REGISTRATION INFORMATION

* (Must send (to ucbschpsyc@gmail.com) name and e-mail address of professor to verify enrollment. Students at all schools welcome.)

Who Should Attend This Conference?
School Psychologists, Counselors, Clinical Psychologists, Teachers, Social Workers, Administrators, Educational Therapists, Parents, Marriage and Family Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Other Health Professionals

CEUs
Attendees will be given a certificate of attendance at the end of the day.  We do not have APA or BBS CEUs, due to the additional cost required for a one day conference.

Confirmations & Receipts
Confirmations of registration are sent via email. If you have not received confirmation within five days of the program, please let us know ucbschpsyc@gmail.com.

SPEAKER BIOs

Dr. Dan Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. An award-winning educator, Dan Siegel is currently an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is a Co-Investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (cbd.ucla.edu) and is Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (marc.ucla.edu). Dan Siegel is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization that focuses on how the development of insight, compassion and empathy in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dan Siegel is the author of the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience (1999). He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. His book with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (2003) explores the application of this newly emerging view of the mind, the brain, and human relationships. His latest book is The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (2007).
Link to his website.

Dr. Dacher Keltner is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.  He received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. He then was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at UC San Francisco working with Paul Ekman. In 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeley’s Psychology Department in 1996, where he is now a full professor. Dacher’s research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of human goodness, with a special concentration on compassion, awe, love, and beauty, as well as the study of power, status and social class, and the nature of moral intuitions. Dacher is the co-author of two best selling textbooks, one on human emotion, the other on social psychology, and in January, 2009, will publish Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, with WW Norton Publishers, which makes the case for an evolutionary approach to the emotions that promote human goodness. Dacher has published over 100 scientific articles, and has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research, and for his teaching and mentoring was selected as the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor in 2002, and the Outstanding Teacher, Division of Social Sciences, in 2002 as well. Dacher also serves as the Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, where he serves as co-editor of the center’s magazine, Greater Good. Dacher lives in Berkeley with his wife, an alumna of Berkeley, and their two daughters. Link to his website.

Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education (CPME) of Park Day School
Laurie Grossman, Megan Cowan, Richard Shankman co-founders
CPME has brought a five week mindfulness program to 4,600 children in 18 local schools. 

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

7:45  Registration, Continental Breakfast, Networking - please arrive early!

8:25 Welcome

8:30 - 9:45 Dr. Dan Siegel

9:45 - 10:00 Break

10:00 - 11:15 Dr. Dan Siegel

11:15 - 12:00 Lunch

12:15 - 1:30 Dr. Dacher Keltner
Born To Be Good: The Science of A Meaningful Life

1:30 - 1:45 Break

1:45 - 3:15  Panel: Decreasing Anxiety and Improving Student Behavior and with Simple Mindfulness Techniques

Mailing Address
Conference Location Info

Event Location
Clark Kerr Campus (CKC)in Berkeley
Phone: 510-642-4444
2601 Warring St. Berkeley, CA 94720-2288

Maps
Google Map | CKC Map (pdf)
Street View Map

Driving/Parking
Parking is very limited at the conference venue and will cost $12-15 per day. We have adjusted the price of the conference to reflect this added expense. Street parking is limited to 2 hours and there are no nearby public lots. If you must drive to the facility, please carpool.  Parking is in the South West lot (on Warring near Derby) and is not guaranteed. Please come by public transportation if you can.

Public Transit
Visit transit.511.org and put in the address of Clark Kerr (2601 Warring St. Berkeley, CA) for directions from your location.  The conference center is easily accessible by AC Transit #7 bus which stops at Berkeley BART & Rockridge BART Stations.  Head the correct direction from BART and this bus stops right outside the venue of Clark Kerr.  See this CKC map (pdf) or view the AC transit #7 bus schedule map here.

Conference Mailing Address
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education
School Psychology Program
4511 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
510/642-4202
Attn: School Psychology Conference
ucbschpsyc@gmail.com