WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR PERSON-CENTERED AND EXPERIENTIAL
PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING
Second Announcement and Call for Papers
8th World Conference for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling
Present Strengths and Future Challenges
Sunday 6th July - Thursday 10th July 2008
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Conference Venue
PCE 2008 will be held on the campus of the University of East Anglia, which is situated three miles outside the historic city of Norwich in the east of England.
Invitation
On behalf of the World Association and the International and Local Organising Committees we invite colleagues from around the world to join us in exploration of the conference theme of
‘Present Strengths and Future Challenges’ in Norwich in 2008. This particular theme arose from our perception that for the person-centred approach worldwide we appear to be living in critical times. Whereas in some countries the approach is healthy and practitioners are numerous and influential, in others, the approach is marginalised and is little respected. The conference aims to explore what are the genuine strengths of the approach at this point in the evolution of psychotherapy and counselling and to consider where the major challenges will lie during the coming decade.Conference
Keynote addresses relating to the conference theme will be given by Michael Behr, Mia Leijssen, Claudio Rud and Pete Sanders.
The academic programme will include papers, workshops, poster displays and a concluding plenary discussion. The majority of time slots will be for one hour and participants who plan to deliver papers should bear this in mind. A limited number of places are also available for workshop presentations of one and a half hours.
Space will be given for reflection groups throughout the conference and the social programme will include visits to the city of Norwich and places of interest in the surrounding countryside, including the beautiful waterlands of the Norfolk Broads.
There will be a pre-conference group but registration for the final programme will begin at 1400 hours on Sunday 6th July. The Conference will finish after lunch on Thursday 10th July.
Registration
A reduction of £33 (50 Euros) in the overall conference fee will be available to WAPCEPC members.
Further information, registration and standardised abstract forms will be sent out and available on the conference website from July 2007. The deadline for submission of conference papers is 31st January 2008.
Website Address : www.uea.ac.uk/edu/wapcepc