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

Using illustrations from film Dr. Doehring will describe a way to listen for how religiously-committed clients draw upon their faith to cope with and make sense of violence. Drawing upon a metaphor she will elaborate on The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach (Westminster-John Knox, 2006). Illustrations will show how to assess whether survivors of violence use premodern, modern, or postmodern approaches to religious knowledge, particularly in terms of the theodicies they construct to understand God’s power and goodness.

Carrie Doehring, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Iliff School of Theology, Joint Ph.D., Program, Denver University, Denver, Colorado.

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

The staff of PCNV (Pastoral Counseling of Northern Virginia) will share their highly innovative and successful practice model. Topics will include theological foundations, legal structure, business model and staff dynamics. High billable hours and low overhead enable 75% fees collected with several additional benefits. Participants will learn the essential elements that make this particular practice model so successful and will discuss how this model might be adapted for their own community.

Rebecca N. Albritton, M.Div., AAPC Fellow, Pastoral Counselor; Glynn R. Ford, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Chair of the Board of Trustees and Pastoral Counselor; Judith T. Hall, M.S.W., Pastoral Counselor; Gary L. Hulme, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, President/CEO and Pastoral Counselor; R. Carl Ripley, Jr., M.Div., M.S., Pastoral Counselor; James M. Truxell, M.Div., AAPC Fellow, Secretary/Outreach Coordinator and Pastoral Counselor; Robert D. Whitten, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Treasurer/Finance and Pastoral Counselor. All presenters work for Pastoral Counseling of Northern Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia.

10:45am-12:15pm Track III Moderate Enrollment Limit 30

This workshop will look at how the parental relationship changes as our children reach young and older adulthood. It will also suggest and explore factors that build successful relating as children age. Special situations in parenting older children will also be considered. Participants will increase their understanding of families with older child relationships, their own as well as those of their clients.

Jules Auger, D.Min., AAPC Diplomate, Pastoral Psychotherapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Portland, Oregon.

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

EMDR is well suited to help clients address significant spiritual/theological/religious issues; e.g. suffering, forgiveness, original sin, judgment, and lack of self-control. Learn how EMDR can promote healing and integration following emotional and physical trauma, in part by stimulating healthy God images and inner spiritual resources. Participants will learn a basic description of EMDR and its applications so they can discern the usefulness and appropriateness of EMDR in pastoral counseling practice.

Wayne E. Gustafson, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Pastoral Counselor, Susquehanna Family Counseling Ministry, Watkins Glen and Ithaca, New York.

10:45am-12:15pm Track II Moderate Enrollment Limit 50

Globalization impacts every aspect of the counseling profession. Developing our digital strategy is crucial. Information technology is moving FORWARD at breakneck speed. There are new rules and many questions. AAPC must keep pace with these changes to attract and maintain a thriving membership. Participants will plan and initiate development of the digital strategy placing AAPC firmly on the global stage.

Moderator: Janice C. Hodge, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, President, J.C. Hodge and Associates, Chicago, Illinois; James W. Pruett, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Pastoral Therapist and Supervisor, Counseling Center, Charlotte, North Carolina; A. Christopher Hammon, D.Min., Administrator Oates Online Learning Center, Internet Project Developer, Managing Editor, Oates Institute, Louisville, Kentucky; Frederick Schramm, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Executive Director Samaritan Counseling Center, Fairbanks, Alaska; (LTC) Thomas C. Waynick, M.Div., AAPC Fellow, Director and Clinical Supervisor, US Army Family Life Chaplain Training Program, Fort Benning, Georgia.

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

Growing or expanding a Pastoral Counselor’s ministry is a skill to learn. This workshop is designed for new therapists beginning their practice and for seasoned therapists trying to expand. Participants will gain resources, ideas and encouragement with which to grow their client base.

Steven Ingram, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Manager, Pastoral Care and Education, Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio; Paul Melrose, D.Min., AAPC Diplomate, Executive Director, Samaritan Counseling Center of South East Michigan, Farmington Hills, Michigan.

