10:45am-12:15pm Track III Moderate

Systems theory focuses on the inter-actional and observable in relationships. This workshop will present an approach that applies Bowen oriented systems ideas to one’s mutual relationships with the Divine, with spiritual-religious community and tradition with family, and with society. Participants will learn a model for dealing with client spiritual-religious material from a systems perspective in pastoral counseling.

Carl A. Jensen, M.S.Ed., AAPC Diplomate, Executive Director, Peninsula Pastoral Counseling Center, Newport News, Virginia.

10:45am-12:15pm Track II Moderate

Members of the Certification Committee will outline procedures and answer questions related to the certification process. The workshop will present a general overview then smaller groups will discuss procedures and questions specific to the different levels of certified membership: Certified Pastoral Counselor, Fellow and Diplomate. Participants will feel confident and encouraged about submitting their application for certification.

Claire Bamberg, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Chair, Fellow sub-committee for the Association Certification Committee, West Simsbury, Connecticut; Tere Canzoneri, M.Div., MSW, AAPC Diplomate, Chair, Diplomate sub-committee for the Association Certification Committee, Pastoral psychotherapist, The Emmanuel Center for Pastoral Counseling, Atlanta, Georgia.

10:45am-12:15pm Track III Moderate

Drawing from the field of spiritual direction, this workshop looks at ways to enhance the companioning efforts of the pastoral psychotherapist in depth exploration of the client's inner world. Participants will become familiar with the language of spiritual direction and learn techniques and perspectives that can be integrated into psychotherapeutic practice.

Laura Delaplain, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Director, Norma Kent Pastoral Counseling Center, Abington, Massachusetts; David Reynolds, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Pastoral Counseling Services, Manning House, Manchester, New Hampshire.

10:45am-12:15pm Track I Introductory

This workshop will teach participants the fundamentals of mindfulness meditation and its potential uses in individual psychotherapy, small group education and outreach. Examples ranging from practice within therapy offices and church settings to shelters and clinics will be discussed. Research on the practice of mindfulness in the treatment of addictions and mood disorders will be addressed. Participants will learn the fundamentals of the practice of mindfulness meditation and its effectiveness in pastoral counseling and mission outreach.

Emily B. Geoghegan, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Director of Community Education, Concord, New Hampshire.

10:45am-12:15pm Track I Moderate

The spiritual/emotional recovery of church workers affected by Hurricane Katrina remains a work-in-progress. Previous "best practice" interventions have been both validated and proved lacking as shepherding arms are wrapped around "long term recovery." Ambiguous losses abound, and offer an opportunity to be creatively responsive to the emotional/spiritual needs of persons recovering from catastrophic events. A panel of experienced pastoral counselors who continue to work with Katrina-affected church workers will speak of their discoveries (including recent literature), provide insight and clarity to long-term recovery questions, and offer strategies/suggestions for interventions and pastoral care within faith communities for an embrace of God's calling and spiritual/emotional healing.

Alice M. Graham, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Hood Theological Seminary, Salisbury, North Carolina; Melvin R. Jacob, D.Min., AAPC Diplomate, Executive Director Lutheran Counseling Services; Roy Richard Armstrong, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Associate Director Lutheran Counseling Services, Winter Park, Florida; Beverly Wallace, M.Ed, M.Div, Ph.D. candidate in Family Social Science, Assistant to the Bishop, Coordinator of Pastoral Care Ministry for Gulf Coast Recovery.

10:45am-12:15pm Track III & IV Introductory/Moderate/Advanced

This seminar will focus on the toxic, fragmenting impact of religious fundamentalism, viewed through the dreams of a thirty-year-old female. Symbolism will be explored through the series of dreams which occurred over several months. Participants will gain additional insight into the phenomenology of religious fundamentalism with implications for clinical practice.

Randall Mishoe, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Jungian Analyst and Pastoral Counselor Private Practice, Charlotte, North Carolina.

10:45am-12:15pm Track I Moderate

Are you fed up with never enough? An emerging model of pastoral counseling celebrates God’s abundance despite limited resources. With an impossible vision, an African Pastor completed AAPC training and returned home to establish the African Counseling Center in Cameroon. Using video clips and first hand experiences of African and American partners, this workshop will: 1. Offer a model of international collaboration that respects cultural context; 2. Share a theological vision of abundance and grace; 3. Inspire members and Regions to both envision and accomplish your own initiates.

