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Location: Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Toronto, Canada.
The main conference theme is:
Living well and dying well: New frontiers in
positive psychology, therapy and spiritual care.
The conference brings together leading
authorities to provide the latest developments in research, intervention and spiritual insight on how to live fully and vitally with the awareness of suffering and death. Professional workshops include logotherapy, humanistic-existential therapy, meaning-centered counseling and narrative therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, and expressive therapy. It integrates existential psychology with positive psychology.
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Thomas Attig, Author of Applied Philosopher, Past President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, currently an adjunct faculty of thanology, King’s College
Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology, South Florida University, author of numerous books, such as Meanings in life, Evil, and The Cultural Animal
Robert A. Neimeyer, Dunavant University Professorship in the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Past President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and Editor of Death Studies.
Salvatore Maddi, Professor of Psychology and Social Behavaior, University of California at Irvine, and Founder of the Hardiness Institute
Kirk Schneider, a licensed psychologist, an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook Graduate School and the California Institute of Integral Studies, current president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute and editor of Journal of Humanistic Psychology
Paul T. P. Wong, a licensed psychologist, Professor and Chair of Psychology at Tyndale University College, Founder of the International Network on Personal Meaning and the International Society of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, architect of the International Conferences on Personal Meaning
Jeffrey Zeig, a licensed psychologist and marriage & family therapist, Founder and Director of Milton H. Erickson Foundation, architect of The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conferences, President of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen behavioral sciences publishers, an invited speaker at major universities and teaching hospitals.
Pamela Wallin, Journalist, television personality, diplomat, and writer. Author of three books and recipient of many honourary doctorates, arguably one of the most recognized faces in Canadian television.
Ernesto Spinelli, a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, professor at Regent's College London, author of various books and texts, journal editor, researcher, and founding member of the International Society for Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy.
William Evans, President, INPM, Associate Professor of Psychology at James Madison University, and a Colonel in the United States Air Force (Air National Guard), serving as a military chaplain
Confirmed invited speakers include:
Grace Akallo, Adam Blatner, Victor Cicirelli, Chris Davis, Grafton Eliason, Kenneth Hart, Marnin Heisel, Mark Landau, Dmitri Leontiev, Israel Orbach, Michael F. Pare, Jordan Peterson, Nancy Reeves, Gary T. Reker, Adrian Tomer, Ryan Niemiec, and H. T. Tseng
Inquiry: pwong@tyndale.ca or 414-226-6620 Ex
6734.
Web address: http://www.meaning.ca
It is hosted by the Psychology Department of Tyndale University College, Toronto www.tyndale.ca
Sponsored by: International Network on Personal
Meaning and the International Society for
Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy.
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