Upcoming Speaking Events

2019
August 2-3
An Open Gate: Forms of Analytic Listening
Edinburgh, Scotland

July
IPA Conference, London, England
Panelist with Joshua Durban (Israel) and
Mariangela de Almedia, (Brazil)
Primitive Mental States and Autism

INSPIRA Meeting, London, England
International research group on Autism 
American delegate

May 4
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
An Open Gate: Forms of Analytic Listening

Jan 26
Center for Object Relations, Seattle
Dialogue on W.R. Bion
with Enika Cocoli, PhD

2018

December 19
Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Scientific Meetings/Community Conversations Series
Unconscious Phantasy

August 18-19
"Welcoming What Is"
Private Buddhist Retreat
Camano Island, WA

May, 2018
Introduction to the Work of
Melanie Klein
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center

2017
October 10-15, 2017
Keynote speaker and
Visiting Guest Lecturer
Australian Psychoanalytic Society
Melbourne, Australia

June 19, 2017
Thrive
Parent-Infant Intervention Group
Los Angeles, CA

February, 2017
Bion in Marseille
Invited discussant and panel member
Marseille, France

2016
December, 2016
Keynote speaker
The Beata Rank Memorial Lecturer in Child Analysis
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

November, 2016
Axel Hoffer, MD
"Bringing Meditation into Psychoanalysis: Free Association,
Meditation, and Bion
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
Discussant with Gerald Fogel, MD

June, 2016
Keynote speaker
The Margaret Jarvie Memorial Lecturer
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
"The Tasks of Listening"

Edinburgh Seminars: Two Day workshop

May 2016
Clinical Seminar
Minneapolis, Minnesota

April 8-10, 2016
North American Regional Bion Seminar
Marina Del Mar,  CA
Participant/panel member 

April 2, 2016
After Bion --Obstructive and welcoming links
All day seminar
Minneapolis, Minnesota

March 19, 2016
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
All day clinical seminar

2015
August, 2015
The Tasks of Listening
Seattle School for Theology and Psychology
Half day seminar

July,  2015
International Psychoanalytic Association
Congress in Boston, MA
Reviewing Meltzer's "Explorations in Autism"
Psychic Dimensionality Forty Years Later
with Didier Houzel, (France) Suzanne Maiello (Italy)

May 2, 2015
"From Emotion to Evolution:
A Personal View of Bion's Work"
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
with Maxine Anderson, MD and Marianne Robinson, PhD

February 20-22, 2015
A Mind of One's Own: Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer
Tavistock Centre, London, England
Individual paper presentation on dreaming
Panel presentation on autism with Didier Houzel (France) and Suzanne Maiello (Italy)

2014
January 15, 2014
"Further thoughts on Obstructive Object Relations"
Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society

March 8, 2014
"Further thoughts on Obstructive Object Relations"
The Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, Portland

March 22, 2014
"Becoming a welcoming object"
Day long seminar sponsored by
Newport Psychoanalytic Institute

April 26, 2014
Private seminar
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
Portland, Oregon

July 24-27, 2014
Seventh International Conference on Work of Frances Tustin,
Boston, MA
Invited clinical workshop on treating autistic states in children;
Invited panel presentation with Lia Pistiner (Argentina) on child analysis

September 12
Listening Seminar
Seattle School of Psychology and Theology

October 17-19, 2014
Evolving British Object Relations Conference
Seattle, WA
Discussant for Guisseppe Civitarese (Italy)
Keynote Address on Reverie

October 23-26, 2014
Eighth International Bion Conference
Los Angeles, CA
Invited paper presentation

November 8, 2014
Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture
Discussant for Mark Howard, MD (Australia)

December 6, 2014
Bion Seminar
Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study

2013
November 2, 2013
The Psychoanalyst's Imagination
Discussant for Dr. Arnaldo Chuster (Brazil)
Newport Psychoanalytic Institute

November 17, 2013
18th Annual Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture
Discussant for Dr. Ofra Eshel, Tel Aviv
Psychoanalytic Center of California, LA


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