Jean-Emile Ngue, D.Min, AAPC Member International, Executive Director, African Counseling Center, Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa; Sandra Kruschwitz Hamilton, D.Min., AAPC Diplomate, Pastoral Counselor, Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care; W. Victor Maloy, D.Min., AAPC Diplomate, Executive Director, Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care; Mary Fran Hughes-McIntyre, D.Min., AAPC Diplomate, Director of Education, Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care, Richmond, Virginia.

10:45am-12:15pm Track III & IV Introductory/Moderate/Advanced

This workshop will offer a case presentation of marital counseling followed by a discussion of theological methods and clinical insights.

Presenter: Gordon Kieft, M.A., AAPC Fellow, LPC, Pastoral Counselor of Pastoral Counseling for Denver and on staff of Calvary Baptist Church in Denver as Pastoral Counselor; Respondents: Nancy J. Ramsay, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Executive Vice President, Dean, and Professor of Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Care at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas; R. Hal Ritter, Jr., Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Behaviorial Science Educator, Temple, Texas.

10:45am-12:15pm Track III Introductory/Moderate/Advanced

Are you interested in learning more about the Internal Family Systems model? In this workshop Dr. Richard Schwartz will expand on his plenary address and prepare the participants for the Live Demonstration which will be presented in the afternoon.

Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., Founder/President, Internal Family Systems, The Center for Self Leadership, P.C., Oak Park, Illinois.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track III Advanced

Dr. Schwartz will provide a live demonstration of the Internal Family Systems model with a volunteer from the group. In particular he will try to demonstrate the model's respectful approach to protective parts.

Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., Founder/President, Internal Family Systems, The Center for Self Leadership, P.C., Oak Park, Illinois.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track I Moderate

This workshop will use a narrative approach in exploring the dominant discourse of the client’s faith community as well as thickening the story of faith and creating new spiritual narratives through the therapeutic experience. Participants will learn a narrative approach that will strengthen the client’s spiritual life.

Suzanne M. Coyle, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Marriage and Family Therapy; Director of MFT program - Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track I Introductory Enrollment Limit 25

College chaplaincy, whether with students of traditional or non-traditional age, provides a special context for the practice of pastoral counseling/pastoral psychotherapy. This workshop will explore the challenges and possibilities of such a context. Participants will learn about the potential challenges, requirements and creative collaboration that college chaplaincy presents for pastoral counselors.

Richard R. Crocker, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, College Chaplain, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track I Moderate Enrollment Limit 25

The practitioner employing Bowen Theory in the clinical setting will likely follow Bowen’s admonition to be, among other things, an educator to the client regarding Natural Systems Theory. The idea of the Psychotherapist teaching basic theory on human behavior to the client was, to say the least, a novel idea in the world of mental health treatment. This presentation will explore the problematic nature of clients thinking in terms of forgiveness, and how this quest is more a function of cause and effect thinking than it is a function of systems thinking. In addition this presentation will propose an alternative direction for managing this quest for forgiveness by exploring systems thinking in general, and the triangles in particular. Exploring the togetherness life force as well as interlocking triangles in family systems can help the client breakthrough this emotional barrier that traditionally we have dubbed “forgiveness”.

Christopher F. East, Psy.D., AAPC Fellow, Counselor to Employees, Summerfield, North Carolina.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track III Introductory/Moderate/Advanced

The theoretical foundation for pastoral counseling is an ontological approach in which psychological and theological frames of understanding form an interactive relational dialogue for a sense of well-being for persons. Paul Tillich’s work, The Courage to Be, forms the ontological dynamic in which psychological understanding and theological perspective meet in an integrative matrix. Clinical process utilizing case presentations will form the focus for this ontological approach. Participants will learn an ontological perspective in the understanding of clinical approaches to well-being of persons.

James W. Ewing, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Adjunct Professor, University of San Diego; Scholar-in-Residence, Alliant International University; Director, San Diego Pastoral Counseling Center, San Diego, California; Gary C. Augustin, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Helping Hands Hawaii, Assertive Community Treatment Team Leader, Honolulu, Hawaii.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track I Moderate

“The Switching Hour” is a collaborative presentation by a Pastoral Counselor (Diplomate and Adjunct Professor) and an Attorney (Mediator and M.Div.) which considers children’s experiences of continual transitions between parents resulting from parental separation and divorce. Participants will have a heightened awareness of the stress in the lives of children whose parents are divorced or separated and will be equipped with information regarding parenting plans and legal decisions illustrating switching hour challenges.

