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The American College of Counselors, established in 1976, promotes collegial learning and professional development for Counseling and related Human Services. Chartered in 1984, as a national certifying body for counselors, ACC specifies Clinical Membership as our entry level. We offer opportunity for advanced recognition through designation of Fellow and Diplomat. In 1993 ACC subsumed the former National Academy of Counselors and Family Therapists. ACC has since included international members. ACC is recognized as a provider of Continuing Education Units by the Indiana Health Professions Bureau.

Publications: ACC COURIER (newsletter), and CON-TEXT, Journal of the ACC.

Conference Location:

• Marten House Hotel/Conference Center
  1801 West 86th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46260
  (317) 872.4111 Main or 1-800-736-5634
  (317) 415-5245 Fox
  
• Conveniently located 25 minutes from Indianapolis International Airport, 20 minutes North of Downtown, easy access to Interstate 465. Hotel reservations to be made directly with Martin House at 1-800-736-5634. Airport shuttle service can be arranged with Indy Connection at (317) 241-7100. Cost per person one way is $14 plus tip.
  
• Free parking.
• Shuttle to downtown with prior arrangement
  
• Pool, workout room, restaurant and lounge.
  

Conference fees include:

• All sessions and breakouts
  
• All meals (Continental Breakfast, Snacks. Lunch & Dinner)
• Lunch on Saturday is optional for $15
• Symposium tapes will be available at the end, as well as by mail afterwards.
• Indiana College of Bodywork Modalities will offer chair massages to participants.
  
  

IGI Conference Faculty

• Charlie Bowman, LCSW, LMFT is Co-President of IGI and Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy. He has published research defining Gestalt therapy and about various applications of Gestalt therapy and training. He is interested in Gestalt community formation and the development of Relational Gestalt Therapy.
  
• Steve Roberts, LCSW, LMFT is interested in further developing Relational Gestalt Therapy and trains psychotherapists nationally and internationally. He is Co President of IGI and Director of The Foresight Group, an Indianapolis psychotherapy consortium.
  
• Kelly Kochell, MA
• Ann Bowman, MSN, LMHC
• David Alexander, HSPP
• Eric Turner CAS, MAFC-CCRC
• Lee Verner, M.A.
• Bonnie Shaller, B.S.
• Rusty Moe, MA
• Rik Spier, D.Min.
• Nancy Campbell, Ph.D.
• Richard Erskine, Ph.D.
• Karen Patrick-Knight, MSW, LCSW
  

Conference Agenda:

Thursday, October19

• 10:30AM Registration
• 11:30 AM Welcoming Lunch: "Bringing Your Self to the Therapeutic Relationship"
• 1:00PM - 5:00PM Breakout Sessions
  • Gestalt Therapy Today: Update and Overview
  • Movement and the Body in Gestalt Therapy
  • The Brittle Journey: Reflections an Spiritual Caring
• 8:00PM Keynote Address: "Contact-in-Relationship"
  
  • Richard Erskine, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Indiana and is well known for his work or the central role of the client/therapist relationship in psychotherapy. Dr. Erskine has authored numerous articles and three books developing the theory and method of Integrative Psychotherapy. He serves on the faculty of numerous academic and post-graduate training institutions world-wide, including the Indianapolis Gestalt Institute. His most recent book, Beyond Empathy (Brunner/Mazel, 1999) outlines the psychotherapy method of contact.
    

Friday, October 20

• 8:00AM - 10:00AM Breakout Sessions
  
  • The Therapeutic Relationship: Hopes, Fears, Needs
  • Transference: Multicolored Manifestations of Our Stories
  • Beyond Empathy: Attunement to Psychological Processes
    
• 12:00 - 1:30PM Lunch
  
• 1:30 - 5:00PM Breakout Sessions
  
  • The Therapeutic Relationship: Hopes, Fears, Needs
  • Transference: Multicolored Manifestations of Our Stories
  • Beyond Empathy: Attunement to Psychological Processes
    
• 7:00 - 10:00PM Facilitated Discussions Over Dinner
  

Saturday, October 21

• 8:00 - 10:30AM
  • Gestalt Therapy with Survivors of Abuse and Trauma
  • Gestalt Therapy with Addictions
  • A Comparison of Methods: Gestalt Therapy and CBT
• 11:00 - Noon: Closing
  
  

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

• Early Registration - postmarked on or before September 8, 2000
  
  • $255 ACC Members
  • $275 Non-members
• Regular Registration - postmarked on or before October 8, 2000
  
  • $270 ACC Members
  • $300 Non-members
    
• Late Registration - postmarked after October 8, 2000
  • $300 ACC Members
  • $330 Non-members
  • For any level of registration, all but $50 is refundable before October 8, 2000. After October 8, 2000, there will be no refunds
    

CEU credits: 20 at $30

MEALS ARE INCLUDED In registration fee except for lunch on Saturday for $15.

ACC offers $25 tuition reduction per 1/2 day work for up to two 1/2 days maximum.

To Register Call Theresa Bowes at (317) 475-0023 or Email: theresabowes@Ameritech.net

The Indiana Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist and Mental Health Counselor Board has approved this organization to provide Category I continuing education for L.S.W., L.C.S.W., L.M.F.T., and L.M.H.C., however licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice.