Five-Day Conference

#101 | Foundation Training Group

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Open to All Levels

Jon McCormick, Ph.D., CGP
Heather Twomey, Ph.D.

In this five-day training group, members learn theory and work in experiential practicum to develop skills for functional subgrouping and reducing defenses in a specific sequence to develop the system's capacity for solving problems and applying commonsense to everyday conflicts. Read More...

#102 | Intermediate Training Group

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:45 - 10:15
Intermediate Level

Ray Haddock, MBChB, M. MedSc
Susan Arnold Lange, Ph.D.

This experiential group will meet each morning Monday to Friday for 90 minutes and is open to those with experience in a previous foundation level group work. Please consult with your trainer to assess your readiness for Intermediate Training. Building on the skills developed at the foundation level, members will continue the work of subgrouping with its focus on the task of building a context for work by joining on similarity of experience. In addition, further work will highlight the recognition of and importance of the member system as different, yet dependent on the person system in the developmental work of creating a viable SCT group.
Who Should Sign Up for the Intermediate Group?
• Members of ongoing Foundation training groups who are ready to make the transition to intermediate level work, based on their work to assess whether they meet the criteria described in the SCT Training Program. Note: first time candidates to join this group must contact the Intermediate group leaders to talk about how to determine their readiness. Leaders are: Susan Lange (slange@interface-samaritan.com) and Ray Haddock (rayhad@doctors.org.uk)
• Intermediate level members who want to join this 5-meeting experiential group
• Advanced members who want to continue exploring their driving and restraining forces to taking up membership in context
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#103 | Advanced Training Group

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:45 - 10:15
Advanced Level

Fran Carter, MSS, LSW, CGP

Five-morning advanced training group open to any member who has completed the Authority Issue Group, is a member of a current licensing group or is a licensed SCT Practitioner. The goal of the group is to build a systems-centered context within which advanced members can explore experience during the conference. This will be an experiential practicum with force field review using driving and restraining forces to understand the context of the phase of development of the group. Participants need to have completed (or nearly completed) the Authority Issue Group. If you have not fully completed the AIG, consult with Fran Carter (carter2229@aol.com) Read More...

#301 | Intermediate Skills Training

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:00 - 12:00
Intermediate Level

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Richard O'Neill, Ph.D., FAClinP, CGP

The focus of this training will be learning SCT methods and techniques related to Modules I and II of the Hierarchy of Defense Modification. This workshop prepares members to apply these methods and techniques in work with others. Each morning will cover a theory component, videotaped skill practice sessions, analysis of the videotape and force field review. By application to Rich O’Neill (oneillr@upstate.edu). Read More...

#402 | Advanced Training for Trainers (continuing from the weekend)

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:30 - 12:00
Advanced Level

Rich Armington, LCSW

This training is for SCT trainers or those interested in becoming one for OD or therapy. This training observes the Authority group and then meets to track group dynamics, phase of system development, communication patterns that support the phase, leader interventions to member, subgroup and group-as-a-whole, while linking interventions to theory and group functioning. This group is closed. Read More...

#403 | Intermediate Three-Year Training Group: Developing a Systems-Centered System – Experiential, Theory and Phases of Development

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:45 - 12:00
Intermediate Level

Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP
Joy Luther, MSSW, LCSW

A 3-year Intermediate level course, combining experiential work focusing on crossing the boundary from person to member systems with in-depth theory and force field work on the phases of development (diagnosis, dynamics, driving and restraining forces). Membership requires a committment to and attendance at all three yearly sessions. By application to Claudia Byram (Claudia.byram@verizon.net or 215-561-0341) or Joy Luther (JoyLuthersoffice@gmail.com or 512-343-9609). Read More...

#501 | Licensing Group VI (continuing from the weekend)

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Advanced Level

Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D, CGP, DFAGPA, FAPA
Susan Gantt, Ph.D., CGP, ABPP, FAGPA, FAPA

The licensing group develops itself as a work group to do the work of assessing its members and making recommendations for who meets qualifications as a licensed SCT practitioner. This includes determining the criteria for assessing its members, its process for assessing work samples, and implementing its assessment process and making recommendations to the licensed members group. Read More...

