Sunday Morning Keynote
This year the Networker will honor Irvin Yalom with its Lifetime Achievement Award for more than a half-century of work that offers a more encompassing vision of life than can ever be conveyed through a therapy manual. … Read more>>
Saturday Luncheon Address
The names John and Julie Gottman have become synonymous with scientifically sound couples practice. They’ve spent decades developing an evidence base for the field through their work, and have honed their techniques for stabilizing marriage through research … Read more>>
Saturday Morning Keynote
In recent years, the provocative work of couples therapist Esther Perel has resonated in the popular culture by exploring the dynamics of eroticism in long-term relationships and what the all-too-common experience of infidelity can teach us about … Read more>>
Friday Luncheon Address
Psychologist Harriet Lerner has played a major role in our understanding of the psychology of women and families. Her scholarly publications and bestselling books, starting with The Dance of Anger, have helped millions of people to … Read more>>
Welcome from Rich Simon
Once upon a time, the path to becoming a psychotherapist was pretty straightforward. You went to graduate school and—depending on the decade and the bent of the program—you studied family systems, psychodynamic therapy, or some strand … Read more>>
Ways to Embody Your Symposium Experience
JODY WAGER & NAOMI NIM
While at Symposium’s end you may feel exhilarated by all the new ideas you’ve been exposed to, that excitement may, despite your best intentions, dissipate once you return to … Read more>>
Key Strategies for Generating Passive Income
Joe Bavonese
You may be one of the many private practitioners who’s learned how to create a full and successful solo practice. But do you sometimes feel as if the income you’re generating isn’t … Read more>>
How to Stress-Proof a Relationship
Steven Stosny
Couples often lose the skills they learn in therapy during times of stress, retreating to entrenched habits of emotion regulation and interaction based on childhood coping mechanisms of blame, denial, and avoidance. Our … Read more>>
An Emotionally Focused Approach
Kathryn Rheem
Volatile, emotionally escalated clients can be among the most challenging cases couples therapists regularly work with. Such clients can often be set off by seemingly negligible events, making sessions difficult for both partners and … Read more>>
Transform Trauma with AEDP
SueAnne Piliero
Working with trauma and attachment wounds requires a strong therapeutic presence. When clients see and feel only darkness, it’s up to us to lead boldly, attune closely, and fiercely champion their capacity to heal … Read more>>
A Non-Pathologizing Approach to Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior
Joe Kort
Rather than providing a pathway to healing, the sex addiction model too often contributes to clients being sexually lost and at odds with their own nature. Therapists are left with both … Read more>>
Working with Kids and Their Parents
Mitchell Greene
Sports, even at the youngest developmental levels, has become a source of great stress for kids and their parents. The final results of games and kids’ individual statistics are immediately broadcast on … Read more>>
Saving Relationships on the Eve of Destruction
Peter Fraenkel
Unhappy couples often present in ways that offer little promise their relationship can be saved, leaving the partners feeling helpless and the therapist feeling stumped. But hope can spring anew when … Read more>>
Coregulating Together
Martha Straus
To regulate with distressed kids and families, we need to have three skills: the ability to stay calm and present ourselves, a way to gather both verbal and nonverbal session feedback to improve effectiveness and encourage … Read more>>
The Changing Face of Open Relationships
Tammy Nelson
As the flurry of recent press coverage indicates, more couples today are negotiating monogamy in new and creative ways, including through open marriages, polyamory, group marriages, and a variety of intentional partnerships. … Read more>>
From Specialized Technique to Broad-based Treatment Approach
Deany Laliotis
While EMDR is best known for its highly effective approach to trauma, it’s also developed into a comprehensive psychotherapy approach used to treat a broad spectrum of issues including anxiety, depression, … Read more>>
Effortless Heart Mindfulness Therapy
Loch Kelly
The essential Self is who we’ve always been and the wise, loving presence we’ve all been looking for. Self is not your ego, a core state, a subpersonality, an archetype, or a mindful witness. … Read more>>
Facilitating Psychoactive Drug Treatments for Trauma
Michael Mithoefer
