2009-2010 San Diego Regional DIR®/Floortime™ Meetings ‘Something for Everyone’ 1. Open Community Groups: We are doubling the number of free open community groups as of this year, to give people who cannot come to the morning group an opportunity to come in the evening. All the evening groups are open to professionals and parents. The morning groups will continue to meet with parents and professionals together on odd months, separately on even months, with Dr Feder at all the professionals’ groups and Mara Goverman MSW running the parents morning group on the even months. Professionals and families are encouraged to bring videotapes of their clients/ family members, and professionals should have appropriate permission from families to share clinical material. Participants are all asked to keep the clinical material confidential, and groups are conducted in a reflective process where we help each other think through challenges in a non-judgmental environment, avoiding prescriptive solutions. No prior DIR experience is required, however we do not have childcare available. Come early to park on the street or in the neighborhood behind the building. 2. Phone Groups: Dr Feder has also doubled these this year. These are Dr Feder’s phone groups with Rosemary White OT and Sherri Cawn SLP for people who are actively engaged in the ICDL Certification process and have completed at least the DIRB portion toward certification. We look at video together and talk about cases. There are two ways to participate. About 6-8 people are active participants, selected from all over the US. For people in San Diego, Seattle, and Chicago, Rosemary, Sherri and I are offering people the opportunity to sit in and observe these sessions. Observers must be participants in the ICDL Certification process and local participation in an F2F group is sufficient. The cost for attendance for participants is the standard $45 per hour, which is a $630 commitment for the year. Dr Feder’s portion of such funds will be donated to ICDL. Observers are expected to give one hour of documented DIR related pro
bono work for each two hour session they attend observing a phone group, or to pay $45 for attending (which for those in San Diego is donated to ICDL). 3. F2F Groups: We are offering three ‘Face to Face’ groups for professionals and one for parents this year. Professionals from various disciplines commit to meeting for all seven sessions for reflective processing and learning the DIR model. Each professional will be presenting cases twice during the year, and there will be suggested readings as well. Dr Feder will run all the F2F groups and Mara Goverman MSW will run the parent group (dates TBA for Mara’s group). The professional groups count for credit tutoring hours in the ICDL Certification process. People need to be assigned to the professional groups by Dr Feder. Anyone can request to join one of these groups, however all participants should have some previous DIR-related experience and have active clinical cases to present (parents present their own children in Mara’s group). These groups are provided free of charge with the proviso that the participant provide at least an hour-for-hour of DIR-related pro bono service to the community, usually in the form of clinical care. For people who wish to pay a fee instead, of doing pro bono work the cost is $630, which will be donated to the national office of ICDL. 4. The 2009 – 2010 ICDL Southern California DIR®/Floortime™ Institute will be help in Pasadena California over seven sessions this coming year. Dr Feder, Dr Mona Delahooke, Dr Diane Cullinane, and Pat Marquart MFT will be teaching this course, with guest lectures by Rosemary White OT, Kiegan Blake OT, and Cindy Harrison SLP. Attendees need to have sufficient DIR experience to present at the DIRB or DIRC1 levels, and applications are available online at pasadenechilddevelopment.org. The lecture portion of this Institute is open to anyone and the flyer and information is available on pasadenechilddevelopment.org or on circlestretch.com. People who have completed the DIRC1 level toward certification are invited to attend these lectures free of charge and to meet and share cases and experiences with other people in our region
who are working toward certification.
