Past Events

This two-day workshop is designed for new and experienced parent educators to gain the information and skills to become Certified Positive Discipline Parenting Educators. The workshop provides effective tools and resources for therapists who want to offer Positive Discipline parenting classes for their clients and/or use Adlerian based concepts and strategies in their sessions. It supports school personnel, nurses, counselors, youth workers and others who deal with parents, children and young people; and it provides insight and strategies for parents with children of all ages who want to learn to parent effectively for today’s world. 

Participants will learn to facilitate experiential activities in group and individual settings. They will learn research-based, effective tools and techniques for teaching parents how to build respectful relationships and use discipline that is kind and firm at the same time, neither punitive nor permissive.  They will gain a set of resource materials adaptable for use with all age and focus groups; therapeutic relationships; parenting and mentor programs.

Cost:
General Public: $335 Early Registration received and paid by February 22, 2013, Regular Registration $370 (includes materials). Registration fee for non-students includes a complete curriculum, Positive Discipline book, and the Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way Facilitator's manual.

Adler School Students: $250 Regular Registration.  This fee DOES NOT include books. Please notify facilitator if you want to order books. Please bring books if you already own them.

To Register:  Register at www.positivediscipline.org or contact the Positive Discipline Association: posdis@satx.rr.com or call toll free: 1-866-POS-DISC (1-866-767-3472).

Interested in participating in the first ever World Café Conference at Adler? We are currently looking for students to help facilitate round-table discussions around key questions in the professional world. 

What does this mean exactly? The World Café model revolves around a central idea: communication solves problems. Given the opportunity to discuss key, powerful questions, leaders find solutions through communicating with others. The World Café model provides participants the opportunity to discuss these issues in a round-table format.

As a student leader, you will help keep the conversation rolling, guide participants through the discussion, and summarize what has been discussed. Not sure if you can do this, but ready to try? One critical competency in leadership is dealing with ambiguity. If you step outside of your comfort zone, you will be training yourself in leadership.

This class is held in the Wellness Studio on the Chicago campus.

Open to faculty, staff and students at the Adler School.

The ISE’s Social Exclusion Simulation (SES) is a role-play exercise that allows participants to see the ways in which society’s systemic and structural barriers produce social exclusion for certain groups of people. The SES simulates social exclusion processes by replicating the experiences of formerly incarcerated women attempting to re-enter society following their release from prison. Participants have reported that important goals have been powerfully met: understanding of what structural and systemic barriers are and how they work to undermine opportunity and access; appreciation of practical limits of personal responsibility, agency, and choice; motivation to adopt attitudinal and behavioral changes in pursuit of social change; and empathy for marginalized groups in general. If you are an Adler PsyD student and you elect to exercise your right not to participate in the simulation, you may do so without any penalty. For more information please contact your faculty advisor.

To participate, you must register in advance by sending an email to ISE@adler.edu, please include the date you wish to attend.

Dr. Elena Quintana, Executive Director of the Institute on Public Safety & Social Justice will be part of a panel discussion on alternatives to incarceration at John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
 

The focus will be on the development of a Values Statement (otherwise known as an Elevator Pitch). This workshop will help you examine success, values and aspirations to develop your values statement, also known as your elevator pitch. It is critical during a job search that you can clearly and compellingly convey how you impact an organization or group of people through what you offer. It helps others help you. Getting the word out about who you are and how you contribute is at the heart of the job search process. The values statement helps you with branding and positioning on your resume and LinkedIn profiles. Refreshments and materials provided.

$20 for alumni; $10 for students

Click here to register for Powerful Communication.

A minimum of 20 participants is required to offer this workshop. 

The M.A. in Counseling Psychology program is now being offered in a flexible, part-time format. This option provides students with the flexibility to complete the program in a time-frame that may be realistic with other obligations they may have.

Please join us for an Online Open House to learn more! This online open house is a great way to hear from our core faculty, obtain a program overview, hear about potential career paths, and review the application process with our Admissions staff. At the end of the presentation there will be a Q&A with Admissions staff and core faculty.

Attendees should have access to a cable or DSL internet connection, as well as speakers to hear the audio presentation.

Register here for this event, or email admissions@adler.edu to RSVP.

The Adler School of Professional Psychology and Traumatic Stress Psychology Student Association (TSPSA) host a presentation and panel discussion focused on sexual violence and advocacy efforts toward prevention and intervention, featuring Grace Brown, artist and founder of Project Unbreakable. 

An introduction will be provided by Janna Henning, J.D., Psy.D., F.T., B.C.E.T.S., Coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Psychology Concentration, about the prevalence rates, long-term psychological outcomes, and cultural impact of sexual violence. 

Three distinguished panelists, Rebecca Gordon, Ed.D. of the UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center, Steve Adler of Rape Victims Advocates, and Eva Ball, MSW of the Northwestern University CARE Office will discuss advocacy efforts in the Chicago area for sexual violence survivors and how to engage in advocacy projects in the Chicago area.

Admission is free for Adler School students, alumni, faculty and staff. There is a $25 fee for guests of the Adler School. 2.5 CEUs available for clinicians, $20 processing fee.

This class is held in the Wellness Studio on the Chicago campus.

Open to faculty, staff and students at the Adler School.

Bake sale and Silent Auction: Begins at 5:30 p.m. Get some goodies before the event.

Tickets cost $10 and can be purchased from the front desk.

Come out and show support for your fellow students who will be reading and dramatizing the monologues! This brilliant and creative event has been put together to spread awareness about violence against women and girls and aims to raise funds for existing anti-violence organizations. We hope to have a full house on both days.

The show will be held at 7 pm March 15 and March 16.