Please note: This year's conference will be held at the Mercer Island Community and Events Center, which is a new location for us. Directions to the Center can be found at http://www.mercergov.org/files/micec_directions.pdf.
When we engage in conversations across cultures, there is always the risk that what we say might offend someone. Oftentimes we don’t know why what we said was offensive. But rather than risking offense, many people avoid cross cultural dialogue altogether or cling to “politically correct”terminology.
"Using Theater and Group Process to Promote Mutual Recognition and Communal Wellbeing”
This two-day conference combines play reading, interactive theater, and small group processes to identify and explore alternatives that have the potential to generate mutual recognition and communal wellbeing in our private and civic lives.
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Play therapy has a primary purpose: to serve the child’s healing process through the use of skilled relationship and materials which are natural to the child’s world. In this relationship, children explore what their experiences have felt like, not the facts and details of the events. There may be no words for what a child has felt. As adults, we learn to use language efficiently to name and identify our experiences. But there are still many experiences which remain outside the constructs of words, especially for children. To use words too so
Religion is often controversial and associated with contentious debate and social exclusion. How are we to understand and talk about its deep emotional significance for many of our patients? We propose a new model of constructive dialogue between faith and psychoanalysis that is deeply ethical and irreducibly relational.
Join us for food, drinks, and games, including an exciting raffle!