For millennia, cultures around the world have embraced mind-altering substances to catalyze healing. Western psychotherapy has generally resisted the healing potential of such substances, but the FDA has lately approved clinical trials … Read more>>
Transforming the Sexual Narrative
Suzanne Iasenza
When couples come to therapy with problems involving desire, arousal, and orgasm therapists often fall into the trap of thinking of them as somehow broken and in need of fixing. Instead, this workshop offers … Read more>>
Reclaiming Our Voices
Anita Mandley
Despite the progressive political attitude prevalent in our field, clinicians of color often still face certain challenges around issues of race in our work with clients, and struggle to find a strong therapeutic voice with … Read more>>
A Mindful Approach to Value-Based Action
DJ Moran
Despite the popularity of mindfulness, not all our clients want to embrace an Eastern philosophy and sit on a meditation cushion every day. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a way to … Read more>>
Introducing Action and Possibility into Every Session
Lynn Grodzki
Many therapists have incorporated some coaching into their practice, in part because the style of client interaction feels unaffected and natural, and often accelerates results. But to truly improve outcomes, therapists … Read more>>
The Gottman Method Approach
Julie Gottman & John Gottman
Trauma treatments have largely ignored the interpersonal symptoms of PTSD. But whether caused by early abandonment, childhood abuse, military combat, or other traumatic experiences, the impact of trauma on committed relationships … Read more>>
A Dialogue with Irvin Yalom
Irvin Yalom & Susan Johnson
At a time when our lives continue to speed up and our engagement with digital devices continues to siphon off attention from our intimate connections, is therapy as we’ve known … Read more>>
Helping Millennials Navigate the Brave New World of Intimate Relationships
Alexandra Solomon
Modern love presents us with a dizzying array of choices and challenges, but young adults in particular are navigating a brave new world of intimate relationships. Sex education … Read more>>
Unexplored Issues in Therapy
Kirsten Lind Seal
In the United States, 1 in 6 new marriages is interethnic or interracial. Today’s therapists need to be equipped to help cross-cultural couples not only navigate the usual intimacy and communication concerns, but … Read more>>
Dealing with the “if only’s”
David Kessler
As a result of the opioid epidemic, the United States saw its largest recorded increase in overdose deaths last year, which is now officially the leading cause of death among adults under 50. … Read more>>
Addressing the Stresses of Late-Life Marriage
Barry Jacobs & Julia Mayer
While there’s an expectation that marital happiness will increase in the last third of life, when many couples are freer of children and family responsibilities, the reality is more … Read more>>
Widening the Frame
Patrick Dougherty
Our growing understanding of intergenerational and collective trauma is challenging therapists’ standard treatment methods. Recognizing that some trauma can be inherited—or be shared by groups, communities, ethnicities, and nationalities—can open up new avenues of healing, … Read more>>
How to Match Clients with the Right Methods
Amy Weintraub
Have you ever had clients try a mindfulness exercise that made them more anxious, or get emotionally flooded when you asked them to breathe deeply? What about clients who are … Read more>>
Mindfulness for Teens and Young Adults
Gina Biegel
As they try to navigate the demands of school, online social lives, and daily pressures, many teens and young adults today are worried, in pain, angry, and even out of control. In … Read more>>
Helping Clients Embrace a More Embodied Life
Linda Graham
There’s no question that our near constant use of the internet, apps, and texting have transformed how we relate to each other. The ubiquity of our devices and the huge bite … Read more>>
Its Uses and Misuses
Ian Kerner
True or false: porn desensitizes people to genuine intimacy? Or wait, true or false: porn use is a normal, healthy expression of human sexuality? Porn is a confusing and polarizing topic that can easily … Read more>>
How to Safely Navigate Emotional Storms
Deb Dana
When life—and therapy—brings scary moments, it’s the body’s autonomic nervous system that takes action. Polyvagal Theory has revolutionized our understanding of both how this system works, and how to create safety and … Read more>>
How Young Adults Are Changing the Therapy Relationship Forever
Ron Taffel
Millennials are coming into therapy with challenging new expectations about the therapeutic relationship. These 18- to 35-year-olds—with their no-holds-barred self-expression, staunch belief in collaboration, attunement to power-based microaggression, and … Read more>>
