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Frank J. Ciccia has nearly twenty years of experience in business, not for profit and academia. He currently serves as the Chief Learning Officer for the Center for Hospice & Palliative Care in Buffalo, New York. Past positions include: Manager of the Center for Learning & Development at Fiserv Lending Solutions Inc. and the Director of the Leadership Development Center at the University at Buffalo (UB). Frank continues to serve as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Management at UB, teaching undergraduate and MBA courses in Organizational Behavior and Leadership & Motivation. Prior to beginning his new role as Chief Learning Officer for Hospice, Frank had been an independent consultant and has presented numerous educational programs and workshops on such topics as "Strategic Communication", "Leadership Development", "Customer Service", "Performance Improvement", and "Change Management". He holds certifications in DiSC, MBTI, and the DDI Leadership Mirror 360 Assessment & Workshop Facilitation. PROGRAM: Understanding Behavior & Communication Style to Maximize Effectiveness: Utilizing the DiSC Personal Profile SystemTM TRAVELS FROM: Buffalo, New York FEE: $
Janis DiCiacco, a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified school psychologist, holds a Master's Degree in special education and a doctorate in Psychology. For the past 30 years, Dr. DiCiacco has worked with children and their families around the issues of attachment and loss, death and dying, foster placement and adoption. She has facilitated groups for children and adolescents with a terminally ill parent. Janis serves as a consultant and trainer/educator in the areas of attachment and loss, crisis intervention, suicide prevention and assessment, violence assessment and intervention, early onset Bipolar Disorder in Children, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Non-verbal Learning Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Autism/Asperger's Syndrome, William's Syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Delays. PROGRAM: Attachment Disorders BOOKS: The Colors of Grief: Understanding a Child's Journey through Loss from Birth to Adulthood TRAVELS FROM: Denver, Colorado FEE: $$
DR. DANIEL FECHT Daniel R. Fecht, Ph.D., is a nationally certified psychologist and counselor with more than 26 years of highly varied professional experience. He has held positions as a mental health supervisor, noncommissioned officer in charge of neuropsychiatric service (military), staff psychologist, senior behavioral science specialist (military), child psychology consultant, civilian project manager at a police youth unit, and psychology internship supervisor. Dan has served as a mental health consultant to several Head Start centers, and has been a consultant to the National Childcare Accreditation Project. He has also been affiliated with a number of national and international organizations, providing specialized services such as critical incident stress debriefings and career training. Dr. Fecht is a professional speaker/trainer who has conducted workshops in all 48 contiguous states. He currently works with a large private practice in Kansas City, Missouri. He incorporates his varied background with his academic and professional experience to bring you a seminar that is highly informative, entertaining and inspiring! PROGRAM: How to Work with Behavior-Disordered Youth Without Losing Your Sanity TRAVELS FROM: Kansas City, Missouri FEE: $
James Fogarty, Ed.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified school psychologist, and author. He has been a psychologist for over 20 years and has extensive experience in mental health and educational systems. Dr. Fogarty is an expert with grief issues, trauma recovery, family conflict, and crisis management. Dr. Fogarty lectures across the country on crisis debriefing, forgiveness as a necessary clinical tool in counseling, grief and complicated grief, children and parenting. In his presentations, he is well known for his Irish wit blended with profound insights into crisis and trauma, family relationships, children's behavior, difficulties of transition and loss, the strengthening of marriages, and the priority of family life. PROGRAMS: How to Use Crisis Debriefing when Dealing With Crisis and Trauma; Forgiveness; The Grieving Child; Betrayal BOOKS: The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children, Overindulged Children TRAVELS FROM: Chicago, Illinois FEE: $
ERIC W. GUY Eric Guy, MSW, LSW, is the owner and director of Center for Victory based in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. In this capacity, Mr. Guy designs and facilitates training to assist various clientele and professionals within the mental health, educational and business fields, offers outpatient therapy in the form of individual, family, marital, divorce care and group treatment for children, adolescents and adults, provides customized programming for families and individuals in the form of in-home treatment and individualized coaching, and develops and maintains parent groups to assist parents through advocacy, instruction, treatment and after care. In addition to his counseling responsibilities, Mr. Guy currently provides lectures across the United States on various topics including foster care and adoption, trauma, attachment and bonding, and residential treatment. Mr. Guy's professional background includes work in both clinical and residential treatment facilities, combined with exceptional experience in training and coaching. He is a recognized specialist in the treatment of behavioral and emotional disturbances of children, adults and families. PROGRAMS: Reactive Attachment Disorders, Overcoming Learning Disabilities TRAVELS FROM: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania FEE: $