#302 | Container Training

Monday, Tuesday, 10:30 - 12:00
Intermediate Level, Advanced Level

Susan Cassano, Ph.D., CGP

Participants will learn how the role of container helps us to take up key aspects of SCT leadership, whether at the intermediate or advanced level of training. To apprehensively join every member voice, to track the direction of the leader and discriminate how the group and leader move through the phases of development, to connect the work of the group and their own learnings as containers to the Theory of Living Human Systems in the processing sessions. Read More...

#303 | Intermediate Leadership Training: Building an SCT Group (Wed-Fri)

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Intermediate Level

Sven-Erik Viskari, BA

This is a three session Intermediate level training that focuses on developing leadership in building an SCT context for work using the methods of functional subgrouping, contextualizing and vectoring to create a functional system. Participants will practice the skills of functional subgrouping, bringing energy into the member role using the distraction exercise and applying the principles in the fork-in-the-road to discriminate between explaining and exploring. Read More...

#601 | Intermediate and Advanced SCT Consultation Series

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Intermediate Level, Advanced Level

Fran Carter, MSS, LSW, CGP
Rich Armington, LCSW
Nina Klebanoff, Ed.M, LCSW, CGP

Description: These 5 sessions are for members who have at least completed the Intermediate Skills Training. The goal of the series is to learn to build the SCT consultation system and understand the context, its goals and the different role of consultee and the consultant. Live experience and video and/or audiotape material used. (pre-requisite #301) prerequisite #301 Read More...

#105 | Functional Subgrouping

Monday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Susan Arnold Lange, Ph.D.

Developing a subgroup as a context for exploration requires a set of behaviors/skills not common in society but which, once learned, greatly facilitate conflict resolution in any context. Joining with similarities includes identifying authentic resonance within yourself, matching or slightly increasing the intensity of affect, adding new bits to build the subgroup without bringing in too big a difference. Read More...

#105 | Introduction to SCT Theory

Monday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA, FAPA

Theory of Living Human Systems defines a hierarchy of isomorphic systems that are energy-organizing, self-correcting, and goal-directed. Definitions of the constructs are: Hierarchy: Every system exists in the environment of the system above it and is the environment for the system below it. Isomorphy: Systems are similar in structure and function and different in different contexts. Structure: Every system is defined by its boundaries in space, time, reality, and role. Function: Systems survive, develop, and transform from simple to complex by the process of discriminating and integrating differences. Read More...

#105 | Seeing Systems

Tuesday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Susan Gantt, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, FAPA

Learning to see systems and not just people is the heart of applying systems thinking. Participants will be introduced to the “theory” behind the theory chart through “circles and arrows” as representations of the abstract ideas in a Theory of Living Human Systems. Read More...

#105 | Explain/Explore: The Basic Fork-in- the- Road

Tuesday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Robert Hartford, MSW, LICSW

The SCT frame of a "fork-in-the-road" introduces an observing, active self-system by requiring us to choose where we direct our attention. This either/or framework allows us to explore either the defense or what is defended against. We will look at the fork in the road as a technique allowing clients to deliberately direct (vector) energy, rather than being helplessly run by familiar patterns. Read More...

#105 | Undoing Anxiety

Wednesday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

David Schwing, MSSW

Most types of therapy encourage clients to explore feelings and to recognize that the feelings come from a context. SCT is significantly different from psychodynamic theory in that it is not interested in exploring the feelings generated by our fantasies and thoughts. As we vector clients across the boundary from thought to reality, and across the boundary from the past or future to the present, they become more comfortable with living on the edge of the unknown and often experience a decrease in anxiety, which is one of the major symptoms that bring people into therapy. Read More...

#105 | Introduction to SCT Consultation: The 10-Minute Consult

Wednesday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA, FAPA

SCT consultation introduces the method of "my problem is I" in which the consultee diagnoses the difficulty in their consultant role through access to the apprehensive knowledge of the system of which the consultee is a part. Read More...

