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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 voluntary clients. Finally, they will compare Choice Theory/Reality Therapy treatment planning with other theoretical approaches.
WORKSHOP 11 – ALZHEIMER’S: THE CAREGIVER’S TOOLBOX- NANCY HERRICK’S
All of us will be affected in some way by the ballooning number of dementia patients in the next decade. This workshop will provide information about the diversity of dementia and focus on one type, Alzheimer's disease, in particular. As healthcare professionals and RT/CT practitioners, effective interventions outside of the pharmaceutical realm may be sought by our friends and families. Although the presenter is not an expert, the information gained and shared by participants may have an enlightening impact on our future experiences as we, ourselves, age.
WORKSHOP 12 - PROFOUND IMPACTS OF WILLIAM GLASSER'S LEGACY - LES TRICHÉ & CARLEEN GLASSER
We desire to discuss evidence-based results of the profound works of Dr. William Glasser’s, Choice Theory/Reality Therapy that stems from the Ventura School for Girls, to the California Institution for Women, using Choice Theory, Internal Empowerment Coaching and Scripture Therapy (IECAST). We seek to tell our success stories, and obtain information from conference participants regarding their untold personal and professional stories of success in implementing Glasser’s work in: schools; colleges; mental health; corrections; corporations; clinical practices; and other entities that begs communicating to the world. These stories obtained from participants will be used to develop, implement, monitor and maintain “The Legacy of Dr. William Glasser.”
PLENARY @ 4:00 – THE ART OF MINDFUL HUGGING – VANESSA L. WHITE FERNANDES I believe in hugs; the giving and the receiving of them. I also know that through giving and receiving hugs, we experience both physical, as well as emotional health, benefits. However, we have been carefully taught to not connect; to not touch one another. There are many reasons and ways in which we are taught this throughout our lives. Yet, I believe, we crave Love, Belonging, and Connection with one another. Through story, photos, and practice, I will create a hugging sensation in Raleigh, NC. Come with a readiness to get close, and to carry it on forever! You will be guided through the process of how to give a deep, mindful hug, and there will be lots of practice!
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FRIDAY JULY 28, 2017 EDUCATION & LEAD MANAGEMENT
PLENARY @ 8:30 – GLASSER QUALITY SCHOOLS – FACILITATED BY JAN WHITE Come here about the new GQS Rubric and the application of it in various settings. We will have a public school superintendent, a Catholic school principal and a public charter school teacher all discussing the application of Choice Theory in their particular settings. You will hear the diversity and yet, they connect on similarities - their unfailing commitment to use Choice Theory ideals to create schools where students want to learn and teachers want to work.
**9:30 – BREAK * 10:00 AM
WORKSHOP 13 – STEVE HAMMOND’S WORKSHOP – SCHOOLS WITHOUT FEAR
One of Dr. Glasser's key precepts in a Glasser Quality School is that school constituencies consider it to be a joyous place. This is a delightfully important and revolutionary thought. It means that the environment must be intentionally created and maintained as being a place that is free of fear. When this occurs, students, teachers, staff, administrators, parents, board and even visitors want to be involved. Performance goes up. Confidence is created. People are happy. But how are these kinds of schools formed? How does the creation of joy intersect with the removal of fear in these schools (and all working environments)? If the school can, in fact, realize this remarkable feat, how does it integrate into the their long term culture? What can you do to create such a space for yourself and others? Steve Hammond, Principal of Saint Patrick Catholic School in Norfolk, Virginia and staff friends will provide answers to these questions in a lively, interactive and fear free environment! Participants will be provided a framework and resources that will help them create and maintain a joyous learning environment in which fear is not allowed in any place at any time for anyone.7
Presenters: Steve Hammond and Friends from Saint Patrick Catholic School, the only Catholic Glasser Quality School in the nation.
WORKSHOP 14 – GLASSER QUALITY SCHOOL COMMUNITY MEMBERS EXPLAIN HOW LIFE IN GQS IMPROVES MENTAL HEALTH - CHARLOTTE WELLEN
Charlotte Wellen, NBCT, Instructor at the Glasser Institute Emily ThomasClarke, Murray High School Graduate, Class of 2017 Will Anderson, Murray High School Graduate, Class of 2017 Whyatt Gibson, Murray High School Rising Senior, Class of 2018.
