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2019 Networker Symposium

Join us for the 42nd annual celebration!

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Mind, Body, and Brain

101 – Therapy as a Performing Art

Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians
Mark O’Connell

All therapists are performers. No matter what our theoretical orientations, clients are more influenced by us than our methods. Like the actor, the therapist’s technique is less about what we do and

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102 – Caring for the Brain

Exploring the Neuroscience of Well-Being
Linda Graham

To best serve our clients we must be able to master and share practices that promote well-being outside the therapy room. Luckily, neither therapists nor clients need to fly across the world to

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105 – The Mindful Woman

Creating a Sustainable Plan for Daily Practice
Caroline Welch

The biggest challenge to creating a sustainable mindfulness practice plan is doing it daily, which inevitably means breaking habits that take us off track. For many women, the distractions and demands

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108 – The Embodied Therapist

The Keys to Transforming Habitual Patterns
BETSY POLATIN

Expand your capacity to express yourself, even while sitting, by using a unique approach that combines Somatic Experiencing with the Alexander Technique to track your embodied sensations, so you can contain and

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110 – Embodiment, Rhythm, Awareness, Play

A Day to Experience Attuned Self-Awareness
LICIA SKY

The latest research shows that our ability to be aware of our bodies impacts how we process sensations and memories, and heal from traumatic events. But therapists can’t guide clients to calm

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111 – Yoga Practices for Self-Attunement

Love Begins with You and Yoga
AMY WEINTRAUB

Yoga practices can support you in embracing whatever joys and challenges you may be facing in life. In this workshop, we’ll engage in a loving practice of gentle movement, calming breath work,

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113 – Expressive Arts as Healing Engagement

Deepening the Therapeutic Experience
CATHY MALCHIODI

Expressive arts not only cultivate the healing powers of imagination, they also mobilize the social engagement system through play, improvisation, musicality, movement, and creativity. When integrated into therapy, they can revitalize and energize clients,

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114 – The Journey to Oneness

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

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115 – Using Ancient Practices for Today’s Ailments

Connecting the Body, Mind, and Spirit
SABRINA N’DIAYE

The long-term impact of trauma and stress are more than just mental health issues: they’re at the root of almost 80 percent of chronic illnesses in our modern culture. But ancient spiritual

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116 – A Day of Qigong

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

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121 – Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health

Strategies to Enhance Mood and Well-Being
LESLIE KORN

If we are what we eat, then beyond the mind-body connection there’s also a food-mind-body connection. This workshop will explore the latest nutritional research to inform psychotherapeutic practice and how diet can

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122 – Getting Creative with Parts

How to Use Expressive Modalities to Enhance Inner Work
Lisa Ferentz

It’s important to honor all of your client’s inner parts in therapy. But accessing them to fully engage in healing work isn’t always easy. In this workshop, we’ll consider

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123 – The Power of the Felt Sense

Deepening Psychotherapy through Focusing
Joan Klagsbrun

Do you have clients who seem to live in their heads and have a hard time sensing inside themselves? Focusing is a process that helps clients speak from their feelings, rather than about

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201, 301 – Compassionate Inquiry

Therapy with a Bio-psycho-social Perspective on Mental and Physical Illness

Parts 1 & 2

GABOR MATÉ

By separating mind from body and the individual from the social environment, we limit our ability to address the roots of many of the

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203, 303 – The Body Keeps the Score

When Talk Isn’t Enough

Part 1 (with Bessel van der Kolk) & Part 2 (with Janina Fisher)

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK & JANINA FISHER

Our field has made great advances in understanding the impact of trauma on developing brains and

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211, 311 – Calming the Anxious Brain

Brain-Based Strategies to Treat Anxiety

Parts 1 & 2

CATHERINE PITTMAN

The past decade has brought new understanding about the neuroscience behind anxiety and fear. But how many of us can communicate this knowledge to clients in a clear, engaging

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212, 312 – Transforming the Parent–Child Relationship

Cooperation without Punishment

Parts 1 & 2

LAURA MARKHAM

Clients challenged by their children often resort to old-fashioned reward and threat strategies, from yelling to timeouts and other consequences. But the most effective parenting tool is always the relationship with

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213, 313 – Polyvagal Theory in Action

Harnessing the Healing Potential of the Autonomic Nervous System

Parts 1 & 2

DEB DANA

At its most basic level, human communication is one nervous system responding to another, searching for signals that it’s safe to connect and flooding us

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214 – Helping Clients Who Can’t “Feel”

A Somatic Approach to Accessing Emotions
Janina Fisher

Nothing defeats a therapist more than a client who’s numb or disconnected. When you ask why they’ve come for help, they may say, “I’m depressed” or “I’ve lost all hope,” but they

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217 – Making Mindfulness Stick with Children and Teens

A Practical Approach
CHRISTOPHER WILLARD

For too many children or teens, talk and even play therapy feels unhelpful at best, and stigmatizing at worst. But when we can effectively introduce mindfulness into our sessions, we empower kids to transform themselves,

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225 – Building Social Resilience

How to Take Your Work Beyond the Consulting Room
LAURIE LEITCH

What does it take for therapists to expand their focus beyond the therapy room and become a more powerful force for social change? We typically have a positive impact

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318 – Reclaiming Reflection and the Power of Pause

How to Help Clients Be More Present
Donald Altman

Over 150 years ago, while walking in the woods, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is.

