Conference Programme 2024 Summary
WEDNESDAY
5:00pm: OPENING CEREMONY
6:00pm: DINNER
7:00 – 7:30pm: Session Selection
7:30 – 9:30pm: Evening Sessions
| It’s all in the warm-up | Simon Gurnsey |
| What’s in a name? A brief introduction to family therapy | Liz Marks |
| Feel the pulse | Neil Simmons & Brisbane Playback |
| Getting out of ourselves | Peter Howie |
| We are the Drama | Cissy Rock |
THURSDAY
9:00 – 9:30am: Session Selection
9:30am – 5:30pm: Full day Workshops
| The category of the moment | Richard Hall and Yvonne Shaw |
| Am I different in my sexuality? A diversity in the sexuality garden | Stylianos Lagarakis |
| Let’s focus on the drama in psychodrama | Annette Fisher |
9:30am – 12:30pm: Morning workshops
| Start with a scene – from Tar the movie | Don Reekie |
| What do we miss? | Phillipa van Kuilenburg |
| Rekindling hope: a sociodramatic exploration | Jenny Hutt and Bev Hosking |
| Couples Therapy – Supervision and Practice | Hamish Brown |
12:30 – 1:45pm: Lunch
2:00 – 2:30pm: Session Selection
2:30 – 5:30pm: Afternoon Workshops
| Beauty and the COVID Beast | Jane Maher |
| Sociodrama preparation | Elizabeth Synnot |
| Intervening in our own warm up | Dimitrios Papalexis |
| The Relational Self: Revisiting the Social Atom and Tele | Rollo Browne and Bona Anna |
| Evoking the group in individual therapy | Charmaine McVea |
6:00 – 7:00pm: DINNER
7:30 – 9:30pm: Evening Session
| Embodying AANZPA’s Vision: Life in the Regions | Cissy Rock |
FRIDAY
9:00 – 9:30am: Session Selection
9:30am – 12:30pm: Morning workshops
| Doing it from the inside out: the five instruments | Don Reekie |
| Deconstructing stereotypes and clinical application in working with Transgender and Non-Binary People | Kate Cooke |
| Reflecting on organisational life | Jean Mehrtens |
| Love unfolding – a story in action | Simon McLellan |
| The deep well of choice criteria in a social change environment | Helen Phelan |
| Mai te ao Tūroa ki te ao Mārama … an encounter in te ao Māori | Megan Ellis, Reitu Cassidy & Cinnamon Boreham |
12:30 – 1:45pm: Lunch
2:00pm – 2:30pm: Session Selection
2:30 – 5:30pm: Afternoon Workshops
| A universal and transformative god-concept | Kevin Franklin |
| The companion double | Diana Jones & Carol Mattison |
| Spaces of difference | Yvonne Shaw & Sue Christie |
| Sex chronicles: Learning to take sex seriously with us and our clients | Peter Howie |
| Exploring our connections within our community – Cosmically and galactically | Noa Gross |
| What’s going on in your team? | Bernadette Rutyna |
6:00 – 7:30pm: Dinner
7:30 – 9:30pm: Evening Session
| Chalkboard Concert | Neil Simmons MC |
SATURDAY
All day session
9:00 am – 4:00pm: AANZPA AGM 20th January 2024
12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch
Evening
6:30 – 11:30pm: Dinner Dance, Women’s College
SUNDAY
9:00 – 9:30am: Session Selection
9:30am – 12:30pm: Morning Workshops
| Tasting life twice – a workshop for writers | Diana Jones |
| Endings and what we take forward in our lives | Richard Hall |
| Everyone has a backstory | Sara Crane |
| Staying Vital | Christo Patty |
12:30 – 1:45pm: Lunch
3:00pm: Closing Ceremony, hand over to Dunedin conference committee.
Contact Information
- General Inquiries: Bernadette Rutyna conference@aanzpa.org
- Registration Information: Diz Synnot confregistrar@aanzpa.org
- Conference Treasurer: Christo Patty conftreasurer@aanzpa.org
- Programme Committee: Charmaine McVea confprogramme@aanzpa.org