2010 AAP Conference
"Co-Creating the World We Want"
June 25-27, Chicago, IL

FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010

		The Association for the Advancement of Pychosynthesis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. AAP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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Beneath the busyness of our daily lives flows a deep river of creativity, passion, silence, and a place of contact with ourselves and what matters to us. Although "the deep river" is a powerful source of nurturance, the sheer pace of life in 21st century America often buries this inner dimension beneath the perpetual-motion surface of our days.

This workshop is about slowing down. It will introduce the principles and practices of the Deep River process as detailed in Abby's book, Finding the Deep River Within. With the help of experiential exercises, discussion, a touch of humor, and each other, we will explore ways to free ourselves from the tyranny of our "to-do's," in order to rest more in our deeper selves and in the gift of life itself. NOTE: This workshop meets the prerequisite for the Deep River Facilitator Training. For more info, contact: Abby@deepriverwithin.com

Abby Seixas, M.Ed., LMHC, is a psychotherapist, author and speaker specializing in issues of life balance. She offers workshops and retreats as well as her popular "Deep River"™ groups. Her work has been featured on national and local television, radio and print media, including NBC's The Today Show, O. The Oprah Magazine, Self, and Body+Soul. Abby studied psychosynthesis with Roberto Assagioli in 1973 and has practiced psychosynthesis-oriented psychotherapy for thirty years.

Helping families keep their cool. Too often, even skillful parents "lose it" under stress. The presenter draws on thirty years of experience to share an innovative three-step process that helps parents remain centered in difficult situations. In this experiential workshop, participants gain confidence in helping families create an environment based on mutual respect.

Ilene Val Essen, Ph.D., has worked in the field of parent education as a psychotherapist, consultant and trainer for more than thirty years. She created the Quality Parenting programs and authored the book, Bring Out the Best in Your Child and Yourself. Her material has been translated into Spanish, Dutch and Swedish.

Experience a virtual exploration of Roberto Assagioli's house in Florence, where the sources of psychosynthesis dwell. In this interactive workshop, find inspiration for your life, work, relationships, and research through the materials in and the spirit of the archives, library, and house where Assagioli's energy still lives.

This presentation will cover fundamental aspects of psychosynthesis through didactic, experiential, and discussion methods. Roberto Assagioli described seven basic concepts of psychosynthesis theory and practice: dis-identification; the personal self; the will: good, strong, skillful; the ideal model; synthesis; the superconscious; and the transpersonal self. These concepts will be introduced, and psychological interventions utilizing the concepts will be shared.

Brad Roth, M.A., (Dance), Wesleyan University, B.A. (Economics), Cornell University, is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA), a trainer with the Connecticut Institute for Psychosynthesis, a member of the Professional Development Committee of AAP, and Editor of AAP's Conversations, Vol. 6: Psychosynthesis and the Body. He is currently a candidate in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Southern Connecticut State University.

In his keynote address, Tom Yeomans offers us a reflection on the past, present, and future of psychosynthesis and the challenges we face today in the midst of a planetary crisis.

Tom will frame our psychosynthetic work within the context of the present global crisis and the breakdown of the various systems by which we have been living on the earth, and from there examine its usefulness as a response to this situation.

He will review the first one-hundred years of psychosynthesis from a developmental perspective and highlight where we are now in its life-cycle. He will raise some of the issues that might impede the further development of psychosynthesis and its greater usefulness to us and to the world in the future.

Lastly, Tom will explore some of the possibilities for psychosynthesis' maturation over the next one hundred years as well as this community's response, using its principles and practices, to the crises and conditions we face as a species on planet earth today.

Thomas Yeomans, Ph.D., studied psychosynthesis with Roberto Assagioli in the early 70's, and completed psychosynthesis training at the Psychosynthesis Institute in Palo Alto in 1974. He has trained professionals in psychosynthesis and spiritual psychology throughout North America, Europe, and in Russia for forty years. He has published writings on psychosynthesis and spiritual psychology as well as three volumes of poetry and a children's book.