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Saturday, August 2, 2008 Pre-conference

9 am - 3:30 pm

The Virginia Satir Global Network: Our Connections, Our Stories and Our Future - Jean Houston & Jean McLendon

3:30 pm - 5 pm

Satir Global Annual Meeting - The Virginia Satir Global Network Board of Directors

9 am - 5 pm

Fast-tracking  the Satir Growth Model -  Sheri Browning, Bill Davis, Regina Ragan"

6 pm - 10 pm

Building our World Community - Conference Opening Banquet

Sunday, August 3 Conference

8 am - 10 am

Opening Session: The 360: Creating the Circle  - Jean McLendon, Eileen Strider, Wayne Strider

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Entering the World Shift Game as Players. Envisioning a New Story for a New World - Jean Houston, Keynote

2 pm - 5 pm

A1

Understand the Blame Game: Shift Yourself, Shift the World  - Janet Christie-Seely

A2

Leading with Vitality:  Developing Global Leaders using the Satir Model - Angie Dairou

A3

Unraveling to Understanding: The Satir Growth Model and Sexual Addiction  - Maureen Graves & Duane Osterlind

A4

Supervising Authentically - Lynn Parker, Colleen Attoma-Mathews, Michael Lopez-Jensen

A5

Integrating Satir and Erickson Using Iceberg Model and Parts Model - Jane Parsons-Fein

The Feng Shui of Change - Steven Young

7:30 pm - 9pm

An Evening with John Banmen: The Satir Growth Model in Asia

Monday, August 4 Conference

8 am - 8:45 am

Centering and Temperature Reading

9 am - 12 pm

What Virginia Actually Did! - Steve Andreas

Universals & Applications of Satir Tools & Process - Steven Buckbee, Dan Doyle & Michael Dupont

Your Many Faces and My Multiple Intelligences - Aura Sofia Diaz

Thriving in a Governmental Bureaucracy Using Satir. It's Possible! - Cheri Berge, Eloise Jones, Kathy Montero, Cindy Ross

Experience the Satir Change Model - Steve Smith & Becky Winant

Satir Family Camp: An Intentional Community Created by Virginia Satir  - David & Faith Friedlander and Elsa Ten Broeck

Satir Touched Taiwan - Agnes Wu  CANCELLED

Bring Your Juiciness to the Satir Journal - Steve Bentheim and Jesse Carlock

2 pm - 5 pm

Family Reconstruction: A Process of Transformation Developed by Virginia Satir - Maria Gomori

Using Satir Tools with High Conflict Parents - Diana Hall

Writing Workshop: Write More, Write Joyfully, Write NOW!  - Naomi Karten

The LINC Model of Community Resilience - Judith Landau

How to Grow Your Intimate Relationship Using the Satir Model - Sandy Novak

An Innovative Program for Teaching Satir Concepts and Skills - Duane Osterlind, Kim Fuller, Maria Traver & Diane Eisenberg

Tuesday, August 5 Conference

8 am - 8:45 am

Centering and Temperature Reading

9 am - 12 pm

Can Satir Therapy Become an Evidence-Based
Practice? - Barbara Burns

Moving Beyond Rituals and Masks: Theater of the Oppressed  and The Satir Growth Model - Alexander Cheryomukhin & Laura Dodson

Using Satir, Buddhist Metta in Tsunami and Terrorism Situations  - Tipawadee Emavardhana and Ladda Kitivipart

Satir & Spirituality  - Ekman PC Tam & Maureen Graves

Using Your Internal Resources to Create Choice and Balance in Personal and Professional Life -  Ross Ungerleider, Jamie Dickey-Ungerleider, Anne Strand

What Can Change Artists Learn from Filmmakers…and Social Psychologists?  - Jeff Zeig

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Experiential Approaches to Eliciting Change, A Live Demonstration  - Jeff Zeig, Keynote

3 pm - 5 pm

The 360: Within, Between and Among  - Jean McLendon, Eileen Strider & Wayne Strider

6 pm - 10 pm

Closing Banquet, Concert & Dance

Wednesday, August 6 Post-Conference

9 am - 5 pm

POST

Enriching Your Relationship with Yourself and Others II - Sharon Loeschen, Margarita Suarez, Shala Samsamy, Gundolf Strehl, Grace Yung,

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