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Latest Episode of Understanding Yourself with Rob Guttenberg

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On this episode of Understanding Yourself & Others, Rob Guttenberg shares a poem from Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs about raising children through support rather than authoritarian discipline.

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Understanding Yourself & Others: Discipline Without Tears

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Register: https://leapt.arlo.co/w/courses/147-raising-independent-competent-capable-children/764

In this workshop, Alyson discusses the recent changes in our parenting approaches that have negatively impacted children’s development.  Parents want resilient children who are less needy and demanding.  They want to be sure they will be ready to launch.  However, parents also inadvertently sabotage their own goals.  Participants will learn how to go about training children for independence and competency as well as keeping them accountable for their responsibilities without nagging, fighting or stepping in to rescue them.  The importance of stress tolerance through mistake-making and how encouragement, rather than praise, will establish the healthy mindset children need for growth will be demonstrated.

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Register: https://leapt.arlo.co/w/courses/146-from-conflict-to-cooperation-how-to-identify-and-resolve-power-struggles/763

This webinar will be helpful for working with strong-willed children (or parents!) who lock horns and act oppositional.  Using her visual props to explain psychological concepts, Alyson will help participants understand the dynamic that ignites and fuels a power struggle, as well as a 4-step method to move from conflict to co-operation.  Attendees will be given many opportunities to share situations they feel stumped by to get support and ideas from Alyson and the group.

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Adler Academy of Minnesota's 10th annual conference is October 9, 2026 in the Twin Cities. This year's focus is helping clients change by removing the barriers that get in the way of connection.

It's a full day of discussion, demonstration, small-group work, and hands-on therapeutic exercises. What you'll work through:

* The key causes of resistance in therapy, and creative ways to connect with clients despite barriers

* The Democratic Youth Engagement (DYE) model, and how it moves past "fix the kid" thinking with young people

* The barriers that quietly shape clinical work, including cross-generational, cross-cultural, therapeutic, treatment, professional collaboration, and personality (lifestyle) barriers

* Your own lifestyle barriers, and how examining them across the lifespan sharpens your work with clients of every age

Led by Marina Bluvshtein, Ph.D., LP, MA, LMFT (Adler University professor emerita and Adler Academy co-founder) and Adam Arnold, MA, LMFT, LADC (psychotherapist, trainer, and designer of the DYE model).

Registration and breakfast open at 9:30 am, with the conference running 10:00 am to 4:30 pm. Lunch is also included!

Register today at: https://adleracademymn.ticketspice.com/aam-2026

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Marina Bluvshtein, Ph.D., is an Adlerian therapist, researcher, supervisor, and writer. She took her teaching to 20 countries and authored more than 30 articles. She is a professor emerita at Adler University and co-founder of Adler Academy of MN. Her area of expertise includes the early recollections, dreams, metaphors, cross-cultural and cross-lingual therapy and supervision, and the history of psychology.

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Repair My House: Mind-Body-Soul
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Repair My House: Mind-Body-Soul
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Discover ways to nourish your mind-bodysoul infrastructure to move forward in managing and balancing the tasks of life. Learn how to use daily encounters to encourage yourself and others, and repair how people get along.

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Welcoming therapists, counselors, social

workers, students, and mental health

professionals for a full-day conference

exploring the intersection of Attachment and

Adlerian theories. Join us as we translate

theory into practice, strengthen clinical

skills, and deepen our ability to foster

belonging, connection, and growth in the

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We met some new friends and reconnected with some familiar ones. It was great to have our time together and if you were unable to join us at the conference we hope to see you online at our monthly meeting.

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Understanding Yourself With Rob Guttenberg 

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Watch all 15 videos with Rob Guttenberg who is a Psychologist and a Diplomate for the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, has created a series based on teachings in his book Funtastic Adlerian Techniques for Change.

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Understanding Yourself & Others with Rob Guttenberg

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Support student research with your participation!

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NASAP strives to support research involving Adlerian psychology, establishing guidelines for those who wish to reach current NASAP members for possible participation in studies. The information below is from a current student member, Annette Benneche, and her project recruitment details are in the attached document.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9PNZLVV

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Our group is looking for two people to volunteer to co-chair the Family Ed Section. Nominate yourself of someone you think would be interested. Email: hweaber@gmail.com for more details.

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The Adlerian Psychology Salon 2026 is a three-day conference celebrating Alfred Adler’s principles of social interest, encouragement, and community well-being.

The conference will take place at the beautiful and historic Toronto Reference Library, with additional sessions occurring on campus at the Adler Graduate Professional School, just a short walk down the street.

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215: The Family Meeting Kit – How To Make Family Meetings Fun And Effective 

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215: The Family Meeting Kit – How To Make Family Meetings Fun And Effective 

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Marjie Longshore and Paige Trevor are seasoned parent educators. Part of their curriculum is teaching the importance of holding regular family meetings. They also recognize that while parents are keen on the idea of family meetings, they also tend to give up quickly on this importance practice, for a variety of reasons. With research into the problems of consistency and compliance, and the ingenuity to solve for it, Marjie created the Family Meeting Kit as well as an online community platform to help support parents. We discuss all the benefits she has to offer families with these new creations and why they work.

