What’s It Like To Be A Woman Doing Business in China

Barbara Spraker, who is a faculty member in the AUS Center For Creative Change, is working with an American woman who is a 16-year resident of Beijing to convene a conversation circle there for a small group of women who are interested in talking about “What is the Role of Women in Global Leadership?” Here are the woman’s thoughts on what it’s like to be a woman doing business in China (she is the founder of a local community center).

“My husband initially wanted RED to be the dominant color in the center. He didn’t believe my suggestions that a more restful palette were valid, so he told me: ‘Find a color expert and I’ll consider his suggestions.’ So a friend hooked me up with Lauren and together we found the solution (and my husband backed off and let us do what we wanted to do).

Being a woman in business in macho Beijing, and working together with a macho Chinese husband is very difficult. It’s especially difficult because I’m probably very “macho” as well. I’ve been called “mu lao hu” on many occasions. Directly translated it means “tigress” and is not considered to be a compliment. I have, however, decided to take it as a compliment.

If I can just reign in my emotional energy I’ll be able to continue doing business in Beijing for a long time without first having an anger-induced stroke. But I must admit, that I do have a mini-implosion every time I’m talking with a Chinese official or worker about and they end the discussion with: “Lisa, don’t you worry about this. Have your husband call me and he and I will take care of it.” They’re starting to come around, but it’s literally taken about a decade of hard work and persistence to be taken seriously. And that’s exhausting.”

Arval (Hal) Morris, M.A. Psychology 2006

I am officially approved by the Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) to be a Professor or supervisor in MFT at any University or organization in Brazil!  I hope to begin teaching in 2011-2012.  Also, this allows me to become a AAMFT supervisor in Brazil.  When I return to Seattle in June, I will take my MFT licensure exam.  Once I pass, I will change my membership status from Associate to Clinical membership in the AAMFT.  Then, eventually, I will apply to be a AAMFT supervisor.  This is great for the AAMFT and Brazil.  Also, it strengthens the ties between the U.S. and Brazil.  Brazilian therapist can receive supervision from me, take the licensure test in the U.S. and eventually work in the U.S.

Brenda Sol, M.A. Psychology 1998

Dear Fellow Alumni,

Greetings from sunny San Pedro Sula in Honduras where the “muddy season” is over and the “dusty season” has returned!

I am writing to you during a very exciting time in my journey—as of last week, I am a postulant in the Diocese of Olympia. For those of you less familiar with Episcopal lingo, this means I have been officially admitted to the process of becoming a priest. While there are many steps ahead of me, this is a milestone of great importance—HOORAY!! Over the next few months, I’ll be able to tell you more about where I’m headed after Honduras—most likely to an Episcopal seminary somewhere in the U.S. In the meantime, your prayers for my clarity around these next steps are most welcome!

In addition to that good news, I’m pleased to tell you that this has been a month of fun for me. I know that several—perhaps most—of you never thought I’d say “fun” and “Honduras” in the same sentence, but it’s true; I’ve had a ton of FUN this month!!

For starters, a couple of weeks ago, I accompanied our 7th & 8th graders on five days of activities as part of an exchange program with an Episcopal middle school from Florida. As one of my previous bosses likes to say, “we combined serious work with serious play!” You can read more about our adventures on my 3/17/10 blog entry at: http://www.brendasol.com/6401.html. I also posted a few photos from the week at: http://picasaweb.google.com/brendajsol (newest photos in the “Recently Updated” folder).

The other fun thing is my deepening connection with the three 8th grade OLR girls whom I teach. Their fourth classmate (they would describe her as the “smart girl with regular parents”) was gone this week, so we had much different conversations than we usually do. Additionally, it’s exam week, so there’s been more time for private conversations. I feel so honored to share this precious time with these beautiful young women. Since I don’t want to risk their classmates reading their stories on my blog, I’ll take a bit of space here to introduce you to the three of them.

