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SUMMARY:Deadline: Early Registration Rates for the EGPS Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the EGPS Annual Conference\, November 13-15\, online and in NYC! The final day to receive the early registration rate — a roughly 20% discount — is Monday\, November 3. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://egps.org/event/early-registration-ends-2025/
CATEGORIES:Annual Conference
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SUMMARY:Deadline - EGPS Annual Conference Registration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the EGPS Annual Conference\, November 13-15\, online and in NYC!\nThe registration deadline is Wednesday\, November 12 at noon Eastern.\n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://egps.org/event/deadline-egps-annual-conference-registration/
CATEGORIES:Annual Conference
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SUMMARY:EGPS Annual Conference - Navigating Differences: Authenticity\, Self Expression and Restorative Practices in Groups (Plenary)
DESCRIPTION:Navigating Differences:\nAuthenticity\, Self Expression and Restorative Practices in Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn today’s climate of cultural and social division\, differences within groups can spark disconnection\, tension\, and misunderstanding. Yet\, when approached with openness and reflection\, these challenges can become powerful gateways to healing\, connection\, and growth.\nGroup work offers a vital space to transform conflict into curiosity and division into dialogue. As group leaders\, we are called to hold complexity: encouraging authentic expression while honoring safety and boundaries. Through restorative practices and compassionate accountability\, we create containers where members can explore hard truths\, deepen relationships\, and remain grounded in integrity and care. \nJoin us for the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society 2025 Annual Conference where together we will deepen our understanding of how group process supports movement through fear\, repair of relational ruptures\, and greater tolerance for difference. We will explore how cultivating empathy\, active listening\, and emotional honesty creates space for people to feel seen\, heard\, and understood\, building a framework for both personal insight and collective transformation. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration has ended: If you’ve registered already\, check your email inbox for confirmation emails and instructions from jan@egps.org with subject lines starting “EGPS Conference IN-PERSON DAY” and/or “EGPS Conference ONLINE DAY” for relevant instructions. \n  \n\nA Decolonial Approach to Psychoanalytically Informed Developmental Theory\, Case Formulation and Treatment\nDaniel Jose Gaztambide\, PsyD\nMost approaches to relational therapy depend on some theory of development to inform how clinicians think about the patient’s difficulties\, guiding case formulation and treatment. This focus\, however\, sometimes chafes with recent thinking on the role of sociocultural and political factors in psychotherapy. This presentation will bridge this gap through a theory and research-grounded review of the decolonial psychoanalytic perspective\, offering pragmatic tools for thinking about the relational/developmental and social/political as a matter of course.
URL:https://egps.org/event/egps-annual-conference-plenary/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Annual Conference
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SUMMARY:EGPS Annual Conference - Navigating Differences: Authenticity\, Self Expression and Restorative Practices in Groups (Live Online Day)
DESCRIPTION:Navigating Differences:\nAuthenticity\, Self Expression and Restorative Practices in Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn today’s climate of cultural and social division\, differences within groups can spark disconnection\, tension\, and misunderstanding. Yet\, when approached with openness and reflection\, these challenges can become powerful gateways to healing\, connection\, and growth.\nGroup work offers a vital space to transform conflict into curiosity and division into dialogue. As group leaders\, we are called to hold complexity: encouraging authentic expression while honoring safety and boundaries. Through restorative practices and compassionate accountability\, we create containers where members can explore hard truths\, deepen relationships\, and remain grounded in integrity and care. \nJoin us for the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society 2025 Annual Conference where together we will deepen our understanding of how group process supports movement through fear\, repair of relational ruptures\, and greater tolerance for difference. We will explore how cultivating empathy\, active listening\, and emotional honesty creates space for people to feel seen\, heard\, and understood\, building a framework for both personal insight and collective transformation. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration has ended: If you’ve registered already\, check your email inbox for confirmation emails and instructions from jan@egps.org with subject lines starting “EGPS Conference IN-PERSON DAY” and/or “EGPS Conference ONLINE DAY” for relevant instructions.
URL:https://egps.org/event/egps-annual-conference-2025-online/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Annual Conference
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SUMMARY:EGPS Annual Conference - Navigating Differences: Authenticity\, Self Expression and Restorative Practices in Groups (In-Person Day)
DESCRIPTION:Navigating Differences:\nAuthenticity\, Self Expression and Restorative Practices in Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn today’s climate of cultural and social division\, differences within groups can spark disconnection\, tension\, and misunderstanding. Yet\, when approached with openness and reflection\, these challenges can become powerful gateways to healing\, connection\, and growth.\nGroup work offers a vital space to transform conflict into curiosity and division into dialogue. As group leaders\, we are called to hold complexity: encouraging authentic expression while honoring safety and boundaries. Through restorative practices and compassionate accountability\, we create containers where members can explore hard truths\, deepen relationships\, and remain grounded in integrity and care. \nJoin us for the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society 2025 Annual Conference where together we will deepen our understanding of how group process supports movement through fear\, repair of relational ruptures\, and greater tolerance for difference. We will explore how cultivating empathy\, active listening\, and emotional honesty creates space for people to feel seen\, heard\, and understood\, building a framework for both personal insight and collective transformation. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration has ended: If you’ve registered already\, check your email inbox for confirmation emails and instructions from jan@egps.org with subject lines starting “EGPS Conference IN-PERSON DAY” and/or “EGPS Conference ONLINE DAY” for relevant instructions.
