Through interviews with practitioners and researchers from a range of fields, we explore mentoring, teaching, and work relationships -- how do we build, strengthen, repair, maintain, and transition these important connections? What are the deeper elements of relational practice? Together, we will consider topics including trust, boundaries, growth-in-relation, energy-in-relation, encouragement, and balancing challenge and support. Further, we explore the emotional and spiritual aspects of relational practice. - Excerpt from www.relationalpractice.org
Judy Jordan was honored to join His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a panel discussion focusing on the relationship between meditation and psychotherapy at the Harvard Medical School.
"In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates."
Don't miss the first webinar of 2011 on Friday, January 21st. "The Smart Vagus": The Social Wisdom of Our Tenth Cranial Nerve" webinar will be an interactive discussion with Dr. Amy Banks introducing participants to the third branch of the autonomic nervous system, the smart vagus nerve. Dr. Banks will explore in depth the role this neural pathway plays in taming the stress response system so that we can find and maintain healthy human connections, and the ways that society can shape this neural pathway and how this neural pathway then helps shapes society.
We are updating our Community page on the JBMTI webiste! So please send us information about any courses, special projects, trainings, academic programs, therapy, social activism, organizational development, or other applications in which you are involved. Also feel free to forward this listing to any organizations or people you think would like to be included so they can send their information as well. Our goal is to include at least one listing per U.S. state and as many countries as possible. [Please note: This listing will not be used a referral directory, and we will updating our Research listings later in 2011.]
Listings can be sent to kprice@wellesley.edu. Thank you for your input!
Following is an excerpt from the article, "...these findings suggest that the CDS [Connection-Disconnection Scale] is a psychometrically strong measure to use with women to assess PM [Perceived Mutuality] in their relationships with parents, friends, and romantic partners. It is unique in its ability to examine PM in multiple relationships that are important in a woman's life. It may be useful for health and mental health professionals, as we as researchers, seeking to understand the relational needs of women. Because women are socialized to understand the psychologically grow in and through connection, an experience of decreased PM and disconnections in relationships may thwart a woman's ability to meet these relational needs and contribute to her experience of physical and emotional difficulties. Measures suchs as the CDS allow clinicians and researchers to evaluate the quality of relationships and the relationship between PM and various female health and mental health conditions and disorders."
This model is certainly an important development in measuring and promoting the efficacy of Relational-Cultural Therapy and growth-fostering relationships. Thank you and congratulations, Jennifer and Mary!
Relational practice is a core concept threaded through multiple years of study in Antioch University's PhD in Leadership and Change program, an interdisciplinary learning outcomes-based program for scholar-practioners leading change in their fields of practice.
The faculty introduce essential work of the relational practice field, including Fletcher's Disappearing Acts (1999) early in the students' second year, focusing on the core components of the concept and its applicability to their own experience as leaders in workplaces and organizations. The burgeoning field of relational leadership is explored with a focus on the ways in which scholars inquire and conduct research to understand its existence and character. Many of the program's doctoral students become so energized by this conceptual work and the possibilities that they have engaged in their own research and a number of advanced papers and dissertations have emerged. Look for a post in the new year highlighting this student work.
For more information on Antioch's PhD in Leadership and Change, visit www.phd.antioch.edu or call 877-800-9466.
Note: As an alum I can tell you that there is tremendous faculty support for doing RCT-related research. If you'd like an alum's perspective, email me at harrietschwartz14@gmail.com.
JBMTI will be closing down our constituent survey at the end of this week. We thank everyone who has participated thus far, as we are gathering so much wonderful information about the resources and connections you need from JBMTI. We are also learning what we can do better, as already reflected in some structural changes and additions the JBMTI website(such as this blog)! We will be including an comprehensive survey report in the first eConnections newsletter of 2011. Don't miss this opportunity for your voice to be heard! Take the JBMTI survey today!
RCT practitioner Harriet Schwartz, Ph.D. has launched a wonderful new podcast series on her website, 
Don't miss the first webinar of 2011 on Friday, January 21st. "The Smart Vagus": The Social Wisdom of Our Tenth Cranial Nerve" webinar will be an interactive discussion with Dr. Amy Banks introducing participants to the third branch of the autonomic nervous system, the smart vagus nerve. Dr. Banks will explore in depth the role this neural pathway plays in taming the stress response system so that we can find and maintain healthy human connections, and the ways that society can shape this neural pathway and how this neural pathway then helps shapes society. 
We are updating our Community page on the JBMTI webiste! So please send us information about any courses, special projects, trainings, academic programs, therapy, social activism, organizational development, or other applications in which you are involved. Also feel free to forward this listing to any organizations or people you think would like to be included so they can send their information as well. Our goal is to include at least one listing per U.S. state and as many countries as possible. [Please note: This listing will not be used a referral directory, and we will updating our Research listings later in 2011.] 
by Harriet Schwartz, PhD 
JBMTI will be closing down our constituent survey at the end of this week. We thank everyone who has participated thus far, as we are gathering so much wonderful information about the resources and connections you need from JBMTI. We are also learning what we can do better, as already reflected in some structural changes and additions the JBMTI website(such as this blog)! We will be including an comprehensive survey report in the first eConnections newsletter of 2011. Don't miss this opportunity for your voice to be heard! 