Murphy Day
What is Murphy Day?
Murphy Day was started 26 years ago to recognize and honor Dr. Harold D. Murphy for his fine professional contributions to the profession of counseling. Dr. Murphy is a former Department Head in the Department of Counseling at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
The event has grown to become the best and most affordable opportunity for professional growth, stimulation, and continuing education for counselors and other human service workers in educational, agency, and business settings.
It is the goal of the Department of Counseling and the Murphy Day organizers to provide professional counselors and human service workers the highest quality continuing education at an affordable cost. The Department of Counseling is proud to sponsor this event as a reminder of the continued quality of professional excellence that has long been our tradition. We are looking forward to seeing you on campus and having the opportunity to visit with you.
2009
26th Annual Murphy Day
Continuing Education Conference
Quality Continuing Education at an Affordable Cost
6 HOURS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR
COUNSELORS, SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS
Byron Katie, Author of Loving What Is
February 27, 2009
SOLD OUT
Byron Katie, internationally known author and founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves— radically shift and their lives are changed forever. Katie (as everyone calls her) not only shows us that our problems originate in our thinking: she gives us the tools to open our minds and set ourselves free. You will leave her workshop with these very practical tools and the process for working with clients to effectively assist them in modifying their belief systems.
Byron Katie became severely depressed in her early thirties. For almost a decade she spiraled down into depression, rage, self-loathing, and constant thoughts of suicide; for the last two years she was often unable to leave her bedroom. Then one morning in February 1986, she experienced a life-changing realization. There are various names for an experience like this. Katie calls it "waking up to reality." She realized that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but the beliefs she'd had about the world. Instead of hopelessly trying to change the world to match her thoughts about how it should be, she could question these thoughts and, by meeting reality as it is, experience unimaginable freedom and joy. As a result, a bedridden, suicidal woman was instantly filled with love for everything life brings.
Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, states, “Byron Katie’s Work is a great blessing for our planet. The root cause of suffering is identification with our thoughts, the ‘stories’ that are continuously running through our minds. Byron Katie’s Work acts like a razor-sharp sword that cuts through that illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being. Joy, peace, and love emanate from it as your natural state. In Loving What Is, you have the key. Now use it.”
For more information about Byron Katie, go to www.thework.com
8:30-8:55 |
On-Site Registration |
9:00-12:00 |
Katie will introduce The Work and demonstrate this powerful process of inquiry with audience volunteers |
12:00-1:30 |
Lunch (included) |
1:30-4:30 |
Continued live demonstration of The Work and the audience will have the oppurtunity to The Work with each other Question and answer period |
Book signing will follow the workshop.
Location: The NEW Sam Rayburn Memorial Student Center
Texas A&M University-Commerce
2200 W. Neal St.
Commerce, TX- 75429
For more information, call: 903-886-5637
SOLD OUT
2008
The 25th annual Murphy Day Continuing Education Conference was held at the Memorial Student Center on Friday, February 29, 2008.
Dr. Robert C. Berg presented a program on Leading Counseling Groups that Work. Just like in the years past area counselors, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals were present for the seminar.
Dr. Berg retired from private practice and teaching at the University of North Texas after a 38 year career. His specialty area was group counseling, and he has 46 years of experience as a leader of training and therapeutic groups. In 28 years at the University, Dr. Berg trained more group leaders than any other person in the United States.
He has been a consultant at various times to the American Airline, Braniff Airways, the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints Football Clubs, Chicago Board of Education, University of North Texas Football team, and the Federal Aviation Administration.
He has authored several books and many articles about group counseling including the popular textbook, Group Counseling: Concepts and Procedures, with Drs. Gary Landreh and Kevin Fall. A recent article showing the use of the films Twelve Angry Men as a teaching tool for group process was co-authored with Drs. Chris Simpson and Steve Armstrong and published in the Journal for Specialists in Group Work.
2007
The 24th annual Murphy Day Continuing Education Conference was held at the Memorial Student Center on Friday, February 23, 2007.
Dr. Collin Ross and Melissa Caldwell presented a program on Self-Mutilation to area counselors, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals.
Dr. Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author and lecturer in the field of traumatic stress and trauma related disorders. He is the founder and president of the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma. He is the executive director of three trauma programs located at Timberlawn Mental Health System in Dallas, Texas, Forest View Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Del Amo Hospital in Torrance, California. Dr. Ross provides treatment for patients with trauma related disorders, and symptoms. This would include treatment for: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Borderline Personality Disorder, Addictive Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The Symptoms treated and the admission criteria are: suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, self-destructive and addictive behaviors, and inability to function.
Dr. Harold Murphy, for whom the conference is named, and a former Department Head in the Department of Counseling, was also on hand to introduce the program. See pictures from the conference.