William G. (Bill) Hoy, D.Min., FT, is a popular speaker for groups of caregiving professionals across the United States and Canada. Accustomed to working with both large and small groups, Dr. Hoy is a frequent invited presenter for organizations in healthcare, mental health and other human services, education, clergy and funeral service. Dr. Hoy has counseled with people in grief for more than 20 years. From 1996 until 2006, Bill directed the bereavement program at Pathways Volunteer Hospice in Long Beach, California, a program, which he still serves as clinical advisor. As an invited speaker, every year he presents more than 70 continuing education workshops across North America. Bill holds board certification (FT) in death education and grief counseling and chairs the special interest group on school crisis for the Association for Death Education and Counseling. PROGRAMS: Helping the Grieving Child and Teen; When Children Die; Understanding the Death and Grief of Other Cultures; Spiritual Issues with Dying Persons and Their Families; Helping Families After an Unexpected Death; The Unique Challenges of Grieving Men; When Grief Gets Complicated; Finding Forgiveness; Grief and Ambivalent Relationships (...and more) BOOK: Guiding People Through Grief: How to Start And Lead Bereavement Groups TRAVELS FROM: Dallas, Texas FEE: $$
DR. CHRISTY A. HUTTON Christy Hutton, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Missouri. During the past seven years, Christy has worked primarily with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, many of whom were mandated for treatment. She particularly enjoys working with people who have Borderline Personality Disorder. Bringing DBT strategies alive for other professionals, thus improving the quality of care of people with mood dysregulation, is one of the highlights of her private practice. Christy earned her Doctorate from the University of Missouri-Columbia where she majored in Counseling Psychology. She also has a Masters of Education from the same institution. Dr. Hutton has over 10 years experience developing and conducting trainings and workshops. PROGRAM: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: A Skills Based Approach to Treating Impulsive, Borderline and Suicidal Clients; Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy; Trauma and Substance Use Disorders TRAVELS FROM: Springfield, Missouri FEE: $
John R. Jordan, Ph.D., FT, a licensed psychologist, provides training nationally and internationally for therapists, healthcare professionals, and clergy through the American Academy of Bereavement and AFSP. He has published clinical and research articles in the areas of bereavement after suicide, support group models, the integration of research and practice in thanatology, and loss in family and larger social systems. Dr. Jordan is the Director of the Family Loss Project (FLP), a research and clinical group providing bereavement services in the greater Boston area. Through the Samaritans of Boston, Dr. Jordan is acting as Clinical Consultant to help develop an innovative support program for suicide survivors. He is Co-Investigator on a research project assessing the problems, needs, and support resources of people who have lost a loved one to suicide. He is also working on a research project to develop a new measure to help clinicians identify individuals at risk for complicated mourning. Jack maintains an active practice in grief counseling for individuals and families in Sherborn, MA, where he has run support groups for bereaved parents, young widows & widowers, and suicide survivors. PROGRAMS: Suicide Awareness: Prevention, Intervention and Postvention BOOKS: After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief TRAVELS FROM: Providence, Rhode Island FEE: $$
David has helped thousands of men, women and children face life and death with peace, dignity and courage. His experiences have taken him from Auschwitz concentration camp to Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying Destitute in Calcutta. His services have been used by Elizabeth Taylor, Jamie Lee Curtis and Marianne Williamson when their loved ones faced life-challenging illnesses. He also worked with Anthony Perkins, Michael Landon and industrialist Armand Hammer when they faced their own deaths. He is no stranger to disaster and trauma, having worked on disasters with mass casualties, loss and grief. As a volunteer, he has served as a member of the Red Cross's Aviation Disaster Team and was called in to help with the Aspen plane crash. He also worked with the next of kin as well as survivors of the Singapore Airlines crash. David also volunteers his time as a Special Reserves Police Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department's trauma team. On top of his expertise in grief and loss, the Red Cross and the Los Angeles Police Department have trained him for the