What We Know Makes Couples Therapy Work
John Gottman, Julie Gottman, William Bumberry & Vagdevi Meunier
In recent years, research has identified key, measurable elements of happy and stable long-term relationships. They include trust, attunement, listening compassionately and nondefensively within … Read more>>
Beyond Masters and Johnson
Ian Kerner
Effective sex therapy goes beyond what happens in the consulting room and requires behavioral interventions that clients can work on between sessions. Although “homework” is a regular part of sex therapy, clinicians’ standard packages … Read more>>
Helping the Rejected Parent Make Things Right Again
Ron Taffel
Well-meaning parents who’ve been rejected by their children of all ages are often in tremendous pain. While they may be outwardly hurt and angry, internally they’re silently wrestling with shame … Read more>>
Hidden Problems and Effective Solutions
Margaret Wehrenberg
High-functioning autism isn’t always easy to spot. But when clients who enter therapy for panic, anxiety, or social phobia fail to respond to standard treatment protocols, autism might be a complicating factor. Often … Read more>>
A Therapist’s Guide to Modern Love, Sex, and Identity
Signe Simon & Simone Humphrey
Many millennials are choosing to ditch gender identifiers like male and female, and shed labels like single, taken, gay, or straight. … Read more>>
The New Neuroscience of Pain
Howard Schubiner
Nearly half of all clients in therapy have physical pain, yet for the majority of these individuals, their pain has no clear medical cause. This is particularly true for those with back and … Read more>>
Engaging the Wisdom of the Body
Joan Klagsbrun
There’s a resource, implicit in each of us, that has the capacity to accelerate the healing process and make therapy more effective. Focusing invites clients to pause and access their “felt sense,” … Read more>>
How Therapist Self-Disclosure Can Engage Male Clients
David Wexler
If you’ve ever worked with men, you know how intensely sensitive they can be to shame and feelings of incompetence. If therapists can’t de-shame the therapeutic experience, men won’t stay for … Read more>>
Gratitude and Meaning in Caring for Aging Parents
Barry Jacobs & Julia Mayer
While caring for aging parents is often portrayed as a physical, psychological, and financial burden, there’s a growing body of research suggesting that caregivers can derive important … Read more>>
Facing Our Late Career Challenges
David Treadway
As they move through the more advanced stages of their careers, senior therapists can enhance their work by exploring the impact of their own aging on their lives and clinical perspective. In this … Read more>>
Cooperation without Punishment
Laura Markham
Clients challenged by their children often resort to old-fashioned reward and threat strategies like timeouts, sticker charts, and consequences. But the best parenting tool is always the relationship with, not control over, the … Read more>>
A Nonverbal Approach
Janina Fisher
High-conflict couples can stymie even the most experienced therapist, turning the office into a verbal boxing ring, and us into referees or speechless bystanders. When our usual ways of working don’t slow the battle, much … Read more>>
Mindfulness, Psychotherapy, Identity, and Love
Jack Kornfield & Trudy Goodman
Supported by neuroscience research, mindfulness practice has demonstrated its ability to ease stress, control anxiety and depression, and improve cognition, focus, and memory. As its reach and influence has increased, … Read more>>
Four Core Skills
Deany Laliotis
Parts 1 & 2
Underlying all the techniques and methodologies for treating trauma today is a core set of fundamental skills that determine a clinician’s effectiveness in this challenging arena of practice. This workshop will … Read more>>
An Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy with Families
George Faller & James Furrow
Parts 1 & 2
By zeroing in on underlying attachment needs, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) offers a powerful process for transformational change. This workshop will show … Read more>>
The Nurtured Heart Approach
Howard Glasser
Parts 1 & 2
Too often therapists working with difficult or intense children inadvertently reward a child’s negativity by increasing their own energy level in countertherapeutic ways. They may also lower their own energy … Read more>>
The Art and Science of Memory Reconsolidation
Bruce Ecker
Parts 1 & 2
There’s a world of difference between liberating, lasting therapeutic breakthroughs and incremental changes that are readily undone by relapses. What controls that difference is memory reconsolidation, the … Read more>>
A Somatically Based Resource
Nancy Napier
Parts 1 & 2