Meet Tania. She’s upbeat, smiles a lot, and just turned 15—a very big deal in most Latin countries. She is disappointed that she has to wait until June for her Quincinera party, but as you may have surmised by reading the poem she wrote (also on my blog), she values friendship and relationship above everything, so it doesn’t bother her too much that she has to share her party. It’s her nature to make the most of things; for example, she says that a joint party with the 6 or 7 other girls from the OLR home turning 15 this year isn’t so bad. Likewise, being denied the Visa that would have allowed her to participate in the exchange program in Florida is okay, because she’s hopeful she’ll get to go their summer camp instead.

In contrast, Maribel is fiercely independent, and so much a rebel, that she has taken this entire school year to warm-up to the idea that she might actually enjoy a one-on-one conversation with me. Even so, she comes around the back of things as to not admit liking things she has deemed “uncool.” Comically, here’s the dilemma she came to me with the other day: “Miss,” she asked with grave seriousness, “how can I get over liking Math so much?” What a pleasure to give her a few examples of why she’d be thankful for her math aptitude in the future…especially if she pursues her dream of helping find the cure for HIV.

Then there’s Astrid. At recess you can find her playing soccer with the boys…and she’s good; inside the classroom, she’s the one asking all the questions. This girl really wants to understand how things work and what the underlying meaning of things is. Along those lines, her sense of justice is always at the forefront of her thinking. For instance, last month I arranged for a visitor from the states, whom I had learned was an author of young-adult fiction, to speak. After Astrid found out that the author was self-published, however, she was up in arms! “Miss!” she exclaimed as she paced back and forth, which is what she does when she’s really on fire, “if you want to be an author, you should practice and practice to be a better writer so that a publisher will print your book. If you just pay money to have your book published, that’s saying you don’t want to work so hard!”

I hope you enjoyed this little glimpse into the transformational work that takes place inside Our Little Roses. To think these girls would otherwise be denied going to school, or be so caught up with finding their next meal that they wouldn’t have the space to dream so big…is truly amazing to me. Many thanks to the people who have supported my ministry here and the work of OLR (www.ourlittleroses.org).

Hasta luego mis amigos!

Creative Workshop Coming

THE ARTIST’S WAY CLASS (12 weeks)
With Kate Gavigan and Carol Battistoni

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is an international bestseller on the subject of creativity. This book and workshop can be an incredibly useful resource to tap into your creative side, which can benefit you professionally and personally.

The class will take students through the 12 chapters with an emphasis on the accompanying chapter exercises.  Julia Cameron uses 3 basic tools for students to enhance their lives and their creativity:  1) morning pages (writing 3 pages longhand of stream of consciousness writing), artist’s dates (solo fun dates with yourself) and completing creativity exercises at the back of each chapter. To quote Julia, “In order to retrieve your creativity, you need to find it.”  The basic tools and the additional creativity exercises that we incorporate into the 12 week course will help you do just that.

May 10 – August 2      
$275
Mondays, 6 – 8 p.m.    
Class will be held at Carol Battistoni’s office in Wallingford:  4010 Stone Way North, Suite 200. Students are responsible for purchasing their own Artist’s Way book.

Note: Due to the summer schedule and the length of the class, it is not unusual for students to have to miss a few classes. The instructors provide detailed notes and follow up conversations to update students on any missed classes.

“Helped me get “unstuck” and on track in my creative ambitions” -Past Artist’s Way Student

Kate Gavigan is passionate about The Artist’s Way having personally experienced the benefits of the materials. Kate worked in social services as a trainer for over 10 years when she found herself drawn to the material in The Artist’s Way, which helped her uncover a passion for theatre and marketing the arts. She credits her mid-life career change (now working at her dream job as a PR Manager at a theater) to having gone through The Artist’s Way.

Carol Battistoni studied art as an undergraduate which helped her to realize the importance of art and self expression to the human psyche. Carol’s undergraduate experiences lead her to studying counseling psychology and expressive arts therapy. She has an M.A. in Psychology from Antioch University Seattle and is currently practicing as a Psychotherapist in Seattle and continues to explore the process of making art as a vehicle to knowing oneself more intimately.

