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FOT Conference 2023 Schedule

Focusing-Oriented Therapy Conference November 2 - 5, 2023
 SCHEDULE

 

IMPORTANT: Please use 'Your Time Here' links

Clocks change in much of Europe the weekend before the conference.
Clocks change in USA & Canada during the conference - please be aware for Sunday


THURSDAY November 2
WELCOME/ORIENTATION

9:00am - 9:30am (New York time) your time here

SESSION 1
10:00am -12:00pm (New York time) your time here

Aaffien de Vries - Finding ground in an unstable and frightening world

Mentxu Martín-Aragón & Josep Santacreu - Working with the “internal character” in F.O.T.to deal with unwanted emotions

SESSION 2
1pm – 3pm (New York time) your time here

Agnes Windram - Benefits of FOT and an experiential framework in the treatment of chronic eating disorders. A clinical case study

Beatrice Hyacinthe & Isabel Adon - Transforming Our Grief

SESSION 3
4:00pm – 6:00pm (New York time) your time here

Joan Klagsbrun - Acknowledging the Dark and Embracing the Light:  Crossing Focusing and Positive Psychology in Psychotherapy

Salvador Moreno - How the Music of Speech empowers communication/relationship in Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy: demonstration

SESSION 4
7:00pm – 9:00pm (New York time) your time here

Roshi Paul Genki Kahn - Focusing as a Zen Way of Being: Navigating HERE-NOW as the Unknowable and Indeterminate Pivot for Non-Linear Dynamic Systems Perspectives

Akira Ikemi - Crossing with Animals and the Experiencing Model:  On the Freshly Emerging ‘Now’ that Changes ‘What Was’

FRIDAY November 3
WELCOME/ORIENTATION
9:00am – 9:30am (New York time) your time here

SESSION 5
10:00am -12:00pm (New York time) your time here

Mia Leijssen - Portals of Living Forward in Times of Crisis

Freda Blob - Creative Compassion: Building Relational Empathy through Expressive  Arts Focusing Activities

SESSION 6
1:00pm – 3:00pm (New York time) your time here

Jim Iberg - Three phases of Focusing Often Seen in a One-hour Therapy Session

Greg Madison - Focusing-oriented Democracy

SESSION 7
4:00pm – 6:00pm (New York time) your time here

PANEL: The Urgency of Teaching the Essence of FOT to a New Generation
Biliania Dearly, Laury Rappaport, Charlotte Howorth, Joan Klagsbrun. Moderated by Jeffrey Morrison.

SESSION 8
7:00pm – 9:00pm (New York time) your time here

Dennis Windego -  Anishinaabeg People’s Natural Healing Rites of Passage and The Felt Sense

Carolyn Tongco - Self-Compassion Themed Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts for Primary Caregivers of Pediatric Thalassemia Patients

SATURDAY November 4
LIVING ROOM  (Hosted by Rachel Hendron) This is a chance to connect informally with others.
4:00am - 5:00am (New York time) your time here

SESSION 9
10:00am -12:00pm (New York time) your time here

Harriët Teeuw & René Veugelers - Down to earth!  A Dynamic Expressive process with children and teenagers

Teté Brandam - The contribution of Focusing to the salutogenic model

SESSION 10
1:00pm – 3:00pm (New York time) your time here

PANEL: The Urgency of Widening Our Lens of Inclusivity
Beilah Ross, Kati Singh, Luis Quiros, and Annette Dubreuil. Moderated by Yaotunde Obiora.

SESSION 11
4:00pm – 6:00pm (New York time) your time here

Jan Winhall - Revolutionizing Trauma and Addiction Treatment with the Felt Sense  Polyvagal Model™ Jan Winhall M.S.W. F.O.T. 

Dennis Windego - Anishinaabeg People’s Natural Healing Rites of Passage and The Felt Sense / Ritos de iniciación sanadores naturales del pueblo Anishinaabeg y La Sensación Sentida

SESSION 12
7:00pm – 9:00pm (New York time) your time here

Biliana Dearly - Transforming Inner Criticism in the Process of FOT

Laury Rappaport - Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts Therapy (FOAT®): Overview and Demonstration

LIVING ROOM (Hosted by Jeffrey Morrison) This is a chance to connect informally with others.  (Sorry, no translation available.)
9:00pm - 10:00pm (New York time) your time here
 

SUNDAY November 5 ***USA/CANADA CLOCKS CHANGE***
LIVING ROOM (Hosted by Rachel Hendron) This is a chance to connect informally with others.
4:00am-5:00am (New York time) your time here

SESSION 13
10:00am -12:00pm (New York time) your time here

PANEL: The Urgency of Making Focusing-Oriented Therapy More Findable
Guilherme Tostes, Florentina Sassoli, Cecilia Burgos, Sergio Lara. Moderated by Naty Calviño.

SESSION 14
1:00pm – 3:00pm (New York time) your time here

Julie Ramsey, Susan Lennox, Mary Anne Schleinich & Steve Moscovitch - Psychotherapy In This Time of Existential Threat: How Can FOTs Meet Today’s Challenges?

Beilah Ross - Ancestors as Allies on the Path of Personal and Collective Liberation 

SESSION 15
4:00pm – 6:00pm (New York time) your time here

Lisa Banu - How to Appear in Dark Times  - Hannah Arendt and Eugene Gendlin on Making Space

Charlotte Howorth - The Doing in the Saying

SESSION 16
7:00pm – 9:00pm (New York time) your time here

Serge Prengel - Sunflower Mind demonstration: The embodied & relational edge of Focusing-oriented therapy

Lynn Preston - Evolutionary Conversation:  New Focusing Skills for Groups and Communities

CLOSING
9:15pm - 9:45pm (New York time) your time here