(Advance Registration Required)
Please Note: In-person attendance is encouraged, as it offers the most engaging and collaborative experience.
Online participation will be limited as observers through Zoom with some opportunities for responses and input.
Program Description
Psychoanalytic training institutes are facing challenges to the delivery environments for mental health services, and education traditions for psychoanalytic training. This retreat brings institute leadership together to explore and grapple with healthcare delivery models in competition with other treatment modalities (e.g. medication, manualized treatments), the lack of public awareness about mental health treatment, and increasing corporate interest for offering our professional services.
These challenges also bring structural changes to our institutes that impact leadership succession (need for volunteers), financial stability, technology demands, candidate recruitment and retention, engaging our stakeholders, and best stewardship of institutional resources. How do we begin to think about our future, forward?
The retreat offers an important opportunity for institute leaders to define and begin to strategize responses to these large challenges that we face, together.
The day will be organized around a keynote address with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA, co-founder of PsiAN, followed by group sessions on related topics, and a final wrap up discussion of ideas that are generated throughout the day.
10:00 am – Registration
10:00 – 10:30 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:30 – 11:15 am – Defining the Challenges
Activity where Institutes identify their top challenges and priorities: and further define them through discussion.
11:15 – 12:15 pm – The Changing Landscape: Discussion and Q & A with Linda Michaels
12:15 – 12:30 pm – Abbreviated API Meeting
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm – Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 pm – Panel Discussion
2:15 – 3:15 pm – Group Discussion: The Future of Psychoanalytic Training
3:15 – 3:30 pm – Closing Discussion
PROGRAM GOALS:
- Identify challenges facing Psychoanalytic Institutes
- Explore threats to sustainability including corporate interests
- Cultivate strategies to sustain and grow Institute resources