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
"The International Narrative Therapy Symposium in Playa del Carmen, Mexico offers a total of 18 Continuing Education Units (6 per day) for submission to your clinical board. The Symposium has been approved for Continuing Education Units by the Minnesota Board of Psychology, The Minnesota Board of Marraige and Family Therapy, and the Minnesota Board of Social Work. At the end of the Symposium, you will be given an official Certificate of Attendance and Symposium Workshop Schedule that details the workshops at the Symposium. You should submit the Certificate of Attendance with your Symposium Workshop Schedule to your board for credit. This is the procedure outlined by most boards of psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy and counseling. We CANNOT guarantee that all clinical boards follow this procedure and you should check with your particular board for confirmation. Thank You. The Symposium Committee."
Symposium Registration Fees:
Revised Symposium Registration Deadline
Early Student and Regular Registration deadlines will be extended until January 15th, and the Registration fees after January 15th lowered in response to the economy. We also extended it because we have had some internet registration/payment issues with out-of-US credit cards, which has been corrected. Please email if there are any registration or payment problems or questions to info@kenwoodcenter.org.
Early Student Registration before January 15th is $275 US
Student Standard Registration after Jan 15th is $325 US
Early Regular Registration before January 15th is $350 US
Regular Standard Registration after January 15th is $400 US
Cancellation Policy: A refund will be given of the registration paid minus $25 per workshop day. For the three day symposium the standard cancellation fee is $75.
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 schedule of the great keynotes and presentations in Playa!
| Hora | Wednesday/Miércoles 2-18-09 | Thursday /Jueves 2-19-09 | Friday/Viernes 2-20-09 | |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Coffee /Café | Coffee /Café | Coffee /Café | |
| 9:00-10:30 am | Grupo Campos Elíseos/ Walter & John Stillman (45 min. Each) | Jill and Gene: Perhaps its a Life | Bill Madsen: Sustaining Narrative Practice | |
| 10:30-10:45 am | Coffee Break/Café | Coffee Break/Café | Coffee Break/Café | |
| 10:45am-12:15pm | Bill Madsen: Sustaining narrative practice | Sylvia London: Challenges in Traditional Organiz. | Gene & Jill: Living the Ideas | |
| Liliana Castillejos: Superheroes in Child Therapy | Paul Gallant: Imagination Children & Young Adults | Rosy Helfon & Hazibe Zaga: Narrative with Older Adults | ||
| Peggy Sax: Creating Community | Nurit & Nora: Narrative Reflexive Groups | Grupo Sn. Jerónimo: External Witness Group | ||
| 12:15-1:45pm | Lunch/Comida | Lunch/Comida | Lunch/Comida | |
| 1:45-3:15 pm | Walter: Narragrams | John Stillman: Scuptural Approaches | Annie Heiderscheit & Leah Walls Healing w/Songs & Stories | |
| Alfonso Villareal: Parenting Teenagers | Irma Rodríguez: Being a Mother | Peggy Sax: Remember to Ask | ||
| Margriet Boom: Repairing the Brain | Kalli Matsuhashi: Hypnosis, Narrative & Trauma | Francisco Vadillo: Natural Disasters | ||
| 3:15-3:30 pm | Coffee Break/Café | Coffee Break/Café | Coffee Break/Café | |
| 3:30-5:00 pm | Michael Mertz: Residential Treatment | Mónica Criado/Marianna Díaz: Radio Worksh. Hospital | Irmgard Von Woberser: Narrative in the Workplace | |
| Alejandra Cortés: Power of Energy to Change Narrative | Walter: Buddhist Psychology | Gezabel Guzmán & Nicolás Torre: Narrative & Buddhism | ||
| Marcela Polanco & Jim Hibel Teaching and Supervising Narr. | Margarita Tarragona: Positive Psych.& Narrative Therapy |
Above is the link for the complete Playa Symposium Presentaion Program!
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
Rafael Loria
Reservations Department
Viva Mexico Travel Agency
Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya
mail@vivamexicohotels.com
rafaloria@hotmail.com
TEL. 984 1340426
Mike Tuck
Viva Mexico
952.935.4082
1.800.639.6639
www.vivamex.net
Symposium Site:
Parroquia de Nuestra Senora del Carmen playa_del_carmen_map
15 Avenida Norte & Calle 12
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Phone: 01-984-873-0188
Church Center Cross Streets:
Del Carmen de Parroquia de Nuestra Senora
15 Avenida Norte & Calle 12
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 – 10:45 am Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm Small Group Workshops
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch (on Own)
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm Small Group Workshops
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Small Group Workshops
Range of Topics Suggested but Not Limited to
Narrative Therapy and evolving ideas in…