Healing and Resilence

with Charlesetta Sutton

Cost:

$150 (includes lunch and materials)

Location:

Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Dates:

Friday, July 21 or Friday, August 25

Training:

6 hours

Faculty:

Charlesetta Sutton, LCSW

Healers and Caretakers recreate and restore balance and harmony in people’s lives. They encourage others to “retreat” and take breaks. This workshop-retreat cultivates an appreciation for the contributions you provide in the healing of others. The experiential course enhances the skills of practitioners and other caretakers in a position to facilitate positive coping strategies and building resilience. Participants explore how their own beliefs and styles of coping may influence their work. Participants also recognize, develop and expand skills and strategies to enhance their capacity to work with clients.

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Working with Sexually Aggressive Children:

Integrating play therapy and cognitive-behavioral approaches

Cost:

$450 (Space strictly limited)

Date:

December 1st - December 3rd, 2006

Location:

Multicultural Family Institute Directions

This workshop focuses on the special needs of abused and traumatized children. Play therapy will be highlighted as a treatment option with abused children integrated with other approaches.

This workshop provides information on normative childhood sexuality, problem sexual behaviors in children, and how to differentiate between the two. In addition, assessment and treatment guidelines will be provided with special attention to children’s normal resistance to acknowledging these problem behaviors. Therapy formats will be discussed including individual, group, and family therapy. Play therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques will be described.

For further information please go to www.elianagil.com

Eliana Gil, PhD, Director, Starbright Training Institute, is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, a Registered Art Therapist and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Renowned author, Adjunct Faculty at Virginia Tech University and Faculty, Multicultural Family Institute. National Expert on Child Abuse and Neglect, Winner of 2006 American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice.

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Sand Therapy Integrated with Play Therapy

Theory and Application

Cost:

$450 (Space strictly limited)

Date:

August 4th - August 6th, 2006

Times:

9AM - 4PM each day

Training:

18 hours

Location:

Multicultural Family Institute Directions

This course explores the remarkable power of sand therapy for both assessment and treatment purposes. Participants take part in experiential exercises and receive didactic and clinical information on the therapeutic use of sand therapy.

For further information please go to www.elianagil.com

Eliana Gil, PhD, Director, Starbright Training Institute, is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, a Registered Art Therapist and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Renowned author, Adjunct Faculty at Virginia Tech University and Faculty, Multicultural Family Institute. National Expert on Child Abuse and Neglect, Winner of 2006 American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice.

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Engaging, Connecting, and Working with Men in Therapy

One Day Workshop

Cost:

$100 (Space strictly limited)

Date:

Friday - November 3rd, 2006

Training:

6 hours

Location:

Rutgers Labor Education Building Directions

Faculty:

A. J. Franklin, Ph.D., Makungu Akinyela, Ph.D., others

A one day workshop featuring Dr. A. J. Franklin, Dr. Makungu Akinyela, Ken Dolan Del Vecchio, and Dr. Matthew Mock

Engaging men in therapy can be difficult. This special conference on working with men in therapy will focus on transforming men’s resistance in therapy. How do we understand men’s “resistance” to therapy in relation to their concept of manhood, disclosure, culture, racism, oppression, gender politics and power issues. Topics to be addressed include love, communication, power, privilege, and fairness in couple and family relationships, the dynamics of strength and weakness in therapy, intergenerational relationships, money, connection vs independence, and men and friendship.

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Ken Hardy: Crash: Race, Religion, and The Quest For Cultural Competence

Two-Day Workshop

Cost:

$200 (Space strictly limited)

Dates:

October 12th and 13th, 2006

Training:

12 hours

Location:

Middlesex Fire AcademyDirections

We live in difficult times. While our ideals and rhetoric preach “tolerance and inclusion,” the gulf that divides us has never been wider. In our desperate attempt to find our way we continue to hold on to longstanding belief systems, which clash with our desire for cultural competence. We are on a collision course--an impending crash between our ideals, the organizing principles that define our core being, and our desire to create a just society. This workshop will explore the dynamics that often place race and religion at odds with each other. A model for engaging in difficult dialogues across differences will be presented. Topics will include pitfalls, dilemmas, strategies and techniques.

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Family Therapy With One Person

Coaching Individuals to Change Their Family Relationships Through Understanding Their Genograms

Cost:

$100 (Space Strictly limited)

Location:

Multicultural Family Institute

Date:

Friday, May 5, 2006 (9 am - 4 pm)

Faculty:

M. McGoldrick & Core Faculty

The one-day seminar is for clinicians who want to enhance their knowledge and use of genograms throughout the course of therapy. Case examples will be used to illustrate coaching individuals to change their family relationship patterns. Topics to be covered will include sibling triangles, parent- child conflicts, family secrets, unresolved mourning, addictions, and abuse.