After the Quality Schools Panel Discussion, you might want more detailed information about life in a Glasser Quality School. If so, come to a workshop led by Murray High School students and graduates, who will share their own stories with you and explain how they believe their
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mental health, both while in school, and in their future lives, will be improved by their knowledge of Choice Theory. They will answer your questions about how to implement various aspects of a Glasser Quality School. For instance, students will do role plays to demonstrate the mediation procedures at Murray and explain why they are useful.They will also do role plays demonstrating the value of the knowledge of Axiom #2 in communicating well and building strong relationships. (You are invited to participate in all role plays.) Finally, they will discuss the various methods of community-building we use to help students and teachers trust and love one another, so school becomes a joyful, relevant, and fulfilling place to educate ourselves.
WORKSHOP 15 – CHOICE THEORY AND SCHOOLS: PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER – LOIS DASILVA-KNAPTON
Join me as we walk through the new WGI rubrics for Glasser Quality Schools AND Glasser Quality Educator/Teacher. As educators, we all understand the importance of school climate in our schools and there is big push right now to be able to demonstrate and measure positive school climate. In addition, we have contact with children for many hours each week. Unfortunately, kids are coming to school with deeper mental health issues than ever before and demonstrating ineffective behaviors and coping skills both at home and in school. Educators are continually writing behavior plans, suspending kids as young as Kindergarten, and struggling with classroom management. In this workshop, you will walk away with fresh ideas and some great Rubrics delineating the criteria of a Quality School and a Quality Teacher.
Workshop 16 – TRAUMA-INFORMED REALITY THERAPY — GLORIA S. CISSÉ & WILLA J. CASSTEVENS The Center for Disease Control’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study examines the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and lifelong adulthood health outcomes. Initial results of the study found that there is a graded relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse (e.g., childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse or childhood dysfunction) and adulthood health risk behaviors. This workshop proposes ways to integrate knowledge and recognition of trauma into Choice Theory/Reality Therapy treatment model. The presenters will show how to include Dr. Glasser’s basic principles into treatment and outcome evaluation of clients whom have experienced trauma. The workshop emphasizes how the past experiences of clients inform the present-focused treatment of the therapist. The presenter’s goal is to introduce techniques that might be added to the reality therapists’ tool bag.
**12:00 – LUNCH**
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WORKSHOP 17 – EQUIPPING LEADERS TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP WHILE CONQUERING POVERTY – SHAWN HURT & SHARON CARDER-JACKSON
Do you feel pressure to close the achievement gap? The added layers of servicing students with disabilities, minority students, students living in poverty—all while charters operating with limited resources make this task seem impossible. This highly skilled turnaround specialist will demonstrate to participants how to achieve 1.50 years’ worth of growth for all students through implementing culturally responsive teaching strategies, facilitating data dialogs, planning purposeful professional development, and establishing sustainable partnerships.
Workshop 18 – DIVERSITY IS REALITY: INTERFAITH DIALOGUE IN HIGHER EDUCATION - MARNEY WALKER & CLAIRE HOLLAND The James Cook University Interfaith Dialogue (“Let’s Talk”) Project draws on the pedagogy of interfaith dialogue, Choice Theory, conflict resolution and peace education. The “Let’s Talk” dialogues deliver opportunities for students to interact with people from different faith backgrounds and increase their religious literacy. Glasser states that good relationships are required for a successful life. Research shows that dialogue programs are an effective tool in establishing relationships between people of diverse backgrounds, social groups, and religions. By choosing to engage in Interfaith dialogue, many participants are choosing to change their behaviour, experience deeper understanding about other’s perspectives, and accept the existence of multiple truths.
Workshop 19 – WORLDVIEW AND ENVIRONMENT: THE RELATIONSHIP BEFORE THE PROCEDURES - NEW PERSPECTIVES IN TREATING ADDICTIONS – BRADLEY SMITH When responding to addictions, it is helpful to consider that addiction is often an accidental relationship, rooted in client responses to worldview and environment. For many, addiction began as a solution; therefore, it is essential to grasp its history and complexity, as well as the durability of the paradoxical behaviors and distorted meanings this attempt at a solution can produce.
In Choice Theory, behaviour is viewed as goal-directed. For many suffering from addictions, one goal is simply a perpetual negotiation with unbearable pain. Frustrated concepts of meaning, identity, and purpose conspire with distorted worldviews to create a highly-organized yet destructive response-to-environment. This is the point of intervention, emphasizing why labels such as “abuse,” “addict,” “user,” and “dirty test” are unjust, inaccurate, and unhelpful.