URL:https://egps.org/event/egps-annual-conference-in-person/
LOCATION:The Riverside Church\, 91 Claremont Avenue\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Annual Conference
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SUMMARY:WG4RE November Discussion Group: Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates dialogue around the murder of Charlie Kirk: The Ubiquity of Whiteness
DESCRIPTION:Work Group for Racial Equity November Discussion Group:\nEzra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates dialogue around the murder of Charlie Kirk: The Ubiquity of Whiteness\n\nHost: Chris Dolin \n\n\n\n\nIn the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk\, Bernie Sanders said that Charlie Kirk was “a very smart and effective communicator and organizer and someone unafraid to get out into the world and engage the public.” Gavin Newsom on Kirk “I admired his passion and commitment to debate.” And Ezra Klein praised Charlie Kirk for “doing politics the right way” in a New York Times op-ed. If you’ve ever heard sound bytes from Charlie Kirk\, you may wonder if any of them had actually ever heard him speak. \n\nTa-Nehisi Coates responded in a Vanity Fair piece -doing something no one else did\, that is\, actually quoting Charlie Kirk\, and then Klein invited Coates to discuss their disagreement on Klein’s podcast.\n\nLet’s talk about it….\n\nWhat’s it like to read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ piece immediately following Ezra Klein’s piece? What sorts of feelings come up in your body as you read each? If you re-read each?\n\nThere are a lot of layers here\, and in the podcast episode\, they end up discussing more than just Klein’s NYT editorial piece. As you listen to each of them\, think about how their lived experiences (or lack thereof) shape the lens through which they see and analyze and feel the world. What stands out to you about what each of them are saying and trying to communicate to each other and to us?\n\nWhat aspects of whiteness/white supremacy culture do you notice?\n\nThese are listed in chronological order: \n\nEzra Klein Opinion Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way\nTa-Nehisi Coates Response in Vanity Fair – Charlie Kirk Redeemed: a Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause\nVideo: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo fee to attend. All are welcome.
URL:https://egps.org/event/wg4re-november-2025-discussion/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Work Group for Racial Equity
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SUMMARY:Seminar Series: Radical Paradox and the Particularities of Identity - Adam Shechter
DESCRIPTION:Location: In-person at a member’s home at 535 Dean St\, Brooklyn\, NY \nDescription: Come and talk about the complexities of identity that don’t immediately add up\, but can be sensitively explored through a socially-conscious psychoanalytic paradigm. The contemporary political climate pushes for oversimplifications\, but is that who we really are\, as therapists and people? In a sense yes\, when the polarizing eye places its projection and enactment upon its subject. Yet our patients need us to contain them in their particular\, often seemingly contradictory  range of social identities—all the while holding the analytic line of their drives\, defenses\, fantasies—and at the same time\, empathizing and supporting them with the challenges of their realities. And don’t we as therapists and humans need the same? Not an easy task\, but one that many of us have chosen to sign up for. Bring your intellect\, heart\, personal stories\, and clinical experiences/questions to a workshop that will make room to hold\, explore and process these radical paradoxes together. \n \nPresenter Bio: Adam Shechter is a psychoanalytic therapist who works with individuals\, couples and groups. Since he was a young child the multiplicity of identity has been on his mind. Before becoming a therapist Adam pursued various creativity; writing\, musicality\, and visual art forms. Poetry ultimately won out though found more nourishing soils in becoming a therapist and focusing on the verbal relation of understanding others. His writing has been published in psychoanalytic and literary journals including European Journal for Psychoanalysis\, GROUP\, Free Associations\, Psychoanalytic Perspectives\, The Minnesota Review and others. Adam has presented his work at various analytic conferences including EGPS\, IFPE\, APCS and IPHA. He also co-moderates an online study group on the work of Michael Eigen. \nIf you have any questions or concerns\, contact the Seminar Series Co-Chairs\, Nardia Brooks and Jacqueline Ambrosini.
URL:https://egps.org/event/seminar-series-november-2025/
LOCATION:Member’s Home\, 535 Dean St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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