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Special Seminar

3 Days With Eliana Gil

Family Play Therapy

Cost:

$400 (space strictly limited)

Location:

Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Date:

Friday, December 2, to Sunday, December 5, 2005

Faculty:

Eliana Gil, Ph.D.

The purpose of this intensive workshop is to highlight the possibilities of integrating play therapy with family therapy. Dr. Gil will demonstrate this useful integrative work through experiential work as well as discussion of videotaped clinical cases. Participants will learn to think play as well as understand and utilize symbol and metaphor to advance therapeutic goals. Play techniques such as Puppet work, family play genograms, and family sand therapy will be discussed.

Eliana Gil, Ph.D. is the Coordinator of Abused Children's Treatment Services at Inova Keller Center in Fairfax, Virginia. She is also Director of the Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy, which provides comprehensive clinical training programs on the assessment and treatment of child abuse and neglect, as well as play therapy theories and application with children and families. Dr. Gil is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, a Registered Art Therapist, and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who received her doctorate in family therapy from the California Graduate School of Family Psychology in San Rafael, California. She served on the Boards of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the National Resource Center on Child Sexual Abuse for several years and is currently on the Advisory Board of APSAC as well as Past President of the Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Gil is an adjunct faculty member at George Washington and Virginia Tech Universities where she teaches play and family therapy courses.

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Annual Culture Conference

Cultural and Family Legacies

Empowering Clients through Context and Connection

Cost:

$225.00

Location:

Sayreville, New Jersey

Dates:

March 31-April 1, 2006

Don't miss this outstanding 3 day seminar, the culmination of a year's worth of new work in our field, featuring outstanding speakers and presentations. For more information about this event, please visit the 2006 Culture Conference page of the website.

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Co-sponsored by: The Multicultural Family Institute & Behavioral Research & Training Institute UMDNJ, University Behavioral HealthCare, Training and Consultation Resources

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Monthly Family of Origin Coaching Seminar

October 2005 to May 2006

Cost:

$850 for 3 hour seminars Once a Month for 8 months

Location:

Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Date:

Tuesday Mornings — 9AM to Noon — Once Monthly

Faculty:

Monica McGoldrick & Nydia Garcia Preto

This coaching seminar will focus on the application of systems theory to family relationships including the dimension of power. Topics include culture, class, gender, siblings, marriage, parent- child relationships, secrets, addictions, affairs, money, cutoffs, and family myths. (Seminar limited to small group)

“Then (my sister) came out of the house. And there was something I cannot explain that I felt as they ran to each other and I felt it in the deepest part of me, an untouched place that trembled with something instinctual and rooted in the provenance of the species--unnamable, yet I knew it could be named if it could be felt. it was not (my sister's) tears or my father's tears that caused this resonance, this fierce interior music of blood and wildness and identity. It was the beauty and fear of kinship, the ineffable ties of family, that sounded a blazing terror and an awestruck love inside of me.”Pat Conroy — Prince of Tides

Each monthly seminar focuses on the application of Bowen systems theory to family relationships. It will coach participants to apply Bowen's concept of differentiation or maturity to their relationships. Bowen's concept of differentiation pertains to an individual's ability to remain connected to others while maintaining one's individual beliefs and integrity. Dan Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence (1997) discusses this same process of mind over emotional reactivity, crediting Aristotle with defining the original proposition. As Aristotle put it: “Anyone can become angry, that is easy. But to become angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose--this is not easy” (Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics). The question is, as Goleman says, How can we bring intelligence to our emotions and civility to our streets and caring to our communal life?

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Special Coaching Seminar on The Therapists Own Family (TOF)

Coaching Individuals To Understand And Change Their Family Relationships

Cost:

$850

Location:

Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Dates:

May 30, June 6, 20, 27, Sept 12

Times:

Tuesdays 4-8 PM
Except first and last class which are 2-8PM

Faculty:

Monica McGoldrick & Nydia Garcia Preto

This coaching seminar will focus on applying systems theory to understanding relationships in the therapist’s own family. Topics to be discussed include power, culture, class, race, gender, sexual orientation, siblings, marriage, parent-child relationships, secrets, addiction, affairs, money, bridging cut-offs, and family myths.

Can't make the summer session? This seminar is also offered from Fall to Spring 2006-2007.
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