TO REGISTER: Pay by check and send to Carol Battistoni, 4010 Stone Way North, Suite  200, Seattle 98103 or via paypal at Carol’s website: http://www.thehealingedge.net/resources.htm. Questions: Contact Kate Gavigan at kmgavigan@gmail.com.

$75.00 nonrefundable deposit is required to secure a space in the class.  For more information, go to our Facebook Fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/#%21/pages/The-Artists-Way-Seattle/141615764966

Washington State Bar Association Looking For Psychotherapist

WSBA JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Title: PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Department: LaSD
Immediate Supervisor: Director, Lawyer Services
Job Grade: 11
Immediate Subordinates: None
FLSA Status: Exempt
Approval Date: 082306
Approved By: BHarper

I. General Summary: In two to four sentences state the major purpose, objective, or function of the position.

To maximize the mental health and occupational functioning of lawyers with the goal of enhancing their contribution to the community. To address problems pertaining to mental health, substance abuse, and occupational functioning that affect lawyers’ performance negatively. To prevent problems that can result in lawyer discipline and lowered esteem of the profession. Support WSBA diversity initiatives by providing outreach and education to diverse legal membership groups.

II. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Briefly describe the work actually performed and list in order of importance. Begin each sentence with an active verb, such as assists, plans, performs, administers, etc. Focus on the purpose of the function and the results to be accomplished. Also indicate the approximate percentage of time each duty/responsibility is performed.

1. Provide psychological services to lawyers: assess current functioning, refer when appropriate, conduct individual and group psychotherapy, consult with other professionals, manage crises, coordinate client and peer counselor interactions. 60%

2. Develop and implement outreach strategies targeted at the education of diverse membership groups on mental health issues, treatment options and prevention. 20%

3. Provide information and referral to lawyers and third party callers on mental health issues (including substance abuse) via telephone and letter. 10%
4. Participate in the training of peer counselors to be effective support persons. Maintain the peer counselor network and provide ongoing support and education. 3%

5. Maintain progress notes on the progress of clients. 2%

6. Facilitate topical support groups. 3%

7. Keep current and enhance clinical knowledge base: attend professional conferences and workshops; keep current with continuing education credits in compliance with state rules, participate in weekly clinical consultations, read professional newsletters, periodicals and professional literature. participation in LAP/LaSD Statewide Conference

8. Perform other duties as assigned. 2%

III. Background

A. Supervision: List the number of people the position supervises, either directly or through subordinates, and describe the degree of supervision. Also describe the extent to which the job is supervised, i.e. minimal, refers unusual situations to supervisor, close supervision, etc.

This position requires no direct supervision of other staff members. The department director is supervisor. Due to the nature of the position and responsibilities, there is considerable autonomy.

B. Confidentiality: Describe the exposure level to confidential information. Explain the type of information handled.

Involves obtaining information within a context that requires maintaining the highest level of confidentiality: personal histories, present psychological / physical / substance abuse status, professional stressors and challenges within the workplace. This takes place within the guidelines of Washington State and federal (HIPAA) law.

C. Mental Application: Describe the nature of the decision-making ability the position requires versus the extent to which the work is governed by established policies and procedures.

Ongoing assessment and occasional crisis monitoring of clients’ clinical status is a requisite and integral part of the therapist position, as it guides appropriate management and therapeutic response. These responsibilities are carried out within the parameters of the LAP’s policies and procedures.

D. Problem Solving: Describe the types of challenges and problems the position encounters and must use good judgment in selecting the best course of action.

Therapy clients generally present with a complex network of psychological, physical, and relationship concerns that necessitate appropriate clinical intervention. Determining an appropriate and timely course of action is particularly essential when the situation is potentially harmful to the client and / or others. Familiarity with community resources contributes to an optimal clinical response.

E. Responsibilities: State the extent to which an error in judgment on the job would result in loss of time, expense, or public/member goodwill.

