Program

Elements of Change| Context: Connection: Complexity

We are excited to announce the keynote speaker will be Mark McConville:

Mark McConville  PhD is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Ohio USA, specializing in adult, adolescent, emerging adult, and family psychology. Dr. McConville is a senior faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and has lectured and taught widely on the subjects of child development, parenting, and counselling methodology.

His book Adolescence: Psychotherapy and the Emergent Self   (Jossey-Bass, 1995) was awarded the 1995 Nevis Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Gestalt Therapy theory. He is the author of the Counseling Feedback Report, an innovative and widely used adolescent assessment tool, and is co-editor of The Heart of Development: Gestalt Approaches to Childhood and Adolescence  , vols. I & II, (The Analytic Press, 2001). He is currently working on a book on the transition from adolescence to adulthood, titled Getting a Life: a Parents Guide to the ‘Failure to Launch’ Syndrome.

We are in negotiation with a number of other international therapists all of whom have agreed to take some role in the conference and conversation about the nature of change in psychotherapy.  We will share more details soon.

The full program for the 8th International GANZ Conference will available shortly.