New Directions: The Persephone Project

We are accepting referrals In New York City.

The Persephone Project offers an innovative, gender-sensitive, therapeutic approach to girls and young women and their families. We specialize in working with the most severe crises, including serious depression, psychosis, and eating problems.

Introductory Intensive in Dialogic Practice — Fall 2018 Training

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5 — SUNDAY, SEPT. 9, 2018

NEW YORK CITY

A five-day introduction taught by Mary Olson, PhD and Nazlim Hagmann. MD.

“This was the best training I have ever attended!”– Participant, April 2018

2017-20 International Certification Training in Dialogic Practice

LEVEL 2
June 20 – 24, 2018
September 19 – 23, 2018
December 12 – 16, 2018
March 6 – 10, 2019

Applications accepted by those who have completed Level 1.

Russell Razzaque, MD joins the Institute for Dialogic Practice

Dr. Russell’s particular field of clinical and research interest is mindfulness – which he has been a trainer in for over ten years – and Open Dialogue. He is currently leading a national initiative to bring Open Dialogue to the NHS, coordinating an NIHR funded multi-centre randomised controlled trial.

McLean adopts Dialogic Practice

See the new Harvard/McLean research study that reports positive results.

Jorma Ahonen, MSc joins the faculty of the Institute for Dialogic Practice

“I’m keen to work with an attitude of ‘dialogizing’ professional ideas. In training contexts I’m very interested in the therapeutic use of self. How as a therapist should I (and could) be, act and relate with my clients in such way they would find our co-work useful? …. How could I talk in a way that increases others’ desire to listen and how could I listen in a way that increases others’ desire to talk?”

Keynote
Speaker

Successful outcomes reported by Advocates team trained by the Institute for Dialogic Practice

Christopher Gordon, M.D., Vasudha Gidugu, M.A., E. Sally Rogers, Sc.D., John DeRonck, L.I.C.S.W.,Douglas Ziedonis, M.D., M.P.H.

What is Dialogic Practice?

Dialogic Practice is an innovative approach to psychotherapy that emphasizes listening carefully to what people say so that they feel heard, respected, and validated. This conversation, or dialogue, is not “about” the person, but is instead a way of “being with” the person and living through the situation together.

Open Dialogue is the Radically Altered Version of the Treatment Meeting

As soon as possible in a given situation, the team gathers everyone connected to the crisis. There are no separate staff meetings to talk about the “case.” Rather, all discussion and any decisions about medication and hospitalization take place with everyone present.