Due to the nature of the therapeutic process, with its very specific focus on the psychological and behavioral functioning of an individual, assessment and sound judgment are a constant necessity. This responsibility is taken very seriously as a client’s emotional and physical well-being is at stake.
F. Internal and Public Contacts: Describe the level of contact with others outside and within the organization. Consider the level of topics discussed, as well as the number of contacts and their effect on WSBA operations. List meetings/committees that are regularly attended.

The majority of contacts involve members of the WSBA and the issues addressed are both personal and confidential in nature. Contact with WSBA members and other community professionals occurs through various committee meetings and trainings (e.g., local and specialty bars, law school professors and administrators, DMCJA Judicial Assistance Committee, LOMAP advisors, LAP peer counselors, , and the annual LAP/LaSD sponsored conference)

G. Magnitude and Scope: (Dollars affected) List the amount and type of financial impact.

Minimal financial impact. Client fees help to defray LAP operating expenses.

IV. Conditions and Equipment

A. Working Conditions: List the conditions, other than office environment, that the position must work under, i.e. deadlines, stressful situations, high work volumes, etc.

Conducting psychotherapy and making referrals can be stressful, especially if the client is highly stressed or experiencing an emergency. Psychotherapy session time limits must be respected.

B. Equipment Operation: List the type of equipment that is used by this position and the knowledge/skill level required.

Personal computer, word processing, Internet

V. Specifications: List the education, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job duties (include any required licenses or certificates).

A. Education Required: Masters or doctoral degree and Washington State licensure in field of expertise.

B. Experience Required: 5 years’ providing psychological assessment and clinical counseling.

C. Abilities/Skills Required: Proficiency in psychotherapy and crisis management; knowledge of substance abuse and treatment; familiarity with the legal profession. Excellent writing and oral presentation skills.

VI. Reasonable Accommodation: List the essential functions of the job that must be performed, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Sitting for extended periods, talking, operating office equipment (fax, photocopy machine, computer, telephone)

For information on where to send your resume and other pertinent details go to:

http://www.wsba.org/jobs/wsba.htm

Future Search Event Scheduled

Puget Sound Future Search led by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, April 22-24

The Pacific NW Organizational Development Network is co-hosting a Future Search event to be led by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, April 22-24, 2010 in Seattle. This event will explore how we can create sustainable, resilient, organizations and communities for our future in the Puget Sound region. We are inviting organizational development professionals and organizational leaders/managers to come together to create a common vision and help shape the future of businesses, nonprofits, and government in the region.

For more information please go to: http://www.osr-nw.org/downloads/PNODN_Future_Search.pdf. If you are leader or manager of your organization you may also want to view this information sheet: http://www.osr-nw.org/downloads/PNODN_Future_Search_Business_Case.pdf

Richard Beckerman, M.S. Management ‘05

Sandra and Marv

Former Whole Systems Design Faculty Member Passes

In Honor of Dr. Rodney E. Donaldson

by Jenny Manes – student and friend

“He who really knows how far our generation has lost the way of true freedom, of free giving between I and Thou, must himself, by virtue of the demand implicit in every great knowledge of this kind, practice directness – even if he were the only man on earth who did it – and not depart from it until scoffers are struck with fear, and hear in his voice the voice of their own suppressed longing.” Martin Buber (underlining added)

It is with great sadness and a deep feeling of loss that we inform the friends, students, and colleagues of Dr. Rodney E. Donaldson of his recent passing. He died quietly, in his home in Port Angeles, Washington, on November 13, 2009, at the age of 58.

Dr. Rodney Donaldson was President of Crazy Tiger Institute for the Cultivation of Living Systemic Understanding and Design in Seattle, Washington. He was a past President of the American Society for Cybernetics from 1992 to 1994, and was a professor of Whole Systems Design at Antioch University, Seattle for ten years. He was the creator of the Official Gregory Bateson Archive housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including his six-volume “Guide/Catalog” (l982). Rodney also edited a volume of essays of Gregory Bateson’s, entitled “A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind” (Harper Collins l997).

Rodney was an extraordinary teacher, a scholar of superlative precision, clarity and caring, and a masterful spiritual warrior. He was incredibly generous, literally giving everything he had to his teaching, his students, and his mentors. He was, quite simply, a pure and deeply caring human being.

Considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on the works of Gregory Bateson and Humberto Maturana, Rodney lovingly gave countless hours of work to ensure that his mentors’ intellectual legacies survived. He was very grateful to have the opportunity to serve his mentors in any way he could. His contributions will surely be missed. No one was his equal.

Those fortunate enough to have participated in Dr. Donaldson’s courses will attest to his ever fresh, inventive, and creative genius. In his impressive series of courses, he invited us, his students, to deepen our own understandings of that which we were exploring and studying through a never ending myriad of exercises. To be experienced fully, these had to be done with our entire being, never with just a compartmentalized portion, such as from our heads. Some of what Rodney offered us had to be taken as a koan, to be wrestled with and reflected upon, for some time, before fruit was born. This in itself was a lesson in meditation and awareness.

When we students were struggling with new material and ideas of a different ilk, Rodney would continually remind us that to understand the new ideas, we had to enter them. And that act often seemed impossible. What Rodney was pointing to was a knack of ‘feeling one’s way into, a ‘grokking’, an act of ‘gestalting’, a surrendering, a ‘swimming around in’, repeatedly, until one developed sufficient catching mechanisms that would then lead to a ‘jump’ into the new understandings. Any attempt to understand something new from our current beliefs and understandings would merely result in taking rich, multi-leveled ideas and turning them into flat, one-dimensional misunderstandings. We had to learn to surrender to what we did not yet know.

In working with his students, Rodney always offered to those wanting to learn – multiple descriptions, multiple ways in, explorations often opposing each other, in order to deepen the experiences/understandings with which he and his students were playing. It goes without saying that what he invited people into was rigorous, both intellectually and spiritually. Gregory Bateson told Rodney that one should always teach to the top 3%. Rodney did so. Some people were ill equipped to follow. That inability on others’ parts certainly did not diminish Rodney’s genius, but did leave him in a ‘playground’ by himself.

On some deep level, whether by his reputation or in people’s interactions with Rodney, people recognized that they were in the presence of greatness. His genius was as an artist in the human domain. This scared some people. The fear of ‘looking-square-in-the-face’ that to which he was inviting, was impossible for some. For those people, the preservation of their egos and attachment to their beliefs was more important. In his teaching, he would tirelessly invite us to consider that through attending to the habitings of ego, and through awareness of the consequences of those habitings, we would eventually see through the errors and cul-de-sacs of those behaviors. While we cannot not live in habitings, we can notice the direction certain habits take us. Once the errors, or confusion in logical typings were fully seen through, those habitings would then naturally fall by the wayside. It was his job and gift, as our teacher, to poke holes in and burst the bubbles of our egos and attachments. In spite of our resistances and projections when we felt our egos under attack, Rodney remained true to the process of self-liberation for our sake. (And it goes without saying that the ‘self’ in ‘self-liberation’ is precisely NOT the ego self.)

Every single invitation was an act of love and compassion from Rodney. His infinitely varied and creative invitations and perturbations, though not always comfortable for the students’ egos, were always pointing in the direction of one’s self-liberation (or as some would say, enlightenment). They were often arduous, painful, scary, and yet, enlivening. When we students would find ourselves stuck in a habiting of ego, Rodney would either gently ‘pat our egos/habits on the head’, or at other times, swiftly ‘sever’ them. When the last vestige of a particular manifestation of ego was seen through, the space in which we would find ourselves was far less burdened and freer. That is, until that particular habit again reared its head, and once more, the learning, exploring, surrendering, attending, reflecting and becoming aware, would have to take place anew. This cycle created a series of ‘catching mechanisms’ such that the next time (and the next) we students found ourselves living that habit, it was easier and easier to see through it and find it fallen away. In the Blakean sense, we were learning that our attachments were nothing but self-imposed ‘shackles’ and fictions of the mind.

