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Programme
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Keynote addresses
Gabriele Chiari, Jonathan Raskin, Chris Stevens
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 Gabriele Chiari
To live is to know, to know is to
change: A constructivist view of personal change
Prof.
Gabriele Chiari, MD chartered psychotherapist, is co-director and teacher at
the School of Specialization in Constructivist-Oriented Psychotherapy at
CESIPc, Florence, Italy. He introduced personal construct theory in Italy in
the early 80's and since then has trained about two hundred psychotherapists
and contributed to the spreading of Kelly's ideas in the university. A member
of the editorial boards of the Journal of
Constructivist Psychology and Personal
Construct Theory & Practice since their first issue, Prof. Chiari has
published extensively on constructivist epistemology, theory and practice. His latest
contribution (together with the late Maria Laura Nuzzo) is Constructivist psychotherapy: A narrative hermeneutic approach,
published by Routledge in 2010.
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 Jonathan Raskin
Beyond relativism and "Anything Goes": A PCP-based constructivist model of ethical meaning-making
Jonathan D.
Raskin is a professor of psychology and counseling at the State University of
New York at New Paltz, where he currently serves as director of the counseling
graduate program. Dr. Raskin’s scholarship focuses on constructivist psychology
and psychotherapy. A fellow of the American Psychological Association, he is a
past recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for
Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Dr. Raskin is managing
editor of the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and co-editor of the Studies
in Meaning book series. He is licensed as a psychologist in New York, where
he maintains a small private practice.
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Chris Stevens
Autobiography of a (unintentionally) constructivist consultation company
Dr Chris
Stevens is Director and Principal Psychologist with the CommuniCorp Group - a
consultancy which specialises in maximising individual and organisational
performance. Chris has over 20 years experience facilitating groups and
training programs in a wide variety of organisations. An expert facilitator and
trainer of facilitators, he makes sure he delivers practical and tangible
results with senior executives, leadership teams, boards, managers and staff.
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experienced practising psychologist, he has extensive experience in developing
resilient organisations with senior leadership teams to produce more productive
and engaged workforces, as well as working clinically and academically. He has
extensive experience in leadership development, workplace productivity issues,
cultural enhancement and in the promotion of workplace wellbeing and has
designed and facilitated many such programs across Australasia. He has, for a
number of years, taught a postgraduate course at the Australian Film,
Television and Radio School (AFTRS) on ‘Managing Creativity’.
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