Call for Presenters/Participants!
International Narrative Therapy Symposium
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Wednesday, Feb 18 - Friday, Feb 20, 2009
Please forward this information to any you know who may be interested.
This three-day symposium is a get together in a great international winter holiday location with leading and up-and-coming narrative practitioners, teachers, writers and researchers from North America and Latin America.
The entire Narrative community is recovering from Michael White’s passing and we at the Kenwood Center, USA, along with our co-sponsors, Grupo Campos Eliseos, Mexico, have teamed together to create this special International Narrative Therapy Symposium. The Kenwood Center had originally organized the following symposium with Michael White and it is being continued in his honor. Please consider presenting and/or attending this symposium during this important period in narrative therapy history.
Most will get there by flying into Cancun, Mexico, a major international airport with direct flights from all three continents during the northern hemisphere’s winter. Playa del Carmen is a 45-minute bus or car trip from Cancun along the Maya Riviera. Playa is a lovely Caribbean beach town that offers a wide variety of accommodations from cool, affordable trekker’s spots to fancier hotels. People can mix sharing great work in a relaxed atmosphere and exploration of the Mayan world, art, pyramids, scuba diving, snorkeling, world and local food, music, dance, and much more. Participants should register and book soon for the best choice of accommodations and airfare.
Presenters include: Jill Freedman (Chicago, IL); Bill Madsen (Boston, MA); Sylvia London (Mexico City, Mexico); Margarita Tarragona (Mexico City, Mexico); Peggy Sax (Middlebury, VT); Paul Gallant (Ft. Lauderdale, FL); John Stillman and Walter Bera (Minneapolis, MN). The list will grow as we get the Requests for Workshop Proposals out personally and via email lists.
Continuing Education Requirements: Participants will receive 6 CEUs per day
Registration Fees and Discounts
Student Rate is for full time students
Regular Rate is for working professionals or instructors
Premiere Early Registration before December 1st
Student Premiere Early Registration Discount: $275.
Regular Premiere Early Registration Discount: $350.
Early Registration before January 1st
Student Early Registration Discount: $325.
Regular Early Registration Discount: $400.
Regular Registration after January 1st
Student Later Registration: $375.
Regular Later Registration: $450.
The Church Symposium site we will be using in Playa del Carmen is pictured below. The name and contact information of the Church is:
Del Carmen de Parroquia de Nuestra Senora
Playa del Carmen, México
Teléfono: 01-984-873-0188
Email: igdelcarmen@gmail.com
It is a 10 to 15 minute walk from the central hotel areas of Playa!
Below is a list of some of the great keynotes and presentations. Some presentations are still coming. If interested, send your presentation proposal immediately!
1. Elena Fernández, Sylvia London, Irma (Ñeca) Rodríguez Jaszilevich and Margarita Tarragona / Grupo Campos Eliseos, Mexico City, MX
Wednesday Keynote (1st half): (9:00 am – 9:45 am)
Welcome and the Story of Our People and Land
2. Walter Bera and John Stillman, Kenwood Center, Minneapolis, USA
Wednesday Keynote (2nd half): (9:45 am – 10:30 am)
Honoring Memorial to Michael White
3. Jill Freedman and Gene Combs, Chicago, IL,USA
Thursday Keynote:
“Perhaps it’s a life,” Twenty-plus years in the Narrative Community
Workshop: Narrative Therapy: Living the Ideas
4. Bill Madsen, Boston, MA, USA
Friday Keynote:
"Sustaining Narrative Practice in the 'Real' World"
Workshop: Sustaining ourselves in sustaining narrative practice
5. Paul Gallant, Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA
Imagination and Metaphor in Narrative Practice with Children & Young Adults
6. Peggy Sax. Middleton, VT, USA
a. Remember to Ask
b. Creating Community in Professional Lives
7. John Stillman, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Sculptural Approaches to Narrative Therapy
8. Walter Bera, Minneapolis, MN, USA
a. Narragrams: Visual Means To Therapeutic Ends
b. Buddhist Psychology, Mindfulness, Narrative and Creativity
9. Kalli Matsuhashi, Roseville, MN, USA
Integrating Narrative and Hypnotic Approaches to Working with Trauma
10. Margarita Tarragona, Mexico City, MX
Positive Psychology and Narrative Therapy: Two different explorations into exciting territories
11. Sylvia London, Mexico City, MX
The Challenge of Introducing Collaborative and Narrative Practices in Traditional Organizations: Ways to bring out the best in teachers and students
12. Jorge Abia MD. and Rafael Núñez M.A., Mexico City, MX
a. Externalization of Violence for rehabilitation of victims and perpetrators throughout Strategic Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
b. Deconstruction of Schizophrenia, co-authorship of a family’s history, by means Ericksonian Strategic Psychotherapy
13. Alfonso Villarreal Vidal, Merida, MX
a. Re-writing the parenting of adolescents
b. Guidelines for therapeutic work with parents with teenagers
14. Nora Rentería Cobos and Nurit Mileris- Zylberstejn, Mexico City, MX
The Narrative-Reflexive Group: A domain for the transformation of identities
15. Rosa Helfón Tuachi and Hasibe Zaga Tawil, Mexico City, MX
“Narrative Psychotherapy as an Alternative for Older Adults”
16. Alejandra Yamileth Cortés Higareda, M.D., MA., Mexico City, MX
The Power of the Energy to Change Your Narrative
17. Mónica Criado & Marianna Díaz, Montevideo, Uruguay
Radio Workshop : New life stories enriched through school and hospital based practices .