As Rodney said many, many times – “Everything we do is a doing on our part”. (Doings=doing, saying, acting, behaving, emotioning, thinking.) We do what we do because we want the consequences of those doings, even when we claim that we do not. The proof is in our doing. (paraphrased from the work of Humberto Maturana) Therefore, as Rodney would say, “How-you-do-what-you-do is who you are becoming.” In other words, “You cannot not teach yourself and others an epistemology 24 hours a day.” “‘Manner-with-whichs’ matter!”

Rodney cared deeply. He could never not help those in suffering. He never ‘told’. He had no need to espouse beliefs. He was always exploring, and invited those who wished to ‘play’ with him to do the same. He created contexts in which we learned to understand the ‘nature of ‘X’s’, and the implicit. He invited us to go for the meaning of any given ‘X’ (from a gestalting, grokking space, never from our ‘head’). Rodney invited us to explore the ‘suchness’ or ‘facticities’ of any given ‘X’ and to detect and expunge sentimentalities, which are no more than fantasies, fictions and acts of violence against self and other. For Rodney, it was about the ‘Hows’ versus the ‘Whats’. And there is no such thing as ‘trying’, only ‘doing’. He taught us to live in open awareness, not to do techniques. Techniques merely deaden. To be aware and open allows space for discovering the next ‘not knowing’. To go for what we already know is precisely a dead end. We learned to detect the difference between feelings and emotions—emotions being stories we attach to and tell ourselves about our initial experience/feeling. He taught us to speak from our experiencing, not talk about. Through his skillfully varied teachings of often seemingly contradictory ideas, we learned to integrate. When we students were inclined to blame something or someone outside ourselves, he would invite us to turn our outwardly pointing fingers of accusation back upon ourselves and honestly explore from that ‘position’ first. The possibility of learning was greater when the focus was not outwardly directed. He was always inviting us to verbings, versus static, ‘shoulds’ and pegged down nounings. Rodney’s triggers, perturbations, and invitations were aids for us to ‘discover’ for ourselves. We students were always being invited to a phenomenological ‘jump’, a move to a higher or deeper level of understanding. Everything he taught was an invitation to the sacred. “The sacred,” he would say, “is that which cannot be talked about and pinned down, because to do so is to kill ‘it’ (which of course is not an ‘it’). The sacred can only be pointed to.”

One of Rodney’s favorite quotes is a line out of T.S. Elliot’s “Four Quartets”: “an ultimate simplicity costing not less than everything”. Rodney would say that “risking everything is the nature of spiritual work and without being willing to risk everything, in every moment of now, one can not get ‘there’, which of course, is not a ‘there’.” And this is indeed how Rodney lived his life. He risked everything in every moment of his living. In his teaching he invited others to do the same.

In his last four or five years, the speed with which he moved in his own explorations, his growth as a consummate teacher, and development as a spiritual warrior was stunning. For the students who studied with him until his death, it was obvious that he was now playing in a completely different phenomenal domain or level than the rest of us. He could not slow himself – he was on a ride and he went for it with everything in him. He told us that he was aware he was moving faster than we could keep up. Sensing his own death to be near, he provided us with everything we needed in order to continue with our own spiritual studies and explorations after he was gone. It was important to him that we were taken care of in his absence.

There was not a more generous soul than Rodney Donaldson. He cared deeply about helping us to become our ‘true’ selves. He knew what it meant to truly love. And he did so, without hesitation or equivocation.

This is a much poorer world now, without his presence, his energy, his teaching, his caring, compassion, and his love. Count yourself blessed if you had the rare good fortune to study with Dr. Rodney E. Donaldson.

“There is no time off for spiritual work”, he would say. “True wars are never won.” (e.e. cummings) He taught us that when we are suffering the most is precisely the time to do the work. Those are the moments most ripe for potential movement and opening. It is when times are the toughest, when we are the most resistant, when we are in the most pain, that the real work of becoming a human being can happen. Such times require a complete surrender and willingness to open. Rodney was always inviting us to grow up. To be honest with ourselves. To be ALIVE.

