William Glasser Institute-US CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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WGI-US and North Carolina State University's Department of Social Work present: DoubleTree – Brownstone Hotel 1707 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, NC 27605 Locally: (919) 828-0811 Toll free: 1-800-331-7919 http://www.brownstonehotel.com July 26-29, 2017 Raleigh, NC William Glasser Institute-US CONFERENCE SCHEDULE THURSDAY JULY 27, 2017 REALITY THERAPY 8:30 WELCOME FROM NC STATE UNIVERSITY SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT HEAD - KAREN BULLOCK 9:00 PLENARY: QUESTIONS TO ASK OURSELVES AND A FEW ANSWERS – BOB WUBBOLDING **10:00 – BREAK** 10:30 AM WORKSHOP 1 – THE STIGMA OF ADDICTION – MARSHA ZABLOTNEY America is experiencing a public health epidemic the likes of which have never been seen before. Heroin and prescription opiate addiction and overdose has overtaken our country and effects every neighborhood in America and touches nearly every family. This workshop will challenge participants Perceptual Systems and provide an interesting look inside of addiction....it may not be what you think! WORKSHOP 2 – PROCESS MAPPING FOR REHABILITATION – JEAN STILL EQUIPS Program – Explore, Question, Understand, Investigate, Practice to successfully succeed. Corrective Services NSW (Australia), (CSNSW), State-wide Programs contributes to the government’s strategic direction of reducing the level of re-offending by implementing a suite of best practice offender programs and using strategies to increase participation and reduce attrition in these programs. One of the key challenges that the offender programs in NSW has faced has been providing effective programs to an extremely diverse offender population. This session would give the audience an up-to-date insight into The Connections Program, now available to offenders within the Community after Release, assisting them to lead more productive lives toward a positive future. WORKSHOP 3 – INTRODUCTION TO MILITARY CULTURE – JANET MORGAN As our soldiers reintegrate back from war they are looking for mental health practitioners who are able to relate to their specific warrior culture. This workshop is designed to introduce the counselor to the military culture through historical and present-day perspectives. Some hands- on activities will help the participant connect with the stress and demands that this special population experiences. WORKSHOP 4 – WHAT I LEARNED FROM DR. GLASSER IN 1966 - DIANE GOSSEN I would like to present some of the seeds of Dr. Glasser’s teachings and speak about how I grew them through experimentation in the field. Participants will have an opportunity to practice. Specifically I want to speak about the concept “all behavior is purposeful” and illustrate how to teach clients to mine their actions for deep motivation. I want to look at the technique of “Yes If” and teach how to explore the “IF”. Together we will examine the worst behavior the client is avoiding using the examples from Glasser’s roleplays. The last topic I will present is “Collapsing Conflict”, because conflict is a waste of human potential. **12:00 – LUNCH** PSYCHIATRY: THE GREAT DESTROYER OF HUMAN DIVERSITY - PETER R. BREGGIN, MD Human diversity depends upon individual freedom and personality responsibility. For diversity to thrive, society must respect and place a high priority on individual freedom, and individuals must take responsibility for their own individual lives and the development of their unique potentials. The individual brain and mind must be viewed as a treasure. Psychiatric diagnoses inhibit diversity by categorizing people into demeaning and destructive categories. Involuntary psychiatric treatment empowers psychiatry and society to further crush diversity through incarceration and compulsory outpatient drugging. All the basic psychiatric treatments—drugs, electroshock and lobotomy—directly impair the individual’s free will, self-awareness, love, creativity, Workshop times/dates subject to change…7/18/17 2 Page motivation, and confidence in respect to their own self-development. Psychiatric drugs make people care less about themselves and others, muting their experience of life. Finally, the basic pseudoscientific concepts and theories of organized psychiatry reject or undermine free will and personal responsibility, as well as formative human experiences, instead emphasizing fake genetic and biological explanations for human “behavior” and hence diversity. One of the greatest attacks on diversity in human history, the Holocaust, began with the psychiatric extermination of mental patients in so-called euthanasia centers, which Hitler expanded into a total war against Jews as well as others he deemed too diverse to live! Today, in a far more subtle, but often lethal approach, psychiatric drugs stifle diversity, beginning with the drugging of infants and small children, through the spectrum of life into older age. When one-quarter of the population is exposed to psychiatric diagnoses and drugs, the war on diversity is in full swing. 