We’ve all internalized rules growing up that defined who and what we could be. Attempts to break these largely unconscious rules can elicit powerful physical and psychological survival responses that … Read more>>
A Crash Course in the Kids’ Skills Method
Ben Furman
Parts 1 & 2
If you’ve been under the impression that therapy with children and teenagers always needs to be serious business, be prepared to change your mind. In this … Read more>>
Working with the Mixed-Agenda Couple
William Doherty
Parts 1 & 2
It’s not easy when a couple enters treatment unsure about whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it—especially when each partner leans in a different direction. These … Read more>>
How to Get Unhooked
Martha Straus
Parts 1 & 2
To work with troubled and traumatized adolescents, it’s crucial for therapists to first foster their own capacity for self-awareness and self-regulation. It’s not easy, especially when our young clients’ extreme … Read more>>
What to Do When Things Get Messy and Uncomfortable
Mary Jo Barrett & Linda Stone Fish
Parts 1 & 2
When working with trauma cases do you see clients go into flight, fight, and/or freeze? Do they yell at you, … Read more>>
Going Deep with Troubled Clients
Terry Real
Parts 1 & 2
The secret to helping couples have a powerful, transformative experience in therapy is to get them to deeply explore—while in each other’s presence—their own character structure and family-of-origin trauma. … Read more>>
A Game Show Approach
Clifton Mitchell
Parts 1 & 2
We all want to do what’s ethical, and get the CEs to boot, but slogging through most ethics courses can be a tiresome bore. Not this time! This workshop (back … Read more>>
Breaking Eggshells
Anita Mandley
Parts 1 & 2
The disturbing undercurrent of white supremacists emboldened by recent national events show us that stereotypes and tensions about race still pervade much of American society. But even though we may want to … Read more>>
Leading Clients to Self-Leadership
Richard Schwartz
Parts 1 & 2
Healing is a word derived from the German hailjan, meaning “to make whole.” To truly heal isn’t easy, since it involves reconnecting with polarized and often volatile subpersonalities, or … Read more>>
Rethinking Infidelity & Pathways to Intimacy
Esther Perel
Parts 1 & 2
Conventional practices say therapists should insist upon full disclosure after an affair, and view all infidelity as a traumatic event. But affairs can also act as a powerful … Read more>>
Effective Treatments for Complex Clients
Melissa O’Neill
We now know that along with accompanying mood disorders, 78 percent of adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) will develop a substance disorder or addiction at some point. Understanding and addressing this complex … Read more>>
Turning Reactivity into Equanimity
Kate Cohen-Posey
You may be excited about cutting-edge advances in brain research, but do you know how to translate them into practical methods that may reduce clients’ resistance, transform deeply disturbing emotions, and reinforce treatment interventions? … Read more>>
Technology in the Treatment Room
Sebern Fisher
Try as we might through talk and somatic therapies, it can be very difficult to shift the states of fear, shame, and rage that haunt clients with early developmental traumas. Fortunately, recent research … Read more>>
How Brain Science Can Inform Interventions
Frank Anderson
Therapists often get shaken and lose confidence in their approach when a client’s trauma response edges into seemingly uncontrollable extremes of rage, panic, or suicidal desperation. This workshop provides an essential road … Read more>>
The Path to Recovery
Michele Weiner-Davis
Without a concrete road map for helping couples heal from infidelity, it’s easy for therapists to get lost in the labyrinth of emotions. Using video clips, this workshop will provide a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step plan … Read more>>
Co-occurring Disorders, Detransitioners, and Other Dilemmas
Margaret Nichols & Laura Jacobs
For even the most knowledgeable gender-affirmative therapist, work with transgender clients can sometimes be complex and difficult. There are parents who assume their gender-atypical child is transgender and prematurely … Read more>>
How to Help Our Clients Heal
Mary Jo Barrett
Exposing the family secret of incest is a transgression that makes everyone deeply uncomfortable, both in the families in which it occurs and for the mental health professionals who try to … Read more>>
Mastering the Art of Transformation
Tony Robbins
The results therapists get in their practices have more to do with what they’re willing to tolerate in clients than with their clients’ own limitations. The key to having more powerful impact with … Read more>>
Tools for Healing
David Kessler
