The following workshops are scheduled immediately before and after our 2016 Conference in  Bloomington, MN.  Workshops with No-Ψ indicate that they are not available for APA Continuing Education Credit. 

WORKSHOPS FOR NASAP 2016

May 12-15, Bloomington, MN

Thursday Morning, May 12, 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

How the Grinch Brought Back Adler: Teaching Individual Psychology to Children Through Allegory  No-Ψ
Nadine Garner, Ed.D. & Jason Baker, Ph.D.
Join us for a lively, interactive experience! Using video and print excerpts from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, we will demonstrate how to expose children to many key concepts of Individual Psychology, using this famous story as allegory. Walk away with concrete examples generalizable to multiple educational settings.

Participants will learn to develop, implement, and consider the impact of an educational intervention designed to explore Individual Psychology through allegory; and, to promote the advancement of Individual Psychology through early development exposure; and, to use these Adlerian concepts in developing self-knowledge and relationships to systems of influence.

Life Style Listening Skills   No-Ψ
Rocky Garrison, Ph.D. 
Life style listening is a process for identifying life style beliefs, movement, and goals from the language a client uses in an interview. A step-by-step process for deriving hypothesized beliefs, movement, and goals is illustrated and practiced, and the process of synthesizing these life style hypotheses into a life style summary using Dreikurs' "two points of a line" is presented and practiced.

Participants will learn to identify life style beliefs, psychological movement, and goals from the language a client uses in an interview and to synthesize hypothesized life style beliefs, movement and goals into a life style summary using the "two points of a line" method. 

Out of Context Problems  No-Ψ
Andre Koen, M.A.
Why do deer get hit by cars? Why don't immigrants learn to wait in line and why didn't the Native Americans stop Columbus when they had the chance? Ronald Reagan was right, if aliens were to land today that would change the context by which we relate to people we perceive to be different from ourselves.

In this session we will explore noticeable differences, the perceived conflict that those differences produce and build effective strategies to create networks of inclusive relationships.

Born to Create   No-Ψ 
Erin Rafferty-Bugher, M.A., ATR-BC, LPC C & Nicole Randick, Ed.D.

Workshop participants will engage in a hands on experiential connecting to their innate artistic creativity.  Practitioners will integrate  “The Indivisible Self- Wellness Model” by Meyers & Sweeny (2005) as a way to reflect upon practitioner impairment. Creative self-care strategies will be explored as a wellness tool for practitioners.  

Participants will learn 3 creative strategies to help prevent practitioner impairment and 3 ways the Indivisible Self- Wellness model (2005) can be used for personal and professional self-awareness. 

Thursday, May 12, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

How to Talk So Gamers Will Listen and Listen So Gamers Will Talk
Terry Kottman, Ph.D. & Jacob Kottman
How many of your clients speak “video game”? In this workshop, you will learn vocabulary, concepts, characters, themes, and metaphors you can use to build relationships with and gain insight into clients who play video games. You will leave with a plethora of ideas for connecting, communicating, and intervening with gamer clients.

Participants will learn to use a general video game vocabulary and how to use terms to communicate with clients in their counseling sessions; identify different kinds of video games and specific characters, plots, relationship patterns, and themes from selected video games and how to use this information /knowledge in communicating with clients and building relationships in counseling sessions. They will be able to describe ways that gaming impacts clients’ lifestyle and to design therapeutic metaphors that use gaming language and plan interventions for clients who are living the “gaming life.”

Solving the Mystery of Parenting Teens  No-Ψ
Lynn Lott, M.A., Alicia Wang & Kimberly Gonsalves

Would you like to share the life-changing Positive Discipline principles with parents of teens, but worry about whether you’re equipped to support parents who may be dealing with unmotivated or rebellious teens, early sexual activity, or drug and alcohol use?  Solving The Mystery of Parenting Teens Facilitator’s Training is designed to help educators feel confident supporting parents of teens.  Get familiar with experiential activities and Save time by providing “ready to go” content in a 7 week course.

Participants will learn how to use the ready to go content (17 hour course outline) to deliver an effective workshop and they will also learn what parents of teens need to improve relationships with their teens.  Materials will be provided.

Adaptive Reorientation Therapy
Paul Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Adler states that therapy is a process of reorientation.  In this workshop that theme is presented as a holistic treatment approach that deemphasizes focus on symptoms and helps the person to reorient movement such that life is lived more effectively.

Participants will be able to discuss Adler’s Law of Movement and its relationship to other core concepts; identify “realities of social living” as they apply to an identified client; demonstrate ways to elicit personal ambitions from clients and clarify mistaken beliefs and idealistic goals associated with these ambitions and recognize the interpretations (private logic) in these; conduct a retrospective life-style assessment and analysis including family constellation and niche adoption, parental influences (presence/absence, parental values cultural influences (ethnic, racial, religious, regional, etc.)), early recollections and recurrent dreams; assess client’s strengths, assets, liabilities and limitations; identify goals and methods for psychoeducation (group and individual) to develop more optimally effective solutions to life’s challenges. 

Adlerian Case Conceptualization and Pattern Recognition

Len Sperry, M.D., Ph.D. & Jon Sperry, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Pattern recognition is essential in developing accurate and clinically usefully case conceptualizations.  Adler's construct of  "movement"  serves as the starting point for quickly recognizing basic life patterns.  A step-by-step process for "confirming" the pattern with life style information and writing conceptualizations and treatment plans is illustrated.

