Keynote Speaker:
Conference Schedule
| Time |
Presentation Title |
| 7:45 - 8:45 am |
Registration & Hospitality |
| 8:45 - 9:00 am |
Introductions |
| 9:00 - 12:00 pm |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ev Worthington
Ethical issues of forgiveness and justice in a clinical setting
(There will be two 10-minute breaks)
|
| 12:00 pm |
Complete evaluation for morning session of the conference |
| 12:00-1:00 pm |
Lunch Break
(You may pre-order a boxed lunch or get lunch on your own) |
| 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ev Worthington
Ethical issues of forgiveness and justice in an international setting
(There will be two 10-minute breaks) |
| 4:00 - 4:15 pm |
Complete evaluation for the afternoon session of the conference |
How to Register
U.S. Mail with a Check
To register for this conference, print out the Conference Brochure, complete the Registration Form portion and mail it along with a check for your registration fee to the address below. (Conference Brochure will be posted in November).
Tonya Baker
Ethics Conference Registration
Messiah College
One College Avenue, Box 3052
Grantham, PA 17027
OR
On-line with a Visa or MasterCard
Complete the on-line registration form and credit card information page. Once you receive a confirmation via email, you are registered for the conference and need to do nothing further. (THIS FEATURE HAS NOT YET BEEN ACTIVATED).
Registration Fees:
Prior to April 10, 2009 Deadline:
(Checks should be made payable to "Messiah College" ).
$80.00 - All day - Non-Messiah College individual/professional/faculty
$50.00 - Half-day - Non-Messiah College individual/professional/faculty
$70.00 - All day - Current Messiah College Employees
$40.00 - Half-day - Current Messiah College Employees
$ 5.00 - Current Messiah College Students
$10.00 - Boxed lunch (must be pre-orderd by 4/10/09)
After the April 10, 2009 Deadline:
(Checks should be made payable to "Messiah College" ).
$100.00 - All - day - Non-Messiah College individual/professional/faculty
$70.00 - Half-day - Non Messiah College individual/professional/faculty
$90.00 - All-day - Current Messiah College Employees
$60.00 - Half-day - Current Messiah College Employees
$ 5.00 - Current Messiah College Students
Pre-Registration is recommended, but not required. You may register on-site.
All boxed lunches must be pre-ordered by April 10, 2009.
Early Bird Registration Deadline: April 10, 2009.
Continuing Education Hours
Social Workers:
Messiah College offers an undergraduate social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and is therefore a pre-approved provider for continuing education courses for social workers and clinical social workers. This program is awarded 6 hours of continuing education in the ethics category for social workers and clinical social workers.
Psychologists:
We anticipate applying for APA credits for this conference. Philhaven is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Philhaven maintains responsibility for the program. This program, if approved, will be awarded 3 hours of approved continuing education for psychologists that will satisfy the ethics requirements for psychologists. These hours can be obtained by attending the first half of the conference only. Participants must attend the entire first half of the conference and complete an evaluation form in order to receive a certificate of attendance. Participants are welcomed to attend the second half of the conference as well, but no APA credits will be given for attendance at the second half of this conference.
Counselors:
Messiah College offers an undergraduate social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and is therefore a pre-approved provider for continuing education courses for professional counselors. This program is awarded 6 hours of continuing education for professional counselors.
Marriage and Family Therapists:
Messiah College offers an undergraduate social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and is therefore a pre-approved provider for continuing education courses for marriage and family therapists. This program is awarded 6 hours of continuing education in the ethics category for marriage and family therapists.
Certified Family Life Educators:
We anticipate applying for 6 contact hours (or .6 CEUs) for the Certified Family Life Educator program through the National Council on Family Relations.
PA Teachers:
This program has been approved for 6 hours of continuing education for the Act 48 Regulations by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker Everett Worthington , Ph.D. , is Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University (largest state university in Virginia). He is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Virginia. He has published over 20 books and over 200 articles and scholarly chapters, mostly on forgiveness, marriage, and family topics. He frequently discusses forgiveness, marriage, and family in media.
He became interested in forgiveness through his practice in couple counseling, and he began conducting research on forgiveness in 1990. He focused his early research on forgiveness and reconciliation in couples and families, and that interest continues to date. He also has developed and studied the effectiveness of psychoeducational groups in secular milieus to help people deal with unforgiveness across a variety of relationships within the same group.
In the last ten years, he has studied how forgiveness and justice work together and can oppose each other. He became interested in this after the murder of his mother. Ev forgave the murderer, as did his brother and sister. They each consider that forgiveness as a legacy that their mother passed to them. Still, the emotional fallout of dealing with a violent murder can be devastating, and Ev’s brother committed suicide in distress about such issues. Ev inevitably felt self-condemnation over his failings in his relationship with his brother, and he has been studying forgiveness of self intensively.
