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Southern Region Upcoming Salon


AAP SOUTHERN REGION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
THE HEART AND SOUL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY:
Celebrating the Process

March 28-30, 2008

One registration fee includes hotel, meals and conference!
Southern REgion Brochure 08
Chattanoogan Hotel, Chattanooga, TN
Advanced Training for the Accomplished Psychotherapist

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Conference brochure and mail-in registration form

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Students attending Spring Conference
do not pay the conference fee if attending Friday training workshop!


Southern Region Salon
Friday, February 29, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
An Evening Encounter with Psychomotor Therapy

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Facilitated by: Joel Rachelson, Ph.D.
Dr. Rachelson will offer
The Ideal Parent,”
a Psychomotor Therapy exercise of nurturance, support & protection.

We would also like to introduce newcomers to the Academy and what we do.
Pot-luck supper - come hungry - bring a dish if you'd like.

At the home of:
Bob and Pat Coyle,
626 Sherwood Dr. 30324.
(Please see Mapquest.com for Directions)

Questions? call Kirven Weekley at 770.861.0136

“Psychomotor” is a powerful body based therapy that is very helpful at identifying, accessing and healing family of origin issues and wounds. The process of a complete Psychomotor piece of work allows a person to stand in the center of the truth of their experience, express the full emotions of the origin of this truth (especially where it is negative/painful), and realize a symbolic corrective experience. The impact of this process is to increase the person’s self awareness, express blocked emotions, change scripts or emotional/cognitive schemas, meet previously unmet needs and transfer parent functions to the person.  This process offers several mints in one, so to speak.  All of these are principal goals of Expressive/Experiential psychotherapy.


GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE OUR FUTURE!
The Southern Region provides an opportunity for graduate students and new therapists to get a taste of the American Academy of Psychotherapists. AAP believes in the value of experiential, expressive, depth and humanistically oriented psychotherapies. AAP also believes in the importance of the development of the therapist on all levels. Toward this end, AAP's activities have process groups and experiential groups throughout. We are a unique national organization for this reason. Our members believe in the essential value of these therapies and the emphasis on personal development of the therapist.

One of the goals of the Southern Region is to attract and welcome students. Over delicious potluck suppers at salons and through experiential workshops at our conferences, you get an "unplugged" experience with seasoned therapists who practice depth psychotherapy. Conference workshops are primarily experiential instead of didactic, emphasizing the emotional/psychological process of the participants over content. We are the beacon for long-term therapy in a time when graduate programs focus is on short-term, empirical interventions.

We offer students free registration at our Spring Conference and make every effort to welcome and encourage those who pursue this rewarding profession. So, all students please join us and bookmark this web site to keep posted on our activities.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING THE ACADEMY WITH YOU!
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An Invitation to be a Participant in the American Academy of Psychotherapists, Southern Region

Welcome to the Southern Region

The Southern Region of the American Academy of Psychotherapists
is a very active part of AAP. We’re dedicated to keeping the art of psychotherapy alive and dynamic.

The Southern Region helps to actively grow the Academy by introducing new therapists, graduate students and practicing therapists to our regional events. Those events include two informal Salons each year and an annual Spring Conference.

Our Salons are entertaining, educational and enriching
Southern Region Salons are informal functions in the home of an AAP member. We normally hold one Salon in September/October, prior to the national AAP Institute and Conference, and another in January/February, prior to our own Spring Conference.

At our Salons, provocative and seasoned psychotherapists offer an experience of the Academy that is always entertaining, often educational, and frequently uplifting and healing. We all share in bringing food for a delicious potluck dinner that precedes the presentation.

Learn and grow at a Spring Conference.
Our Spring Conference occurs in March or April in settings across the Southeastern United States. We try to choose Conference sites that offer beauty and an intimate and relaxing atmosphere. Past venues include the Balsam Mountain Inn in the North Carolina mountains and the Daufuskie Island Resort along the coast of South Carolina.

Our Spring Conferences are imbued with a warm and inviting, distinctly Southern, culture. In this supportive aura, attendees can learn, grow, and experience a unique organization of psychotherapists devoted to the highest caliber of personal and professional growth.


Experience the AAP Southern Region
We look forward to sharing the academy with you. Come to a Southern Region event and share in an experience you won’t soon forget.

Committee members include:
Kirven Weekley, Chair
Stephanie Ezust, Immediate Past Chair
Sharman Colosetti – Past Chair
Kay Starr Rachelson – Treasurer
Jonathan Dodd – Secretary
Joe Turner – CE Chair
Jane Davis
Ken Turner
Joel Rachelson


AAP Southern Region Annual Conference
 

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