Evon O. Flesberg, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Pastoral Counselor, A Talking Place Pastoral Counseling Service, Brentwood, Tennessee; Kenneth M. Jackson, J.D., M.Div., Attorney-Mediator, Nashville, Tennessee.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track II Moderate Enrollment 30

Focusing on a relational and multi-perspective model, this interactive workshop will explain a process for helping supervisors integrate spiritual and psychological reflection through a live supervisory case. The workshop will consist of sharing a case by a student with engagement from two interdisciplinary supervisors and focusing on how such oversight can invite theological response. Participants will through observation and engagement, delineate core relational dynamics that emanate from an integrated supervisory session and practice integration of clinical and theological perspectives.

Wallace Fletcher, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Executive Director, The Dialogue Center for Counseling and Consulting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Suzanne Mayer, IHM, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Associate Professor in Masters’ program in Pastoral Counseling, Neumann College, Aston, Pennsylvania.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track I & IV Moderate Enrollment 50

Are they siblings, cousins or just friends? The relation between counseling and spiritual direction has in recent years become increasingly important as interest has risen in integrating spiritual themes into counseling and psychological themes into spiritual direction. This workshop will provide some clarification in the relationship to prevent confusion and at times the conflation of one field into the other. Participants will have a clear understanding of the contrast and complementarities of the two fields.

C. Kevin Gillespie, S.J., Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Associate Professor, Loyola College, Columbia, Maryland.

1:45pm-3:15pm Track I Introductory Enrollment 25

We will inquire together into the version of the Lord’s Prayer found in Luke with attention to how it may help us enter into the present moment more fully and into the Kingdom that Jesus taught is “at hand.” Participants will learn a model of meditation with the Lord’s Prayer to support creativity in their personal lives and clinical work.

Timothy Locke, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Executive Director, Four Springs, Middletown, California.

4:00pm-6:00pm Track I Moderate Enrollment Limit 25

An opportunity for those doing pastoral counseling in the African American context to share ideas, experiences and strategies. There will be discussion of recent research and thought in the practice of African American pastoral care. Participants will learn how to better serve the African American community in the practice of pastoral counseling.

Marjorie Smith, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Pastoral Counselor, Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care, Richmond, Virginia; Alice M. Graham, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Hood Theological Seminary, Salisbury, North Carolina; Nancy L. Long, D.Min., AAPC Diplomate, Staff Support Chaplain, Emory Health Care, Atlanta, Georgia; April C. Well, Th.D., Executive Director of Wells of Wholeness Inc.

4:00pm-6:00pm Track I Moderate Enrollment Limit 15

Tertulias are a creative activity within the Hispanic/Latino culture. These Tertulias provide a forum where people gather to discuss politics, exchange intellectual pursuits, share art, poetry and other creative and innovative ideas within a community. Tertulias are a valuable context for fellowship and camaraderie. One significant outcome of the Tertulias is to discern how best we may contribute to the process of formation emerging from our own histories and professional experiences in a rapidly growing multi-cultural social context.

Facilitated by: Rebeca Radillo, D. Min., AAPC Fellow, Associate Professor of Pastoral Care & Counseling at the New York Theological Seminary, New York, New York.

4:00pm-6:00pm Track I Introductory/Moderate/Advanced

The Korean working group is designed to explore the AAPC Model of Pastoral Care and Counseling with its cultural perspectives adaptive to the Korean Culture and Korean personality in an effort to seek ways of globalizing and indigenizing the AAPC model in Korea. This working group also aims to explore better ways of networking Korean/Korean-American counselors, supervisors, trainers, trainees, and teachers for the promotion and advancement of our field between Koreans and Korean-Americans.

In Ho Hwang, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Coordinator for the AAPC/CPC Program, Korea Professional Psychotherapy Institute, Fellow, Korea Association of Spirituality and Psychotherapy and Certified Counseling Psychotherapist, Korea Counseling Psychological Association; Hyun Sook Lee, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Coordinator for the AAPC/PCS Program, Korea Professional Psychotherapy Institute, Fellow, Korea Association of Spirituality and Psychotherapy and Certified Supervisor, Korea Association for Family Counseling, South Korea.