Dreaming the Future – Plenary Speakers – Nov 2025 (AAPCSW/NIPER)


November 6-9, 2025
Austin, TX
 Omni Austin Hotel Downtown
700 San Jacinto Street, Austin, TX 78701

As we move through unprecedented individual and collective pressures, our human capacity also allows us to experience joy amidst the turmoil.  We can dream the future and feel, think, imagine, and even behave in different ways. Join us at this conference to examine how to go forward, applying multiple psychodynamic perspectives to what we are facing in the consulting room, in the broader world, and in ourselves – in the darkness and in the light.Dear Colleague,

We are delighted to announce the 3 plenary speakers and their presentations at the AAPCSW (NIPER) 2025 conference.Performing Empathy: How AI May Be Transforming Us and What It Means for Therapeutic Practice
Ricardo Ainslie, PhD

Never Look Away: Uvalde, American Patriarchy, and the Slaughter of Innocents
Carolyn M. Bates, PhD

Systemic Re-Transmission of Trauma: Defending Against the Lost and Found
Felecia Powell-Williams, EdD, LPC-S, RPT-S, FABP Here is the link detailing their presentations:
https://www.aapcsw.org/pdf/events/2025/Plenary-Program-AAPCSW-NIPER_Conference2025.pdf  The link for reservations at the Omni Austin Hotel downtown is:
https://bookings.omnihotels.com/event/austin-downtown/niper-aapcsw-2025-meeting

We are pleased to inform you that the 2025 Conference REGISTRATION FORMS (both online and mail-in) and conference information are posted on our website:

Conference 2015 – registration link
https://www.aapcsw.org/events/conference/online_registration.html

Link to Conference 2025:
https://www.aapcsw.org/events/conference/

There are also links to the Program, Biographies, Hotel Reservations, Restaurants, and Music Venues. Please note on the program schedule the social events, including the Austin Walking Tour and Meet Up on Thursday, November 6, the Reception at the hotel on Friday evening, November 7, and the Luncheon at the hotel on Saturday, November 8.

We look forward to your participation and welcoming you to an exciting and rich conference program.

Sincerely,
The AAPCSW/NIPER conference committee

Registration Contact information:
Larry Schwartz at: aapcsw@gmail.com

* Sponsored by the National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education & Research in Clinical Social Work, Inc. (NIPER), 501c3 educational arm of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW).
 
Note: Houston Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Houston Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago is approved to offer continuing education for this program. Cosponsored by the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC).

Contact Info:
The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)
P.O. Box 67, Boonsboro, MD 21713
(301) 799-5120
barbara.matos@aapcsw.org

* Conference sponsored by National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education & Research in Clinical Social Work, Inc. (NIPER)
Contact Info:The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)P.O. Box 67, Boonsboro, MD 21713(301) 799-5120barbara.matos@aapcsw.org

It Takes Two to Tango: A Relational Approach to Psychodynamic Supervision 

It Takes Two to Tango: A Relational Approach to Psychodynamic Supervision 
Location: The Institute for Clinical Social Work – ZOOM, 1345 W. Argyle Street, Chicago IL 60640
PRESENTED BY ICSW CONTINUING EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Description:

This presentation will cover basic tenants of a relational approach to supervision, including: mutuality, goodness of fit, parallel, process revisited, navigating the teach or treat dilemma, self disclosure through a relational lens, a new perspective on dealing with supervisor–supervisee differences, and how to introduce the relational approach to your supervisee.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn the key concepts underpinning a relational approach to the supervisory relationship.

• Participants will creatively and critically explore the possibility of applying these concepts to their own supervisory relationships.

Saturday, February 22, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. CT, VIA Zoom, Cost: $75 – General Public – $50 ICSW – Community, (contact Elree C. Smith for the ICSW Community link at esmith@icsw.edu) , 2 CEUs: LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

This presentation will be recorded

Click Here to Register: 

Jews in the Civil Rights Movement

Click Here to Read: Jews in the Civil Rights Movement: Nowhere did Jews identify themselves more forth­rightly with the liberal avant-garde than in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.By Howard Sachar on the My Jewish Learning website. 

 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joachim Prinz pictured, 1963 Image: Unknown.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Driving through Altadena, I found a community gutted but determined to rebuild

Click Here to Read: Driving through Altadena, I found a community gutted but determined to rebuild By Francine Kiefer on the Christian Science Monito website on January 17th, 2025.

2025 Eaton Fire map Image: Penitentes.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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