Pre-Conference Institutes and Activities
Add a day of professional development with continuing education credit to your conference experience. The stimulating institutes below are led by outstanding teachers and therapists. More extensive descriptions and learning objectives (now being approved) will be available on request to education@usataa.org. Continuing education documentation is offered at a nominal fee to Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and Educators. Check with your licensing agency to determine eligibility for your profession.
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The Multiple Ways Unconscious Drives Affect Our Relationships
Fanita English, MSW, Diploma in Psychology (Sorbonne, France), TSTA
Three unconscious drives operate through our ego states to affect our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. The balance between them affects our well-being and our relationships. These drives, or "motivators," will be described and demonstrated in an interactive workshop with theory and experiential work for improved emotional balance and relationships.
Reconnecting to Self and Others: Using Logosynthesis to Resolve Energetic Blockages
Mary Goodman, Ph.D., PTSTA, Patricia North, M.Ed. (Certified Canadian Counselor)
In this one-day intensive, the principles and method of Logosynthesis, an innovative system of healing, personal change, and re-connection to self and others, will be discussed and demonstrated. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the method in identifying and resolving blockages to energetic flow, both internally and also interpersonally.
Logosynthesis is a method for personal transformation that is inherently respectful of the basic healthiness of the individual and of the sense of “rightness” as experienced intrinsically by the individual. In much the same way that homeopathic medicine can have profound and far-reaching effects on the physical well-being of the patient without harmful side effects, Logosynthesis uses the simple power of the individual’s own words to access and activate the innate wisdom of the psyche to dissolve self-limiting patterns. As such, it imposes nothing from the outside and fosters great sensitivity within both the client and the therapist.
Redecision Therapy: A Day of Change
Janet Lee O'Connor, Del Worley, MC, LPC, Phyllis Jenkins, and John McNeel, Ph.D.
This one-day demonstration is designed for psychotherapists who want to learn Redecision Transactional Analysis by experiencing the applied model. In addition to didactic discussion, participants will be given an opportunity to take an active role by volunteering to be a client followed by group discussion of the change work. Redecision Therapy’s clear, concise methods support precise goals and produce rapid, long-lasting change measurable in behavioral terms.
Thinking with the Whole Body – Using New Information from Brain Research to Increase Understanding of Learning and Aging
Jean Illsley Clarke Ph.D., TSTA, Education
New data from burgeoning brain research validate some of our beliefs and practices and turn others into outdated myths. Consider evidences of brain plasticity and the exciting newly identified brain-driven four developmental stages of old age. Compare healthy learning and the wise aging brain with degenerating Alzheimer’s.
