Thursday Self-Care and Community-Care Sessions, Ansbacher Lecture,

And Sunday Post-Conference Sessions

Each session on Thursday June 6, 2024 will be offered twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. The sessions are 90 minutes each. Below is the information about each session.

Gary Bauman - “Gifts of Humanity: Fifty Shades of Social Interest” 𝚿

All or nothing thinking plagues people from seeing opportunities for expressing empathy and giving care to others and community. The gray area, between the black and white thinking that plagues most dissatisfied individuals, provides the space for authentic relating, honest embracing of life's experiences, as well as opportunities to care for others through various forms of social interest.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will assess and utilize opportunities to provide care and empathy for those in their community, family and practice.
2. Participants will describe how to encourage clients to see that many forms for which social interest can be experienced and offered even during the midst of the most troublesome and personally-challenging times.
3. Participants will apply Adlerian concepts that enable clients to move away from the polarized thinking patterns that cause them to feel disillusioned and defeated to community-shared perceptions that we are in this journey together.

Jim Holder & Karen Molan - “The FACE Screening: Is Addiction in Your Path?”

The mounting stress in your life today as a helper and your beliefs may only add to your risk factors, and different forms of addictive behaviors become a real possibility. This FACE Screening will allow you to assess risk for addictions of all types for you, your family, and community.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will apply to themselves what makes them at risk for addictions of all types.
2. Participants will be able to identify family patterns and risk.
3. Participants will assess early recollections for risk factors of addictive behavior.

Kimberly Martin - “Mind Body Medicine: Self Care is the Start of Health Care” 𝚿

During this presentation, Dr. Martin will guide individuals in an abbreviated mind-body curriculum. Participants will engage in mind body skills included but not limited to breath work, meditation, movement, imagery, journaling and creative expression. Participants will learn and engage in mind body skills to utilize with self and clients.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to demonstrate how mind body skills can be utilized in self-care.
2. Participants will describe four mind body skills that can be utilized with self and others.
3. Participants will be able to summarize the effectiveness of mind body skills in therapeutic settings.

Terry Kottman & Nikki Pauli - “Balancing on the Tightrope of Your Life” 𝚿

We will explore how you can achieve more balance in your life and live your life more fully in congruence with your values.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to assess how well their lives are balanced.
2. Participants will be able to assess how closely they are living in congruence with their values.
3. Participants will be able to describe how they can move forward with more balance in their lives.
4. Participants will be able to describe how they can make changes in their behavior so that they are living in greater congruence with their values.

Ansbacher Lecture - Begum Verjee - “Disrupting Vertical Worldviews in pursuit of Social Interest” 𝚿

This Ansbacher Lecture will explore vertical worldviews that support systems of power and privilege which permeate North American society and all its institutions. Disrupting these vertical worldviews provides us with a vision for a just and democratic society, a move towards allyship and social equality through a commitment to social interest.

Participants will be able to:

1. Explore how Power & Privilege support and maintain Vertical Worldviews
2. Recognize that social inequality harms, and that social equality increases psychological functioning
3. Recognize that allyship is an act and practice of social interest

Sunday Sessions

Kevin O’Connor - Questions Coaches Ask

Coaches often are able in a very short time period to help their clients make a move when stuck. They are known for open ended questions and more so they have a kind of "secret system" that gets to the heart of the issue quickly, respectfully, and personally. Join us for a discussion and demonstration of powerful, non-manipulative, and useful questions that coaches use as their primary toolkit. Adlerians will find some of these questions familiar and others as great additions whether in their therapy or their coaching practice.

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe the critical difference well constructed questions make in promoting client movement.
2. Demonstrate how quickly one can integrate coaching questions into one's therapy practice, coaching activity, or teaching.
3. Discuss the similarities and differences of powerful questions from an Adlerian coaching point of view.

Susan Belangee - Adlerian Psychology and Eating Disorders 𝚿

While eating disorders and disordered eating are quite common in westernized cultures, many mental health practitioners feel unprepared to handle the complex nature of these issues. Adlerian psychology provides a framework that places the focus on the purposefulness of the behaviors and symptoms. This helps clients to recognize the “whys” so that they can make necessary changes to reduce the dependency on symptoms and behaviors as ways of managing life’s stressors.

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe the concept of purposefulness of behavior and give examples from their own experiences
2. Explain the usefulness of eating disordered symptoms and behaviors from de-identified client vignettes
3. Discuss ways of incorporating purposefulness as a strategy when working with clients.