WINDOWSILL WINTER 2009 Founding Member Spotlighton Sue Ellen Talley MFTby Karen Fried Sue Talley and I met at Violet’s two-week intensive in the summer of 1995, and began a 14-year friendship and association through our work with children using Violet’s…
WINDOWSILL SUMMER 2008 MOVING SOUTH & PASSING BATONS Summer 2008 was a time of huge change for Violet and enormous growth for VSOF. For the first time in more than two decades, Violet did not offer her world-famous two-week training. Instead she…
WINDOWSILL SPRING 2008 Thanks to Peter Mortola, Ph.D. for sharing an excerpt from BAM! (published by Routledge and available at www.bamgroups.com) Peter is Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology for the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis and Clark College. Chapter…
WINDOWSILL WINTER 2008 Brazilian Warmthby Claire Mercurio, Ph.D. A vital mission of the Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation is to expand and solidify international connections between professionals utilizing, or wishing to utilize, Violet’s therapeutic model with children. On a rainy Friday…
WINDOWSILL SUMMER 2007 Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child’s Inner SelfBook Review by Michael Petracca, MFT If you have ever attended a Violet Oaklander training, you have had this experience. At some point in the proceeding – either at…
WINDOWSILL SPRING 2007 Honoring Violet at the Future Conference at Esalenby Peter Mortola, Ph.D. It turns out that it’s not so easy to get a good night’s sleep at Fritz’s house. Violet Oaklander, Lynn Stadler and I all can attest to that.…
WINDOWSILL WINTER 2007 FROM WINDOWS TO OUR CHILDREN TO HIDDEN TREASURE:A SPAN OF 25 YEARSBy Violet Oaklander Over 25 years have passed between the publishing of Windows To Our Children and the writing of Hidden Treasure. What happened in between…