most critical, tragic and horrific situations possible, which of course included 9/11, and Ground Zero. David takes his experiences and turns them into inspiring and motivational lectures for audiences around the world. He also teaches therapists, doctors and nurses about grief and loss and leads a support group for people with cancer. In his daily work he is the Director of Palliative Care for Citrus Valley Health Partners, which encompasses three hospitals, home hospice and a freestanding in-patient hospice unit in the Los Angeles area with over 900 physicians and 2000 nurses. PROGRAMS: Understanding the Needs of the Dying, On Grief and Grieving BOOKS The Needs of the Dying, On Grief and Grieving (co-authored with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) TRAVELS FROM: Los Angeles, California FEE: $$$$$
Alyce LaViolette is a pioneer in the field of intimate partner violence. She began her work in 1978, first as an advocate at WomenShelter in Long Beach, California, and then in private practice. In 1979, she founded Alternatives to Violence, one of the first programs in the country for spousal abusers. She continues to work with both the victims and perpetrators of abuse. She also specializes in domestic violence, anger management, conflict resolution, and gender issues in her broad-based private practice and works with individuals, couples and groups. Alyce has developed training programs for the Los Angeles and California State Departments of Probation and for the Orange County Department of Children and Family Services. She is a frequently requested conference and keynote speaker and also serves as an expert witness. Ms. LaViolette has published numerous articles, co-authored a parenting curriculum for domestically violent families, and co-authored the book, "It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay". She has received many awards for her work, including the Humanitarian Award for the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, the I Am Foundation's Community Service Award, and proclamations from Los Angeles County and the State of California. Alyce has been a frequent presenter on local and national TV as well as radio. PROGRAM: Is It Anger or Is It Abuse? TRAVELS FROM: Los Angeles, California FEE: $$$
JOSEPH PEREIRA, MSW Joseph Pereira is a licensed clinical social worker and certified addictions specialist who has been practicing for over 19 years. He has worked in a variety of settings including such positions as a social worker at a prison forensic hospital, in the court system, and as a clinical consultant at a juvenile detention center. Joe is a co-founder of Outlook Associates of New England and is currently in private practice providing individual and group therapy in addition to training and consultation with a focus on anger management with adults and adolescents. He has recently been participating on an advisory committee for the Massachusetts Medical Society to develop a workshop for physicians on managing workplace conflict. PROGRAM: Changing the Cycle of Anger TRAVELS FROM: Boston, Massachusetts FEE: $
Bernie Schwartz, Ph.D., brings over thirty years of clinical experience to this workshop on the pathways to positive therapy outcome. He is the author of many books and has published a number of journal articles on various aspects of therapist effectiveness. He is a renaissance man of the therapy world having worked as an educational therapist, clinical psychologist, custody evaluator, and sports psychologist in the University of California system. Dr. Schwartz has conducted seminars throughout the United States and his presentations are exceptionally well received. He has also taught at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate and graduate levels, and is currently teaching counseling courses at Chapman University in Irvine, California. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Bernie is the director of clinical training and supervision at two agencies: Catholic Charities of Orange County, which primarily serves clients who have been involved with child protective services, and Outreach Concern, an organization which places interns in school settings. PROGRAMS: How to Succeed as a Counselor BOOKS How to Fail as a Therapist; How to Get Your Children to Do What You Want Them to Do TRAVELS FROM: Los Angeles, California FEE: $
Judith is currently Vice President of The Center for Excellence in End-of-Life Education, Research and Practice at The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. Prior to holding this position, she was Vice President of the Life Transitions Center, Inc., in Buffalo, New York for 10 years and CMI Education Institute, Inc. for two. Life Transitions and CMI are affiliate agencies of the Center for Hospice & Palliative Care. From 1990- 1992, Ms. Skretny was the Executive Director of Benedict House, a residence for persons with AIDS. Her work in the field of thanatology began in 1984 when she became the first Director of Education at Life Transitions Center. Ms. Skretny is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Canisius College, where she has taught since 1983. Among the courses she teaches are "Theology of Death" and "The Feminine Role in Religion." Judith has also taught Death and Dying courses at the University of Buffalo. Judith has been a lecturer for the American Academy of Bereavement since 1997. PROGRAM: Working With the Seriously Ill & Dying TRAVELS FROM: Buffalo, New York FEE: $
