50th Anniversary Conference Agenda

7:30 - 8:15 Registration

8:15 Welcome to participants

8:30 - 10:00 CARLOS SLUZKI

In Homage to Paul Watzlawick: Revisitingan Old Key Question for Couples

Therapy and Research

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15 NORA BATESON

The Ecology of Mind - Gregory Batesonfrom a Daughter's Eye

11:15 - 12:30 CLOE MADANES

My Favorite Stories of Therapy

12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00 - 3:30 WENDEL RAY

Jackson & WatzlawickEILEEN BOBROW

HaleyKARIN SCHLANGER

Weakland & Fisch

3:30 - 4:30HOWARD LIDDLE

Truckin’: The Long Strange Trip of aFamily Therapy Researcher

4:30 - 4:45 Coffee Break

4:45- 6:00 BRADFORD KEENEY

The Creative Therapist: The InteractionalArt of Awakening a Session

8:15 - 10:00 PANEL

BRIEF AND STRATEGIC THINKINGAPPLIED IN SCHOOLS AND IN

SUPERVISIONModerator: K. Schlanger, G. Minnix,

C. Vangstad, B. Anger-Diaz

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15JEFFREY ZEIG

The Art and Science of Impact: WhatClinicians Can Learn from CommercialFilmmakers and Social Psychologists

11:15 - 12:30PHILIP ZIMBARDO

The Psychology of Evil

12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00 - 4:00 PANEL

WORKING WITH BRIEF ANDSTRATEGIC IN AGENCIES AND

FAMILIESModerator: J. Harris, K. Anger,

H. Waterval, E. Bobrow, C. Hyberger, J. Price

4:00 - 4:15 Coffee Break

4:15 - 5:30 MICHELE WEINER-DAVIS

MRI & Her work

5:30 - 6:00 WENDEL RAY

Interaction Focused Therapy

8:15 - 10:15PANEL

GLOBAL REACH OF BRIEF ANDSYSTEMIC THERAPY

Moderator: K. Hunnes, P. Cadena, M. Ceberio, K. Hasegawa,

A. Kuzin, J. Kuzina

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:45PANEL

APPLICATIONS OF BRIEF THINKINGTO ORGANIZATIONS

Moderator: S. Feinberg, T. Garcia,L. Gill, A. Kuzin, J. Kuzina, C. Bozzo,

C. Osteriech

11:45 - 12:30GIORGIO NARDONE

JEAN-JACQUES WITTEZAELETowards an Interactional Alternative

to the DSM

12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00 - 3:15 JUAN LUIS LINARES

Family Therapy with Psychosis: aProcess of Reconfirmation

3:15 - 4:30 MONY ELKAIM

From Couples Therapy to Resonance

4:30 - 4:45 Coffee Break

4:45 - 5:30 KARIN SCHLANGER &

EILEEN BOBROWMRI and the Future

5:30 - 6:00 CARLOS SLUZKIClosing Remarks

THURSDAY - Aug. 13 FRIDAY - Aug. 14 SATURDAY - Aug. 15

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