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