CALENDAR
Updated July, 2010

Ongoing –  Psychotherapy Groups for Gay Men (San Francisco) and Gay & Bisexual Men (Menlo Park).  A new Menlo Park group is being planned for Fall, 2010. 

July 16, 2010, 7:00 pm  -  Working more Effectively with your External Process.  Positive connections come about, in part, by putting oneself in social situations.  This workshop will help promote and evaluate “skilled socializing”, an experience maximizing your effectiveness in meeting others under circumstances that work for you.  Discussion will include brainstorming environments conducive for your personal type, how to keep conversations going, risk taking in ending a talk with giving your phone number, and other techniques.        

July 24, 2010, 10:00 am to 1:15 pm  - The Essentials of Starting and Leading a Successful Psychotherapy Group.  Sponsored by the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society (NCGPS); co-led with Nancy Wesson, PhD.  This workshop will provide an overview of practical material and clinical factors in forming and implementing groups.  Mountain View, California.

August 20, 2010, 7:00 pm  -  Making Connections: Integrating Skills and Achieving Goals.  Building and borrowing from the two previous workshops, we will combine insights, knowledge and practice to formulate how participants will maintain a focused work on making connections.  We will evaluate both what has been working and not; common obstacles that have surfaced and how to effectively maintain the practices that are creating more connections.   

September 17, 2010, 7:00 pm  -  Open Forum.  This workshop will provide an open forum for any and all kinds of offshoots of Making Connections: questions, dilemmas, progress, successes, ideas, experiments, and the like.   

September 25, 2010, 10:00 am to 1:15 pm  -  The Essentials of Starting and Leading a Successful Psychotherapy Group.  See July 24th entry