American Academy of Psychotherapists Workshops and Conferences

Regional Events

Southern Region Conference

Hilton Head Island, SC – March 23-25, 2012 – Working at the Edge – Southern Region Conference

Upcoming AAP Salons

Sandy Springs, GA – Feb 3, 2012 – Working at the Edge – Southern Region Conference Preview
Chapel Hill, NC - Feb 26, 2012 - The Core of Psychotherapy: Experience in Relationship - Tyler Beach
Columbia, SC - TBA - Jennifer Savitz

Past AAP Salons

Boulder, Colorado – Sep 14, 2011 – Love Matters – Angela Gould.
Sandy Springs, GA – Nov 18, 2011 – Is All Psychotherapy Experiential Psychotherapy?
Washington, DC – September 25, 2011 – What Matters in Peer Support – Ruth Wittersgreen
Blue Ridge Mountains, Brasstown Valley Resort - March, 2011
Washington, DC - January or February, 2011
Columbia, MD Sunday, October 10, 2010 – Energizing the Life of the Therapist
Sandy Springs, GA – October 8, 2010 – The Role of Emotion in Psychotherapy: An Experiential Evening
Swarthmore, PA - Late September, 2010
Columbia, SC - September 18, 2010
Boulder,CO - Sept. 14, 2010
Philadelphia, PA – April 11, 2010 – Giving and Receiving: The Dance of Mentors and Mentees
Dayton, Ohio – October 17, 2009 – Compassion, Connection, and Authentic Presence in Psychotherapy
Berkeley, CA – October 16, 2009 – Compassion, Connection, and Authentic Presence in Psychotherapy
Philadelphia Area, PA – October 11, 2009 – When Adult Psychotherapy is Deepened by the Process of Humor & Play
Chapel Hill / Durham, NC – October 4, 2009 – Compassion, Connection and Authentic Presence in Psychotherapy
Sandy Springs, GA – September 25, 2009 – Flourishing in Hard Times
Boulder, CO – September 15, 2009 – Compassion, Connection, and Authentic Presence in Psychotherapy
Philadelphia, PA Salon – May 2, 2009 – Co-hosted by Diane Shaffer and Matthew Leary
Washington, DC – April 19, 2009 – Compassion, Connection and Authentic Presence in Psychotherapy
Mooresville, NC – March 19, 2009 – Elizabeth Correll, MA,LMFT,LCAS as host
Atlanta, GA Salon – February 20, 2009 – Transference and countertransference – Debbara Dingman, Ph.D.
All 2008 Salons Download PDF version
Nashville, TN Salon – September 6, 2008
Swarthmore, PA Salon – September 20, 2008
Washington, DC Salon – October 8, 2008

Previous Conference Brochures can be viewed by clicking on the links below:

2011 Institute and Conference: Santa Fe, NM, Love Matters October 19 - 23, 2011
2011 Summer Workshop: Daniels, WV, Stepping Into the Void, June 8 - 12, 2011
2010 Institute and Conference: Baltimore, MD, Generativity: Energizing the Life of the Therapist, November 3 - 7, 2010
2010 Summer Workshop: Roanoke, WV, The Power of the I/Thou Dance, June 9 - 13, 2010
2009 Institute and Conference: Sarasota, FL, Compassion,Connection and Authentic Presence in Psychotherapy, November 11-15,2009
2009 Summer Workshop: Pocono Manor, PA, The Goldilocks Dilemma: Seeking What's Just Right, June 10 - 14, 2009
2008 Summer Workshop: Roanoke, West Virginia. Risk & Vitality, June 18 – 22, 2008
2008 Institute and Conference: Savannah, GA. Millennium III: Time, Transition & The Human Condition, November 12 - 16, 2008
2007 Institute and Conference: San Diego, CA. The Many Faces of Fear, October 17-21.
2007 Summer Workshop: Pine Mountain, GA. Discrimination: Inclusion and Exclusion, June 20-24, 2007
2006 Institute and Conference: Asheville, NC, Psychotherapy's Challenge: Courage in the Face of Adversity, Nov. 8-12th, 2006
2006 Summer Workshop: Sebasco, Maine. Difficult Choices, Dilemmas and Decisions, June 7-11, 2006
2005 Summer Workshop: Brentwood, CA. The I that is We, Being in Community. June 22-26, 2005.
2005 (50th Annual) Institute and Conference: Toronto, Canada
2004 Summer Workshop: Deer Creek Resort, Ohio
2003 Summer Workshop: Sebasco, Maine 2004 (49th Annual): Institute and Conference: Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 48th Annual Institute and Conference: Boston,MA

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Review of ACES Study
with Reference Summary Table
Robert Anda, MD, MS