From 1998 to 2005, he directed A Campaign for Forgiveness Research (www.forgiving.org), a non-profit organization that supports research into forgiving. He works to build a field of studying forgiveness scientifically. The Campaign is now under a new director who is focusing on dissemination of the findings.
Ev is personally a committed Christian and has talked extensively throughout the world in venues that were composed of Christians and those that were thoroughly secular. He has worked with several governments around the world, sharing about the promotion of forgiveness and reconciliation. Given his lifelong work in a secular state university and his Christian beliefs, he considers himself as attempting to be a bridge-builder between Christian and secular, academic and lay, research and practice communities. He considers his mission as "to bring forgiveness into every willing heart, home, and homeland."
He has one new book—Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Theory and Application (Brunner-Routledge, August, 2006), which explains his stress-and-coping theory of forgiveness, describes his psychoeducational programs to promote forgiveness and reconciliation, and discusses a model of psychotherapy to promote forgiveness. He has four other recent books, Handbook of Forgiveness (Brunner Routledge, 2005), an edited collection of reviews of research from the top researchers in the world representing the state of the science; Forgiving and Reconciling: Bridges to Wholeness and Hope (InterVarsity Press, 2003), a Christian-oriented account of his own method of helping people forgive; The Power of Forgiving (Templeton Foundation Press, 2005) a collection of quotes on forgiveness within a narrated essay on finding the treasure of forgiveness in the ruins of relationships; and a revised edition of Hope-focused Marriage Counseling (InterVarsity Press, 2005), where hope-focused marriage enrichment has been adjudicated to be one of four empirically supported treatments for marriage enrichment. His most recent book is Humility: The Quiet Virtue.
Ev actually has a life also. He is a member of Christ Presbyterian Church (and also elder), where he has attended with his wife since 1978 (and family while the children were at home). He has a wife, Kirby, and they have been married since 1970. Kirby is a child development and parenting specialist, and conducts workshops and writes books on parenting and children. Ev and Kirby have four adult children who are scattered around the world. Christen (1976) is married to Steve and they have two children (Bethany and Josh). They live in Bahrain. Jonathan is married to Lynsey, and they live in Scotland where Jonathan is working on his PhD in Theology and Lynsey is working on their first child (due May, 2008). Becca is in the Peace Corps in Moldova (next to Romania and just south of the Ukraine). Katy Anna is in Richmond, having returned from school in London and travels around the continent. Ev plays tournament tennis (mostly in the age-group tournaments throughout Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region) and has a clear goal for his tennis: someday, he wants to be ranked number one in the world in the over-100 category. Ev also does ballroom dancing, and he blushes to admit that he competed in 2007 in the Dancing with the Stars Traveling Show at the Richmond Coliseum. (He and his partner didn’t win. They were defeated by a couple who were ten years old.)
Directions/Parking
Directions
Travel approximately 3.5 miles beyond the PA Turnpike interchange and take the Lisburn Road exit. At the light at the bottom of the ramp, turn left onto Lisburn Road. Follow Lisburn through the next traffic light and up to the stop sign at the top of the hill. Continue straight on Lisburn and turn right onto Grantham Road at the bottom of the hill. Follow Grantham Road straight ahead to the stop sign at the main entrance to the College. At the stop sign, turn right onto College Avenue. Follow the signs to the conference parking areas.
Travel approximately 4.0 miles beyond the PA 74 North intersection near Dillsburg to the Lisburn Road exit. At the bottom of the ramp, turn right onto Lisburn Road. Follow Lisburn to the stop sign at the top of the hill. Continue straight on Lisburn and turn right onto Grantham Road at the bottom of the hill. Follow Grantham Road straight ahead to the stop sign at the main entrance to the College. At the stop sign, turn right onto College Avenue. Follow the signs to the conference parking areas.
Additional directions are available from Messiah College's homepage.
For this conference, all guests should park in any available space in the Stary Field parking lot (just through the covered bridge, #7 on the campus map). There is no charge for parking.
Lunch
You may pre-order a boxed lunch for $10.00. The lunch would include a turkey sandwich, salad of the day, fresh fruit cup, bag of chips, hommade cookies and a bottle of water. If you have any dietary restrictions, please note that on your registration and we will do our best to accomodate you. All lunches must be pre-ordered by April 10, 2009. No boxed lunches will be available the day of the conference. If you chose to have lunch on your own, you may go to Lottie Nelson Dining Hall (second floor of Eisenhower Campus Center), The Falcon Express (first floor of Eisenhower Campus Center), or the Union Cafe in Larsen. Click here to see the various on-campus options. There are some off-campus options close-by but we recommend you eat on-campus due to time limitations.
Questions?
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Tonya Baker.
