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Jean Baker Miller Institute
Wellesley Centers for Women
16 CEs
1 PDP and 6 hours
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The importance of empathy in our personal lives and in our social organizations is increasingly acknowledged. Stephen Hawking noted recently
that increased empathy is the best hope for the survival of the human race. Some have suggested we are entering the age of empathy, but what does
that mean for our day-to-day lives? Mutual empathy is central to the theory and practice of relational-cultural theory. The development of empathy
at a societal level contributes to: stability, reduced violence, more emphasis placed on the education of girls, reduced bullying, to name just a few.
We are hard-wired to be empathic, but our cultural context often dismantles our natural inclination to respond with empathy. While empathy can
lead to a sense of being understood or of better understanding another’s experience, it can also disrupt established patterns of viewing and interacting with others. It can take us to places of vulnerability and uncertainty. Empathy goes beyond being “nice”. It calls for radical respect for difference
and an acute awareness of our probable impact on others as well as an openness to being impacted by others. Empathy informs many spheres of
our functioning: from programs in schools to the practice of relational awareness; from international peace building to individual efforts to engage
in conflict where empathy is at the core.
Friday Continued
3-Navigating Social Exclusion and Marginalization in
Psychotherapy
12:00 - 1:00 PM - Registration
1:00 - 1:15 PM - Welcome
Day 1: Thursday
1:15 - 4:00 PM - Radical Empathy
LEAD FACULTY: Judith Jordan, Ph.D., Amy Banks, M.D.,
Harriet Schwartz Ph.D., Karen Craddock, Ph.D.
What is it? How does it contribute to personal and collective
wellbeing? Practicing empathy across difference. The panelists
will look at empathy and supported vulnerability from clinical,
educational, organizational and neuroscience perspectives.
4:00 - 5:00 PM - Building a Daily Practice of Radical Empathy
and Supported Vulnerability
LEAD FACULTY: Judith Jordan, Ph.D., Amy Banks, M.D.,
Harriet Schwartz Ph.D., Karen Craddock, Ph.D.
Gather with faculty and peers in small group discussions on
building a practice of radical empathy in your day-to-day life.
What does it mean to step into one another’s shoes? How do we
really “get” another person’s story?
Friday Continued
Judith Jordan, Ph.D.
5:00 PM - Community Dinner
LEAD FACULTY: Harriet Schwartz, Ph.D., Lisa Frey, Ph.D., Pat
Jameson, Ph.D.
How do we help students develop critical consciousness and
understand the impact of power-over systems in their lives?
How do we help students (particularly those who are resistant)
understand privilege and marginalization? Panelists will share
related teaching and mentoring approaches that draw on RCT
concepts including mutuality, empathy, authenticity, and
connection/disconnection. Participants will then work in small
groups to further explore and apply these ideas in their own
education practice.
Day 3: Saturday
1-Educating for Social Change: RCT-based approaches
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OR
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12:00-1:00 PM Community Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 PM - Empathy and Conflict: How Do We Walk the
Talk?
LEAD FACULTY: Maureen Walker, Ph.D., Judith Jordan,
Ph.D., Amy Banks, M.D.
In small group meetings we will bring dilemmas or examples
of working with disruptive and radical empathy in educational,
clinical, organizational and social change settings.
LEAD FACULTY: Maureen Walker, Ph.D., Judith Jordan,
Ph.D., Amy Banks, M.D.
4:00 - 5:00 PM - Poster Session: Celebrating RCT Research,
Theory and Action
2-Walking the Talk: Relational Practices and the C.A.R.E.
Assessment to Strengthen Effective Organizational Team
Functioning
LEAD FACULTY: Karen Samuels, Ph.D., Mary Tantillo, Ph.D.
Organizational effectiveness depends on collaborative relationships
that are respectful of differences and similarities. Unnamed and
unresolved disconnections among team members will erode the
fiber of these relationships and can adversely impact work and
productivity. Using vignettes from an interdisciplinary clinical
team and videotaped interactions, this workshop will present
a Relational approach to team functioning and a model for
professional education that can help team members recognize and
repair the social exclusions that lead to chronic disconnection.
LEAD FACULTY: Maureen Walker, Ph.D., Judith Jordan,
Ph.D., Amy Banks, M.D.
Most of us who live and work to bring about healing in the
world know a lot about empathy. It’s what we do; it’s how
we want others to experience us. But what happens when
empathy as we usually “do it” is not enough? Indeed, what
can we do when our idea of empathy actually leads to more
entrenched conflict? Using an iterative case discussion as the
central methodology, this session will reveal how empathy can
be a destabilizing force that unleashes suppressed potential.
In so doing, it may transform our stories of reality and our
imagination of possibility.
3:00 - 4:00 PM - What Are We Learning: An Integrative
Discussion
8:15 - 9:00 AM - Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 AM - Looking at Mentoring (and Supervision)
From Both Sides Now
Day 4: Sunday
Day 2: Friday
Choose one of the following offerings:
Each of these will relate to decreasing social isolation and marginalization
in the specific area
LEAD FACULTY: Karen Craddock, Ph.D., Amy Banks, M.D.
In our professional and personal lives we wear many hats that
often overlap and intersect. Our complex and layered identities
means that we have experienced social exclusion perhaps as
the targeted, the bystander or maybe even the initiator. In
small groups we will apply strategies using the STOP model
as a central lens to discuss and create take-home ideas we
have learned to decrease the pain of social exclusion and
marginalization in our daily life and work.
9:00 - 12:00 AM - Practicing Disruptive Empathy One
Conversation at a Time
LEAD FACULTY: Amy Banks, M.D., Karen Craddock, Ph.D.
