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2006 Symposium
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Objective and Overview
Conference Organization and Schedule
Accommodations and Conference Facilities
Cost of Attendance
Objective and Overview
The Oxford Symposium is an invited, residential, international conference limited
to twenty-five to thirty invited Members and their Guests. Oxford Symposium
members are experienced practitioners, researchers and theorists worldwide working
at the leading edge of School-Based Family Counseling. School-Based Family Counseling
is a synthesis of School Counseling and Family Counseling. The model’s emphasis
on a family systems approach is designed to promote the academic success and
personal growth of children counseled primarily in the school setting. The project’s
objective 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 amongst the pioneers of this
paradigm shift. 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 2006 Symposium will build on the success of the Symposia
held at Keble College in 2003 and at Brasenose in 2004 and 2005 and attended
by Members from Hong Kong, Australia, Denmark, Lebanon, South Africa, Malaysia,
New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The 2006 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 (30 minute presentation), either individually or as part of a panel: around fifteen 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, and individual case studies. The papers presented will be reviewed by an advisory editorial committee and will be published in the Proceedings of the 2006 Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling.
One quarter of Symposium Members return to participate in a successive Oxford Symposium and one fifth of those attending the inaugural conference at Keble in 2003 have returned in both 2004 and 2005. The success of the Oxford Symposium conference project is further demonstrated by ongoing national and trans-national collaboration between Symposium Members in teaching and research and by the formation of the International Council for School-Based Family Counseling.
For program highlights of the 2004 Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family
Counseling, with a list of papers presented, with abstracts, and a program of
tours and excursions, visit the 2005
Oxford Symposium web page.
For program highlights of the 2004 Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family
Counseling, with a list of papers presented, with abstracts, and a program of
tours and excursions, visit the 2004
Oxford Symposium web page.
For program highlights of the 2003 Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family
Counseling, with a list of papers presented, with abstracts, and a program of
tours and excursions, visit the 2003
Oxford Symposium web page.
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Conference Organization and
Schedule
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
the spectacular Blenheim Palace, birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
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Accommodations and Conference Facilities
The Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling contracts with Brasenose
College for the provision of accommodation and conference facilities.
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 double-bedded
rooms are available for couples in New Quad. All rooms have en-suite bathrooms,
the majority with bath and shower.
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. Facilities for
Powerpoint, OHP and video are available to Symposium presenters.
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Cost of Attendance
The cost of attending the 2006 Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling
is:
USD $1,950 for Members * USD $1,300 for Members (retired) USD $1,300 for Members
(student) USD $1,300 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.
* the rate for Ordinary Members is subject to reduction if a early reservation
is made:
before 30th April 2006 $1,800
before 31st May 2006 $1,875
after 31st May 2006 $1,950
Symposium Members and Guests make one payment at the time of registration unless awaiting funding approval; Symposium Members awaiting funding approval make an initial registration deposit of $250; this initial deposit locks in the rate if registering before 30th April 2006.
Cancelation | Registrations paid are refundable in full before April 30th 2006; registration payments are nonrefundable after July 9th 2006; registrations canceled between April 30th and July 9th 2006 will be subject to a refund declining by 10% each week, ie. 90% of payment made is refundable if canceled by May 7th, 80% if canceled by May 14th and so on.
Contact | For further information or if you would like to recommend a colleague
to the invitees' list, please email the conference coordinator, Peter Geiger
MA, MFT, at ptrgeiger@aol.com
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