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  • Saturday, December 16, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    The Expansion of the Self: Cultivating Awareness, Resilience and Belonging through Mind Training

    Keynote Speaker: Daniel Siegel, MD – Mindsight Institute

    Keynote

  • 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM
    Break
  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    Couples: Reading Faces, Body Cues and Tracking Autonomic Nervous System Trending in Partners

    Presenter: Stan Tatkin, PsyD, LMFT – PACT Institute

    The clinician in general, and the couple therapist specifically, would benefit from training in microexpressions and micromovements to track real time somatic shifts and changes that occur in patients and partners, particularly when under stress. Facial training can also help clinicians discover emotions in partners during their initial stages, in key parts of the face, allowing partner emotions to be amplified and explored by the therapist. Noticing nascent emotions through microexpressions often leads to patients feeling seen. It can also assist the clinician in determining when partners are using certain emotions as substitutes for others (sad for angry, angry for scared) or for deceptive purposes.

    This three-hour workshop will introduce attendees to the intricacies of the facial striated muscles, various ways humans express emotions, how facial expressions often point back to a patient’s family of origin, the patient’s attachment organization, the importance of signaling, and how facial expression and vocal prosody is vital to partner co-regulation of arousal states. Through lecture and demonstration, attendees will learn how to apply this knowledge to clinical work of any kind.

    Workshop

  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    Elite Brain Fitness Training Program: How the World’s Best Keep Their Minds Sharp, Bodies in Shape to Achieve World Class Performance

    Presenter: Daniel G. Amen, MD – Amen Clinics

    In this program psychiatrist and neuroscientist Daniel Amen will discuss his work with some of the elite athletes and performers he has treated, what makes them different, and what therapists can learn from them that helps their day-to-day clinical practices. Working with them to optimize performance is generally more desirable to top performers rather than admitting to and treating flaws. He will discuss the 4 circles of elite performance, including biological factors, including his BRIGHT MINDS Model, psychological, social, and spiritual strategies on developing clarity of purpose.

    Workshop

  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    Healing from Infidelity

    Presenter: Michele Weiner-Davis, LCSW – The Divorce Busting Center

    Without a highly concrete road map for helping couples heal from infidelity, it’s easy for therapists to get lost in the labyrinth of emotions. Additionally, generic therapy skills often don’t work with couples dealing with the aftermath of betrayal. Using illustrative video clips, this workshop will provide a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step plan including unorthodox strategies for dealing with different phases of recovery. The emphasis in this workshop, however, will be on concrete clinical tools required to guide clients through and beyond the often shocking discovery of their partners’ affairs. Learn how to effectively coach both betrayed and unfaithful partners to undertake specific tasks to heal personally, strengthen their relationship, and master skills for navigating the complex, zigzag road to recovery, where progress can alternate with setbacks from week to week. You’ll explore how to work with an array of post-affair issues, and learn:

    Workshop

  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    How to Use an Expanded Psychological Flexibility Model to Expand your Own Practice

    Presenter: Steven C. Hayes, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno

    Clinical interventions are characterized by a cacophony of models and methods. In workshop I will show how a process based psychological flexibility model can be used to bring greater consilience across models and methods, allowing a new and more disciplined kind of eclecticism and treatment integration. A process-based approach can break down needless barriers between traditions and increase an effective and more integrative focus on the whole person. In this workshop we will work on the clinical microskills needed to accomplish this goal.

    Workshop

  • 9:20 AM – 12:20 PM
    The Experiential and Strategic Treatment of Depression

    Presenter: Michael D. Yapko, PhD – Private Practice

    Depression is the most common mood disorder in the world, one that is still growing steadily in both prevalence and severity. How a clinician thinks about the nature of depression and answers fundamental questions - such as what causes depression - naturally determines what treatment approaches they are most likely to take. Regardless of one’s preferred theoretical orientation, however, depression experts agree that treatment needs to be multi-dimensional and active in teaching skills in key areas such as coping, social, and problem-solving skills. Furthermore, the more we learn about the neuroscience of mood, especially neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, the more important well designed experiential learning processes become in treatment. These include the use of task assignments and focusing processes such as hypnosis and mindfulness, which can be applied in treatment to teach mood self-regulation skills. Learning to think strategically requires a better-than-average understanding of the patterns that regulate depression as well as an appreciation for how active the client needs to be in the treatment process. Such approaches are unapologetically goal-oriented because the larger goal is obvious: We want the client to not only feel better but be better. A video demonstration of a clinical hypnosis session addressing depression will be included.

    Workshop

  • 12:20 PM – 1:30 PM
    Lunch Break
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Dan Siegel

    Presenter: Daniel Siegel, MD – Mindsight Institute

    Conversation Hour

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Overcoming Toxic Shame

    Presenter: David D. Burns, MD – Stanford Medical School

    Presenter: Jill Levitt, PhD – Director of Training, Feeling Good Institute

    Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt will take you through the single-session treatment of Melanie, a prominent and beloved mental health professional who has struggled with intense feelings of anxiety and shame for nine years. We will illustrate dramatic video clips from our work with Melanie, emphasizing key features of her assessment and treatment, and including her rapid and mind-blowing recovery, and multi-year follow-up.


