TAMFT 2020

Practice Makes Perfect. And practice is crucial to learning. Practice is a way of learning from experience. What's worth knowing can't be taught, it must be learned (Oh, and by the way, some find this disturbing, but what's worth knowing may not be evidence based). In this engaging, playful, and interactive keynote session, Dr. David Keith emphasizes the idea that psychotherapy is an art. In the realm of art, practice leads to increasing creativity. Practice leads to the freedom for therapeutic play. Creativity and play are crucial components of health. And from Donald Winnicott: All psychotherapy is play. Thus, practice makes a pathway for magic and creative play; in the direction of an imperfect version of perfect.

Immediately following his keynote address, Dr. Keith will conduct a live session with clients, focusing on the importance of conducting a consultation with families in the pursuit of helping families become "unstuck" and utilizing Dr. Keith's method of "stress interview," which encourages families to talk about the family as a whole and to think differently about the family and their roles within it.

Break from 10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.; Live Session to follow.