Tentative Program At A Glance
Wednesday, March 3009:00 –16:00 Pre-Congress Workshop - Judith Landau
Wednesday, March 30 Download the brochure about the plenary speakers (PDF).
1:00 -19:30 Registration Hours
17:00 –18:45 Opening Ceremony and General Session
Welcome Address
William Nichols
IFTA President and Congress Chair
LISA JORDAN,
Executive Director,
Bernard van Leer Foundation
World Family Therapy Congress Achievement Award Representative [Recipient to be announced. From the Netherlands]
19:00-19:30 Welcome Reception
Thursday, March 31
08:00-18:30 Registration Hours
09:00-10:30 [10 Brief Sessions – [Brief Sessions consist of three brief presentations of 25 minutes each—with 15 minutes for introductions and housekeeping]
10:30-10:45 Recess/Break
10:45-12:00 PLENARY SESSION I
The Genogram Connection: Context and Transforming Life
Narratives
Monica McGoldrick
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break/Poster Sessions // Training Division Meeting
13:30-15:00 Sub-plenary Sessions and other 90 minute sessions, Total 10]
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 [10 presentations]
16:30-17:30 [10 presentations]
Friday, April 1
08:00-18:30 Registration Hour
09:00-10:30 [Brief Sessions – Brief Sessions consist of three brief presentations of 25 minutes each—with 15 minutes for introductions and housekeeping]
10:30-10:45 Recess/Break
10:45-12:00 Honoring the Best Abstract Award Winner
PLENARY SESSION II
Therapeutic Realities and the Ontological Body: Feeling, Language, and World - John Shotter
Introduction to IFTA
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break/Poster Sessions //Network of Associations Meeting (By Invitation Only)
13:30-15:00 [Sub-plenary Sessions and other 90 minute sessions, Total 10]
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 [2 hour sessions, including Interest, Conversation Groups]
19:30 Congress Banquet
Saturday, April 2
08:30-16:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 [1 hour sessions]
10:00-12:00 [2 hour sessions]
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 [90 minute sessions]
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 PLENARY III
Functional Family Therapy: Healing Families and Promoting Social
Justice
Thomas Sexton
17:00-17:20 Closing Ceremony