THE CHALLENGE OF ESTABLISHING A RESEARCH T RADITION FOR GESTALT THERAPY International Conference Co-hosted by The Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy and The Gestalt International Study Center April 17-20, 2013 Cape Cod, MA, USA Co-Conveners: Joseph Melnick, Ph.D. and Philip Brownell, M.Div., Psy.D. Registration through GISC (http://www.gisc.org/practitioners/programs/ResearchConference.php) This conference is designed to nurture the establishment of a research tradition for gestalt therapy. It will address issues related to research design and philosophy of science, exhibit current research by gestalt practitioners, ex- plore research relevant to the gestalt approach, and contribute to the momentum for research in gestalt thearpy. Keynote Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., “Noticing the Obvious” First Plenary Session: Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. Second Plenary Session: Linda Finlay, Ph.D. Third Plenary Session: Ansel Woldt, Ed.D. “Engaging in a research programme: An example of using measurement, hy- pothesis testing, and relating process to outcome” “The relational approach in phenomenological research” “Mining for crystals – from Gestalt Q-Sort to the GIRL: Creating valid and reliable measures of gestalt contacting processes” Marlene Moss Blementhal, Ph.D. USA “Mother-adolescent daughter conflict: finding common ground through dialogic process. The relationship between ge- stalt resistance, conflict handling modes and mutuality” Julius Burkauskas, MSc. & Laima Sapežinskienė, PhD Lithuania “Measurement of interpersonal power relations between the client/patient and the therapist in gestalt therapy session using metaphors” WenChun Cho, Ph. D Taiwan “An echo to promote gestalt therapy as an evidenced-based approach: Twenty years of empirical research on gestalt therapy pub- lished in Taiwan, including the evaluation of gestalt therapy for divorce using single-subject time-series design” Robert Farrands, Ph.D England “In search of organization” Duey Freeman MA, LPC & Joan Rieger MA, LPC USA “Humans, Horses, and Attachment” Jon Frew, Ph.D., ABPP, Meghann Case, Psy.D., Mark Reck, Psy.D., & Allison Chambers, MS., CACD-I. USA “Gestalt therapy research, theory, and practice: Fitting the pieces together with the next generation of gestalt practitioners” Logan Lamprecht, Ph.D., USA “Therapeutic letter writing as relation- ally responsive practice: Experiences of clients receiving letters during therapy” Angela Di Martino, Ph.D. & Marco Lobb, Ph.D. (in Collaboration with Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Ph.D) Italy “Psychotherapy in the global village: Gestalt therapy for organizational well being” Alan Meara MGT, FM GANZ New Zealand “Ontology in gestalt research” Sixteen presentations. Twenty-two presenters. Eleven Different Countries. Continued on Next Page THE CHALLENGE OF ESTABLISHING A RESEARCH T RADITION FOR GESTALT THERAPY