Collaborative Therapy around the World:
Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference

Pre-INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

Hotel Las Palapas
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
June 16-17, 2007

WORKSHOPS & SCHEDULE

Plenary: Harlene Anderson, USA
"The Heart & Spirit of Collaborative Therapy:
Relationships & Conversations that Make a Difference"

Workshop: Sylvia London, Mexico; Sally St. George, Dan Wulff, USA
"Community, Ethics Social Responsibility in Clinical Practice"
Our workshop on ethics and social responsibility in clinical practice will address ethics as a vital aspect of the clinical relationship as well as having broader influence for our communities in which we live and work. We encourage therapists to extend clinical ethics to responsibility and commitment to our fellow human beings more generally.

Workshop: Matz Sparrman, Sweden & Susan Swim, USA
"With a Little Help from my Friends:
Two Ways of Co-constructing a Polyphonic Perspective When you Reach a Stalemate"
The workshop on supervision will draw from Matz's experiences of collaboration in therapy that he uses in supervision.

Workshop: Janice DeFehr, Canada; Saliha Bava, USA
Dialogically Informed Research Methods
Janice and Saliha draw on the works of Anderson, Shotter, Bakhtin, and others to explore an approach to inquiry that stays within the co-motion of the emerging interactive moment, "start to finish". Characterizing such inquiry as relational, improvised, practical, and sensuous, they note major points of departure from traditional qualitative inquiry, giving special attention to the centrality of responsivity and reflexivity within this approach.

Workshop: Pat Koch, Marsha McDonough, Diane Gehart, USA; Irma Rodriquez, Mexico
"Collaborative Approaches to Working with Children & Their Families"
Working with hyperactive, angry, violent, and defiant children can be especially tough; involving their families even tougher. The magic of play as conversation helps children, families, and their therapists to engage the therapeutic process with creativity and spontaneity in the most difficult of situations. A strength-based approach will be presented, and therapists will learn how to effectively engage in conversation and collaborate with parents, schools, and social service agencies.

Workshop: Dora Ayora Talavera, Rocio Chaveste, Francesco Vadillo, Mexico
"Collaborative Practices in Community Settings & Government Institutions
This workshop invites the participants to explore with us the challenges of incorporating collaborative practices and social construction premises in the transformation and development of a community center in a semi-rural community in Merida, Yucatan. This experience is a case example through which we will analyze the process of organizing a multidisciplinary treatment team based on the idea of collaborative learning communities.

Workshop: Judit Wagner, Sweden
"Working with Reflecting Processes among the Criminal Justice System and the Health Care System in Kalmar, Sweden"
Judit will present the collaborative work using reflecting processes that she and her colleagues have been together with the inmates and wardens in the Kalma prison since 1991. She will highlight the possibilities that exist and emerge in language and the meaning that the reflecting process has had for the system and its members.

Workshop: Anna Margrete Flam, Norway
"Finding Ways: Working with Young People who have Sexually Abused: A Case Example of Risk Assessment as a Collabortive Work, Including the Youngster "
Risk assessment of relapse for young people who have sexually abused is a field of growing professional interest and knowledge. The numerous assessment instruments fail to include the youngster him/herself in the construction of risk assessment. Considering the fact that young people who sexually abuse, usually themselves have been exposed to misfortune, maltreatment or abuse--the idea of collaboration with the youngster in creating the risk assessment and local knowledge will be discussed. An illustration will be given of co-construction and collaboration as a reflecting process. The aim of the workshop is to help professionals elaborate and expand our work.

⁺Schedule may change/Programa flexible.