History of I & C and AAP Summer Workshop Locations:
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1956 First Annual Conference: "What is Psychotherapy?" NYC, NY Acad of Science
1957 Second Annual Conference: "The Place of Values in the Practice of Psychotherapy." NYC, Barbizon Plaza.
1957 1st Annual (Summer) Workshop on Psychotherapy (and psychotherapists): Madison, WI,Univ.of WI.
1958 3rd Annual Conf.: "Loneliness in Contemporary Man." NYC, Barbizon Plaza.
1958 2nd Annual (Summer) Workshop on Psychotherapy: Madison, WI, Univ.of WI
1959 4th Annual Conference: "Divergencies & Agreements in Methodologies of Psychotherapy." NYC Barbizon Plaza
1959 3rd Annual (Summer) Workshop: (theme unknown), Lake Forest, IL,
1960 Fifth Annual Conference: "Psychotherapy - Healing or Growth."Cleveland, OH, Hotel Carter
1960 4th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "The Alive and Growing Psychotherapist." Farmingdale, NY, State Univ. Agricultural and Technical Institute. Members only, in the meetings. Families on premises.
1960 First annual meetings of Western and Midwestern AAP chapters.
1961 Sixth Annual Conference: "Failure in Psychotherapy: Process and Person." NYC, Hotel New Yorker
1961 5th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "The Psychotherapist as a Human Being." Lake Arrowhead, CA.
1962 Seventh Annual Conference: "How Can the Scientist Help the Psychotherapist?" Chicago, IL, Palmer House.
1962 6th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "The Psychotherapist as Artist-Scientist:Themes and Variations on Creativity." Farmingdale, NY, State Univ.Agricultural and Technical Institute.
1963 Eighth Annual Conference: "The Creative Use of the Unconscious by the Artist and by the Psychotherapist." NYC, Waldorf Astoria
1963 7th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "The Practicing 'I': How Each One of Us Really Works." Painesville, OH, Lake Erie College.
1964 Ninth Annual Conference: "Does Psychotherapy Have a Future?" NYC, Waldorf Astoria.
1964 8th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "(theme unknown to AAP historian)." Harriman, NY, Arden House.
1965 Tenth Annual Conference: "Psychological Crises and Resolutions." Washington, DC, Statler Hilton
1965 9th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "The Silent Questions." Worthington, OH,Green Meadows Country Inn.
1966 Eleventh Annual Conference: "The Patient's View of Psychotherapy."LosAngeles, CA, Hotel Biltmore
1966 10th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "Where the Academy has been and where it is going." Madison,WI. (Committee: Carl Rogers, Carl Whittaker, Tom Malone, Al Ellis, Elaine Kepner)
1967 Twelfth Annual Conference and First Annual Institute: "Psychopathology
and Healing Systems: "Primitive," Religious, and "Scientific."Warrenton, VA, Airlie House.
1967 11th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "Termination - A Step Toward Autonomy." Harriman, NY, Arden House.
1968 Thirteenth Annual Conference: "The therapeutic Outcome: What is the Patient Buying? What is the Therapist Selling?" Chicago, IL, Sheraton-Chicago Hotel. The preceding Institute was held at Illinois State Beach Lodge in Zion, IL
1968 12th Annual (Summer) Workshop: "A new Beginning." Indian Rocks Beach,
FL, Gulf Lane Resort Motel.
1969 Fourteenth Annual Conference: "Social Psychotherapy: The Challenge of the 70's." NYC Waldorf-Astoria The preceding Institute was held at the Holiday Inn in NYC.
1969 13th Summer Workshop: "Conflict and Conflict Resolution." Dayton, OH, Bergamo Conf. Center.
1970 Fifteenth Annual Training Institute and Conference: "Turning On Without Drugs." Philadelphia, PA, Holiday Inn.
1970 14th Summer Workshop (FIRST "MEMBERS ONLY," no family on the premises, voted by EC): "Doing Your Own Thing." Newport Bay, CA,Newporter Inn.
1971 Training Institute and (16th) Annual Conference: "Decision Making and Risk-Taking: Innovations in Focusing on Therapeutic Change." Miami, FL, Doral Country Club.
1971 15th Summer Workshop: "Enhancing the Creativity of the Therapist." Stone Mountain, GA.
1972 Training Institute and (17th) Annual Conference: "Beyond the Senses." NYC, Holiday Inn
1972 16th Summer Workshop: "Integrating the Workshop Experience into Daily Life." Tarrytown, NY.