1:00 PM WORKSHOP 5 – CONSTRUCTING A QUALITY WORLD BY PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ADVOCACY – JANE HALE & MARY WHITFIELD-WILLIAMS As Choice Theory counselors, we are constantly striving to help clients recognize their choices and what they can and cannot control. The environment is often an area where clients may feel they do not have power to change. This is especially true for both clients and counselors who might be affected by imbalances of power in social systems. Some questions that emerge when relating Choice Theory to social advocacy include: Do social injustices play a role in Quality World formation? Does being a social advocate contribute to helping counselors keep our own scales in balance? How can we effectively understand how being a social advocate helps us, as counselors, and also how experiencing social injustices can have an effect on our clients’ development? This presentation will aim to answer these questions in an interactive format and will include practical suggestions about how to be a social advocate. WORKSHOP 6 – DR. GLASSER'S ULTIMATE QUESTION - THE DRIVING FORCE TO DIVERSITY– JOHN MIERAS The second part of the "Greatest Commandment" is a message that speaks to all of humanity - "Love others as well as you love yourself". The commandment, apart from religion, is one that the world would benefit from. When we look at the concept of diversity, diversity is embraced through living out the commandment. The void between a desire to live that way and actually living it out is embraced through the “Ultimate Question.” The session will take a walk through CT/RT to identify our own responsibility in furthering diversity where we live. Workshop times/dates subject to change…7/18/17 3 Page WORKSHOP 7 – BRAIN BASED: OUR DIVERSE WORLD AND THE RELATIONAL BRAIN - ELIZABETH (LIBBY) MARLATT-MURDOCH The world is full of diversity, and research can now support the theory that William Glasser proposed some time ago; every interaction with the diverse world we live in shapes our brain and ultimately, our mental health. When discussing diversity it is useful to understand the primary types of diversity; race, color, gender, age, ethnicity, ancestry, and national origin. This presentation seeks to go beyond these introductory concepts by sharing a message that we are much more alike than we think we are. Using the work of Dan Siegel, we will also discuss the importance of acknowledging our similarities and celebrating our differences. Then, in a discussion of relational neuroscience; this presentation seeks to aid the audience in understanding the importance of relationship to our psychological and physical health and wellbeing. WORKSHOP 8 - UNDERSTANDING NEED STRENGH PROFILE IN MARRIAGE USING THE CLASSIC LITERATURE: "GONE WITH THE WIND" - AERYUNG WOO Dr. Glasser talked about the need strength profile and its usefulness. Whether you are married or not, understanding the need strength profile will help you solve your own marital problems and help your clients. He also stated if you check this idea alone or with your partner, you could anticipate what kind of intimacy or problem you would have in your future marital life. In the beginning of this presentation, I will explain the idea of five needs, the need strength profile and the Three Husband's of Scaret Ohara, the heroine of “Gone with Wind" and why her marriages were so unhappy. Maybe the need strength profile didn't match well enough for her and her husbands. Then I will distribute the 50 objective questions in one paper which participants complete for themselves and their partner. **2:00 – BREAK** 2:30 PM WORKSHOP 9 – SOMETIMES THE SOLUTION IS UNRELATED TO THE PROBLEM AND SOMETIMES THE PROBLEM IS THE SOLUTION – ROBERT WUBBOLDING The demonstrations will illustrate how to utilize two major principles: the solution is often unrelated to the problem and the principle of utilization which means seeing the problem as part of the solution. The session will also stress how to generalize from a role-play to systemic changes. This session aims especially at the presentation of ideas useful in teaching reality therapy/Choice Theory including the extension of the procedure: self-evaluation. Workshop times/dates subject to change…7/18/17 4 Page WORKSHOP 10 – CASE CONCEPTUALIZATION AND TREATMENT PLANNING IN REALITY THERAPY – MIKE FULKERSON & MARIAH CASTLEN Reality Therapy Treatment Strategies workshop can be summarized into several components. First, the presenters will show how to conceptualize cases from a Choice Theory perspective. Next, they will describe several treatment strategies which can be used with involuntary or