aTLC Summit: How Will We Initiate and Actualize Bonding and Attachment as Priorities in North America?

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2003

2:00pm

Orientation Circle: Staff, keynoters, panelists, and early arrivals.

4:00

Registration begins. Poster sessions set up. Bookstore opens. Video previews begin.

5:30

Dinner

Plenary 1: How Can We Begin to the Process of Joining as One Body/Building a Choir and Building a Container to Do the Work of the Summit?

7:00

Welcoming and the Vision for the Summit: How Will We Initiate and Actualize Bonding and Attachment as Priorities in North American? --Marti Glenn, Sharron Humenick, and Kent Peterson

7:45

Opening Ceremony --Chief Sonne Reyna, Brenda Mercado (Representing the Chumash People of the Santa Barbara area)

8:00

Slide Show: An International Look at Bonding & Attachment --Suzanne Arms

8:15

Participant Introductions--Finding Our Common Bonds

8:45

Break

9:00

Introduction: Joseph Chilton Pearce --Michael Mendizza

9:05

Interview: Joseph Chilton Pearce with Marti Glenn and Kent Peterson

9:45

Adjourn

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2003

6:30-7:30am

Meditation, yoga, tai chi, etc.

7:30-8:00

Breakfast

 

Plenary 2: Conception and Pregnancy: What Facilitates a Strong Bond?

8:30

A Word from Our Sponsor: Marti Glenn and Kent Peterson

9:00

Overview Keynote: In the Beginning --Ray Castellino and Marti Glenn

9:30

Panel: Marti Glenn, Ray Castellino, Paul Brenner, Barbara Findeisen, Tina Kimmel

10:10

Break

10:30

Appreciative Inquiry/World Café --David Isaacs

12:00pm

Harvest Insights and Discoveries from Café Session --Marti Glenn, David Isaacs, Susan Kelly and Kent Peterson

12:30

Lunch (Hosted tables)

 

Plenary 3: Birth and Postpartum: How Can the Bond Be Protected?

1:30

Overview Keynote: An Overview of Pregnancy and Birthing in North America: What Happened? Why? How Does It Matter? --Suzanne Arms

2:00

Panel: Suzanne Arms, Barbara Harper, Mary Jackson, Marilyn Milos, Roberta Scaer

2:40

Break

3:00

Appreciative Inquiry/World Café

4:30

Harvest Insights and Discoveries from Café Session --Marti Glenn, David Isaacs, Susan Kelly, and Kent Peterson

5:00

Pod Formation and Planning

6:00

Dinner (Pods encouraged to dine together)

 

Plenary 4: What Can Other Cultures Teach Us? (Part I)

7:30pm

Overview Keynote: Non-violent Cultures: Parenting Practices that Grow Compassionate, Trusting People --Charlotte Peterson

8:00

Stories, Rituals, and Other Practices from Indigenous Cultures: Chief Sonne Reyna, Masai Junior Elder Kimeli Willson Naiyomah, Brenda Mercado

8:45

Break

 

Plenary 5: How Can We Create Child/Parent Relationships Based on Connection rather than Control?

9:00

Getting Real with Children: Can We Afford to Be Real? Can We Afford to Be Otherwise? --Susan Campbell

9:30

How Can We Create Deep Trust and Authenticity in the Parent/Child Relationship?: Inbal Kashtan

10:00

Adjourn

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2003

6:30-7:30

Meditation, yoga, tai chi, etc.

7:30-8:00

Breakfast

 

Plenary 6: How Can We Nurture the Nature and Needs of Children?

8:30

Recap and Prelude: Marti Glenn and Kent Peterson

8:45

Overview Keynote: An Overview of the Neurobiology of Bonding and Attachment --What Science Is Showing Us --Stan Tatkin

9:15

Videos:

The Origins of Love & Violence --James W. Prescott on tape, introduced by Michael Mendizza
The Rebozo Way of Life --Barbara Wishingrad

9:30

Panel: Stan Tatkin, Isabelle Fox, Pam Leo, Scott Noelle, and Barbara Wishingrad

10:10

Break

10:30

Appreciative Inquiry/World Café

12:00pm

Harvest Insights and Discoveries from Café Session --Marti Glenn, David Isaacs, Susan Kelly and Kent Peterson

12:30

Lunch (Hosted tables) and free time

 

Plenary 7: How Can Trauma, Our Infants' and Our Own, Be Prevented and Healed?

1:30

Overview Keynote: Individual, Social, and Global Trauma --Anngwynn St. Just

2:00

Panel: Susan Campbell, Mary Jackson, Inbal Kashtan, Wendy Anne McCarty, Anngwynn St. Just

2:40

Break

3:00

Appreciative Inquiry/World Café

4:30

Harvest Insights and Discoveries from Café Session --Marti Glenn, David Isaacs, Susan Kelly and Kent Peterson

5:00

Pods Planning, II

6:00

Dinner (Pods encouraged to dine together)

 

Plenary 8: What Can Other Cultures Teach Us? (Part II)

7:30

Overview Keynote: The Dagara of Burkina Faso, Africa: An Indigenous Perspective on the Vital Role of Ritual in Weaving the Web that Connects Individuals to Each Other, Community, the Earth, the Ancestors, and the Spirit World --Sobonfu Somé

8:00

Stories, Rituals, and Other Practices from Indigenous Cultures Sobonfu Somé (more will be added)

8:45

Break

 

Plenary 9: How Can We Use the Tools of Getting Real and Nonviolent Communication and in Real-Life Situations with Each Other and Our Children?

9:00

Discussion and Q&A about How to Foster Connection between Parents and Kids in Specific Situations. --Susan Campbell and Inbal Kashtan

10:00

Adjourn

SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2003

6:30-7:30am

Meditation, yoga, tai chi, etc.

7:30-8:00

Breakfast

 

Plenary 10: Putting the Puzzle Together: How Can We Initiate and Actualize Bonding and Attachment as Priorities at the Community and Societal/Cultural Levels?

8:30

Orientation to Action --Kent Peterson, Marti Glenn

8:50

Panel: Inspiration into Action--Social Change Artists: Skip Andrew, Jan Ballard, Janet Morrow, John Travis

9:30

Where Do We Go from Here? Collectively Creating a Plan for Action

10:15

Break

10:30

Where Do We Go from Here? Collectively Creating a Plan for Action (continued)

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Interview: Michel Odent with Suzanne Arms and Ray Castellino

1:30

Sharing of Pods' Plans

2:00

Reflections and Wrap Up--An Appreciative Acknowledgement of Our Plan and the Community We Have Built

2:40

Closing Ceremony

3:00

Close

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Continuing Education (CE) credits provided for MFTs and LCSWs through the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (Provider PCE 688) for a maximum of 30 CE contact hours as required by the California Board of Behavioral Science (plus 3 hours for each post Summit workshop attended).

Continuing Education (CE) credits provided for RNs and LVNs through Raymond F. Castellino, DC, RPP, approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #10577) for a maximum of 30 CE contact hours (plus 3 hours for each post Summit workshop attended).

Just added: CEs for Licensed Midwives (LMs) through the California Association of Midwives (CAM).

 

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