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WORKSHOP 20 – THE EFFECTS OF A READING COMPREHENSION INTERVENTION PACKAGE ON INCREASING THIRD GRADE STUDENTS’ COMPREHENSION SKILLS – MARIYN P. CARD & LOIS KNAPTON
The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD; 2014) surveyed 1,980 adults in the United States and found that 84% of adults believed learning disabilities were a growing concern in the United States, especially 53% were found to be at the first to fourth grade level, indicated by the responders. Previous research has shown that instruction in individual skills such as vocabulary acquisition, reading fluency, writing, and story mapping help increases students’ reading comprehension. The RCIP was designed to emphasize strategies such as word recognition, decoding, story-retell, and pre-reading. It was implemented with different reading comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading.
WORKSHOP 21 – DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE: ONE WOMAN'S STORY ABOUT BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING – JAN MORÉ
I will share my personal story about how I broke the glass ceiling. I was the president of the women's group at my company and convinced upper management to let us host a Diversity Day (this was in 1994). They gave us $18k to pay for the event. From my experience leading this effort, my career was launched. I was disillusioned about having to give up some of myself in order to hold a management position. In the talk, I will tie in the decision of WGI-US to hold the conference in Raleigh due to the controversy about transgender bathrooms with the way I was able to successfully work my way up the corporate ladder. I see the boycotts due to the bathroom issue, the violence by African Americans towards police and the anti-Trump demonstrations and can't help but think there is a better way.
WORKSHOP 22 – RESPONSIBLE AND RESPECTFUL CHOICES FOR THE CHRONIC TRAFFIC OFFENDER – JAMES SOLOMON & KIM OLVER
Since the first automobile was put on the road there have been crashes and deaths. Annually 60% to 90% of all crashes are found to be driver error. And in most cases there is a violation of law involved. Many of these people are assigned to driving school. It helps some of them. However in today's society driving schools are crowded with "frequent flyers". It isn't that they do not know the law. They choose not to obey the law. They "know" they are good drivers and see other motorists as being in their way. NSC has introduced Reality Therapy into the initial offender curriculum - DDC Attitudinal Dynamics of Driving with great success. But there is still a segment of the driving population that still elects errant behavior. This is a discussion of how Dr. Glasser's work has been incorporated into working with this set of persons.
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4:00 Regional Meetings
SATURDAY JULY 29, 2017 – WELLBEING
PLENARY @ 8:30 – DIVERSITY PANEL – FACILITATED BY GLORIA CISSE
**9:30 – BREAK** 10:30 AM
WORKSHOP 23 – THOUGHTFUL ANSWERS TO TIMELESS QUESTIONS: DECADES OF WISDOM – CARLEEN GLASSER & JIM CODDINGTON III
Material presented is based on a collection of selected letters and answers Dr. Glasser provided found in “Thoughtful Answers to Timeless Questions: Decades of Wisdom in Letters from the Author of Choice Theory – William Glasser, M.D.” Ideas will be shared about how participants will be able to utilize skills presented by Dr. Glasser in reply to individuals seeking his guidance pertaining to a variety of challenges they were facing.
WORKSHOP 24 – BUILDING A NEED-SATISFYING RELATIONSHIP WITH YOURSELF – KIM OLVER
Do you wonder what it means to have a healthy relationship with yourself? Do you often wonder who you really are? Do you find other people are worried about your wellbeing? Are you a person who puts everyone else’s needs ahead of your own? In this workshop, participants will explore the 15 aspects of a healthy relationship with oneself, based on Choice Theory's five basic needs. We will explore the role of perception in sabotaging a healthy relationship with Self. Then through discussion and demonstration, participants will complete their own personal assessment of what is and isn't working in their lives to create the healthy relationship they want with themselves. Finally, participants will craft their own plans for how to let go of the things that aren’t currently working so they can create time and space for what does to improve that all-important relationship with self.
WORKSHOP 25 – LET IT BEGIN WITH ME . . . – ANNA CORBETT
If you long for peace and respect, it is essential that it begins with YOU! Often, as the ‘care- giver’, and the ‘peace activist’ (counselors, educators, health care-providers, managers, parents & grandparents, etc.) we expend so much energy managing conflict and providing service to others that we often neglect our own inner peace, health and well-being. The result can be the experience of fatigue, overwhelm, inner conflict and even challenging health signals. Based on neuroscience validated techniques, “best practices” of Integrative Health & Wellness, and
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Mindful Non-Violence, Anna teaches methods to tap into the wisdom of your own inner peace and self-respect, through simple practices with immediate shifts. In this playfully experiential workshop, you will learn empowering mindful, peace building practices that you can apply personally and then share with your clients/students, family, friends and community. Come prepared to learn, connect, and enjoy yourself!