While most therapists are experienced in exploring the pain of grief, their clients may be asking for a clear direction out of their pain. How does the therapist deal with questions of “When will this … Read more>>
A CBT Approach
Judith Beck
What do you do when clients become angry at you in session, fail to reveal important information, criticize you, demand special treatment, or remain silent? A common misunderstanding of CBT is that it ignores the … Read more>>
Invisible Barriers to Healing and Change
Anita Mandley
If you work with African Americans, Native Americans, holocaust survivors and their descendants, intergenerational poverty, or refugees, then whether you realize it or not, your work is being influenced by the legacies … Read more>>
Separating Myths from Reality
Frank Anderson
With so many controversies and contradictory research about the effectiveness of psychopharmacological interventions, it’s hard to know how to best work with your clients around the issue of meds. What are the new most … Read more>>
How to Engage Difficult People
Keith Miller
These days it seems there’s a jerk waiting around every corner—on the street, on your social media feed, even in your consulting room. Is there anything therapists can do for our clients and … Read more>>
Latest Perspectives for the Nonspecialist
Margaret Nichols & Laura Jacobs
Therapy’s old, paternalistic gatekeeping model for working with gender-transitioning clients is out. Today, our job is to provide gender-affirmative care both to adults and the increasing numbers of young people … Read more>>
Fostering Well-Being in a Digital World
Jonah Paquette
These days, we’ve become so attached to our digital gadgets, websites, and apps that it’s easy to lose sight of a fundamental question: aside from the immediate rewards they provide, are they … Read more>>
Uncoupling A Deadly Dyad
Martha Teater & Don Teater
The opioid epidemic is spilling into consulting rooms as more therapists encounter clients overusing these dangerous medicines to treat their chronic pain. Although behavioral interventions are the treatment of choice for … Read more>>
How We Can Promote Healing
Michael Alcée
How can we make sense of the polarizing culture confronting us in today’s political sphere, on the internet, and in our client’s everyday lives? As therapists, what can we do to reconcile and … Read more>>
How to Revive Erotic Passion
Michele Weiner-Davis
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 … Read more>>
How to Embrace Somatic Wisdom
Daniel Leven
Too often our focus as therapists is on our client’s verbal narrative. What happened? Where? When? We tend to neglect another powerful storyteller: the client’s body. In fact, the body records our emotional … Read more>>
What We Know Now That We Didn’t Know Then
David Wexler
The field of partner abuse has always been riddled by controversy and misinformation, but recent research has deepened our understanding of what underlies abuse and how best to treat … Read more>>
New Approaches to Improving Outcomes
John Gottman, William Bumberry & Vagdevi Meunier
When couples come to us in pain, we’re often tempted to jump into treatment before really getting the systemic information we need to work most effectively. We may … Read more>>
How Do We See Our Role?
William Doherty, Kenneth Hardy, Esther Perel & Richard Schwartz
We therapists are certainly in the business of helping people change, but are we also invested in getting them to experience transformation? Beyond … Read more>>
Applying Dyadic Mindfulness in Your Work
Halko Weiss & Maci Daye
Parts 1 & 2
While traditional talk therapy relies largely on conscious awareness, research shows that explicit brain functions have only limited impact on our feelings and behaviors. In … Read more>>
A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach
Scott Sells
Parts 1 & 2
It’s not easy when a therapist who’s meeting a traumatized family only possesses the tools to treat an individual child. Unfortunately, until now, systemic treatment for the traumatized family … Read more>>
A New Model for Private Practice
James Gordon & Sabrina N’Diaye
Parts 1 & 2
Increasingly, therapists are looking for alternatives to the office-bound rigidity of traditional private practice. This workshop offers a vision of practice, which includes a dynamic … Read more>>
How to Set Limits and Hold Them Accountable
Wendy Behary
Parts 1 & 2
Narcissists are notoriously difficult to work with. They can be arrogant, condescending, lacking in empathy, and so self-absorbed they seem incapable of forming genuine relationships with … Read more>>
Changing the Cognitions that Underlie Anxiety and Depression
Margaret Wehrenberg
Parts 1 & 2
Overactive brain circuitry can trap clients in cycles of rumination that keep them anxious and depressed. Letting go of ruminating worries, or banishing persistent thoughts, like … Read more>>
