A Tribute to Clair

A dear friend and colleague, Clair Hawes, died on January 30th of Alzheimer’s Disease. Clair was a bright light and shining example of Adlerian Psychology at its best.  She cared deeply for family, friends, colleagues, clients and students.  She was my role model, special friend and wise counsel.

Clair joined ICASSI in the 1980s and served on the Faculty for over 25 years. She also contributed to the ICASSI community as a Board member for several years.  She travelled throughout the world demonstrating her creative approaches to Adlerian Principles and living them fully.  Her commitment to social interest and encouragement will remain an example for all of us who were fortunate to be in her presence and share her life journey.

Thank you, Clair, for making the world a better place and leaving a legacy of meaning and high ideals.

With gratitude and love,
Marion Balla
ICASSI Faculty

* Donations can be made to the Oscar Christensen Family Education Fund c/o NASAP, 429 E. Dupont Road, #276, Fort Wayne, IN  46825. http://www.alfredadler.org

New Web-based Resource – Adlerpedia.org

Jay Colker and Jon Carlson and students from Adler University developed this resource page for All Things Adlerian. Click on the Adlerpedia flyer link for the information flyer and the URL link is on the Links page Adlerpedia flyer

ICASSI presents at the Learning Teacher Network (LTN)

The International Conference of LTN was held in Zagreb ( 16-18 April, 2015). The topic was: sustainable contributions to education. Willy Hoekstra and Theo Joosten presented a workshop about encouragement as a sustainable value in raising children. About 100 teachers from about 20 countries attended the conference. See the link for the content and the promotion of ICASSI: www.learningteacher.eu/zagreb-conference-documentation Click on A2.

Honoring Helmut Heuschen

On behalf of the German federal president Joachim Gauck, Helmut Heuschen was honored with the federal cross of merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The ceremony was held in Aachen on 23 February 2015. Please review this article for information about this prestigious honor. Below is a picture from that ceremony. From Left to Right: Dr. Willi Linkens (Mayor of Baesweiler), Renate Heuschen (Helmut Heuschen´s wife); the honoured ICASSI member Helmut Heuschen; Region Council Representative Helmut Etschenberg. (The picture was taken by Andreas Herrmann, Friedensstr. 48, D-52080 Aachen).

Mini-ICASSI In Bulgaria

From 6- 8 November 2015 Trakia University in Bulgaria will organize – in cooperation with ICASSI – the first mini-ICASSI in that country. The lecturers from the ICASSI faculty will be: Zivit Abramson (Israel), Anthea Millar (UK), and Theo Joosten (Netherlands). Topics of the courses have a focus on: Adlerian Psychotherapy in a nutshell, Children with special needs, and Individual Psychology and education. Please review this flyer for information about this exciting program.

Theo Joosten Teaches in Bulgaria in November

Theo Joosten lectured at Trakia University in Stara Zagora (Bulgaria) in the middle of November. This visit was part of the agreement between Trakia University and ICASSI. The topic was: “Understanding (mis)behaviour from an Adlerian Perspective.” The first two days were attended by bachelor students (75) of the Faculty of Education. MAster students (35) were present the next two days. Besides offering lectures, there were three interviews on TV and radio. Below is a picture taken during this event.

Eva Dreikurs Ferguson Gave Keynote in SC

Eva Dreikurs Ferguson gave the Keynote Presentation at the South Carolina Adlerian Society’s 32nd Annual Conference in Myrtle Beach this past September. You can see a portion of this presentation on their website at this address: http://adleriansc.org/. Along with Eva, we also had other ICASSI faculty presenting there including Frank Walton, John Newbauer, Bill Linden, Paul Rasmussen, and Jim Holder.

ICASSI Romanians

ICASSI Participants from Romania (Ramona Andrei, George-Andrei Beldianu and Adina Voinea) launched a new venture: Check it out at this link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Centrul-International-pentru-Resurse-si-Formare-Alfred-Adler/338545479599744?ref=stream They said:

“One of our Center’s purposes is to build a strong healthy community based on cooperation, sharing, trust and good intention. So…please start sharing your ideas, projects (those that are already on…or those that are still “work in progress”) so that others should feel encouraged to start their owns. You can start by sharing an idea and to use this community to make it more stable and real. Remember that only as a whole we can develop!”

Samples from ICASSI Bloc I Plenary Presentations

Each day at ICASSI we start the morning off with a plenary presentation which we call Bloc I. We asked a couple of the presenters from Bloc I to provide an outline of their presentation to give interested persons an insight into what these presentations are about. Theo Joosten and Eva Dreikurs Ferguson have both agreed to present a short summary of their presentations which you can download below:

Theo Joosten’s Presentation Theo Bloc I 2013

Eva Dreikurs Ferguson’s Presentation Eva Bloc I 2013

Participants can also find Karen John’s Powerpoint from her Bloc I presentation under the Participant Resources page (see User Navigation Panel).