NECAP News

Doings and comings and goings of NECAP and its members

August, 2009
Member Al Milliren is president elect of NASAP!
At the most recent election of officers and board members of the North American Association of Adlerian Psychology, Dr. Al Milliren was chosen NASAP president-elect for 2009 - 2010. (Al is a special friend and honorary member of NECAP, giving much encouragement to us. He lives in Illinois where he is Associate Professor of Psychology and Counseling and Team Leader for the School Counseling program at Governors State University in University Park, IL, and also serves as adjunct faculty for the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, IL. Before moving to Illinois, Al and his wife lived in Odessa, Texas where, among other things, he was instrumental in the formation of the West Texas Affiliate of NASAP.

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August, 2009
Member Bob Hermann-Keeling uploads three web sites!
Bob recently uploaded three web sites, one of which (www.lifecourseinstitute.com) is a major revision based on comments by family and friends that it too long. The second site uploaded was www.life-patterns.com, in which he offers LEAP (the LifeCourse Effective Action Program) to individuals on the Internet. And the third is this one you are on right now, the brand new web site of the mostly brand new Adlerian Affiliate for the New England States: NECAP, the New England Community of Adlerian Psychology! (Problem is...the sites don't seem to match the URL used to called them up. Type "www.adler-necap.org"...and you get nothing. But wait! Type LifeCourseInstitute.com and you get the NECAP site! Oh yes, andif you type "www.life-patterns.com" you actually GET that site! Bob will get this straight one day...doubtless with help from others.

September 30, 2009
Member Bob Herrmann-Keeling writing new book on "inferiority"
Bob is in the midst of writing another book, this time on the Adlerian concept of inferiority feelings and related topics such as finalism, goal-setting, compensation & over-compensation, superiority strivings, etc. He is basing it all on LEAP, which he created 20+ years ago to help clients understand their ten major life-patterns. He is looking at each part of each pattern to see how inferiority feelings may arisde there, and continue into aduklthood. He has been greatly helped by Al Milliren (above) and Wes Wingett, who co-wrote an article on the topic for a major terxt on Adler. In fact it was Wes who got the idea rolling when he asked Bob about "the five forms of inferiority"

September 30, 2009
Member Wes Wingett has great idea, and also offers himself to lead at a NECAP conference!
Wes called today and we had a great chat! Seems he's been interested in "inferiority feelings" also recently, but from the "what can I DO about it?" point of view. He has a GREAT idea for a positive and practical approach which, we hope, when fleshed out and with illustrations-from-life, may be a chapter in my new book, and also lead him to create a book of his own on the topic. It will be a true addition to and extension of Adlerian theory and practice!

September 30, 2009
Member Wes Wingett offers himself to lead at a NECAP conference!
In his call today, Wes offered himself as a gratis workshop/class leader at a future NECAP conference or meeting! Now we need to see some signs of encouragement among the membership to have such a meeting and to have our members encourage professionals and lay people in their communities to attend our First Annual NECAP Conference. This makes THREE top Adlerians who have offered themselves FREE to lead workshops/speak at our conferences: Al Milliren (NASAP president-elect, NASAP diplomate), Wes Wingett (NASAP Diplomate, former officer and committee chair, popular and in-demand speaker on topics Adlerian).

September 30, 2009
Bill Nicoll, Adlerian Training Institute, also offers leadership at NECAP meeting!
Bill Nicoll, Director of the Adlerian Training Institute, Port St. Lucie, FL., has also offered himself as a free speaker/leader at a NECAP conference! He especially wants to help because he's a native Bostonian and has fond memories of his time here with Adlerians of yore. As he said in his email offering his help last June: "As a born and bred New Englander myself, I'm thrilled to see Adler having a renewed presence in NE. In the 70's we had a lot going on via U of Vermont with summer training programs by the Ansbachers as well as Bill Marchant and Oscar Christensen and by Driekurs in late 60's. Indeed, my intro to Adler was thru my first school counseling position in Portsmouth, NH when district received a grant to train all teachers in Adlerian methods and to establish a family education center (which we did in '76) ...I was sent for training with Ansbachers as well as trained in open forum family counseling via that grant." Dr. Nicoll just returned from four days in Leiden, the Netherlands, where he led workshops at the conference called, Resilience Based Interventions with Learning and Behavior Problems: Transcending Traditional Practices. Wow, do we have some encouraging Adlerians!

September 30, 2009
Member Wes Wingett publishes new book on "Adlerian Life Style"
We can't testify to it, we don't even know the exact title, but we DO know Wes is excited about it and therefore we assume this is a terrific new book, this time on the major Adlerian concept of the "L:ife Style." Our copy is in the mail, so a review in our newsletter (remember that?) will be forthcoming.

(More news will be coming as we hear from members about their doings . . . stay tuned!
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