MASTER LIST OF MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO (will be updated periodically)
September 2009 9/02/09 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Morning Group 910:30 AM 9/29/09- Rosemary White 6:30-8:30 PM
October 2009 10/03/09 ICDL Southern California DIR®/Floortime™ Institute Pasadena, CA 10/07/09 DIR Open Professional mtg 9-10:30 AM ; Open Parent mtg 10:30 AM -12:00 Noon 10/13/09 F2F 6:30-8:30 PM 10/14/09 F2F 730-930 AM; 930 – 1130 AM 10/20/09 Sherry Cawn 5:30-7:30 PM 10/21/09 Parent F2F with Mara Goverman 930-1130 am 10/27/09 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Evening Group 6:30-8:30 PM: including Quarterly Schools Committee Phone
Conference
November 2009 11/3/09 Rosemary White 6:30-8:30 PM 11/03/09 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Morning Group 9-10:30 AM
11/06 - 11/08/09 ICDL Annual Fall Conference, Bethesda MD 11/10/09 F2F 6:30-8:30 PM 11/11/09 F2F 730-930 AM; 930 – 1130 AM 11/17/09 Sherry Cawn 5:30-7:30 PM 11/18/09 Parent F2F with Mara Goverman 930-1130 am 11/21/09 ICDL Southern California DIR®/Floortime™ Institute Pasadena, CA 11/24/09 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Evening Group 6:30-8:30 PM
December 2009 12/02/09 DIR Open Professional mtg 9-10:30 AM ; Open Parent mgt 10:30 AM -12:00 Noon 12/15/09 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Evening Group
6:30-8:30 PM
January 2010 1/05/10 Rosemary White 6:30-8:30 PM 1/06/10 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Morning Group 910:30 AM 1/12/10 F2F 6:30-8:30 1/13/10 F2F 730-930 AM; 930 – 1130 AM 1/16/10 ICDL Southern California DIR®/Floortime™ Institute Pasadena, CA 1/19/10 Sherry Cawn 5:30-7:30 PM 1/20/10 Parent F2F with Mara Goverman 930-1130 am 1/26/10 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Evening Group 6:30-8:30 PM
February 2010 2/02/10 Rosemary White 6:30-8:30 PM 2/03/10 DIR Open Professional mtg 9-10:30 AM ; Open Parent mgt
10:30 AM -12:00 Noon 2/09/10 F2F 6:30-8:30 2/10/10 F2F 730-930 AM; 930 – 1130 AM 2/13/10 ICDL Southern California DIR®/Floortime™ Institute Pasadena, CA 2/16/10 Sherry Cawn 5:30-7:30 PM 2/17/10 Parent F2F with Mara Goverman 930-1130 am 2/23/10 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Evening Group 6:30-8:30 PM: Including Quarterly Schools Committee Phone Conference
March 2010 3/02/10 Rosemary White 6:30-8:30 PM 3/03/10 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Morning Group 910:30 AM 3/09/10 F2F 6:30-8:30 3/10/10 F2F 730-930 AM; 930 – 1130 AM 3/16/10 Sherry Cawn 5:30-7:30 PM 3/17/10 Parent F2F with Mara Goverman 930-1130 am 3/20/10 ICDL Southern California DIR®/Floortime™ Institute -
Pasadena, CA 3/23/10 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Evening Group 6:30-8:30 PM
April 2010 4/06/10 Rosemary White 6:30-8:30 PM 4/07/10 DIR Open Professional mtg 9-10:30 AM ; Open Parent mgt 10:30 AM -12:00 Noon 4/10/10 ICDL Southern California DIR®/Floortime™ Institute Pasadena, CA 4/13/10 F2F 6:30-8:30 4/14/10 F2F 730-930 AM; 930 – 1130 AM 4/20/10 Sherry Cawn 5:30-7:30 PM 4/21/10 Parent F2F with Mara Goverman 930-1130 am 4/27/10 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Evening Group 6:30-8:30 PM
May 2010 5/04/10 Rosemary White 6:30-8:30 PM 5/05/10 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Morning Group 9-
10:30 AM 5/8/10 ICDL Southern California DIR®/Floortime™ Institute Pasadena, CA 5/11/10 F2F 6:30-8:30 last mtg 5/12/10 F2F 730-930 AM; 930 – 1130 AM last mtgs 5/18/10 Sherry Cawn last mtg 5:30-7:30 PM 5/19/10 Parent F2F with Mara Goverman 930-1130 am last mtg 5/25/10 DIR Open Community Professional/Parent Evening Group 6:30-8:30 PM