#105 | SAVI Theory

Thursday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA, FAPA

The System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction (SAVI) is the operational definition of SAVI theory which postulates that there is an inverse relationship between noise in the communication channel and the probability that the information it contains will be transferred and that the primary problem of how to communicate must be solved before what to communicate. Read More...

#105 | Distraction Exercise

Thursday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Susan Karpenko, MSW

A collection of people doesn't become a group until the members bring their energy and attention across the boundaries that separate the past and future from the present, other places from the present environment, and constructed reality from observable reality. We will learn the SCT method for crossing these boundaries, which we call the distraction exercise, and observe the experiential and behavioral outcomes of crossing into present reality. Read More...

#105 | Phases of System Development

Friday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Susan Gantt, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, FAPA

SCT emphasizes the phases of system development. Each phase of development is operationally defined as a force field of driving and restraining forces. This then enables identifying phase-specific interventions that weaken the restraining forces relevant to the phase. Aligning change strategies to the phase context lowers frustration. Read More...

#105 | Force Field Development

Friday, 10:30 - 12:00
Open to All Levels

Erika Ekedal, MSc

This group provides information about and opportunities to build skills in the uses of force fields. Information includes a brief historical overview and an introduction to the relationship between force fields and the Theory of Living Human Systems. The group focuses on the application and usefulness of force fields in clarifying goals, solving problems, and making decision in professional and personal contexts. Participants will work with force fields to differentiate functional and adaptive role behaviors according to context. Read More...

#01 | The Process of Change: SCT & Motivational Interviewing

Monday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

James Peightel, MD
Michael Silverstein, Ph.D.

This workshop will review the evolution of psychological theories about human change process, especially the transtheoretical model of Procheska and DiClemente. We will also discuss how change processes are explained using SCT and the Theory of Living Human Systems. We will then describe the increasingly popular practice model of “Motivational Interviewing” developed by Rollnick and Miller, and explore similarities with SCT theory and practice. Read More...

#02 | Group Stitching Mantra: Discriminating and Integrating with Expressive Arts

Monday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Norma Safransky, MD
Sherri Lynn Wood, MFA, MTS

Explore the rhythm of attention and the creative impulse through an imaginative subgrouping experience that merges the traditions of mudra, mandala, mantra, and systems-centered theory with the simple act of stitching. The hand stitched mandalas from the group experience will be made into a prayer flag and donated to the Silent Auction benefitting the Yvonne Agazarian Research Scholar Fund. No sewing experience necessary. Read More...

#03 | Bridging Differences: Supporting Diversity in Education & Training

Monday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Juliet Koprowska, MSW
Madeline O'Carroll, MSc, PGDip, RMN, RGN

This workshop will address the conference theme through drawing on one or more of the following experiences: working with diverse groups of students within our own disciplines; working with multiprofessional groups of students or mental health practitioners; introducing SCT to a new groupwork context (the European Groupwork symposium September 2009). Read More...

#04 | Developing the Group Mind Through Functional Subgrouping: An Interpersonal Neurobiological Perspective

Monday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Susan Gantt, Ph.D., CGP, ABPP, FAGPA, FAPA

Building on Siegel’s definition of mind as the process of regulating the flow of energy and information, this workshop introduces key findings from the interpersonal neurobiological (IPNB) framework and uses these to explore and discuss functional subgrouping as a tool for developing the group mind. Specifically, we will view a group using functional subgrouping and then consider how functional subgrouping facilitates emotional regulation, creates a secure relational context, and potentiates neural integration. Read More...

#05 | Muscular Intelligence: Centering, Containment and Regulation of Arousal

Monday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Merete Holm Brantbjerg, Somatic Psychotherapist MPF
Ian Macnaughton, MBA, Ph.D.

Participants will be guided through a series of psychomotor exercises – introducing the method “resource-oriented skill training” – or “Motoric Haiku.” The exercises are simple to utilize and can support SCT students and practitioners to enhance their ability to develop and maintain centeredness, grounding, containment and regulation of high arousal states. Read More...

