Upcoming Oxford Symposium at Brasenose College, Oxford
The 2010 Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling will be held at Brasenose College, Oxford, from August 8th to 13th 2010.
Limited to around 25 members
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Objective and Overview
The Oxford Symposium is an invited, residential, international conference limited to around twenty-five invited Members. Oxford Symposium members are experienced practitioners, researchers and theorists worldwide working at the leading edge of School-Based Family Counseling. With its origins in a synthesis of School Counseling and Family Counseling, School-Based Family Counseling has a multi-systems approach designed to promote academic success and personal growth in children and families. The objective of the Symposium is to make visible the “invisible college” of international experts in School-Based Family Counseling and to provide opportunity for information exchange, co-operation and collegial networking. Symposium Members come from diverse professional disciplines and include: counselor educators, social workers, school administrators, counselors and principals, psychologists, family therapists, physicians, psychiatrists, experts in counseling theory and practitioners in social psychology, public policy and the law. The international college of Oxford Symposium members now includes representatives from Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia,
New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The 2010 Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling is an intimate residential think-tank with the number of members kept small enough to promote cohesion and a high level of participation. Symposium Members may present or co-present a formal paper (45 minute presentation), either individually or as part of a panel: between fifteen and nineteen presentation slots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Papers may be presented on any aspect of School-Based Family Counseling, including: interventions, aspects of theory, program descriptions and outcome research, applications of the model to the reduction of school and family violence, counselor education and individual case studies. Symposium presenters may write a formal paper, either ahead of the conference or subsequently, and may elect to submit the paper to the editorial board of the International Journal for School-Based Family Counseling.
At our 2009, 2008 and 2007 conferences more than half of the participants have been returning Oxford Symposium members. Returning members make for cohesion in the group, greater enjoyment of the conference (both professional and personal) and an ever greater sense of community within our worldwide network of stakeholders in School-Based Family Counseling. The success of the Oxford Symposium is further demonstrated by ongoing national and trans-national collaboration between Symposium Members in teaching and research.
Conference Organization and Schedule
The conference program begins on the Sunday afternoon and ends after lunch on the Friday and is organized along similar lines each year. The proceedings are held in English.
Oxford Symposium Members and their Guests will live in residence at Brasenose College and will share all meals together in the sixteenth century Great Hall. Located at the heart of the mediaeval city of Oxford, adjacent to the Bodleian Library and Sheldonian Theatre, Brasenose was founded in 1509 and is one of the oldest of Oxford University’s thirty-nine colleges.
During the mornings Symposium Members will meet in session for presentations and discussion while Guests will attend a specially arranged morning cultural program. During the afternoons Members and Guests will together tour selected Oxford colleges and institutions; the Symposium cultural program will include private visits to parts of colleges not normally accessible to the public as well as a visit to one of the spectacular English country houses in the vicinity.
Accommodations and Conference Facilities
The Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling contracts with Brasenose College for the provision of conference facilities and accommodations.
Symposium Members and their Guests will reside in rooms vacated for the summer by Brasenose undergraduates. The eighteenth century rooms in Old Quad are bright and well furnished with some period features and antique pieces. Some twin-bedded rooms are available for couples in New Quad. All rooms have en-suite bathrooms, the majority with bath and shower.
Internet connection is available.
Lecture Room 11 in New Quad is reserved for use by the Symposium. This lovely, light, oak-paneled Victorian room has high ceilings and large stone-mullioned, leaded-light windows affording pleasant views across the quad. A range of AV facilities is available to Symposium presenters wishing to use Powerpoint, OHP slides or video.
The cost of attending the 2010 Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling is:
USD $1,950 for Members
USD $1,350 for Guests
Symposium registration rates cover the cost of the Symposium for Members and accommodation and all meals (including wines) and cultural program for Members and Guests; Symposium Members and Guests pay their own travel expenses; registrants are allocated places on a first-come, first-served basis.
Symposium Members make an initial deposit of $500 at the time registration is confirmed
a second payment of $725 by February 15th 2010
and a final payment of $725 by May 15th 2010
Cancelation
• Registrations paid are refundable in full up until May 30th 2010
• Registrations paid are nonrefundable after August 7th 2010
• Registrations canceled between May 31st and August 7th 2010 will be subject to a refund declining by 10% each week, ie. 90% is refundable if canceled by June 6th, 80% if canceled by June 13th and so on
Contact
For further information or if you would like to recommend a colleague to the invitees' list, please email the Symposium coordinator, Peter Geiger, MA, MFT, at Ptrgeiger@aol.com