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324 – A Harm-Reduction Approach to Addictions

Addressing the Roadblocks to Change
ANDREW TATARSKY

More than one-third of Americans struggle with problematic substance use and other risky or addictive behaviors, but they often have a great deal of ambivalence about changing them. Even with clients whose issues

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401, 501 – The Wheel of Awareness

Consciousness and the Process of Change

Parts 1 & 2

DANIEL SIEGEL

The Wheel of Awareness is a visual metaphor for the way the mind works and a tool to expand the container of consciousness. The Wheel can be used

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404, 504 – Interrupting the Reign of Pain

Therapy Tools to Eliminate Chronic Pain

PARTS 1 & 2

Howard Schubiner

Typically, physical and psychological pain are treated separately, even when they’re deeply intertwined. Nearly half of all therapy clients suffer from chronic physical pain, which often has no

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408, 508 – Enhancing Your Therapeutic Presence

Playful Activities to Harness the Social Engagement System

Parts 1 & 2

DAFNA LENDER

While we all know that success in therapy depends on the therapist–client relationship, building that positive rapport hinges on behaviors many therapists aren’t even aware of.

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409, 509 – Putting Positive Psychology into Practice

What Works and What Doesn’t

Parts 1 & 2

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,

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410, 510 – Engaging the Brain’s Process of Profound Change

A Primer on Memory Reconsolidation

Parts 1 & 2

Bruce Ecker

It may seem too good to be true, but brain science has given us an empirically proven path to transformational change through the process of memory reconsolidation. This is

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412, 512 – Priming Clients for Change

Harnessing the Power of the Subconscious for Healing

Parts 1 & 2

Clifton Mitchell

Social psychologists have produced a vast body of research on priming—the powerful, largely unconscious process by which both words and nonverbal clues can be used to

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415 – Psychedelics in Modern Healing

The Future of Talk Therapy?
GABOR MATÉ

Today there’s growing interest in the use of psychedelic substances, once considered therapeutically off-limits, in the clinical treatment of PTSD, depression, addictions, and a range of other conditions. The principles on which these

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418 – From Body Shame to Body Positivity

A Compassionate Approach to Weight and Well-Being
JUDITH MATZ

Every therapist—no matter where they practice or who they see—has heard clients express shame about their body size. Often, this shame gets brushed aside as just an unfortunate byproduct of our

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419 – Supporting Transgender Youth and Their Families

Affirming Gender Self-Determination
JEAN MALPAS

Can we truly know the gender of children before they themselves tell us who they are? If so, how should parents be raising children in an era of gender self-determination? For the first time, transgender

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422 – Inside the ADHD Child’s Experience

What to Do When Worry Takes Over
SHARON SALINE

In an increasingly unpredictable world, kids are more anxious than ever. But for those with ADHD, worry and fear can increase their agitation, distractedness, and impulsivity. Fortunately, there are effective techniques

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423 – The iPorn Universe

Addiction in the Digital Age
Zachary Alti

Pornography these days is so plentiful, easy to access, and often free that it’s affecting the therapy field’s sex and porn addiction paradigm. Like others with process addictions to things like social media,

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425 – Enhance Alliance and Compliance with Yoga

Helping Clients Focus and Open
AMY WEINTRAUB

The work of therapy can’t begin in earnest if the client’s mind is racing with anxiety, fogged by depression, or so tense that the entire body is locked in place. Teaching yoga skills

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518 – Catalyzing Brain Change

How to Transform Any Adversity into Learning and Growth
LINDA GRAHAM

Helping clients develop strategies for coping with both everyday disappointments and extraordinary disaster is at the heart of the therapeutic process, regardless of your clinical approach. In this workshop,

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519 – Complex Trauma Clients at the Edge

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

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523 – Welcoming the Body to Talk Therapy

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

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524 – Chronic Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior

Creating Safety and Collaboration
Janina Fisher

Chronically suicidal clients present a special kind of stress for therapists: there’s not only the emotional stress of working with their pain, but the additional burden of risk, responsibility, and anxiety. When should we

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525 – Cracking the Code with Adolescents

Core Skills for Effective Interactions
BRITT RATHBONE & JULIE BARON

Ever enter the consulting room with a teen who doesn’t want to be there? If you work with teens, you know how tricky it can be to establish good communication

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601 – The Myth of the Unitary Self

A Dialogue on the Multiplicity of Mind
GABOR MATÉ & RICHARD SCHWARTZ

There’s a growing convergence of opinion from a range of disciplines challenging the traditional idea of the unitary personality in favor of the view that each of us

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602 – Rethinking Personality Disorders

The Search for Secure Attachment
Courtney Armstrong

What’s going on when your best efforts to establish a secure therapeutic alliance with a personality-disordered client aren’t working? Before you proclaim a “bad fit” and refer them out, consider changing your approach.

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604 – Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression

A Sensorimotor Approach to Change
Janina Fisher

The very nature of depression often thwarts efforts to treat it. After all, it’s difficult to change when you have no energy, no hope, and no capacity to concentrate. How can we challenge

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611 – The Magic of Virginia Satir

Helping Clients Tap into Their Inner Resources
SUSAN BREGMAN

Over the course of 50 years, the brilliant family therapy pioneer Virginia Satir developed powerful therapeutic techniques to help people externalize unconscious inner processes and experience emotional and spiritual healing. In

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614 – The Accidental Sex Therapist

Sex Therapy Tools Anyone Can Use
STEPHEN SNYDER

When a client unexpectedly reveals a sexual problem, many clinicians find themselves thrust into the role of “accidental sex therapist.” In this uncomfortable position, too many shy away from addressing the sexual

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618 – The New Field of Contemplative Psychotherapy

How to Heal the Trauma of Narcissism
Joseph Loizzo

In today’s challenging environment—when racial and sexual violence, rising inequity, and reactivity are erupting everywhere—our society seems to be collectively facing traumas we therapists have long been treating privately. These traumas

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