10:45am-12:15pm Track III Moderate Enrollment Limit 50

The paintings of the Isenheim Altarpiece (Mathias Gruenewald, 16th century) are used to illustrate a perspective for pastoral counseling that focuses on seeing suffering clearly and being with persons in the tension between experience and expectation. Participants will integrate a theology of the cross with an existential approach to psychotherapy using the Isenheim Altarpiece as a set of visual metaphors.

Benjamin Moravitz, Th.D., AAPC Fellow, Director, Marietta Pastoral Counseling Center, Marietta, Georgia.

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

Integration of psychotherapy and religious experience in the therapeutic process can be complicated. This workshop will explore four steps to integrating religious experience in the psychotherapy process. It will also offer a way to look at psychological issues from the lens of spirituality. Participants will be provided with an integrative way of working with religious experiences in psychotherapy.

David C. Olsen, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Executive Director, Samaritan Counseling Center, Scotia, New York.

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

Based on Heinz Kohut’s Self Psychology, Dr. Son’s posits that depression is one’s protective measure against ineffectual self-expressions. In addressing depression as envisioned, Karl Barth’s theological anthropology is posited as the basis of counseling relationships. Participants will learn the understanding of depression from the perspective of Kohut’s self psychology and the relational nature of counseling relationship based on Barth’s theological anthropology.

Angella M. Pak Son, Ph.D., AAPC Certified Pastoral Counselor, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Religion, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

10:45am-12:15pm Track III Moderate Enrollment Limit 40

Although some religious leaders and organizations are fully affirming of GLBT (gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender) persons, the majority of religious institutions are not. Through a combination of lecture, case presentation and discussion, participants will learn the damaging effects of religious and sexual shame on GLBT people across the faith spectrum, and find tools and resources to foster affirmative spiritual and sexual health.

Leanne McCall Tigert, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Licensed Pastoral Psychotherapist, Adjunct Faculty at Andover Newton, Concord, New Hampshire.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track II Moderate

The Tibetan practice of love/awareness (adapted for Westerners by Lama John Makransky) will be introduced as a way to cut through suffering and distress by opening to unconditional love as a deep, natural expression of one’s being, not a contingent story. Participants will learn the practice (for themselves and to use with clients) to open to vastness, to receive love, and to give it, as a way to realize well being and joy beyond habitual thought patterns and (with lots of practice), beyond burnout.

Joel Baehr, M.Div., AAPC Fellow, Self employed Unitarian Universalist Pastoral Counselor and Buddhist teacher, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Old Greenwich, Connecticut.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track IV Moderate Enrollment Limit 35

This workshop will begin with a brief introduction to pain path theory. Attendees will then experientially explore several meditative approaches which can be used personally or professionally. After facilitating a discussion of immediate responses, the presenter will share exciting psycho-spiritual outcomes. Participants will learn to understand and experience the effectiveness and psycho-spiritual impact using meditation to diminish pain.

Jane Brown, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Chair of Health and Wellness, Antioch University McGregor in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track I Introductory Enrollment Limit 25

Deaf and hard-of-hearing clientele are often the most overlooked group of clients in mental health services. This workshop is an introductory “how-to” guide for pastoral counselors to use when they encounter deaf and hard of hearing clients. Learn how to meet their communication and unique counseling needs, and form a successful relationship with them.

David W. Girardin, RN, M.A., M.Div., AAPC Certified Pastoral Counselor, Chesapeake, Virginia; Star G. Grieser, M.S. Ed., Program Director, American Sign Language and Interpreter Education, Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake, Virginia.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track IV Introductory Enrollment Limit 50

Using drama, video and power point, Dr. Grose will present the process of Job’s recovery from major depression to a first-hand spiritual experience. Theological and psychological concepts help us understand Job and use his story in our work with biblically-oriented clients. The attendee will come away with a conceptual framework for understanding the process of recovery from disaster.

Gordon S. Grose, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Retired, West Linn, Oregon.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track II Introductory

This session will enable those with training responsibilities and interests in pastoral counseling formation to share each others’ insights and experience. The discussion will focus on topics such as: creativity for current and new programming, scope of training objectives, supervision, formation themes of residents, staff relations and budgeting issues of training. To assist with setting priority for the day with topics of current interest to participants, please contact the moderator at sheitkamp@careandcounseling.org. Training leaders and students are welcome to the dialogue.

