Embracing four sub-themes:

• Re-envisioning Conflict: Discovering the Creative Potential
• Examining Our Process: Gestalt Theoretical Models
• Conflict as Growth: Contacting Difference
• Standing One's Ground: Authority, Power and Courage

Presentations will be two hours in length, with time for participant discussion. We are encouraging innovative and creative presentations and experiential workshops that explore how people move in and out of conflict in various contexts: intrapersonal and interpersonal, couples, families, small groups, organizations, and communities. Student papers and presentations based on research projects are welcomed. Presentations may be theoretical, clinical, or experiential, and they may be demonstrations, panels, video presentations, or discussions. Presentations will be selected by the conference planning committee following blind peer review. Interest groups are encouraged to submit proposals. Presentations will be taped and tapes will be made available during the conference. Continuing Education credit will be offered to attendees.

Those wishing to submit a proposal must submit a presentation proposal form following the procedure described below. Interested persons can use the form below, request that a presentation form be sent to them, or download one from the AAGT web site (www.aagt.org).

The form asks for a 200-300 word description of the presentation, an outline, questions that can be answered from attending the presentation, and three relevant readings. Presentation proposal forms will be blind peer reviewed and selected according to the needs of the program. If accepted, the corresponding presenter(s) will be required to submit (within two weeks) a 100 word abstract of the presentation to be published in the conference program, a 60 word biography reflecting the relevance of presenter background(s) to the presentation, a signed release permitting the taping of the presentation, a description of any audiovisual aids required, and a curriculum vita for each presenter (please have these ready). All these items are necessary to support the process of review and the AAGT's granting of Continuing Education Units; we appreciate your cooperation.

Correspondence around presentations with multiple presenters will be conducted with the person submitting the proposal, who will be responsible for communicating with co-presenters and sending in the requested materials.

Please do not delay in sending your proposal. The deadline for receipt of the presentation proposal form is October 31, 2001.

Those needing help in the preparation of a presentation proposal can contact the conference coordinators, Philip Brownell (philbrownell@earthlink.net) and/or Chuck Kanner (chuck@kanneracademy.com), who will either answer the questions directly or assign a mentor.

"Holding the Heat: Conflict Creativity Contact" embraces several sub-themes:

• Re-envisioning Conflict: Discovering the Creative Potential
• Examining Our Process: Gestalt Theoretical Models
• Conflict as Growth: Contacting Difference
• Standing One's Ground: Authority, Power and Courage

What to send and to where:

• 4 copies of form, plus a cover letter (via mail, not FAX) to:
  • AAGT Peer Review
    c/o Effie Bastas
    5026 Copley Rd.
    Philadelphia, PA 19144
• 1 copy of your cover letter to:
  • Cynthia Cook
    23 Nelson Ave.
    Provincetown, MA 02657
• 1 copy of your cover letter to:
  • Philip Brownell
    315 Golf Course Rd., #1806
    Morganton, NC 28655
• Include in your cover letter the title of your presentation, your name, highest degree, your complete address, telephone number, FAX, and e-mail address, and (if applicable) the same for all co-presenters.
• DO NOT put any identifying information on your presentation proposal form.
• You will be notified when to send the other information.

Please type (all sections must be completed in order to be considered; expand the sections as needed and/or use additional sheets as necessary)

1. Gestalt Experience Level Suggested for Participants:

___Experienced
___Novice
___No Limitations

2. Format (prioritize categories and elements that apply; 1=highest)

• ___Didactic Category
  • ___Based on a formal paper (have copies available)
  • ___Based on a research project
  • ___Based on work experiences
  • ___Based on theory
• ___Experiential Category
  • ___Demonstration
  • ___Panel
  • ___Discussion
  • ___Experimental participation
  • ___Video/multi-media Presentation

3. Title (Limit to 65 characters, including spaces):

4. Description (a 200-300 word description of what you intend to do, how you intend to do it, and in what ways that relates to the conference themes and/or sub-themes; be specific):

5. A five to ten-point outline of the material to be covered, expanding on the description above; this need not be detailed:

6. An assessment test consisting of five objective questions (multiple choice, true-false, fill in, or matching). The correct answers to these questions must be included. If the presentation is entirely experiential, answer this question, "What three new awarenesses were the result of participation?" The questions must be able to be answered as a result of attendance, and the shorter and less complicated the better.

7. List one to three significant readings (articles or books) on the subject of your presentation. These need not cover the specific topic, but should serve to provide information for further study and be generally relevant. Use this format:
Author Last Name, Initial. (date) Title of article or book. Name of Journal (if appropriate). Publisher City, State: Name of Publisher.