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2009 Path Toward Intimacy - Part of the "Family-focused" Lecture Series
Venue: Doha - Intercontinental Hotel
Dates: 24-26 March, 2009
Path Toward Intimacy was a three-day workshop in March 2009 hosted by the Implementation and Social Outreach Division (ISOD) of DIIFSD and led by Dr. Wei-Jen Huang from Northwestern University. When previously conducted for both professional counselors and general audiences in the U.S., Canada, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore, Path Toward Intimacy received rave reviews.
The course was designed for all of those interested in enhancing the quality of relationships with their loved ones as well as for caring people simply wanting to help others. The workshop was based on state-of-the-art empirical research of intimate relationships and integrated important insights and effective treatment ingredients from some of the best relationship curriculums from both the East and West. Major themes of the workshop included Depth Psychology of Love, Attachment, Emotional Safety and Meaningful Connections, Effectively Managing Differences and Conflicts, Intentionally Strengthening Friendship and Intimacy, Gender Relationship, Family of Origin Issues, Emotional Intelligence Training, Forgiveness and Loving Actions, and more. The workshop focused both on insights and conceptualization as well as on practical skills and experiential learning, with the goal of helping people develop insights into the complexity of intimate relationships, enhance emotional health, and bring healings into their own relationships and to the large number of lives they touch.
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Workshop Agenda
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Tuesday March 24 |
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09:30 AM |
: Is there a secret recipe for happy, loving relationships? |
| 09:40 AM |
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12:00 PM |
: Depth Psychology of Love |
| 12:15 PM |
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01:30 PM |
: Understanding and Managing Gender Relationships: Are men and women from different planets? |
| Wednesday March 25 |
| 08:00 AM |
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09:30 AM |
: How does family of origin shape intimate relationships? |
| 09:40 AM |
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12:00 PM |
: Emotional Intelligence Training: Part One |
| 12:15 PM |
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01:30 PM |
: Emotional Intelligence Training: Part Two |
| Thursday March 26 |
| 08:00 AM |
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09:30 AM |
: Enhancing Emotional Safety and Intimate Relationships |
| 09:40 AM |
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12:00 PM |
: Turning Conflict into an Opportunity for Higher Level of Intimacy |
| 12:15 PM |
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01:30 PM |
: A Journey to Relational Healing: Marital Therapy Video Case Presentation |
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| 06:00 PM |
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07:30 PM |
: Evening Lecture |
Speaker Profile: Dr. Wei-Jen Huang
Dr. Huang is a clinical psychologist and a faculty member at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Huang is well known in the United States and throughout Asia for his work on couples' therapy and relationship education.
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Dr. Huang's international work has been extensive. In May, 2002, Dr. Huang was one of four Asian leaders invited to the White House to meet then-president of the United States, Mr. George W. Bush and discuss issues relevant to his work. In 2004, Dr. Huang served as a Plenary speaker for the United Nations-endorsed International Family Conference in Kuala Lumpur on the same subjects. He has also been providing psychological training and consultation on marriage and family issues for the governments of China, Singapore, and Malaysia for many years. In October 2008, Dr. Huang was invited to present a special nine-hour training curriculum entitled "Path to Relational Healing" for the prestigious "World Congress for Psychotherapy," hosted by China. Since the year 2000, Dr. Huang has also been invited seven times by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Chinese government to conduct training for Chinese professional and lay counselors. He has also been invited multiple times to serve the Chinese general public by providing relationship education through China CCTV and other mass media. His relationship articles have attracted close to 1.3 million hits.
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Dr. Huang has published two books: "From Mourning to Dancing: Healing and Recovery after Marital Crisis" and "To Love is to Cherish Each Other". His well-cited article "An Asian Perspective on Relationship and Marriage Education" was published by the Family Process, which is often considered the top journal in the professional field of marriage and family. His recent work, "Journey to Intimacy", a relationship skills training curriculum, was produced by Focus on the Family and published in December, 2007 by the China Light Industry Publisher. It includes 12 curriculum DVDs and manuals for both leaders and participants.
Named by students as Northwestern University's 'Dr. Love', Dr. Huang also serves as an international speaker for Focus on the Family, an advisor for the Formosa Mass Media Center, an advisor for Family Keepers, the World Conference Multicultural Track Leader of the 70,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), an advisor of the Tung-Hai University Center for Religious Studies, and an advisor of the Shanghai Psychological Association.
Presentation Slides: The following slides were used by Dr. Wei-Jen Huang as auxiliary aids to his oral presentation throughout the three days of the Path Toward Intimacy workshop. For more detailed information on any of the covered topics, please listen to the full English or Arabic audio recordings of the event.
Tuesday March 24
Wednesday March 25
Thursday March 26
Copyright notice: © 2009 Dr. Wei-Jen Huang
All materials related to "Path Toward Intimacy" are the sole property of Dr. Wei-Jen Huang and may not be used, reproduced, or distributed without expressed written permission.
Contact: Dr. Wei-Jen Huang; w-huang@northwestern.edu
Audio Recordings
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