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Go Beyond Words With Impact Therapy
Working With African American Clients and Families
International Visiting Professional
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BEYOND WORDS WITH IMPACT THERAPY
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Danie
Beaulieu, PhD
Friday, January 20, 2006, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Talk, talk, and more
talk! Television, radio, magazines, and books all flood the verbal centers
of our clients’ minds with useful information, helpful advice and sometimes
utter nonsense. Yet even with this abundance of verbal stimulation, our
clients still come to us in need of help. Impact Therapy will let you
move beyond words and engage your clients’ multisensory minds in ways
that talk alone just can’t do. In this session, you’ll learn how to integrate
Impact techniques into your normal therapeutic approach to give your interventions
an experiential dimension and more impact by breaking through the wall
of words.
When attention is
captured and the senses are engaged, understanding and learning improve
dramatically. Dozens of examples of the use of Impact Techniques in counseling
situations will be presented to help boost the impact of all your communications.
Moving beyond the lecture format, this workshop will engage the participants
in the experience of Impact Techniques and in the creation of their own
Impact tools and strategies based on their own advising and counseling
dilemmas. Forget the slow lane: Imagination, creativity and experimentation
will put this group into high gear!
 Pyschologist
DANIE BEAULIEU, PhD, has made presentations to
over 80,000 people throughout Quebec alone since 1993. Danie is
president and founder of Académie Impact (www.academieimpact.com),
which focuses on training and resources for psychology and education.
Her newest book, Eye Movement Integration: The Comprehensive
Guide (Crown House, 2003), presents both the theoretical basis
for EMI and extensive and detailed instructions for its successful
clinical adaptation. Danie’s workshop schedule includes invitations
to present to professionals in Europe, South Africa, and North America,
including the prestigious Psychotherapy Networker Conference.
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WORKING
WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN CLIENTS AND FAMILIES
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Nancy
Boyd-Franklin, PhD
Friday, March 3, 2006, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
The subtleties and
diversity of African American culture require mental health professionals’
careful attention if they hope to connect and be successful, and this
workshop will provide participants with a greater understanding of how
to work effectively with African American clients and families. You will
learn how to utilize cultural strengths such as the extended family network,
religion and spirituality, and survival skills in your work. Issues of
racism will be discussed, particularly in terms of its impact on family
life, child rearing, gender issues, and couple relationships. Special
attention will be paid to the “invisibility” of African American men and
the fears for Black male children. White and Black clinicians will learn
how to effectively use themselves to join with African American families,
using clinical case examples and videotaped material to build your knowledge
and skills.
 NANCY
BOYD-FRANKLIN, PhD is an African American family therapist
and a Professor at Rutgers University in the Graduate School of
Applied and Professional Psychology. She is the author of Black
Families in Therapy: A Multisystems Approach, Reaching Out in Family
Therapy: Home-based, School and Community Interventions (with
Dr. Brenna Bry) and Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American
Teenage Sons (with Dr. A. J. Franklin). An internationally
recognized lecturer and author, Dr. Boyd-Franklin has dedicated
her career to building bridges between people, overcoming racism,
and helping those in need. She has written extensively on issues
such as ethnicity and family therapy, the treatment of African American
families, extended family issues, spirituality and religion, home-based
family therapy, group therapy for Black women, HIV and AIDS, community
empowerment, and the Multisystems Model.
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INTERNATIONAL
VISITING PROFESSIONAL
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SYLVIA
LONDON, MA
Spring 2006
SYLVIA LONDON,
MA is Reunion Institute’s Visiting Professional for the spring
of 2006. Ms. London is a member of Grupo Campos Eliseos in Mexico City,
an independent institute in Mexico City based on postmodern and social
constructionist ideas which offers training, consultation, supervision
and psychotherapy. She has presented workshops throughout North America
for the Annual Conference of the Texas Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy (TAMFT), the Houston-Galveston Institute, the North American Society
for Psychotherapy Research, and the Evanston (IL) Family Therapy Center.
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