#06 | Functional Subgrouping, Contextualizing, Boundarying, Vectoring: The Four Systems-Centered Methods in Practice

Monday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP
Phyllis H. Goltra, Ph.D., CGP

Systems-centered systems come into being through the application of the four systems-centered methods: Contextualizing, boundarying, vectoring and subgrouping. In this workshop we will look at the definition of each, and practice recognizing and producing interventions emphasizing each of the four. Read More...

#07 | Using SAVI to Take Things Less Personally: Skills for Managing Identity Challenges

Monday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Ben Benjamin, Ph.D.
Michelle Lynskey, Ph.D.

Typically the most difficult comments to hear are those that challenge our identity in some way. Here you’ll learn and practice several SAVI-based strategies for taking negative comments less personally in a business context, including responding constructively to identity triggers; differentiating opinions from data; and using mistakes as learning opportunities. Must have completed some basic SAVI training. Read More...

#08 | Where Two Meta-Theories Meet: A Systems-Centered Exploration of Ken Wilber’s Integral Model

Monday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Michael Robbins, MA, LMHC

In this workshop we will examine the Integral Model developed by Ken Wilber from a systems-centered perspective. Participants will learn how to apply this exciting new meta-theory to whatever field of inquiry they are interested in. We will discover the resonance between Wilber’s theory and Agazarian’s Theory of Living Human Systems (TLHS) through lecture, discussion and experiential exercises. Read More...

#09 | The Authority Issue: Basics & Beyond

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Mark Johnson, Ph.D.

Authority Issue work is at the core of SCT. This workshop explores the breadth and depth of this construct with special attention on the utility of recognizing and working authority issues in both clinical and OD environments. Didactic and experiential methods will be employed to aid our exploration. Read More...

#10 | SCT, Addictions/Recovery, and Relapse Prevention

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Ken Frontman, Ph.D.
Michael Silverstein, Ph.D.

Addiction is a common disorder that presents significant challenges in diagnosis and treatment in a traditional psychotherapy practice. Twelve-Step models and relapse prevention strategies for promoting recovery in treating chemical addiction have demonstrated effectiveness in facilitating abstinence from using drugs and alcohol for many years. How to bridge effective 12 Step approaches, relapse prevention approaches and dynamic psychotherapy is an emerging challenge to practicing psychotherapists. The Theory of Living Human Systems (TLHS) and SCT methods may be used complementarily to promote insight, improve functioning and aid recovery with 12 Step based addiction treatment, relapse prevention models, and traditional psychodynamic approaches. Read More...

#11 | Examples of SCT Application in a Business/Workgroup Context

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Anna-Lena Sundlin, MSc Psych
Martin Ekberg, MSc Psych

We have very good experiences of using SCT in different kinds of organizational work that we would like to share using two examples: a leadership training program and an organizational development/change process. This workshop will focus on: How to build bridges between the quite complex Theory of Living Human Systems and the very concrete everyday reality of a workgroup; how to translate the language and make it fit the context; and how to work with and overcome skepticism and resistance to change in a work group. Read More...

#12 | Couple’s Communication: Under the SAVI Microscope

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Anita Simon, Ed.D.

Examining a couple’s communication as a system through the use of the SAVI® System for Verbal Interaction, discriminating the couple’s system in therapy from the system of two individuals talking one at a time to a therapist. The goal: to find ways to change the fundamentals of the communication system that the couple has with each other. SAVI training and couple’s therapy experience required. Read More...

#13 | Exploring Inner Subsystems Both Verbally and Through the Body

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Merete Holm Brantbjerg, Somatic Psychotherapist MPF
Fran Carter, MSS, LSW, CGP

With an exploratory goal, we will focus on identifying inner subsystems through awareness of both muscle response and verbal behavior; look at how they relate; explore how hypo-, hyper- and balanced response inner system dynamic is expressed in a verbal behavior like “Yes-But” – or in a build and join. Read More...