The ‘manner-with-which’ of his living will serve as inspiration for those of us who remain behind. There is a saying, “One goes to the Master to watch him tie his shoes.” (source unknown) As Rodney often said, “It’s all about the implicit.” One of the last things Rodney said to his students was, “Everything, everything, everything is grist for the spiritual mill. You have everything you need to continue your spiritual journey, as long as you remain open, be utterly honest, and explore with everything you’ve got.”

Rodney Donaldson was a visionary, a spiritual master, and a humble ordinary man who cared deeply. And his manner of caring made him an extraordinary human being.

We would do well to honor this extraordinary man through living our lives in a like manner. The consequences just might be the one thing (which of course is not a ‘thing’) that he would have loved for us all. Self-liberation. Freedom. A living of explorations in the direction of true understandings and meaning. A living in ALIVENESS.

With our gratitude, and in appreciation for you and all you offered, Thank You, Rodney.
You were loved.
You will be missed.

“Every thing that lives is Holy.” William Blake

Puget Sound Group Psychotherapy Network’s 2010 Spring Conference

Hi Eric,

Could you please distribute this to Antioch alumni. AUS is a co-sponsor of this event.

Thank you!

Rose Goodman, M.A. Psychology ’01, LMHC, CP
Puget Sound Group Psychotherapy Network

The Puget Sound Group Psychotherapy Network Cordially Invites You to Its 2010 Spring Conference
(an opportunity to expand and deepen your professional world)

“The Group as an Object of Desire”

Seattle University
Friday - Saturday, April 9-10, 2010

Featuring: Morris Nitsun, Ph.D.
Group Analytic Practice of London

This exciting conference offers a full day process group experience with closing review and discussion on Friday. Saturday, consists of a didactic presentation and demonstration group by Dr. Nitsun, author of The Anti-Group, and The Group as an Object of Desire.

For Conference Flier as pdf go to:
http://www.groupsnw.org/media/2010%20Conf%20Flier.pdf

For welcome and information letter (and find out about reduced hotel rates for the conference!) go to:
http://www.groupsnw.org/media/PSGPN%202010%20Conf%20Letter.pdf

NOTE: Registration for the Conference can only be done by downloading the flier and sending your registration fee to PSGPN by snail mail. If you register for the Process Group Experience on Friday, you will be contacted to make your group leader selection.

Join PSGPN for 2010-2011 and register for 2010 AND 2011 Conference at Member Rates!
Apply (click below) and send in your registration (click above)
For On-Line Membership Application go to: http://www.groupsnw.org/membership.cfm

6 CE credits available each day for SW’s, LMHC’s, and LMFT’s

Alumna To Host Radio Show

Jacqueline Conquest, M.A. Psychology ‘95, LMHC, CCH, is going to host a radio show beginning May 2010 with Contact Radio (http://www.contacttalkradio.com) which covers alternative medicine, metaphysics and raising the consciousness on the planet and more. For a taste of her work, here is a link to several radio shows that she has participated in the past.  The show was called Chat with Women and is at http://www.chatwithwomen.com/podcast/?s=jacqueline+conquest
 
Jacqueline is looking for sponsors that would buy a 30 second commercial on the show. During the one-hour show the sponsors business will be promoted twice.  In addition, the show runs once a week.  The intension and focus of her radio program will be on preparing for the ‘Shift’ 2012, Cleansing Consciousness, Karma, Alternative Medicine, Metaphysics, Thought and Thinking, Spirit Mind Body Healing and more. 

She will be the host of the show, interviewing guests that have a background in metaphysics, alternative medicine and such. She is still in the process of creating the show; therefore, it does not have a name yet. Contact Radio is heard throughout our nation and internationally.
 
Jacqueline can be contacted at 425-774-5105 or ladyofthesun@msn.com.

Job Opening For Field and Legislative Assistant

Be a part of an admired and respected team with the American Civil Liberties Union, our nation’s premier civil liberties and civil rights organization. The Washington state ACLU affiliate, located in downtown Seattle, has an opening for a full-time Field & Legislative Assistant.

For complete job description and application instructions see:

http://www.aclu-wa.org/aboutus/jobs

 

Applications accepted until position is filled.

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