About this event

5 CEU/CE hours are available at this conference.

What's love got to do with it? As Tina Turner wondered, who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? How can clinicians and clergy help people bring their best thinking to this often anxiety-producing part of life? A family systems view provides a different perspective on the intensity of sex, dating, and finding a partner. Join Bowen Center faculty members for a day full of discussion about what differentiation can look like in our relationships systems, from dating apps to deciding to tie the knot.

Schedule

9:30 Differentiation of Self: You Can't Help Who You Like or Can You?

Carrie E. Collier, PhD, LPC, CRC

10:15 The Problem with You Completing Me and Other Lessons on Life and Love that the Movies Fail to Teach Us

Amie Post, MA, LCMFT

11:00 Break

11:15 Defining Yourself or Designing Yourself: Anxiety and Dating Apps

Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC

12:00 A Mature Expression of Human Sexuality: Anxiety and Differentiation in the Bedroom

Jake Morrill, MDiv, MA, LMFT

12:45 Lunch Break

1:30 Pre-Marital Conversations: From the Impulsive to the Indecisive and Everyone In-Between

Edward J. Henley, MDiv

2:10 Use of Theory to Inform the Functioning of the Family as Its Members Date and Go about Selecting Mates

Randall T. Frost, MDiv

3:00 Panel: Comments and Closing Remarks

All Presenters with Laura R. Brooks, LCSW-C

3:30 Adjournment