Schedule

PLENARY ADDRESS • 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Esther Perel • MATING IN CAPTIVITY: IN SEARCH OF EROTIC INTELLIGENCE

The keynote examines the cultural pressures that shape domesticated sex, and the puzzling inverse correlation between greater emotional intimacy and the loss of sexual desire.

Esther Perel is the author of the widely acclaimed book “Mating in Captivity: Couples and Eroticism” (2006) - published by Harper Collins in North America and translated into eight languages.

Workshops . 10:15 - 4:00pm

4) Bill Madsen • COLLABORATIVE THERAPY WITH MULTI-STRESSED FAMILIES

Examine a strength-based, collaborative approach to engaging difficult families by helping them envision desired lives, address long-standing problems, and develop more proactive coping strategies. The workshop offers participants a chance to examine their
own therapeutic maps, highlights strength-based questions, and offers specific directions on working with the broader cultural and philosophical contexts in which multi-stressed families find themselves.

Respondent- Paul Gallant
Bill Madsen is the author of the newly revised book Collaborative Work with Multi-stressed Families (2007)

5) Ali Borden • COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATIONS IN MEDICAL-MODEL SETTINGS: SCENES FROM IN-PATIENT TREATMENT OF ANOREXIA & BULIMIA

The workshop will discuss specific work/examples that demonstrate options for how to be collaborative in challenging settings and with challenging problems. The workshop explores how to: 1) Illuminate and take apart pre-established ideas of anorexia/bulimia and
recovery. 2) Interrupt ‘restrictive’ ideas of a person’s identity and the problem itself. 3) Offer an audience to people’s initiatives and stories. 4) Hold onto concerns about physical health *and* sustain personal agency.

Respondent – Stephen Madigan
Ali Borden is the Clinical Director of The Eating Disorder Center of California and co-author of the book, “Biting the Hand That Starves You” (2005).

6) Eduardo Villar • THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS IN CONTEXTS OF TRAUMA AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE

The workshop focus is on therapy and interventions with victims, families and communities subjected to sociopolitical violence. The workshop offers a contextual understanding about Columbia’s 50 year war, the five groups involved, and how the people survive daily life. Eduardo outlines how this warring context influences his work
with various populations and problems including kidnapping, displacement, and violence. This workshop ‘wowed’ everyone at TC6 in Vancouver.

Respondent – Art Fisher
Eduardo Villar is an MD and psychotherapist practicing in Bogotá, Columbia. His work with people experiencing trauma and political violence, and his therapy with families whose members have been kidnapped is known and respected worldwide.

7) David Nylund & Julie Tilsen • ONE STOP QUEER SHOP

Often, therapists find that being a “good ally” (or, being GLBTQ themselves) is not always enough to help their queer clients out of the quagmires that life in a straight world can create. Discussed is the productive investigation of our own initiation into dominant ideas about sex and gender, conceptual foundations that are just and ethical, and clinical skills that are responsive to client preferences. Self-reflection, theory, and application will be combined as we examine our work with queer clients from a social justice and critical multicultural framework.

Respondent – Esther Perel
Julie Tilsen is a therapist, consultant, and trainer in Minneapolis.
David Nylund is an Associate professor of Social Work at California State University, Sacramento.

HISTORY OF CHANGE INTERVIEW 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Makungu M. Akinyela is interviewed by Stephen Madigan
RESCUING AND RECONSTRUCTING OUR LIVES: IDEAS ON HISTORY, HEALING AND CULTURE

The interview will focus on the intersection of Eurocentric and Indigenous cultures in the Post-modern/Post-colonial age. We explore what therapists of Indigenous and European heritage might learn from the past 500 years of history that could help us heal ourselves, our communities and the world.

Makungu M.Akinyela, is the developer of Testimony Therapy, an African centered discursive family therapy, and an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University, in Atlanta.