8th
Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology
American
Psychological Association Division 32
Humanistic
(R)evolution
Innovative
Relevance in a Complex World
March
26-29, 2015
The
Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Chicago,
Illinois
Dear
Friends and Colleagues:
The Society for Humanistic Psychology will
hold its eighth annual conference this March 26-29, 2015 at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology,
Chicago, Illinois. The
information you need to register and arrange for lodging can be located
at: http://www.societyforhumanisticpsychologyconference.com/
I am writing you to extend a personal
invitation for you to attend the conference. Our eighth annual humanistic
conference promises to be an enriching and enjoyable experience as well as a
rare opportunity to meet and engage with many of the most creative and
accomplished humanistic psychologists and therapists of our times and to
network with an extensive humanistic community. In order to have strong student
representation at the conference we will be offering low rates for
students.
I will look forward to seeing you at the
conference.
Cordially,
David J. Cain, Ph.D.,
ABPP
Past President and Conference Committee
Member
Society for Humanistic
Psychology
8th Annual Conference of the Society
for Humanistic Psychology
American Psychological Association
Division 32
Humanistic
(R)evolution
Innovative
Relevance in a Complex World
March 26-29, 2015
The
Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Chicago, Illinois
Register
Early for Best Rates
What is a
Humanistic (R)evolution?
The humanistic project has historically advocated
for the worth, dignity, honor, and humane care of any and every human being,
evermore humanizing de-humanizations locally, regionally, nationally and
globally. Today’s complexity, though, brings great challenges to how we can
care in innovative and relevant ways within a variety of worlds in pain.
Innovative care in our complex world requires an extraordinary sensitivity to
diverse ways of living that include responding to diverse practices of
oppression. Caring well also means taking into account what it means to live in
a multi-tasking culture that includes: a technological complexity that outruns
our human capacity to process it; an economic interdependency unfairly distributed;
ever dwindling natural resources; more and less connection than ever before;
dramatic changes in health care delivery; exam-centric educational systems,
among other challenges, all of which are situated in a world of dangerous
political agendas loudly effecting some and silently effecting all.
What do we, as The Society of Humanistic
Psychology, have to offer to this complex, hurting world that is seeking
sustainable, innovative and relevant care?
Is
unconditional positive regard relevant anymore in a world which privileges
profit at any and all cost?
What does an understanding of existential,
ontological givens offer to a neighborhood at war?
Is
indigenous, shamanic wisdom irrelevant to the Affordable Care Act?
What could phenomenology offer to STEM psychology?
Who goes in the empty chair or the hot seat in an
age of intense, co-constituted terrorism?
Can the critical theorists and constructivists
offer guidance to the hegemony of “core” curricular design in the classroom?
Does positive psychology offer anything to our
ecological crisis?
Initiating a Humanistic (R)evolution
It is time for a humanistic (r)evolution which
demonstrates through our research, practices of care, consultation, assessment,
and advocacy that we can care well for a world teetering on the precipice.
Come join the evolution of our revolution!
