Goals

North American Invitational Summit2:

Bonding and Attachment in the Family

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

April 29-May 2, 2004, Santa Cruz Mountains, near San Francisco

Goals

Much of this unique weekend event is interactive, enabling participants to contribute their knowledge, experience, and skills. The goals of this event are to:

• Facilitate information-sharing and dialog among a multidisciplinary group of individuals and organizations working on family bonding and attachment issues;

• Provide a historical and cross-cultural perspective on bonding and attachment, and the various practices in which different cultures and communities have engaged that either promote or inhibit successful bonding and attachment;

• Delineate the wide spectrum of societal problems in North America that have their roots in an inadequate understanding of, and disregard for, the significance of family bonding and attachment;

• Facilitate interactive, cross-disciplinary, small-group discussions and, in particular, encourage multiple attendees from the same region, or with similar interests, to develop discussion groups or collaborative projects upon return to their homes;

• Translate evidence-based scientific findings into action steps that can be applied at every level of society;

• Encourage Summit participants to expand and deepen the Alliance by helping to bring into reality its vision of a broad-based social movement that will significantly improve the state of family bonding and attachment in North America.

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