Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation

Welcome to the Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation

The Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation is a non-profit corporation created to further the work of Dr. Violet Oaklander, eminent child and adolescent psychotherapist, trainer, and author of 'Windows to Our Children', a seminal text now published in 12 languages. The Foundation brings together dedicated mental health professionals who are preserving, extending and supporting Dr. Oaklander's Gestalt-based therapeutic work with children and adolescents, as well as continuing her training work with adults.

A Word or Two from Violet

I would like to extend a heartfelt greeting and welcome to all of you who have become Friends of the Foundation. This is our first of what I hope will be many newsletters. I am so thrilled and moved by the accomplishments of the Foundation in the short time of our existence. Consider: we have achieved non-profit status; we have a beautiful website; we printed an outstanding brochure describing the Foundation; we launched a party held at a beautiful retreat center in Santa Barbara—La Casa de Maria; and we’ve raised enough money to pay our bills so far. These are just a few of our accomplishments to date. We have many more plans—great plans!!

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Calendar of Events

JUNE
San Luis Obispo, CA
Central Coast Chapter of the Association for Play Therapy. Presentation: “Gestalt Play Therapy: Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue”

JULY
Vilnius, Lithuania
Lynn Stadler’s two-week training “Working with Children & Adolescents” at the European Summer Residential Training Program for Therapists offered by Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles (GATLA)

Solvang, CA
Felicia Carroll’s one- and two-week Summer training programs, “Foundations” or “Advanced”

Manchester, England
Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT) Conference. Presentation: Adolescence: Absence and the Abyss

SEPTEMBER
Santa Barbara and Solvang, CA
Start dates for two ongoing training programs on Gestalt Therapy with Children and Adolescents

London, England
Can I go now? Traversing Minefields in Adolescent Therapy at Confer's Trauma and the Child Conference

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