Track III 6.0 Hours of Continuing Education
Introductory $110.00 Pre-payment required. Enrollment Limit 20

This workshop introduces an archetypal model for managing experiences of sudden change. A four-stage process is introduced through lecture and case material. Experiential activities using art, music, journaling and ritual deepen understanding of these stages in our life journeys. Through Jungian/Transpersonal based techniques, participants will learn a four-stage model for dealing with sudden change that can be directly applied to their clinical practice as well as to their own life journeys.

Susanne Fincher, M.A., AAPC Member, Licensed Professional Counselor, and a Registered Art Therapist in practice with Samaritan Counseling Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Marilyn F. Clark, M.S., AAPC Member, Integrative Psychotherapist, Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Track III 6.0 Hours of Continuing Education
Moderate $110.00 Pre-payment required. Enrollment Limit 35

Imaginative Contemplation encourages participation in sacred narratives, symbols, and images in ways that can promote powerful psychological and spiritual differentiations and integration. In this workshop participants will learn about and engage in various practices of imaginative contemplation; explore their use in the therapeutic setting and as complementary to therapy; and identify their spiritual and clinical benefits and potential risks.

Martha Robbins, Th.D., Licensed Psychologist and Joan Marshall Associate Professor of Pastoral Care, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Track III 6.0 Hours of Continuing Education
Moderate $110.00 Pre-payment required. Enrollment Limit 20

Ken Wilber’s comprehensive map, AQAL (all quadrants, all lines, all levels), of human capabilities offers an opportunity to explore ethics from an integral perspective. This workshop discovers fresh ways of understanding and applying professional ethics. Participants will learn AQAL, and learn to apply the model to professional ethical dilemmas. We hope it will be exciting and fun!

Nedra Voorhies, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Pastoral Counselor private practice, Chaplain - Bon Secours, Professor University of Phoenix, Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Texas; Donald Denton, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Pastoral Counselor, Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care, Richmond, Virginia.

Track III 2.75 Hours of Continuing Education
Advanced $55.00 Pre-payment required.

Counseling with adolescents is a challenge, but even more so when substance use is involved. This workshop will address the significant issues about therapy with adolescents who have substance use or are part of a family with parents who use. Participants will be engaged in considering and learning about adolescent perspectives on chemical use, giving support about abstinence challenges (cravings, peer associations, coping with parent reactions), teens with parents who abuse substances and addressing the problem of therapy with an adolescent who is actively using. Participants will learn helpful approaches to assist teens with change. Attention will be given to adolescent brain development and the impact of chemical use. Other issues for learning may include: self-harm and substance abuse, when marijuana means identity and drinking and using to relieve pain – prioritized treatment or concurrent?

Christopher C. Bowers, M.Div., AAPC Member (Certified), Substance Abuse Counselor/Treatment Coordinator, Hallmark Youthcare, Richmond, Virginia.

Track III 2.75 Hours of Continuing Education
Moderate $55 Pre-payment required.

This workshop will present a model for a psycho-educational group based on a proven method to prevent depression relapse. Cognitive-behavioral principles and techniques are combined with mindfulness practices in a group format, which can be adapted for individuals or couples. Prefer participants who already have their own practice of meditation, yoga or contemplative prayer. Familiarity with cognitive behavioral therapy will be helpful. Participants will learn some practical techniques to combine spirituality and psychotherapy to help their clients prevent depression.

Nancy Hayes Kilgore, D.Min., AAPC Fellow, Private Practice, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Track III 2.75 Hours of Continuing Education
Moderate $55.00 Pre-payment required.

In the course of Couples Therapy, spiritual issues are often ignored. Yet marriage is a crucible for working through spiritual dynamics. This workshop will help pastoral therapists recognize and work with spiritual dynamics that are part of marriages. Participants will learn to recognize and work with spiritual issues such as acceptance, idolatry, repentance, forgiveness and salvation as they impact couple relationships.

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

Track I 2.75 Hours of Continuing Education
Moderate $55.00 Pre-payment required.

An inter-disciplinary workshop designed to expand the counselor’s knowledge/skill base for meeting the increasing expectations of recognizing physiological, spiritual, psychological “look-a-likes” and to have a “reasonable” knowledge of other disciplines for proper diagnosis, treatment, collaboration/referral, and accompanying moral/ethical/legal ramifications. Participants will learn how to more fully understand the tripartite nature of counselees; practice more competently with multiple-issues and more complex clients; become better equipped to counsel alone, and to become a more participating collaborator with other professionals, by possessing a broader knowledge and skill base founded on a “reasonable” knowledge of medical/psychological/spiritual “look-a-likes”.

Richard H. Cox, Ph.D., AAPC Diplomate/Supervisor, Private Practice, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Affiliated Scholar, Georgetown University Medical Center, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Washington, D.C.

Track I 2.75 Hours of Continuing Education
Introductory/Moderate/Advanced $55.00 Pre-payment required.

This workshop will explore the impact of war on families over at least three generations. Drawing upon pastoral practice, military chaplains, selected family genograms, and other research with families the workshop will examine multiple narratives and inter-generational dynamics operating in families and their relation of the need for care by the family as a whole and by its individual members. Particular attention will be given to how ministers, chaplains and therapists may gain access and respond to overt and hidden trauma, spiritual crisis, conflicting mythologies, and emotional cutoffs resulting from the impact of war on families. This workshop is based on a course taught by Dr. Graham at Iliff for three years. Dr. Graham will arrange for one or more military chaplains to participate in the workshop to focus on the needs of families currently participating in war.

Larry Kent Graham, Ph. D., AAPC Diplomate, Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care at the Iliff School of Theology, ordained clergy person in the United Church of Christ (UCC), Denver, Colorado.

Track II & IV 2.75 Hours of Continuing Education
Introductory/Moderate/Advanced No pre-registration fee.

This pre-conference workshop is intended for Norfolk area clergy and other pastoral caregivers (deacons, elders, and other lay leaders). The workshop will introduce the competencies pastoral caregivers need in assisting families that are living through substance misuse and addiction disease. Attention will be given to basic understanding of substance misuse and addiction as it develops, the resulting impacts on family life including faith and spirituality, and the significant role that spiritual caregivers have in assisting families (especially children and adolescents).

Christopher C. Bowers, M.Div., CSAC, ASE, AAPC Member (Certified), Substance Abuse Counselor/Treatment Coordinator, Hallmark Youthcare, Richmond, Virginia.