Bringing Transformative Life Lessons into Therapy
Lisa Ferentz
Parts 1 & 2
Whatever they’ve been through, all our clients retain an inner wisdom that can help lift them, like a pair of ruby slippers, up and out of dissatisfaction and … Read more>>
How to Engage, Understand, and Transform Male Clients
Terry Real
Parts 1 & 2
At no other time in history have men been so awash in mixed cultural messages and in such a state of transition, confusion, reactivity, and trouble. … Read more>>
Transforming Adversity into Learning and Growth
Linda Graham
Parts 1 & 2
Helping clients develop flexible and adaptive strategies for coping with both everyday disappointments and extraordinary disasters is at the heart of the therapeutic process. In this workshop, we’ll … Read more>>
Bringing Together Creativity and Problem Solving
Lynn Lyons
Parts 1 & 2
When doing therapy with children, we don’t often think of creativity and problem solving as equal partners. But when struggling families arrive at your office, it’s the immediate … Read more>>
Gentle Protocols for Rewiring the Brain
Courtney Armstrong
Parts 1 & 2
Hypnosis is making a comeback as research demonstrates its effectiveness in relieving anxiety, resolving traumatic memories, and reducing chronic pain. Find out why hypnosis is an effective tool … Read more>>
A Step-by-Step Approach to EFT
Susan Johnson
Parts 1 & 2
Even as advances in neuroscience and attachment theory have led to an increasing appreciation of the centrality of emotions in human relationships, it’s ironic that therapists are so often … Read more>>
A New Approach to Overcoming Self-Criticism and Self-Sabotage
Tim Desmond
When our clients are overwhelmed by anxiety, adrift in depression, or hobbled by trauma, a lack of self-compassion is often at the heart of their difficulty. Thankfully, research has shown … Read more>>
Harnessing Your Social Engagement System
Dafna Lender & Jon Baylin
We all know therapists who seem magically able to establish a powerful sense of trust and connection with even the most distrusting clients. In this workshop, we’ll take a close … Read more>>
What Works and What Doesn’t
Jonah Paquette
Although the field of mental health has traditionally aimed to “fix what’s wrong,” the newer subfield of positive psychology instead helps us to “build what’s strong.” In doing so, we buffer against a … Read more>>
How to Deepen the Experience of Therapy
Janina Fisher
We often use terms like hard-hearted to describe those who can’t seem to feel empathy or connect to their own emotions, forgetting that the roots of open-heartedness grow out of safe … Read more>>
Enriching Therapy with Buddhist Psychology
Karen Kissel Wegela
With clients you find particularly difficult to work with, it can be a relief to reconnect with what the Buddhists call bodhichitta, the innate, heartfelt kindness that first inspired you to … Read more>>
Getting Comfortable with Alternative and Fringe Sexual Issues
Tammy Nelson
Working with the often edgy, erotic behavior people engage in today can challenge a therapist’s own attitudes, values, and deeply held beliefs. This workshop can serve as an introduction to … Read more>>
A Solution-Focused Approach
Ben Furman
What if instead of asking couples and family therapy clients to recount their hurts and frustrations, you asked them to play the Happy Family game? And if that went well, you then introduced them to … Read more>>
Clarifying Boundaries
Mary Jo Barrett & Linda Stone Fish
The ethical rules for therapists used to be straightforward and unambiguous: no gifts, no dual relationships, and no out-of-session contact. But the ease of digital connection and the shift in our … Read more>>
Finding Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy in Later Life
Andrea Brandt
More than 100 million Americans are over the age of 50 today, and while research concludes we can grow and enhance our lives at every age, stereotypes about aging still … Read more>>
Applications in Therapeutic Process and Healing Trauma
Jim Morningstar & Jessica Dibb
Sometimes the simplest solutions to discomfort can be right under our noses. When breathing gets deregulated as the result of emotional habits and past traumas, debilitating behavioral and … Read more>>
A Day of Movement, Meditation, and Dance
Daniel Leven
The heart is our core, our vital energy center. In this full-day experiential workshop, awaken your heart to new energy through a balanced blend of movement, meditation, and dance. You’ll discover … Read more>>
Learning to Balance Your Life Energies
Patrick Dougherty
You’ve no doubt heard about Qigong, but how much do you really know about the benefits of this simple practice? Here’s your chance to directly experience its positive effects. Qigong opens up … Read more>>
Who Says It’s Always Toxic?
