. The PLISSIT model, which entails Permission Giving, Limited Information, Specific Suggestions, and Intensive Therapy, will be presented. Using a videotape of the presenter’s therapy, we will explore when to use Imago Therapy interventions versus sex therapy inventions. (2 CEs)
Gail Guttman, LCSW has worked more than 30 years in the fields of sex therapy and couples therapy, as a therapist and leader of consultation groups. She received certification as an AASECT Sex Therapist in 1984, Imago Couples therapist in 1994 and Imago Consultant in 2008.
7:30 PM – 11:00 PM
Closing Ceremony and Dinner/Dance Join us under the stars in the beautiful Pavilion Ballroom. Featuring a wall of windows and a glass ceiling, it is an architectural gem with wonderful views of the city and the hotel’s south gardens. Guests will enjoy a three course dinner and the supreme comedic talents of Jill Fein Baker. Later, stay up all night with one of Vancouver’s best – SIDE One. This dynamic, energetic, engaging, polished and infectious band covers ground from Aretha Franklin to Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon to Queen and literally everything in between.
VISITING VANCOUVER
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The Vancouver Lookout against the North Shore Mountains
Granville Island Public Market
The Burrard Street Bridge
The Olympic Flame at the Vancouver Convention Centre
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Nestled between the Strait of Georgia and breathtaking mountains, Vancouver boasts North America’s smallest carbon footprint and is the greenest city on the entire continent. A city known for its gorgeous natural landscapes as well as unique urban scenery, its pioneering architectural marvels have inspired a movement with its own term: Vancouverism. Vancouverism is an urban planning and architectural technique that has become synonymous with the types of buildings and cityscape that you will soon recognize as uniquely Vancouver – narrow footprints for the buildings that allow the high-rise apartments to have breathtaking panoramic views. The city boasts many mixed-use developments of medium height that host commercial shops, restaurants, and cafes at the street level and high-rise residential towers in the airspace above. This architecture lends itself to accommodating high population density while preserving beautiful views. Vancouver still has ambitions to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. While visiting Vancouver, you may want to take in Whistler Olympic Park and see the home of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. This park is the first Olympic venue to host all three Nordic sport stadiums at one location: cross-country, ski jumping and biathlon. Over half of all Paralympic medals and more than one third of all Olympic medals were awarded at this site. The Sheraton Wall Centre boasts a prime location bordering two of Vancouver’s hottest neighborhoods: Robson Street and Yaletown. Yaletown was originally Vancouver’s Garment District and features iconic industrial-age architecture mixed beautifully with the glass and steel of modern buildings, a look that has become a staple for the city of Vancouver. The area boasts many high rise apartments, shops, and restaurants in the typical “Vancouverism” architectural style. But if your mainstay is shopping, you will want to head north to Robson Street, the “Shopping Mecca of Vancouver.” Like Fifth Avenue in New York or the Champs-Élysées in Paris, Robson Street is recognized by locals and international travelers as Vancouver’s hottest shopping destination. Just a 10 minute walk from the hotel is the Vancouver Seawall, widely considered the most popular recreational facility in Vancouver. The Seawall refers to the 22km (13.7 mile) path along the Vancouver waterfront that starts at the convention center in Coal Harbour, loops around Stanley Park and False Creek, past Granville Island, and ends at Kitsilano Beach Park. There are bike lanes and bike rentals available along the Seawall if you would like to view the entire path. A great first stop in the city is the Vancouver Lookout at Harbour Centre. This landmark structure offers a 360° view of the surrounding landscape. From this vantage point, you can view the North Shore Mountains, Vancouver Island, and the innovative architecture of metro Vancouver. Come see all that this city has to offer and what makes Vancouver “The City of the Future.” To learn more about what to do in Vancouver, visit www.tourismvancouver.com. To further explore British Columbia, visit www.hellobc.com.
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❏ ID: 006 – How to Avoid Ethical Missteps Online (Fetterman/ Shelly): $110.00
❏ Meeting the Challenge of Highly Reactive, Severely Estranged Couples (Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., and Peter Pearson, Ph.D. with Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. & Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D.)
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October 18-20, 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia Clinical Excellence with Challenging Couples
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Concurrent Sessions I: Friday, October 19 Please put a 1, 2, and 3 next to your top 3 choices.
ID: 203 – Imago in Collaborative Mediation: Helping Families Achieve Reconciliation or a Healthier Divorce (Langenbahn/
Miller-deBerard)
ID: 101 – Differentiation Through the Sweetness of Connection (Maccarone /van der Merwe)
ID: 102 – Finding the Sex You Lost: Choreographing the Erotic Dance (Rosenfeld/ Slade)
ID: 204 – Utilizing Body Awareness and Movement to Enhance Regulation in Imago Couples Therapy (Kollman/ Bingham)
ID: 205 – Imago and Working with Sexuality Issues in Couples Therapy (Frons)
ID: 103 – Blueprints for Wholeness and Growth (Fetterman)
ID: 104 – Imago and Affairs:Maneuvering the Landmines now That the Affair has Been Discovered (Beauvoir)
Concurrent Sessions III: Saturday, October 20
ID: 105 – When Addiction Invades the Partnership: Discovery, Assessment and Languaging Recovery (Earley)
ID: 301 – Therapists’ Countertransference While Working with Affairs (Bastaić/Wahrman)
ID: 302 – So, This is Your Brain on Reactivity! (Ferstenfeld)
ID: 303 – RE-Imaging the Messages in Resistance and Reactivity… (Sears)
ID: 304 – Integrating Imago Therapy & Sex Therapy (Guttman)
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Concurrent Sessions II: Saturday, October 20 Please put a 1, 2, and 3 next to your top 3 choices.
ID: 201 – The use of Trauma Work to Mitigate Reactivity in Highly Reactive Couples (Dickman)
ID: 202 – It Takes One to Know One: The Highly Reactive Couple Integrating Imago Dialogue Process… (Calvert)
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