ISPSO

To All ISPSO Members:

(This isn't just for people living in the Northeastern US)

The NY Regional Meeting Committee is pleased to invite you to attend the 10th Annual NY Regional Meeting.

Friday night we will meet informally with our presenters and fellow ISPSO members over cocktails and an elegant dinner. Saturday's theme will be: 'Creating a Space for Difference in Order to Build Collaboration'. Our presenters, Mal O'Connor and Debbie Bing, will present a live case of a conflict intervention.

In response to controversy sparked by the release of a report about the future of inter-professional collaboration in healthcare, their client convened a dialogue of leaders of physician and nursing organizations. The goal was to bring together these professional groups entrenched in conflict to build a working dialogue and ultimately help participants create a "consensus statement" about collaboration that could have a sustainable impact on the field.

How do you simultaneously manage the psychoanalytic process of understanding the "other" in new ways and the reality of a political process that must bring along multiple organizations with a great deal to win or lose in any given outcome? How can participants take up their leadership, manage the risk of committing their organization, and balance it with their participation in the moment during the inter-professional dialogue (and within the heterogeneity of their respective professional groups)?

Mal & Debbie will invite participants to build on these themes of working across differences. They also are mindful of the wider context in health care, and more broadly of polarized groups that challenge thoughtful progress on many complex issues. In the afternoon, participants are invited to bring cases from their own experience for peer group case discussions linking to ideas stimulated from the morning session.

We will conclude with a large group exploration of the themes from the day. The NY Regional Meeting will formally end Saturday with a 10th Anniversary Champagne Reception. There will be an early informal local dinner for anyone interested in further collegiality and discussion on Saturday. The Registration form is here. If you want to print this page, click here.

Please encourage any interested non-members you know to send in a membership application and join us - new member dues are reduced to $100 at this time of the year (And please make sure your ISPSO dues are paid, as this event is for current members only!)