    Clinical Demo

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Sex Starved Marriage

    Presenter: Michele Weiner-Davis, LCSW – The Divorce Busting Center

    One out of every three couples struggles with mismatched sexual desire---a formula for marital disaster. When one spouse is sexually dissatisfied and the other is oblivious, unconcerned, or uncaring, sex isn’t the only casualty; a sense of emotional connection can also disappear. Complicating matters is that fact that many couples (and some therapists) feel uncomfortable discussing sex and remain focused on “Red Herring” issues. This workshop offers a hands-on, collaborative model for addressing the "elephant in the room" and restoring sexual and emotional connection.

    Speech

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Some Thoughts on the Nature (and desperate need for) Therapeutic Revolutions.

    Presenter: Scott D. Miller, PhD – International Center for Clinical Excellence

    More session details TBA

    Speech

  • 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
    Break
  • 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM
    Couples Therapy

    Presenter: Harville Hendrix &. Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD – Imago International Training Institute

    Presenter: Terry Real, LICSW – Relational Life Institute

    Discussion on different perspectives on Couples Therapy.

    Invited Panel

  • 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM
    Intercultural Issues

    Presenter: Derald Wing Sue, PhD – Teachers College, Columbia University

    Presenter: Helen A. Neville, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Presenter: Patricia Maria Arredondo, EDD – Arredondo Advisory Group

    Derald Wing Sue will discuss the four goals of becoming culturally competent in clinical practice: (1) Becoming aware of your own worldview, (2) Becoming aware of the worldviews of those who differ from you in terms of race, culture, ethnicity, gender, etc., (3) Developing culturally sensitive and appropriate intervention strategies, and (4) Understanding how systemic forces impact your clinical approach.

    Invited Panel

  • 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM
    Milton Erickson’s Legacy: It's evolution into the next generations

    Presenter: Stephen Gilligan, PhD – Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

    Presenter: Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD – The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

    Presenter: Robert B. Dilts – NLP University

    Invited Panel

  • 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM
    Break
  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    A Conversation with Dr. Burns

    Presenter: David D. Burns, MD – Stanford Medical School

    Dr. Burns will answer your questions on a wide range of topics, including:
    1. What research led you to develop TEAM-CBT
    2. How does TEAM-CBT differ from traditional, Beckan CBT?
    3. What does research on your new Feeling Good App show?
    And more, including YOUR questions! Join us for a fun and inspirational hour, with some of David's famous stories thrown in!

    Conversation Hour

  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    Adult Children Concept

    Presenter: Claudia A. Black, PhD – The Meadows

    The Acronym ACA or ACoA has been a part of the therapy community for several decades. As the pioneer in the framework for its meaning and influence in the recovery field Claudia Black will discuss her history with the meaning and value this term offers the client.

    Speech

  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    Conversational Connectedness Between the Two Mind/Brains: The key to mental health

    Presenter: Stephen Gilligan, PhD – Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

    Evolutionary consciousness has unfolded for eons via nonverbal “nature” intelligences, only recently joined in human consciousness by the verbal/virtual mind. This has produced both heavens and hells, depending on whether the two “brain/mind” intelligences are interconnected (eco-mind) or dissociated (isolated ego-mind). We will examine multiple research findings suggesting that dissociation between these two mind/brains is the common underlying condition for pervasive suffering, and how the restoration of positive interconnectedness can be skillfully done in psychotherapy and the larger community. Special attention will be given to recent neuroscience findings, accelerating trends of diagnostic disorders, and relevant clinical methods.

    Speech

  • 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM
    The Healing Power of Relationships: From Trauma to Reconnection

    Presenter: Terry Real, LICSW – Relational Life Institute

    This workshop adds a live clinical demonstration.
    In a very focused brief time, participants will see how to focus in on the couple’s core dynamic, their repetitive “vicious circle,”
    each partner’s role, their “relational stance.”
    We address this “couple’s choreography “ as “the more … the more.” (The more she pursues, the more he distances… and the more he distances…”
    We move from stance (The Adaptive Child part of the client) to Trauma - what was that child adapting to?
    And we do deep trauma work in the presence of the partner.
    Relational Life Therapy occurs in three phases
    1- loving confrontation
    2- deep trauma work
    3- education and skill building
    It is the combination of all three that produce profound change quickly.

    Clinical Demo w/ Discussant

  • 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM
    Break
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
    Job Burnout: Definition, assessment, organizational interventions

    Keynote Speaker: Christina Maslach, PhD – University of California, Berkeley

    Burnout is an occupational phenomenon that results from chronic workplace stressors that have not been successfully managed. Research on burnout has identified the value of fixing the job, and not just the person, within six areas of job-person mismatch. Improving the match between people and their jobs is the key to managing the chronic stressors, and can be done on a routine basis as part of regular organizational checkups. Better matches enable people to work smarter, rather than just harder, and to thrive rather than to get beaten down.

    Keynote