Notes from the Field: Towards Liberation and Freedom.

CIIS’ Clinical Psychology Department presents their 4th annual one-day conference reimagining clinical work centering freedom and liberation
About this Event

This unique conference explores the questions: What are ways in which depth-oriented therapists think about, embody, invite, and fight for freedom- within ourselves, relationally, and as a collective? What processes liberate us from constraint and oppression- internal and external; in our theories and training; inside and beyond the consultation room?

Unlike the typical academic or psychology conference, Notes from the Field presenters were invited to bring unfinished ideas so the audience and presenters can wrestle together with the complexities inherent to the demand of thinking about liberation and freedom. Through this shared dialogue, the conference serves to support our collective exploration and embodied experience of liberation and freedom.

Morning Keynote: Dr. Joe Zamaria examines the potential of group psychedelic-assisted therapy to reimagine therapy outside of the traditional dyadic western perspective, and to support healing trauma, including racial trauma, as a group.

Panels: there will be several panels and offerings led by different presenters, all of whom are CIIS PsyD Faculty, students, and alumni. These presentations, which span from clinical to theoretical, from transpersonal, psychoanalytic, and liberatory perspectives, expand our notions of what liberation and freedom from a depth-oriented perspective means. We encourage you to look through the breath of offerings and join us in what we expect to be meaningful and truly inspiring dialogues.

As our conferences are designed to create community, we offer treats throughout the day and lunch, providing space for relationship-building between attendees.

Proceeds for this conference help us create future conferences and to support our PsyD scholarship fund.

Agenda:

9am-Welcome

9:15am-10:30am Keynote Dr. Joe Zamaria “What Happens When We Heal Together? Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and the Potential of Collective Healing"

10:30am-11:00am

Fika (break & connecting)

11:00am-Noon

Sessions 1

• Terese Gjernes, PsyD, SEP, Licensed Psychologist (PsyD Alumna)
  Grounding in the relational field: Equalizing power and supporting safety and liberation in the therapeutic relationship through attending to the physiological and relational dynamics of attunement and consent.
• Ray Mroczynski ( xe/xir) (PsyD Student)
  Interrupting Grief and How Grief Interrupts: A Self-Reflexive Exploration of Colonial Object Relations through Social Collapse
• Matthew Feliss (PsyD Student)
  Wild Sex/Wild Analysis: Psychoanalytic Freedom Beyond the Consulting Room
• Greg Harris (PsyD Student)
  IllLuminous Blackness: Reordering the Racialized Un/conscious

Noon-1pm

Lunch

1:00pm-2:00pm

Sessions 2

• Dr. Rene Dumetz (PsyD Faculty)
  Consciousness, Psyche, and Mind as Fields
• Ira Kotlik (PsyD Alumna)
  Dreams of Freedom: from Ukraine to Israel to California
• Anthony Gannon Robledo (PsyD Student)
  Mourning the Phantom, Retrieving the Ancestor: Decolonial Unburdening in the Second-Generation Psyche

2:00pm-2:30pm

Fika (break & connecting)

2:30pm-3:30pm

Sessions 3

• Willow Pearson Trimbach, PsyD, LMFT, MT-BC (PsyD Faculty) and Eva Tuschman Leonard, depth psychotherapist and artist
  The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice
• Dr. Rose Dawydiak-Rapagnani (PsyD Alumna)
  Saint Luigi and the Romanticization of Italian American Violence
• Olivia Madlock and Ray Mroczynski (xe/xir) (PsyD Students)
  "We Make No Apology": Anti-Blackness, Psychological Assessment, and the Criminalization of Black Revolutionary Politics