For over 20 years The Montclair Women's Cultural Arts Club was a premiere showcase for alternative women's culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. At a time when lesbian spaces have been closing world wide, this venue provided a safe haven where community formed around music, politics & culture. That era ended with a final concert in 2015 with Linda Tillery, Holly Near, Melanie DeMoore, Alix Dobkin, Terry Garthwaite, Barbara Higbie, Mary Watkins & The Washington Sisters. This Video explores the importance of creating inclusive space by weaving interviews and archival photos with highlights of that momentous concert.
Now this video documentary is available for purchase on DVD.

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AGPA Connect brings Mental health professionals currently working with groups or in training who wish to be kept abreast of new developments and expand the scope of their clinical practices.
Hear world-renowned faculty instruct, challenge, and inspire. Learn valuable, proven strategies and clinical techniques that can be used immediately in your practice designed to sharpen your knowledge and skills.

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2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Freud’s “Beyond the
Pleasure Principle”, in which he grimly tried to contend with the catastrophic
trauma of his time, World War 1. And his conclusions were indeed grim—
repetition compulsion, death drive. Grim, yes, but unfortunately also prescient.
We are now living in the midst of our own catastrophic traumata, our own contact
with the workings of the repetition compulsion and the death drive: millions
fleeing with nowhere to go, the climate becoming what it has never been, nations
and neighborhoods bunkering themselves into racist, xenophobic enclaves.
On Saturday evening, at our Special Symposium we will explicitly address the
issue of thinking psychoanalytically within this howling surround. Our two
esteemed Plenarists, Robert Jay Lifton and Carol Gilligan, will be joined by
Irma Brenman Pick, Lindsay Clarkson, Dorothy Holmes, Francisco Gonzalez,
Luis Ripoll and Ann Pellegrini —representing five separate decades of analytic
thinking—will engage in a structured conversation, providing their own points
of view on how they are grappling generatively, in both clinical and extra-clinical
work.

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CELA is a statewide organization of over 1,200 California attorneys who devote the major portion of their practices to representing employees in individual employment cases and class actions, including cases involving unpaid wages, discrimination, harassment, retaliation and whistleblowing. We help our members protect and expand the legal rights and opportunities of working women and men through litigation, education and advocacy.
Hear the latest in best practices across the state.

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Renown psychologist and teacher, Dr. Laurel Parnell, Ph.D, developed a protocol to help clients suffering from a range of problematic behaviors including alcohol, meth, cocaine, eating disorders as well as dysfunctional relationships. These audio recordings highlight the basics of "Connecting the Consequences Protocol" for practitioners to use with clients.

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