18. Irma Rodríguez Jazcilevich, Mexico City, MX
On Being a Mother: Narrative practices and construction of the mother identity
19. Liliana Castillejos Zenteno, Cancun, MX
Superhero as Assistants in Child Psychotherapy
20. Michael Mertz, Concord, CA, USA
Circle: A Narrative Approach to Group Therapy In Residential Treatment
21. Kristen Callison, Witchita, KS, USA
Narrative Practice and Narrative Research: Post-structuralism and Reflexive Identity Migration Interviews
Registration and Payment by Website, Phone or Fax
(Check, cash or Visa/MasterCard accepted)
Jane Carlson and Annie Douglas
Kenwood Center
2809 South Wayzata Blvd
Minneapolis, MN 55405
Phone: 612-377-9190 x 1
Toll Free: 877-377-9190 x 1
Fax: 612-374-4498
Kenwood Website: www.kenwoodcenter.org
Symposium Coordinator and Contact Information
(Send Randi all Symposium proposals, questions, suggestions)
Randi Born
Kenwood Center
2809 South Wayzata Blvd
Minneapolis, MN 55405
Phone: 612-377-9190 x 307
Toll Free: 877-377-9190 x 307
Fax: 612-374-4498
Email: narrativeconferences@gmail.com
Mexican Co-Sponsor
Margarita Tarragona
Grupo Campos Elíseos
Campos Elíseos #430-401
México,D.F. 11560 México
Tel.GCE (52)(55)5280-1795
Tel.Oficina (52)(55)5257-5992
margarita@grupocamposeliseos.com
Official Symposium Travel Advisors
Mike Tuck and Rick Jahnke (in US)
Rafael Loria (in Playa)
Viva Mexico Travel
(Playa del Carmen Specialists)
901-1/2 Main Street - Suite C
Hopkins MN 55343, USA
Toll Free: (800) 639-6639
Phone: (952) 935-4082
Fax: (952) 935-3207
Email: mike@vivamex.net
Website: www.vivamex.net
Symposium Site
Parroquia de Nuestra Senora del Carmen
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Phone: 01-984-873-0188
Sample of Playa del Carmen Accommodations and Prices
Book Early for Best Choices and Prices
Budget
Hostel Playa. Dorm $10, Room $30
Camping- Cabanas Los Ruinas. On beach. Site or hammock $7. Room $20, with bathroom, $30-$55.
Posada Mi Casa. $32 - $42.
Midrange
Maya Bric - $70
Hotel Kinbe - $75
Hul Ku - $75
Hotel Cielo - $80
All Riviera - $110 on beach
Mimi del Mar - $110 on beach
Playa Maya - $135 on beach
La Tortuga - $160
High End
Las Palapas - $210 on beach
Grand Coco Bay - $300 (All inclusive) on beach
Gran Porto Real - $380 (All Inclusive) on beach
Royal Playa de Carmen – $450 (All inclusive) on beach
Royal Palms Condos - Varies wildly.
Prices are approximate per night and include all taxes.
This is just a sample of the 200 accommodations available.
Please contact Viva Mexico for many other options, availability and final pricing.
Suggested Guidebooks
Yucatan. Lonely Planet
Yucatan Peninsula (including Chiapas). Moon Handbooks
Frommer's Cancun, Cozumel & the Yucatan 2008
Cancun, Cozumel, Yucatan Peninsula. Fodor’s
Symposium Requests for Proposals, Structure and Language Translation
The symposium is bilingual (English/Spanish) and Grupo Campos Eliseos and other bilingual participants have generously offered sequential translation as needed to allow full participation.
Please email your symposium/workshop proposal to:
Randi Born, Symposium Coordinator
Kenwood Center
2809 South Wayzata Blvd
Minneapolis, MN 55405
Phone: 612-377-9190 x 307
Toll Free: 877-377-9190 x 307
Fax: 612-374-4498
Email: narrativeconferences@gmail.com
In your Symposium Proposal email please provide a:
International Narrative Therapy Symposium
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Wednesday, Feb 18 - Friday, Feb 20, 2009
Proposed Daily Schedule
9:00 am – 10:30 am Keynotes
10:30 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Small Group Workshops
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch (on Own)
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Small Group Workshops
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Small Group Workshops
Range of Topics Suggested but Not Limited to
Narrative Therapy and evolving ideas in…