Participants will be able to identify at least three myths about case conceptualization and identify the truths dispelling those myths; identify key elements of effective case conceptualization and demonstrate a step-by-step strategy for developing effective Adlerian case conceptualizations and treatment plans based on pattern recognition; demonstrate the relationship between Adler’s concept of “movement” and pattern recognition; identify the role culture and diversity plan in case conceptualization;  and, show the relationship to prognosis and identify potential barriers to treatment based on case conceptualization. 

Lifestyle Live!  No-Ψ

Les White, Psy.D.
Lifestyle Live! reviews the major Adlerian concepts and introduces a short interview, a variety of games, and interpretive templates with which to quickly collect and assess a person's Lifestyle data for counseling, career, and coaching purposes.  A live demonstration with a client is included.

Participants will learn the major Adlerian/Individual Psychology concepts, such as holism, teleology, phenomenology, purpose of behavior, the influence of the social field, psychology of use vs. possession, the power of choice, the "Law" of Compensation and striving for significance, inferiority-superiority "movement," the tasks of life, the family constellation, and early recollections and how to gather, understand, and use Lifestyle data as a counseling technique.

 Thursday Afternoon, May 12, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Connecting Across Cultures  No-Ψ
Hala Buck, M.A., LCPC, NCC
Is “Born to Connect” a guarantee? Culture, life experiences and personal choices determine whether we find our sense of belonging. For highly mobile people navigating cultures - immigrants, refugees, diplomats, military families, business people, etc. - “belonging” can be challenging. Using art, body and E.R.s we’ll explore this fundamental search.

Participants will learn how to put Adlerian principles into action through this integrative process as they explore their own personal, cultural beliefs and hidden bias.  Participants will learn how to integrate art therapy processes, Early Recollections and body language (Adler’s “physical speech”) to access cultural and intergenerational patterns. This will enable them to enhance their effectiveness with multicultural clients, colleagues, and family members.

Coaching Using MBTI® Personality Type to Achieve the Crucial Cs  No-Ψ
Jean M.  Kummerow, Ph.D.
The Crucial Cs Model of Adler's Core Needs posits that everyone needs to Connect, feel Capable, Count, and have Courage.  Using the concepts of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, coaches can find pathways to achieve these.  Participants must know their MBTI Type and the basic preference definitions to participate.

Participants will learn the Crucial Cs Model of Adler's Core Needs and How the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment can be used to help clients achieve those core needs.

Present Like A Pro: Taking Adler to the World with Confident Presentations, Seminars, and Workshops  No-Ψ
Kevin E. O'Connor, M.A., CSP
Knowing Adler is one thing; presenting well is another. You can do both! Find the special skills, the tool kit, to present, facilitate, and speak with confidence and professionalism. When our workshops are successfully done, our message is memorable. Many don't know Adler; we can fix that with skill.

Participants will learn the skills and techniques of great presenters, facilitators, and workshop leaders and how to best present themselves, how to handle their nerves, and how to be confident in their knowledge.

Counseling Families with Children who meet ADHD Criteria  No-Ψ
Frank Walton, Ph.D.
The instructor will explain and demonstrate how an underdeveloped sense of community feeling and or mistaken aspects of their belief system frequently influences children to manifest behaviors that meet the criteria for the ADHD diagnosis.  A video taped summary of research and conclusions of scientists with regard to use of drugs for treatment of these children will be provided.

Participants will learn conclusions of prominent scientists with regard to use of drugs for treatment of children who manifest behavior that meets the criteria for the ADHD diagnosis and a systematic approach to understanding and helping parents and children in  a family wherein a child meets the criteria for the ADHD diagnosis. 

Sunday Morning, May 15, 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

'Funtastic’ Adlerian Techniques for Change  No-Ψ
Rob Guttenberg , M.A.
This workshop demonstrates the power of jokes, metaphors, stories, songs, cartoons and experiential exercises for demonstrating Adlerian concepts to diverse populations, in a variety of settings. Learn how to apply these motivational techniques in parenting classes, private practice, human relations training or for personal growth and your life.

Participants will learn over twenty techniques for demonstrating Adlerian theory and practice and the theory behind experiential learning, and the power of utilizing humor and metaphor to facilitate the 'change process'.

Student Assessment With and Without Social Interest  No-Ψ
R. James Little, M.A. & Linda J. Page, Ph.D.
Assessing performance in academic, accreditation, and certification circles often requires adopting decidedly non-Adlerian assumptions. Participate in hands-on assessment experiences and join a dialogic exploration of how to not only assess student (and employee) capacity to perform, but also how to enhance social interest. 

Participants will learn how to apply the concept of social interest to the practice of measuring human performance and hands-on techniques that not only assess but encourage learning and collaboration. 

Positive Discipline: Tools for Home and School  No-Ψ
Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. & Kelly Gfroerer, Ph.D.
Positive Discipline is a research-based program that helps families and schools around the world apply Adler’s and Dreikurs’ principles. Positive Discipline programs include demonstrations and a vast variety of experiential activities. This half-day workshop will provide an overview of Positive Discipline and in-depth experiential learning.      

Participants will learn Positive Discipline Tools based on Adlerian Psychology in the Classroom and Adlerian-based Positive Discipline Tools for Parenting in Today's World. 

Cha-, Cha-, Change: An Overview of the New ACA Code of Ethics  No-Ψ
Richard E. Watts, Ph.D. & Danielle Marks, M.A.

This session, presented by a member of the ACA Ethics Revision Task Force, will provide an overview of ethics with particular attention to key changes in the new ACA Code of Ethics.

Participants will learn key changes in the new ACA Code of Ethics and ethical issues related to social media, technology, & distance counseling.

 

Additional information about presenters’ credentials, educational objectives, or target audience of any presentation or workshop can be obtained by calling the office:  260-267-8807.