1973 Training Institute & (18th) Annual Conf.: "New realities in Psychotherapy:Ways of Extending Consciousness." Berkeley, CA, Marriott Inn.
1973 17th Summer Workshop. Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville University.
1974 Training Institute and (19th) Annual Conference: "Psychotherapy and Larger Systems: Politics, Power, People." Cleveland, OH, Hollenden House.
1974 18th Summer Workshop: "Die and Become." Los Angeles, CA, Claremont College.
1975 Ninth Annual Training Institute: "The Continuing Education of the Therapist," and (20th) Annual Conference: "The Discipline of Psychotherapy." Atlanta, GA, Marriott
1975 19th Summer Workshop (members only): "Fear and Freedom." Warrenton, VA, Airlie House
1976 Annual Training Institute, "Extraordinary Psychotherapy in Times of Crisis," and 21st Annual Conference: "Social Cataclysms and the Relevance of Psychotherapy." Boston, MA, Colonnade Hotel
1976 20th Summer workshop: "Music, Psychotherapy, and the Soul." Madison, WI.
1977 (22nd) Training Institute and Annual Conference: "Power and Intimacy." New Orleans, LA, Monteleone Hotel
1977 21st Summer Wkshp.: "The Dying and Laughing Therapist." Houston, TX.
1978 (23rd) Training Institute and Annual Conference: "Exploring the Processes of the Therapist." Monterey, CA, Del Monte Hyatt House
1978 22nd Summer Workshop: "Alone in the Midst of the Community." Mont Tremblant, Canada.
1979 (24th) Annual Conference and Training Institute: "Psychotherapy and the Body" Cincinnati, OH, Netherland Hilton Hotel.
1979 23rd Summer Workshop: "Facing Friends and Enemies." Monteagle, TN.
1980 (25th) Annual Conference and Training Institute: "Perceptions of Reality and Psychotherapy." NYC, Barbizon Plaza.
1980 24th Summer Workshop: "Joy in Psychotherapy." Aspen, CO, Gant Hotel.
1981 (26th) Annual Conference and Training Institute: "Integrating Psychotherapy and the Arts." Berkeley, CA, Claremont Hotel
1981 25th Summer Workshop: "Living With Not Knowing." Mt Desert Island,ME
1982 (27th) Training Institute and Annual Conference: "Resistance and Surrender in Psychotherapy." Washington, DC, Dupont Plaza
1982 26th Summer Workshop: "Bringing Out Shadows." NM, Ghost Ranch.
1983 (28th) Annual Institute and Conference: "Living One's Life Well: The Psychotherapist's Contribution to the Psychological, Physical, and Spiritual Dimensions of the Well Lived Life." Minneapolis, MN. Sheraton Ritz Hotel
1983 27th Summer Workshop: "Tradition and Transformation." NJ. Fairleigh D Dickinson.
1984 (29th) Annual Conference and Training Institute: "Promoting Freedom and Resisting Dehumanization." Chicago, IL, Drake Hotel.
1984 28th Summer Workshop: "No Exit." Stone Mountain, GA.
1985 (30th) Annual Institute and Conference: "Attachment: The therapist'sexperience." San Diego, CA Holiday Inn at the Embarcadero
1985 29th Summer Workshop: "Connections." Mont Ste Marie, Canada. 
1986 (31st) Annual Institute and Conference: "Untangling Knots: Recurrent issues in psychotherapy." Atlanta, GA, Ritz Carlton.
1986 30th Summer Workshop: "Beauty and the Beast." Airlie, VA.
1987 (32nd) Annual Institute and Conference: "Psychotherapy and Spirituality." Philadelphia, PA, Sheraton Society Hill.
1987 31st Summer Workshop: "Space and Boundaries." Estes Park, CO.
1988 (33rd) Annual Training Institute and Conference: "Through the I of the therapist." Indianapolis, IN Embassy Suites Hotel.
1988 32nd Sum. Wkshp.: "Room with a View." Cashiers, NC, High Hampton Inn.
1989 (34th) Annual Institute and Conference: "Old Myths and New Realities." Newport Beach, CA, The Newporter Resort.
1989 33rd Summer Workshop: "Living on the Edge." Stowe, VT, Mt Mansfield Resort.
1990 (35th) Annual Training Institute and Conference: "Psychotherapy as Art: Keeping Creativity Alive." Columbus, OH, Hyatt on Capital Square.
1990 34th Sum Wkshp.: "An End to Innocence." Palmetto Dunes. Hilton Head, S.C.
1991 (36th) Annual Institute & Conf.: "Faces of Evil: Psychotherapy on the Threshold of the Millennium." Seattle, WA, Stouffer Madison Hotel.
1991 35th Summer Workshop: "Shifting Back to Center: Reaffirming Depth Psychotherapy." Devil's Head, WI.
