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: 5 Days

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20 — SUNDAY, FEB 24, 2019

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

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

2019-2022 International Certification Training in Dialogic Practice: Levels I-3

September 9 – 13, 2019

November 20 – 24, 2019

March 11 – 15, 2020

June 3 – 7, 2020

Dates for Years-2 & -3 TBA

New York City Training Programs

All training programs are held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in their beautiful, historic building on the Upper West Side at the corner of 64th and Central Park West across from Central Park.

Russell Razzaque, MD joins the Institute for Dialogic Practice

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, entitled “Peer-supported Open Dialogue,” coordinating an NIHR funded multi-centre randomised controlled trial.

We are a sister training facility to Dr. Razzaque’s Academy of Peer-supported Open Dialogue in the U.K.

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?”

McLean adopts Dialogic Practice

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

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.