#14 | Building Communities by Integrating Spiritual & Religious Differences

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Angelika Zollfrank, M.Div., BCC, ACPE Supervisor
A. Meigs Ross, M.Div., BCC, ACPE Supervisor

The workshop offers definitions of spirituality and religion based on SCT theory. It presents data on spirituality and religion in the U.S. and links an experience of spiritual struggle to SCT concepts of role, goal and context. How do role, goal and context impact interactions around spiritual struggle? Read More...

#15 | The Latest on SCT Research

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Richard O'Neill, Ph.D., FAClinP, CGP
Jale Punter, BM, MRCPsych
Verena Murphy, Ph.D.

The workshop includes the presentation of three research projects: 1) The “How This Group Works” Functional Subgrouping Scale; 2) Comparison of 10-week Systems-Centered Psycho-education group with Group CBT for Treatment of Depression – a report on where we are with the project; 3) A SAVI analysis of top management teams over 5 meetings to assess communication climate and the system’s phase of development. Read More...

#16 | Deepening the Change Process for You and the People You Work With

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA, FAPA

An essential SCT goal is to develop appropriate boundary permeability between apprehension and comprehension. Change occurs in the process of integrating the two. This workshop guides you into experiencing the essential source of change that lies in the full experience of yourself. By discovering how you feel for yourself in various contexts, you both deepen your relationship with yourself, free your energy to relate to others, and open to existential change. Read More...

#17 | Using the Concept of Role in the Treatment of Personality Disorders

Thursday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Ray Haddock, MBChB, M.MedSc

This workshop will explore the theory and practice of SCT in relation to development and maintenance of “old roles” and consider similarities with personality disorder. It will touch on some of the neurobiological elements and consider the implications services or “communities of treatment” for this group of difficulties. Read More...

#18 | Functional Subgrouping with Psychiatric Inpatients: Linking Dependency and Counter-Dependency

Thursday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Neal Spivack, Ph.D., CGP

Psychiatric inpatients frequently form two subgroups reflecting contrasting attitudes toward authority, a counter-dependent subgroup that overly values autonomy and a dependent subgroup that is overly passive. This presentation will describe a three-stage group to work with these subgroups to help patients adapt to the unit and to facilitate discharge. Read More...

#19 | Leading to Create a Creative Committee

Thursday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Richard O'Neill, Ph.D., FAClinP, CGP

In this workshop, research comparing the communication process of two SCT governance boards with a political group and a business group will be reviewed. Members will learn to use SCT methods to enhance work group functioning. Read More...

#20 | Developing a Systems-Centered Community of Inquiry

Thursday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Roelof Langman, Drs.

In this workshop we explore ways to explore potentially divisive questions in a community by exploring and integrating differences. We use systems-centered methods to build a community of inquiry with the task of exploring one question and its potential answers. In the first hour, the SCT approach is presented and explored in a role play. In the second hour, we use what we learned in the exploration of a question which is alive in the conference community at that time. Read More...

#21 | The Emotional Impact of Shifting Lenses: A Systems-Centered Analysis of Current Events

Thursday, 2:00 - 3:00
Open to All Levels

Verena Murphy, Ph.D.

The presentation includes an illustration of events and compares newspaper reports of those events and includes audience participation to reframe the same events from a systems perspective. Read More...

#22 | Applying SAVI to Interpersonal Conflicts: Strategies for Handling Tough Conversations More Directly

Thursday, 2:00 - 3:00
Open to All Levels

Ben Benjamin, Ph.D.
Amy Yeager, BA

Designed for use in organizations, this module focuses on triangulation - communication that involves a third party inappropriately in an interpersonal conflict. Participants gain a deeper understanding of the costs of this behavior and practice five SAVI-based strategies for undoing triangulation both for themselves and for others. Must have completed some basic SAVI training. Read More...

