Ackerman Workshop

Ackerman Workshop - The Joy of Conflict

Ackerman Institute for the Family is dedicated to serve families through its clinical family therapy services, excellent training programs for mental health, and new treatment models and training techniques. The institute conducts various workshops and courses regularly. All workshops are mostly held at the Ackerman Institute.

The institute will be conducting a workshop ‘The Joy of Conflict’ for couples therapists on Friday, June 6, 2008.The workshop will help these therapists to help their clients re-look into the conflicts they are facing through a well thought out paradigm and embrace and solve those conflicts in a better way. This experiential workshop will focus on transforming conflicting couple interactions into empathic, generative problem solving by discussing case studies and role playing.

This workshop is based on years of research on couple conflicts from an evolutionary understanding of emotions. The highlights of the workshop will be:

• Helping therapists learn and experience how to move from the perspective of the individual to the more complex perspective of the unit. 

• Discussing basic human emotions (those oriented towards individual survival) and managing these feelings in order to achieve mutual understanding as a couple.

• Learning how to help clients re-conceptualize seemingly opposite points of view into a productive complementary relationship.

The workshop will be conducted by Charles N. Jamison, Jr, PhD, who is a psychologist currently working at the advertising agency Footsteps as their Brand Strategy Director. He has been in advertising/market research for over twenty five years. Dr. Jamison has won awards for his contributions to strategic and creative development. He has also taught psychology at the University of the District of Columbia and been a group therapist for teens at halfway houses in a program funded by Washington DC.

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