1992 (37th) Annual Institute and Conference: "The Journey of the Potent Therapist: Navigating the Inner Storm." Washington, DC. Omni Shoreham Hotel.
1992 36th Summer Wkshp.: "Competition & Cooperation." Morgantown,WV, Lakeview Resort.
1993 (38th) Annual Training Institute and Conference: "Bearing the Unbearable:
Preserving Spirit in the Passionate Psychotherapist." Santa Fe, NM, Eldorado Hotel. "Relationships: A Cabaret" with David Hawkins and Ann
1993 37th Summer Workshop: Finding Our Way: Advanced Training for the Experienced Psychotherapist." Cashiers, NC, High Hampton Inn.
1994 (39th) Annual Institute and Conference: "Fine Tuning the Instruments of Psychotherapy: Our Skills and ourselves. New Orleans, LA, Le Meridien Hotel.
1994 38th Summer Workshop: "The Freedom of Boundaries." Stowe, VT, Stoweflake Inn.
1995 (40th) Annual Institute & Conference: "Containing the Chaotic: Preserving the Integrity of the Creative Psychotherapist. San Francisco, CA, Mark Hopkins Hotel.
1995 39th Summer Workshop: "Community as Fertile Ground." Olive Branch, MS, Holiday Inn Conf Center.
1996 (41st) Annual Institute and Conference: "Metamorphosis - Changing Trends in Psychotherapy." Atlanta, GA, Sheraton Colony Square Hotel.
1996 40th Summer Workshop: "Energy from Openness - Strength in Containment." Park City, UT, Yarrow Hotel and Conf Center.
1997 (42nd) Annual Institute and Conference: "Roots and Wings." Ritz-Carlton Kempinsky, Montreal, Canada.
1997 41st Summer Workshop: "Voices from the Interior: Tracking Our Integrity." Snowshoe, WV
1998 (43rd) Annual Institute and Conference: "Connections: Pathways for Healing." Austin, TX, Renaissance Austin Hotel.
1998 42nd Summer Workshop: "That Which Endures." Sebasco, ME, Sebasco Lodge.
1999 (44th) Annual Institute and Conference: "Life Forces: Trust in the Process." Arlington Heights, IL, Arlington Park Hilton.
1999 43rd Summer Workshop: "The Heart of Psychotherapy." Deer Creek State Park, OH.
2000 (45th) Annual Institute and Conference: "Psychotherapy: Bonding and Bondage." Charleston, SC, Doubletree Guest Suites.
2000 44th Summer Workshop: "If Not Now...When: Time in Psychotherapy." Sedona, AZ, Poco Diablo Resort.
2001 (46th) Annual Institute and Conference: "A Healing Odyssey: Psychotherapy Across the Life Span." Atlanta, GA, Omni Hotel.
2001 45th Summer Workshop: "Dance with Meaning." Ellenville, NY, Nevele Grand Hotel.
2002 (47th) Annual Institute and Conference: "Pleasure and Perversity: Sexuality in Psychotherapy." Washington, DC, Washington Hilton Hotel.
2002 46th Summer Workshop: "Passionate Connections Within and Without," Cumberland, MD.
2003 Summer Workshop: Sebasco, Maine 2004 (49th Annual): Institute and Conference: Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 48th Annual Institute and Conference: Boston,MA
2004 Summer Workshop: Deer Creek Resort, Ohio
2005 Summer Workshop: Brentwood, CA. The I that is We, Being in Community. June 22-26, 2005.
2005 (50th Annual) Institute and Conference: Toronto, Canada
2006 Summer Workshop: Sebasco, Maine. Difficult Choices, Dilemmas and Decisions, June 7-11, 2006
2006 Institute and Conference: Asheville, NC, Psychotherapy's Challenge: Courage in the Face of Adversity, Nov. 8-12th, 2006
2007 Summer Workshop: Pine Mountain, GA. Discrimination: Inclusion and Exclusion, June 20-24, 2007 
2007 52nd Annual Institute and Conference: "The Many Faces of Fear: Attachment,Trauma,and Neuroscience Perspectives," October 17 - 21, The Westgate Hotel, San Diego, CA
2008 Summer Workshop: "Risk and Vitality," Stonewall Jackson Resort, Roanoke, WV, June 18-22, 2008 in West Virginia
2008 53rd AAP Annual Institute & Conference: "Millennium III: Time, Transition & THE HUMAN CONDITION," November 12 - 16, Hyatt Regency on River Street, Savannah, GA
2009 Summer Workshop: Pocono Manor, PA, Summer Workshop: Pocono Manor, PA, The Goldilocks Dilemma:
Seeking What's Just Right, June 10 - 14, 2009, June 10 - 14, 2009
2009 Institute and Conference: Sarasota, FL, Compassion,Connection and Authentic Presence in Psychotherapy, November 11-15,2009
2011 Summer Workshop: The Resort at Glade Springs, Daniels, WV, Stepping Into the Void, June 8 - 12, 2011
2011 Institute and Conference: Inn & Spa at Loretto, Santa Fe, NM, Love Matters, October 19 - 23, 2011, Santa Fe, NM