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About the Event


Hosted by the founding members of Playful Dyads, Dr. Allan Schore will be presenting a collection of the latest clinical research and theoretical developments in the years 2020 and 2021 that advance our understanding and contribute to practice of Right Brain Psychotherapy. 

Event Agenda

Session 1
  • Welcome and Introductions (15 min)
  • Presentation from Allan (1h 25 min)
  • Q&A (10 min)
[ 10 Minute Break]
Session 2
  • Presentation from Allan (1h 25 min)
  • Q&A (10 min)
  • Wrap Up (10 min)

This event is co-sponsored with the Insight Center, we offer our thanks!

Learning Objectives

  • Describe how to be improvisational and apply play to facilitate change;

  • Explain specific ways for ‘being-with’ works to support change;

  • Describe how the Right Hemisphere attends and generates being-with the other; and

  • Discuss two techniques for practicing right brain psychotherapy.

On-Demand Event Includes:

    1. EVENT RECORDING

    2. Presentation (Download)

    1. Learning Objectives & Summary of Papers to be Discussed (Dec. 11, 2021)

    2. The Place of Play and Child Therapy in All of Psychotherapy

    3. Cultivating the Improvisational in Psychoanalytic Treatment

    4. Improv Changes the Functional Connectivity of The Brain

    5. Interpersonal Synchrony Makes Social Time

    6. This adaptive ability of the infant to bidirectionally communicate its affective states is especially activated in the moments of intimate dyadic free play.

    7. “The right hemisphere pays attention to the Other”

    8. “Meaningful doing must emerge out of a place of being-ness”

    9. The therapist works as an embodied ‘‘witness to the truth of the other’’

    10. Interhemispheric dynamic: “We must inhibit one in order to inhabit the other”

    11. Placing Intersubjectivity Practices in Current Times

About this course

  • $199.00
  • 13 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Featured Readings
for the Event



With your event registration, you will be given access to 10 articles and chapters curated by Dr. Allan Schore especially for this event. These materials will provide the basis for the event presentation and discussions.


Download a brief overview of the featured readings.

  • The Place of Play and Child Therapy in All of Psychotherapy

  • Cultivating the Improvisational in Psychoanalytic Treatment

  • Improv Changes the Functional Connectivity of The Brain

  • Interpersonal Synchrony Makes Social Time

  • This adaptive ability of the infant to bidirectionally communicate its affective states is especially activated in the moments of intimate dyadic free play

  • “The right hemisphere pays attention to the Other”

  • “Meaningful doing must emerge out of a place of being-ness”

  • The therapist works as an embodied ‘‘witness to the truth of the other’’

  • Interhemispheric dynamic: “We must inhibit one in order to inhabit the other”

  • Placing Intersubjectivity Practices in Current Times

Featured Presenter

Author / Researcher Allan Schore

Ph.D

Over the last three decades Dr. Allan Schore’s work has been an important catalyst in the “emotional revolution” now occurring across the mental health field and various scientific disciplines.

His work has heralded a new era of psychotherapeutic treatment centered on emotional processes “beneath the words” in both therapist and patient. The adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, the psychobiological substrate of the unconscious mind, describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and brains, but also the communication and interactive regulation of affects between minds and brains.

Allan Schore shared new developments with the Seattle Schore Group for 14 years in quarterly meetings. This session continues that tradition.

What People are Saying:

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Terrific presentation on Right to Right Brain communcation

sondra goldstein

This was a very helpful presentation which emphasized that we are always using Right to Right brain communication in effective psychotherapy.

This was a very helpful presentation which emphasized that we are always using Right to Right brain communication in effective psychotherapy.

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Brilliant

mary tesoro

Powerful. Understandable;. Not a wasted word. Optimal learning. Thank you.

Powerful. Understandable;. Not a wasted word. Optimal learning. Thank you.

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Allan Schore's Annual Roundup

Catherine Ann Cameron

Wonderful, rich session with Allan at his best and our moderators graciously keeping us focused on the stimulating fare. Well done, all, Ann

Wonderful, rich session with Allan at his best and our moderators graciously keeping us focused on the stimulating fare. Well done, all, Ann

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FANTASTIC!!!!

Alexa Albert

I miss our quarterly meetings (Seattle Schore Group) but getting this update is a wonderful compensation. I feel so deeply grateful seeing the research supp...

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I miss our quarterly meetings (Seattle Schore Group) but getting this update is a wonderful compensation. I feel so deeply grateful seeing the research supports and encourages the way I intuitively work as a psychoanalyst. So many other influences have tried to dissuade the authenticity and spontaneity which I know deep down is therapeutic! Thank you and PLEASE come again next year Allan!!

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Grateful

Martha Moore

I attended the Berkeley study group with Allan for many years, and have sorely missed the unique opportunity to immerse myself in the research, knowledge and...

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I attended the Berkeley study group with Allan for many years, and have sorely missed the unique opportunity to immerse myself in the research, knowledge and co-creation of deepened understanding of RBP. I would love more opportunities, and in particular more interactive moments with questions that lead to reflections on what gets generated from our combined experience of what Allan presents and from all the experiences and knowledge bases brought to the group by participants. The direction of psychotherapy in the communities in which I practice so often leads me to feel like a lone RBP/IPNB alien dropped into a strange planet of practice. I feel supported, inspired, and so very much less ALONE. A thousand thanks to Allan for sharing his heart, mind and valuable time with us all; and to those of you at Playful Dyads who supported this event. This was my favorite Christmas present this year!

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Very informative and thought provoking

Margaret Macgillivray

Confirmed to me the reasons why right-brain to right- brain therapy is so vital and effective for clients than past left brain tactics. I feel at times when...

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Confirmed to me the reasons why right-brain to right- brain therapy is so vital and effective for clients than past left brain tactics. I feel at times when a significant connection occurs with a client it cannot be described analytically but rather in the body. I really appreciate all the readings especially on "improvisational theatre" because I feel that is a useful tool to use with children and teens.

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The subject matter, New Developments in Right Brain Psych...

Sylvia Bercovici

Dr. Schore integrated his own seminal research with other areas in neuroscience, developmental theory and trauma to make a great offering to psychotherapy. ...

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Dr. Schore integrated his own seminal research with other areas in neuroscience, developmental theory and trauma to make a great offering to psychotherapy. Thank you!

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Registration for the event includes access to the recording for 90 days after purchase.


* Student / Early Career Professional is defined as currently enrolled in or having recently graduated from a professional, credentialed training program in the previous 2 years.