Strategic Plan

Overview of the Five-Day Strategic Planning Process

Strategic Plan Launch, September 24: Lay the Groundwork for Planning
In this launch, we will create the environment and context for our work together. We will collectively review and make meaning of the data gathered from the four Surveys and multiple Focus Groups to set the foundation for our planning process.

Practical Vision, October 1: Identify a 3-5 year Practical Vision
Each of us carries some level of anticipation and hope for the future of the Center. Therefore, the vision already exists within us, and it motivates and informs our actions. Each individual’s insight is needed to create the shared vision of the group. This session breathes consciousness into our latent vision of the Center, giving it energy and creating shared commitment to bring the vision into reality.

Underlying Contradictions, October 2: Identify the Blocks to the Practical Vision
Contradictions are found in historic and societal trends, in our images and attitudes, and in patterns we create and out of which we operate. Contradictions are barriers that prevent us from realizing our vision. They are like boulders in our path to the future. They are sometimes recently arrived, sometimes longer-term realities in our Center. In this meeting, we will identify these resistances and address them as we create the Strategic Directions.

Strategic Directions, October 15: Focus Change and Set Direction
We will take the different threads of what we have generated as potential avenues to pursue. These will be directions for our future, which we will use as a framework to steer the Center towards the Practical Vision.

Focused Implementation, October 16: Determine a Calendar of Action for the Next Year
In this last meeting, we will move from analyzing and thinking about all the creative things that could be done to making decisions about what will be accomplished for each strategic direction in the next year. We will create a first year timeline for when those accomplishments will be completed, create teams to accomplish them and outline a 90-day implementation plan for each team.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, June 14, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Listening Into Being: An Actor’s Invitation
Robin Weigert in Conversation with Kristin Fiorella
Fridays, September 5, 2025 to May 29, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 East Bay Yearlong Program: Tuning into the Unspoken: Navigating the Landmarks of Unconscious Experience
Eric Miller, PhD; Elizabeth Stuart, MD; Graeme Daniels, LMFT; Marty Mulkey, LMFT; Chandra Rai, LMFT; and Luciane De Mello, LCSW
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Event title to be announced
Hannah Zeavin (presenter)
Fridays, September 26, 2025 to May 8, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 San Francisco Yearlong Program: Continuous Case Conference
J. Marc Wallis, LCSW; Paul Alexander, PhD; Genie Dvorak, PsyD; Bronwen Lemmon, LMFT; and Walt Beckman, PhD (case conference group leaders)
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Notions of Psychoanalytic Transformation in the Clinical Setting: Case Presentations from a Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Perspective
Henry Markman, MD; and Sandy Pepper, MD (speakers)
Mondays, September 29 to October 20, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
CCSW mini-Module: Working with Parents: A Complex and Essential Component of Child Psychotherapy
Lea Brown, LCSW, and Amy Wallerstein Friedman, LCSW (instructors)
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Scientific Meetings
THE RADICAL OTHERNESS OF MASUD KHAN
Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD (presenter); Charles Fisher, MD (moderator)
Wednesdays, October 15, 2025 to May 27, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 Seasoned Clinicians Program
 Jeffrey Sandler, MD; Clara Kwun, LCSW; Mark Swoiskin, MD; Jeanne Harasemovitch, LCSW; Michael Wagner, PhD, MFT; Joanna Wise-Bradman, LCSW, Dorian Newton, PhD; and Catherine Mallouh (leaders)
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Notions of Creativity in the Clinical Setting: Case Discussions from Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Perspectives
Jan Ole Luuk, LLM (presenter); Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP; and Paul Watsky, PhD, ABPP (discussants)
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents
Mary Brady, PhD (presenter); Jill Sallberg, PhD, ABPP (discussant)
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