#23 | Short-Term Anger Management Groups: Cognitive Behavioral Methods with SCT Informed Interventions

Thursday, 2:00 - 3:00
Open to All Levels

Susan Karpenko, LCSW

In this workshop participants will be taught how to launch and lead an anger management group synthesizing cognitive behavioral approaches and SCT informed leadership interventions. SCT principles of using process in the service of task, de-pathologizing the experience of anger, and learning how to give and receive feedback will be emphasized. Read More...

#24 | Embodied Meaning: Joining Apprehension and Comprehension

Thursday, 2:00 - 3:00
Open to All Levels

Lawrence Ladden, Ph.D.

This workshop will present the key constructs of conceptual metaphor and image schema from “cognitive semantics” which show how meaning is grounded in the sensorimotor capacities of our embodiment. After surveying these constructs we will consider how systems-centered practice appropriates meaningful metaphors (e.g., container) and image schemas (e.g., source-path-goal). Read More...

#25 | Customer Relations Management (CRM) in the Age of Social Media: What Findings Does SCT Provide for Building Business Relationships Today?

Thursday, 3:15 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Harald Koenig

Where are the boundaries of companies? How transparent do they have to be in dealing with their customers and suppliers? What does customer relation management mean facing emerging web 2.0 communities? And what chances does SCT offer for companies to stay in touch with their customers, which more and more have their digital home in online communities? I would like to examine this and present facts, trends, cases and thoughts on this from the perspective of SCT. Read More...

#26 | Bringing it Home: Functional Subgrouping in Everyday Life

Thursday, 3:15 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP

Subgrouping in SCT workshops and conferences is one thing, satisfying and productive – then we go home. How can we use functional subgrouping to enrich our everyday lives? When, how and why do we subgroup with someone who has never heard of SCT? And what are some of the clever “as-if” subgrouping maneuvers we export? Practice appearing-to-join and really-joining! Read More...

#27 | Individual Differences in Effective Communication: Integrating SAVI with the DISC (Dominant, Interactive, Steady and Compliant) Behavioral Styles

Thursday, 3:15 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Ben Benjamin, Ph.D.
Amy Yeager, BA

One of the most common questions we hear in organizational trainings is, “Why is this particular person so challenging for me to communicate with?” Very often the answer involves behavioral styles. Here you’ll learn about the four DISC behavioral styles, translated into SAVI, and develop strategies for improving communication with people with each different style. Read More...

#28 | The Triune Brain and SCT Phases of Development

Thursday, 3:15 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Marianne Bentzen, Neuroaffective Psychotherapist

This workshop presents a few central aspects of triune brain and personality development from birth to adulthood, and outlines how they integrate during the SCT phases of development. Read More...

#29 | Neurobiology of Functional Subgrouping

Friday, 2:00 - 4:15
Open to All Levels

Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA, FAPA
Marianne Bentzen, Neuroaffective Psychotherapist

Tracks and sidetracks in Functional Subgrouping are related to a model of neuroaffective development based on decades of brain research and integrated through this dialogue between Marianne Bentzen and Yvonne Agazarian. Joining is one of the essential parts of Functional Subgrouping, the foundation of SCT practice. Joining begins with joining yourself, all the active inner subgroups of yourself, and moves from there to joining another member in a subgroup. As your ability to discriminate and integrate information expands, this leads to a wider sense of how to join and how to hold the changing currents of the subgroup and the group-as-a-whole. Read More...

Large Group

Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA, FAPA
Fran Carter, MSS, LSW, CGP
Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP
Susan Gantt, Ph.D., CGP, ABPP, FAGPA, FAPA

The Large Group meets every day, except Wednesday.
Sunday: 6:00 - 7:30 PM.
Weekdays: 4:30 - 6:00 PM.

Description:
These five large group meetings, open to the entire conference community, demonstrate the application of SCT methods and techniques in the large group setting. The dynamics and potential of large groups are crucial to our understanding of social forces at a different level from the more easily accessible family and small group settings. These forces are more similar to those operating in larger social systems, and therefore our understanding of how to relate to these larger contexts is an essential skill for social work and other social change advocates and professionals.

Note: You must attend all 5 days of Large Group in order to earn CE credits.