Moderator: Steve Heitkamp, D.Min., L.P.C. (IL), AAPC Fellow, Director of Training, Care and Counseling, St. Louis, Missouri.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track II Introductory

Executive Directors of Centers will meet to discuss common concerns, to hear from The Institutional Accreditation Committee about proposed changes in standards and to discuss ways to collaborate with each other. Opportunity will be provided to make suggestions to the Association concerning support of centers and programs. Representatives of the Centers and Training Resource and Development committee and the Institutional Accreditation Committee will be present.

Facilitator: Dale Kuhn, S.T.M., AAPC Diplomate, AAPC President, Director of Care and Counseling, St. Louis, Missouri.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track I Moderate Enrollment Limit 25

HIV/AIDS Pandemic is a silent killer affecting the global community. As a professional organization that seeks to educate and provide pastoral care and counseling the purpose of this workshop is to expose participants to what is happening in our communities. Participants will share their professional knowledge and expertise to devise new ways of caring. Attendees will gain expertise in counseling and supporting PLWA (People Living with Aids), and their families in a positive manner and will also learn what is done in other cultures, internally.

Daniel D.T. Marutle, M.T.S., AAPC Fellow, Pastoral Counselor – CENTUS Counseling• Consulting• Education, Denver, Colorado.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track I Moderate

It is a decision made by clinicians for many reasons – energy, health, family demands, available clients, other interests – but often also as a response to a sense, a call. Call to what? We will discuss intentional small practice (approximately 10 or fewer client hours per week) as a vocational call, a clinical determination and a lifestyle choice. There are also consequences affecting financial stability and professional status as well as freedom from productivity formulae.

Pamela D. Senko, S.T.M., AAPC Fellow, Director, Life Pastoral Counseling, Beech Grove, Indiana, Coordinator of Engage Counseling Consultation, and acting Director of Field Education Student Preparation, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana; with guest speakers.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track II Moderate

This workshop is aimed to offer cross-cultural perspectives in applying the AAPC mode of clinical supervision to training/supervising the Asian trainees whose personality is rooted and shaped by the Confucianistic cultures in contemporary Asian countries. The workshop specifically focuses on seeking to identify and explore the cross-cultural issues and concerns in supervising trainees measuring up to the AAPC standards within the confucianistic cultural context of Korea. Implications from this workshop will enable the attendees to understand their Asian trainees with their confucianistic cultural backgrounds dynamically better and to supervise them with more culturally sensitive and adaptive ways.

S. Sangkwon Shim, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Executive Director, Korea Professional Psychotherapy Institute (KPPI), Certified Counseling Psychologist, Korea Counseling Psychological Association and Diplomate, Korea Association of Spirituality and Psychotherapy, Seoul, Korea; Seung Hee Sohn, Ph.D., AAPC Fellow, Fellow Program Coordinator at Korea Professional Psychotherapy Institute, Fellow, Korea Association of Spirituality and Psychotherapy, Certified Counseling Psychotherapist, Korea Counseling Psychological Association, Seoul, Korea.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track III Advanced

Constructionist assumptions of postmodern Collaborative and Narrative therapies raise fundamental challenges to philosophies, psychotherapy theories and theologies that grounded pastoral counseling in the twentieth century. This workshop will explore how pastoral counseling changes when these assumptions guide therapy and clinical training. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to discuss the tensions and contributions presented to pastoral counseling as post-modern psychological theories and theologies are integrated into the practice of pastoral counseling.

Loren Townsend, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate, Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

2:15pm-3:45pm Track II Moderate Enrollment Limit 25

This workshop will look at a successful program of group supervision that is being used with clergy from the South Indiana United Methodist Conference (ongoing since 2002). Included will be an overview (multiple denominations) of types of clergy that can be served by this type of supervision and work towards Pastoral Care Specialist. Participants will learn the history and current model of the program being used in Indiana and ways to adapt this program to their sites of ministry.

P.T. Wilson, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, University Chaplain of DePauw University and Senior Pastor of Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church, Greencastle, Indiana.