This course will define and demonstrate a simple, lifestyle-based model for Adlerian Couples Counseling. Adlerian principles will be integrated with the “infinity loop” model from emotionally-focused couples therapy, allowing helping professionals to bridge the gap between individual lifestyle work and the dynamics of coupleship. Interventions in couples counseling will also be discussed and demonstrated.
Open to youth.

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will describe the importance of lifestyle investigation in couples therapy.
2. Participants will identify how individual lifestyles interact to create strengths and liabilities in couples relationships.
3. Participants will recognize patterns of interaction in relationships using the infinity loop model.
4. Participants will identify lifestyle-specific interventions and encouragements in couples therapy.

The course is sponsored by Adler University for 10 continuing education hours for psychologists. The course is open to psychologists and non-psychologists.

There are many misunderstandings about mindfulness and its application in life and work. This workshop will correct these misunderstandings and teach the participants the depth and simplicity of mindfulness and how well it complements Adlerian psychology.

Learning Objectives:
1. Receive a grounding in mindfulness and an introduction to practical applications
2. Learn how to utilise mindfulness through experiential practice
3. Understand how mindfulness complements and integrates with Adlerian Psychology
4. Explore the practical applications of mindfulness for your own and you clients wellbeing

This workshop will combine family group therapy as designed by Dr. Mandred Sonstegard and Dr. Michael Yura at West Virginia University in the Family Counseling and Guidance Center and as designed by other multi family group therapists. We will explore a brief history of multi family group therapy starting with Adler and Dreikurs and the obstacles they faced. We will learn through lecture, role-play and group sharing.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to set up the physical structure for optimal participation such as “fish bowling”
2. Discuss how to combine the power of the group process with the therapeutic power of family therapy
3. Recognize and discuss the four goals of misbehavior and suggest how each parent can effectively interact with each
4. Discuss and learn how much of the therapeutic work in group is done by the participants

The course is sponsored by Adler University for 10 continuing education hours for psychologists. The course is open to psychologists and non-psychologists.

Promoting social interest and equality/equity within therapeutic and work groups is essential and requires understanding and attending to group needs, individual needs, and life style issues. In this interactive, experiential, and experimental course, participants are invited to analyze, share, and enact group experiences and scenarios to deepen understanding and increase their effectiveness as group leaders and facilitators.

For therapists, counsellors, trainers, team leaders, teachers, & others who participate in, lead or plan to lead or facilitate therapeutic, self-help, supervision, learning, work groups, or teams
Learning Objectives:
1. Explain own and others’ democratic needs, rights, and responsibilities in terms of fundamental psychological needs, and self-determination theory and research.
2. Analyze individual responses and group dynamics in relation to well-studied leadership approaches and behaviors.
3. Identify and analyze group dynamics in practice, specifying the behaviors and the unmet needs with which they are likely to be associated.
4. Identify and analyze group dynamics in practice, specifying the behaviors and the unmet needs with which they are likely to be associated.

We can all make a difference in the lives of others and our community. Creating a value-based vision and defining a plan for action enhances our courage and passion to contribute. In this interactive workshop all participants will access their courage, passion and creativity to create a personal vision and plan for contribution. Through encouragement we will discover how transforming a vision to reality, focusing on contribution, empowers and encourages ourselves! Open to Youth.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learning to create vision
2. Defining goals from vision
3. Powerful questions as a tool for awareness
4. The power of encouragement in realizing potential and goals

 Alfred adler broght a humanistic and fluid understanding of mental health psychopathology from a developed community feeling to a continuing search of superiority. Kurt Adler, Rudolf Dreikurs, Harold Mosak, Bernard Schulman contribute to a comprehensive understanding of neurosis, psychosis and psychopathology. We will review the basis and we will see how IP principles are applied today in working with patients. Designed for students and professional psychologists
Learning Objectives:
1. Understanding Adlerian approach in working with patient
2. Adlerian way of formulating a diagnostic comparing with classic DSM system
3. Understanding new reactions to stress, new disorders by going back to the basis
4. Understanding the creative way of expressing sufference and how to use adelerian techniques to help

This program has been planned especially for ICASSI and is designed to teach coping strategies in daily stressful situations. Using Adlerian encouragement principles in various creative ways, enables us in dealing with daily life pressures. Open to youth.

Learning objectives: 

Adlerian Psychodrama: Family Constellation is an experiential course that combines Adlerian principles with psychodrama and family constellation techniques to explore individual behavior within the context of family dynamics. Participants will engage in role-playing and group exercises to uncover hidden patterns, address generational influences, and gain insights into their relationships. This course emphasizes personal empowerment, social interest, and the holistic understanding of family systems, providing practical tools for therapeutic and educational. Not open to youth.

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will identify key Adlerian principles, such as social interest, family constellation, and birth order, and explain their influence on individual behavior within family systems.
2. Participants will be able to demonstrate proficiency in conducting psychodrama techniques, including role-playing and dramatization, to explore family dynamics and generational patterns.
3. Participants will be able to analyze family constellations using experiential exercises to identify relational patterns and their impact on individual psychological development.
4. Participants will be able to gain insight into their current behavior by analyzing the influence of family constellation dynamics. 

This class will address the foundational tenets of Community Psychology: social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, and international, and explore how it integrates with Adlerian Psychology to influence and promote positive change, health, and empowerment at individual and systemic levels. Open to youth.

Learning Objectives:
Evaluate multiple ecological perspectives to measure social embeddedness well enough to debate the development of social feeling.
2. Analyze marginalized communities well enough to create a collective empowerment perspective based on Individual Psychology’s postulations.
Critique the tasks of life well enough to develop a plan that will facilitate the capacity of community groups to work together.
Analyze the teleological leaning of a community well enough to provide functional direction for the perceived best outcome