Saturday, April 5, 2025
4:00-6:00 pm (Pacific Time)
In-person at SFCP (444 Natoma Street, San Francisco) and via ZOOM
Cost: Sliding Scale Donation (free to candidates, students, and SFCP PPTP trainees).
ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE AND WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE
CANDIDATE TRAINING GRANT FUND FOR EQUITY & DIVERSITY
Silent Art Auction: we appreciate the generosity of anyone who may have art to donate for the silent art auction which will accompany this program. Please contact Beth Steinberg (besteinberg@comcast.net) if you have art you would like to donate.
Forrest Hamer, PhD and Alice Jones, MD – distinguished poets and SFCP members – offer an event where they each speak for a few minutes about their writing on listening and on muses. They will then engage the group in an interactive listening experience which will involve observing and thinking about how we receive language, tone, music and presence of another. What is generated inside the analyst/listener/writer by way of response? How does the muse give rise to a creative impulse to respond? How do we take in another’s being across differences of self and other, culture, race, age, gender etc. How do we make use of ourselves in response? We will then read some poems together, engaging in noticing how we listen, what we hear, and how we respond in feelings and in words. Together, we will engage as a group in the experience of sending and receiving (call and response) as a basis for how we respond to one another, and how a space can open between us and inside each of us.
Click here to see some of their recent and relevant publications.
- Hamer, F. Muse, That Slave. (Under Review for Publication)
- Hamer, F. (2012). Evocative space: Where listening begins. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 60 (4): 781-789.
- Hamer, F. (2007). Rift: Poems by Forrest Hamer. Four Way Books, First Edition.
- Jones, A. Cadence of Vanishing. Unbound Edition. Forthcoming in 2025.
- Jones, A. (2020). Listening: Poetry as Depth Perception, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 17:2
- Jones, A. (2020). Vault. Apogee Press.
