Why Johnnie Still Can’t Learn:  Connecting with the Disconnected Child

October 13th and 14th, 2007
Sponsored by Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis & Wheelock College
at 43 Hawes Street, Brookline
http://www.bgsp.edu/ / 617-277-3915

If you are interested in this conference, please see Maureen Kelly, Chair of Art Education  (South 206)
Maureen.Kelly@massart.edu / 617-879-7525

No one can learn anything when preoccupied with danger, anger, sadness, fear, insecurity, or self doubt.  Many children have few moments free of paralyzing emotions.  Some  have none at all.  What can be done to enable kids to be open to learning?

This conference invites a dialogue between educators, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists about how to join hands in helping establish relationships with children that offer safety and security, the first building blocks for learning.

Considerations such as diagnosis, impulse management, structure,  ego development, containment, projection and introjection, transference and countertransference will be translated into examples of everyday classroom problems and solutions.

Goals:

Participants will learn and be able to apply techniques for individuals and groups that promote connection by:

1)   managing tension levels
2)  fostering self  integration
3) promoting body awareness
4) developing group interaction

Participants will learn to faciliate group processing using various modalities.

A pamphlet in the Art Education office shows the schedule of events.  Stop by South 106 to see it.