Relational Neuroscience has revealed that the pain of social exclusion and marginalization is every bit as real and as distressing as
the pain of a physical illness or injury. What might this mean in a
society that routinely stratifies individuals and whole groups of
people? This didactic, interactive and experiential session will introduce “STOP”, a new model for relational growth and social justice
created by Amy Banks and Karen Craddock.
Workshops 1:00-3:00 PM
3:00 - 4:00 PM - STOP the Pain of Social Exclusion
8:15-9:00 AM - Breakfast
8:15 - 9:00 AM - Breakfast
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM - STOP the Pain of Social Exclusion
12:00- 1:00 PM Community Lunch
LEAD FACULTY: Amy Banks, M.D. and Lisa Lynelle Moore
Ph.D., LICSW
A society that regularly stratifies individuals leaves many in
chronic pain. How might this pain manifest in the therapist’s
office? How might we identify it and offer a healing relationship
that soothes the pain. This workshop will use a clinical case
example of social isolation as a way to explore these important
questions.
LEAD FACULTY: Connie Gunderson, Ph.D., Erica Seidel,
Psy.D., Shannon Finn, MSW, Mary Vicario, LPCC, Jane Larson
and Corrie Ehrbright
Both mentors and mentees will address some of the benefits and
challenges of using Relational-Cultural Theory to navigate the
mentoring relationship.
10:00 - 12:15 PM - Creating Change Together Because Things
Have to Change!
LEAD FACULTY: Judy Jordan, PhD., Connie Gunderson,Ph.D.,
Harriet Schwartz Ph.D., Amy Banks, M.D.,
Maureen Walker, Ph.D. Karen Craddock, PhD
We will discuss and problem solve around the challenges and
strategies of bringing the concept of radical empathy into our
lives and the lives of others. How can we stay open-hearted and
courageous as we build relational practice?
12:15 - 12:30 PM - Closing Remarks
Continuing Education Credits
R e c o mm e n d e d R e a d i n g s
This program provides 16 continuing education credits for psychologists, social workers, licensed mental health counselors and
marriage and family therapists (NASW, LMHC, AND LMFT approval pending). We also provide 1 PDP and 6 PD hours for educators
(MA Dept of Education approved). Call 781-283-3800 for updates. The Jean Baker Miller Training Institute is approved by the American
Psychological Associate (APA) to sponsor continuing education credits for psychologists. JBMTI maintains responsibility for this
program and its content.
Presenters for the Intensive Institute have written numerous papers and
contributed to many books exploring the application and practice of RCT. We
recommend the following readings. These are suggested only and should not be
considered mandatory.
How Connections Heal
Maureen Walker and
Wendy Rosen, Editors
The Complexity
of Connection
Judith Jordan, Maureen Walker
and Linda Hartling, Editors
Women’s Growth in Connection
Judith Jordan, Alexandra Kaplan, Jean Baker
Miller, Irene Stiver & Janet Surrey
The Healing
Connection: How
Women Form
Relationships in
Therapy and in Life
Jean Baker Miller & Irene
Stiver
!
NEW
Relational-Cultural
Therapy
Judith Jordan
Four Ways To Click
Amy Banks
Women’s Growth
in Diversity
Judith Jordan, Editor
These books and many other publications are available at our website (jbmti.org)
or by calling the WCW Publications office at 781-283-2510.
Faculty and Workshop Leaders
Judith V. Jordan, Ph.D.
Director and Founding Scholar, JBMTI
Pat Jameson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Counseling, Carlow University
Amy Banks, M.D.
Director of Advanced Training, JBMTI
Mary Vicario, L.P.C.C.
Owner, Director Finding Hope Counseling & Consulting Services
Cincinnati, OH
Maureen Walker, Ph.D.
Director of Program Development, JBMTI
Jane Larsen, M.S.W.
Graduate Student Social Work, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN
Harriet L. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Lead Scholar, Educations As Relational Practice JBMTI,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and
Counseling & School of Education, Carlow University
Corrie Ehrbright, M.S.W.
Graduate Student Social Work, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN
Erica Seidel, Psy.D.
Assistant Professor, City University of New York, Private Practice
Lisa Lynelle Moore, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Social Work
Shannon Finn, M.S.W.
Social Worker Alberta Health Service Calgary Canada
Karen Craddock, Ph.D.
Lead Scholar RCT and Social Action, Independent Educational Consultant,
Boston, MA
Karen Samuels, Ph.D.
Private practice, Ormond Beach, Florida
Lisa Frey, Ph.D.
Counseling Psychology Program, Dept. of Educational Psychology, Norman, OK
Mary Tantillo, Ph.D. R.N., P.M.H.C.N.S.-B.C, F.A.E.D
CEO Clinical Director, The Healing Connections
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LODGING
On Campus: Special low-cost dormitory housing has been arranged for
Institute participants for $73/night:
A few rooms may be available at the Wellesley College Club for $165–
$180 per night. Please call 781-283-2700 for more information.
Off-Campus: A block of rooms is available at the Crowne Plaza hotel in
Framingham for $132 per night. Breakfast is not included, but there is a
full service restaurant on the premises. A cab service to and from campus
is provided. If you need lodging, please call the Crowne Plaza directly to
reserve your room by June 1, 2015, and be sure to mention that you are
attending the JBMTI training event. Reservations can be made by calling
800-265-0339 or reserve online at Jean Baker Miller Training Institute.
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JBMTI Intensive Institute
June 19-22, 2014 - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
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