MSTAR2026
Save the date April 24th
Save the Date for MSTAR 2026, April 24th, 2026
Session 1: Wellness and Flourishing in Clinical Training
Ken Rice: Perfect Clients, Therapists, Trainees, and a Perfect Mess: Implications for BurnoutJesse OwenFlourishing and Virtues in Psychotherapy Training
Jesse Owen: Flourishing and Virtues in Psychotherapy Training
Panel from the frontlines
Session 2: Wellness and Flourishing in k-12 and Higher Education
Tamika LaSalle-Finley, Cultural Humility and Supporting International Students in Times of Uncertainty
Erin Mason, No Place Like Home: Finding Rest in Community
Cirleen DeBlaere, Promoting Wellness in Higher Education
Kristina Gordon, Getting out of the Ivory Tower: What you gain and what you should avoid
Session 3: Wellness and Flourishing in the Face of Grief or Trauma
Daniel Gutierrez, Engaged Contemplation and the Ecology of Resilience: A Missing Dimension of Wellness Science
Elise Choe, When Grief and Trauma Come to Work: Engaging Culturally Embedded Strengths and Virtues to Bolster Helping Professionals’ Well-Being
Joe Currier, Community Outreach and Professional Engagement (COPE): Strategies for Promoting Wellness and Sustained Recovery after Trauma and Loss
Melissa Zeligman, Holding Pain and Possibility Together: What Posttraumatic Growth Can Teach Us About Trauma, Grief, and Meaning
Session 4: Wellness and Flourishing from Strength to Strength
Joel Wong, Redemptive Gratitude: Gain Through Pain
Anica Mulzac, A Resilience Factor: Treating Race as an Asset not a Liability
Brad Shuck, From Strength to Strength: Restoration, Ritual, and Renewal in the Practice of Psychotherapy
Early Career Connecting Opportunities Before or After MSTAR
Early career, talks, feedback-we funded 4 folks on a grant with Jesse and Steve as co-PIs. If you are around Thursday at 4pm, this will be a small meeting in our center space (30 Pryor street, Atlanta). People will share their plan for 10-15 minutes and we’ll discuss. These kind of small gatherings are always the best way to do work. We do have a couple of other opportunities we may mention (New Zealand data set, humility project in final phase). My cell is 804-335-5173 so if you text me, we can have someone bring you up from the lobby.
Friday schedule, happy hour at 4:30-at the end of the day Friday anyone who wants to walk to a happy hour can join and I imagine some folks may find their way to dinner.
Saturday fun-Jamian Coleman (Alumni at GSU) setup three courts to play pickleball for an hour. Fill out the form and we’ll know you plan to attend, if you want to play or watch. We are also going to lunch afterwards so you could just show up there too.