DR. TANA SLAY Tana Slay, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in the State of Texas. After working in school districts for eleven years, Dr. Slay established and administrated the first privately licensed community mental health center in the State of Texas. Her center provided counseling and evaluations for clients of all ages in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Slay has had articles published in The Houston Chronicle and The Houston Post, The Journal of Reading Improvement, and The Journal of Special Education. She has made numerous presentations at national conferences including the American Association of Counseling and Development, National Employee Assistance Personnel Association, American Association of School Psychologists and the National Council of Exceptional Children, and at several state associations. Dr. Slay's training style combines quality material presented in a direct manner with humor and excellent presentation skills. PROGRAMS: Effective Interventions for Challenging Clients; Using the Expressive Arts as Powerful Therapeutic Tools in Grief and Pain Resolution TRAVELS FROM: Houston, Texas FEE: $
Douglas C. Smith MA, MS, M.Div is a professional speaker, trainer and consultant with more than 25 years experience as a counselor, therapist, patient care advocate and health care administrator. He is the author of several books and has also published in such journals as Caring Magazine; Counseling and Values; Medical Hypnoanalysis Journal; Journal of Pastoral Care; and Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. Doug's three masters degrees in three different disciplines gives him a truly holistic perspective that takes into consideration the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of patients. He has given workshops for institutions in all 50 states with clients including: Stanford University Medical Center, Connecticut Holistic Health Association, Washington State Hospice Organization, Jewish Hospital, College of Nursing (St. Louis), University of Wisconsin Medical School, Our Lady of Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago), and Hazelden. PROGRAMS: Different Ways of Grieving, Different Ways of Healing; Being a Wounded Healer; BOOKS The Complete Book of Counseling the Dying and the Grieving, Caregiving: Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body & Soul, Being A Wounded Healer, It Takes A Village to Say Good-Bye TRAVELS FROM: Madison, Wisconsin FEE: $
Harold Ivan Smith, Ed.S., D.Min., is a writer, teacher, speaker and counselor An exceptional wordsmith and storyteller, Harold Ivan has a talent for helping people view information from a new perspective. Harold Ivan Smith is an adjunct Professor in the doctoral program at Northern Baptist Seminary and has taught courses in bereavement at Nazarene Theological Seminary, Bethel Seminary, and MidAmerica Nazarene University. Harold Ivan is a member of the National Storytellers Association and is researching the use of "story telling" in grief resolution. He has pioneered the use of children's books with adult grievers, and leads Grief Gatherings (innovative storytelling groups) at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City and in churches around the country. Harold Ivan has keynoted a number of national conferences and frequently presents workshops for bereavement, hospice training and pastoral leadership. PROGRAMS: Coping with Grief in a ‘Get Over It and Move On' World; Parentloss; Under-Recognized Loss, Red-Letter Grief BOOKS: On Grieving the Death of a Friend, When You Don't Know What to Say, On Grieving the Death of a Mother, On Grieving the Death of a Father, An Absence Called Presence...and MANY more TRAVELS FROM: Kansas City, Missouri FEE: $
Rob Zucker has presented programs on loss and grief to over 20,000 human services professionals. A frequent speaker with the American Academy of Bereavement, he has also been a faculty member for regional, national and international educational events, including Harvard University Medical School Cape Cod Summer Institutes, the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Antioch New England Graduate School, the World Gathering on Bereavement and the Second International Conference on Children and Death. Formerly the director of the Pediatric Bereavement Counseling Program at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, he developed an award-winning bereavement counseling and support service for parents, siblings, hospital staff, schools and the larger community. Rob maintains a bereavement counseling practice for individuals and families, and, for over the past twenty-five years, has run various specialized bereavement groups including groups for young widows, bereaved parents, bereaved grandparents, child homicide survivors and bereaved siblings. PROGRAMS: Helping Grieving Children and Teens, Grief Counseling: Cutting Edge Strategies & Clinical Interventions TRAVELS FROM: Hartford, Connecticut FEE: $
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FRANK CICCIA, MBA, MEd
DR. JANIS A. DiCIACCO
DR. JAMES A. FOGARTY
DR. WILLIAM G. HOY
DR. JOHN R. JORDAN
DAVID KESSLER
ALYCE LaVIOLETTE, MA, MFS
DR. BERNARD S. SCHWARTZ
JUDITH SKRETNY, MA
DOUGLAS C. SMITH, MA, MS, MDiv
DR. HAROLD IVAN SMITH
ROBERT ZUCKER, MA, FT
