Presenter: Debra-Lynn Menard, M.Ed. C.C.C

•  Describing depression and knowing when you or a loved one needs to get help
• Everyday depression assessment
• Discovering personal depression assessment
• Exploring coping and healing methods for depression
• When depression comes into my family
• Dealing with suicidal thoughts: mine and/or other

Let there be peace on earth…and let it begin with me.

In our personal relationships, we can get trapped by mimetic structures of violence with scripted roles that we pay again and again.  These roles include self-justification and accusations against the other.  Our own hurts are amplified and we minimize what we have done to other.  Strategies directed toward mimetic structures of blessing can help in the transformation.  Peace can be understood as an ongoing practice of blessing…it involves a new script and a transformed role of the self in relation to the other.

Presenter: Dr. Vern Redekop (St. Paul University)

Some Like it Hot: What Sustains Passionate Connection in Couples’ Sexuality and What Makes it Fizzle out?

What is it that creates a deep and satisfying sexual connection for some couples? How is it that some couples know how to sustain an erotically-charged connection over time while others lose it once ‘the honeymoon is over’? Why is it that sex so often goes stale and lifeless in longer term relationships? Do some people just instinctively know how to “keep it hot” while others do not? Or are there ways that we can actually learn how to deepen erotic connection over time.

Presenter: Lalita Salins, MA, RMFT

Flying on Your Own

• People single again or recently separated and divorced
• Young adults who need to leave home (stop cooking with cheese!!!)
• People who want to develop a sense of their own individuation

Christmas chocolates for all who come

Presenter: Dr. Martin Rovers