George Faller
As a society, we often appear to be waging a war on stress, but we have a choice about whether to view stressful situations as being invariably toxic or as opportunities to face … Read more>>
The Four Levels of Consciousness
Rudolph Bauer
Through the world’s contemplative traditions, the spiritual journey usually involves an expansion of consciousness from everyday experience to an awareness of oneness with the universe. The journey’s stages begin with a heightened appreciation … Read more>>
Discovering a Path to Connection and Creativity
Noa Baum
Humans have been telling stories since the beginning of time that ignite our connection to self and affirm our belonging to community. When we can connect our personal stories with traditional … Read more>>
The Transformative Power of Song
Dana LaCroix
Singing is a primal way of communicating passions, creating meaningful connection, and experiencing rejuvenation. Too often, however, feelings of inadequacy obstruct our natural desire to express ourselves through song. In this workshop, designed … Read more>>
Revealing Your Soul’s Purpose
Amy Weintraub
This day of LifeForce Yoga practices will nourish your physical, emotional, and mental body, clearing whatever blocks you from reconnecting with a vision of your true nature. The unique and evidence-based breathing, meditation, and … Read more>>
Evoking Alternative Realities in the Consulting Room
Irene Siegel
The modern therapist and the ancient shaman share a desire to alter negative mindsets, create healing, and inspire transformation. In fact, therapists can learn from shamans’ recognition of multidimensional realities and … Read more>>
Story as a Path of Transformation
Mark Matousek
Are you challenged by clients unwilling to question the truthfulness of their stories? What about your own self-stories? When people can step back from narratives that define them and begin to tell … Read more>>
A Day of Powerful Practices
Gina Biegel
Kick judgments, worries, daily to-do lists, and everyday stressors to the curb. Immerse yourself in practices from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues. Simple and powerful practices … Read more>>
The Keys to Transforming Habitual Patterns
Betsy Polatin
Expand the capacity to express yourself by using a unique approach that combines the Alexander Technique for neuromuscular reeducation, breathing coordination, and somatic experiencing. This workshop will offer hands-on guidance and simple … Read more>>
Learning to Let Yourself Move
Baba Richard Gonzalez & Company
We all admire the grace, fluidity, and freedom dancers express, and their ability to step out of ordinary life into the realm of pure, rhythmic movement. But few of us … Read more>>
In this video clip from Symposium 2015, Dick Schwartz, originator of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, explains how our inner parts can get exiled at the expense of our creativity and vitality—and how we can heal these parts, allowing Self … Read more>>
My Most Transformative Session: An Evening of Storytelling
With Susan Johnson, Martha Manning, David Treadway, Kirsten Lind Seal & David Kessler
This evening of candid storytelling about the intimate moments of therapeutic practice has become such a hit for attendees … Read more>>
Cry Havoc: A Solo Play of Trauma and Transformation
Stephan Wolfert
After seven years in the US Army, and struggling with a full-blown case of PTSD and alcohol addiction, one evening Stephan Wolfert stepped into a local theater and saw … Read more>>
The Doorway to Engagement: Freeing the Body and Awakening the Mind
Daniel Leven & Jody Wager
Prime your body and mind for the Symposium experience by taking part in this opportunity to let go of the ordinary stresses, pressures, and … Read more>>
Applying the Neuroscience of Well-Being
Linda Graham
Even as we look to the latest brain research for techniques to apply in our therapeutic work, we too often neglect the damaging impacts of stress, poor lifestyle choices, and overstimulation from digital … Read more>>
Friday Morning Keynote
Trained as a Buddhist monk and clinical psychologist, Jack Kornfield has been a pioneer in bringing meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist psychology to the West. He cofounded the country’s first major mindfulness meditation center in Massachusetts, and now … Read more>>
In this video clip from Symposium 2016, Susan Johnson, originator of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), discusses “the dance of sex” and the importance of emotional presence, attunement, and sensitive responsiveness. In terms of teamwork, she says, good sex is a … Read more>>
What’s makes the Networker Symposium such a unique and vibrant learning experience each year? Here’s a taste of what you’re colleagues are saying about the most celebrated annual conference in our field—a bona fide festival of clinical learning, conversation, personal … Read more>>