Tentative Program At A Glance

Wednesday, March 30

09:00 –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