**12:00 – LUNCH** 1:00 PM
WORKSHOP 26 – WHAT’S RIGHT? AND HOW TO FIND IT! – JAMES GABBARD
This will be an interactive workshop including: “looking for what is right” and practicing what we can do to get closer to those “right” pictures. We will review words and behaviors to avoid, which often generate “blaming.” We will scan how we want to be treated and list behaviors and internal control words that are helpful in getting us closer to what we want. We will practice voluntary, conscious control of thoughts, words, and calming.
WORKSHOP 27 – FREEDOM THROUGH UNDERSTANDING (BASIC NEEDS IN ACTION) – BRIAN O’REILLY
This workshop will engage the participants on a reflective discussion of the basic needs and how discussion can be used as a tool to discover Choice Theory and set the group for insight into one’s behaviour and change. Looking at human progress, Choice Theory is a psychology that is taking humanity in a more positive direction. This workshop explores the limitation of external control psychology and the limitations of thought. Participates will explore the premises of external control in a small group format. They will report back to the larger group and have a brief group discussion and share discoveries.
WORKSHOP 28 – WHAT, ME WORRY? UNCOVERING THE PERSONAL FEARS THAT UNDERMINE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DIVERSITY – PATRICIA ROBEY
This session is designed for people who find themselves shutting down when discussions of diversity, politics, legislation, or other hot topics make their way into conversations. In this interactive session, participants will be guided through a series of questions that are designed to explore their perceptions and total behavior when presented with sensitive topics. Participants will privately self-assess their responses to the questions and then will be invited to share their experience of this exercise with others if they choose to do so. The workshop will conclude with an opportunity for participants to generate ideas for behaviors that may be helpful in addressing the fears related to these topics.
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WORKSHOP 29 – RESPECT: WHO WILL SIT AT THE TABLE - FRANCESCO FRENCHIE BAZZOCCHI
This workshop is designed for high school students but can apply to any team or group as a team building exercise. It allows students to gain a deeper appreciation for the dignity of every human being. Instead of showing or telling students the importance of empathy and respect – students discover it through an experiential role-playing task “Celebrating Diversity: It’s A Small World After All!”
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WORKSHOP 31 – "COMING OUT" WITH CHOICE THEORY – SHRUTI TEKWANI AND JANE HALE
The intention of this presentation is to illuminate the experience of LGBT individuals, who are going through the “coming out” process, within a Choice Theory framework. The presenters will engage the attendees in an interactive activity that will highlight how basic needs may be threatened when the social identity of non-heterosexual individuals changes. Proposed ideas about how to help LGBT individuals recognize what they do have control over during this process will be explained.
WORKSHOP 32 – A CASE STUDY IN THE APPLICATION OF THE 5 BASIC NEEDS TO THE GROUP SETTING – JIM MISHLER
Presentation of an anecdotal case study which describes how understanding the 5 Basic Needs of a group and addressing those needs led to the successful completion of a Strategic Plan. The discussion will include a framework for group evaluation and suggestions for addressing concerns.
WORKSHOP 33 – PLEASURE-PAIN SYNDROME – MONA DUNKIN
Do not excuse the person for his crime because he did it out of not being loved or wanting to have fun. Just like a child, the childish adult who acts out is demonstrating an unsatisfying relationship and demanding attention. He/she becomes disconnected from love and belonging and turns to power. A life out of control is needs-fulfilling . . . until it isn’t.
Let’s give them their power back. The answer to the rebel is better relationship. Starting with the one he has with himself.
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PLENARY @ 4:30 – THE RHYTHM OF DIVERSITY – DAVE BETZ Through an experiential rhythm-based playshop, participants will explore and express their wants, satisfy their basic needs, dialogue about and experience the value of diversity, and have fun. No rhythm or music experience is necessary, and drums and percussion instruments will be provided. Come explore group norms and dynamics, individual and group choices and experimentation, testing our mutual capabilities and comfort zones, and your willingness to co- create the greater good - in harmony. This will be a fun, playful, thought-provoking session, with live rhythms created participants attending.
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