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215: The Family Meeting Kit – How To Make Family Meetings Fun And Effective

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Podcast Episode · Parenting The Adlerian Way · March 2 · 49m

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The Courage to Laugh: 2026 Adlerian Summit to explore humour in human connection and healing | News and Updates | Adler University

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Read about The Courage to Laugh: 2026 Adlerian Summit to explore humour in human connection and healing and how it connects to the people, mission, and impact of Adler University in advancing mental health, equity, and systems-level change.

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March 20th Mtg. Summary: Supporting Parents navigating having difficult discussions with their kids. 

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March 20th Mtg. Summary: Supporting Parents navigating having difficult discussions with their kids. 

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Summary

The meeting focused on discussing how to share difficult topics with children, particularly in the context of current world events and political tensions. Alyson and Amy led the discussion, sharing insights on age-appropriate ways to talk to children about challenging subjects, emphasizing the importance of psychological safety, honest communication, and modeling appropriate responses to difficult news. The conversation covered strategies for helping children process information, the role of schools in supporting these discussions, and the impact of competitive versus cooperative cultural messages on child development. Participants shared personal experiences and perspectives, including challenges around gender roles and the current state of education systems. The conversation ended with plans to consider future topics, with suggestions to explore themes around competitive and cooperative cultures in raising children.

Key Takeaways

Talking about difficult topics with children requires age-appropriate communication, with younger children needing fewer details and older children capable of more adult-level conversations

Parents should focus on what they notice and model values through actions rather than just words

Family meetings and regular family dinners are crucial for maintaining connection and teaching democratic values

Children are exposed to news and world events regardless of parental shielding attempts, making it important to provide accurate information and context

Taking action on issues helps children feel empowered and prevents feelings of hopelessness

Schools play a vital role beyond academics in providing tools for critical thinking and social-emotional learning. Noted the competitive culture in society conflicts with cooperative values that families try to instill

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Alyson Schafer's Suggested resources discussed during our meeting on March 20th.

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Alyson Schafer's Suggested resources discussed during our meeting on March 20th.

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The home of news and fun facts for kids. Find out what is going on, with stories, pictures and videos. Try a quiz or one of our free games.

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Teaching Kids News is readable, teachable news for kids. Free articles written by professional journalists and curriculum material written by educators.

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Now students can follow the latest news. All tailored to their reading level. To explore the kids' website, select a grade and discover new stories each week.

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Now students can follow the latest news. All tailored to their reading level. To explore the kids' website, select a grade and discover new stories each week. View articles by grade level

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The NEW Social Justice Section Newsletter!

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The NEW Social Justice Section Newsletter!

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Supporting our fellow NASAP members in the Social Justice Section.

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Family Education Section Meeting Summary - Jan. 2026

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The Family Meeting Toolkit gives you everything you need to start. Inside, you’ll find step-by-step guidance, templates, and conversation prompts that make it easy to begin and keep the habit going—no matter your family’s size or stage.

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Build a Stronger Family, One Meeting at a Time | Circle In

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A family meeting is more than a calendar check-in—it’s a simple, weekly practice that helps families build connection, cooperation, and confidence together. With a consistent space to listen, share, and solve problems as a team, family meetings strengt…

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Many would like to continue to deepen their understanding and practice of Adlerian theory. This group is a way to dig into the core theory in bite-sized pieces. We’ll meet once a month to share insights and ideas from the assigned reading.

What to Expect

Our monthly gatherings will be held over Zoom. Facilitated by Dr. Amy Lew and Marjie Longshore, Ed.M., the format will include small and large group conversations as we explore ideas together.

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The first book we’ll be reading together is The Collected Works of Lydia Sicher: An Adlerian Perspective edited by Adele K. Davidson. Lydia Sicher was an early colleague of Alfred Adler, whom he chose to lead the family guidance centers in Austria whe…

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You’re invited to join a cohort of wise, thoughtful Adlerians interested in deepening their understanding and practice through the 4C Certification Course. The purpose of the course is to provide a foundational understanding of Adlerian theory through the Crucial Cs, bringing core Adlerian theory to life.

Who is this for? Anyone with an interest in Adlerian theory looking to deepen their understanding and practice.

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Want a Deeper Dive into Adlerian Theory? | Circle In

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If you are interested in learning more about Adler, we are offering a 4C Certification Course with live session and conversation. Join the Course4C Certification Course (Become: 4C Certified) You’re invited to join a cohort of wise, thoughtful Adler…

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August 28, 1929 ~ December 16, 2025 (age 96)

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Obituary for Dr. Eva Dreikurs Ferguson | Weber & Rodney Funeral Home

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Celebrate the life of Dr. Eva Dreikurs Ferguson and join others in sharing memories, stories, and condolences.

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The 2026 ISIP Annual Conference dates are February 27th & 28th, 2026! The conference will be at the Riverside Hotel in Boise Idaho and will be available virtually through the Zoom platform.

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Join your fellow Adlerians at the Winter Virtual Conference on January 17, 2026

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North American Society for Adlerian Psychology

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This Virtual Conference focuses on the clinical side of Adlerian psychology as well as working with families. All sessions will have some type of hands-on learning or demonstration. Below is the schedule of events:

Event Start - 9:30 AM EST (US); Welcome by Hallie Williams, NASAP President

Session 1 - 10:00-11:15 AM EST

Family Track: Lindsay Hill and Passion Bankhead - " Socially Interested Families: Supporting Parents with ADHD Raising Children with ADHD through an Adlerian Lens" (NBCC CEs only)

Break - 11:15-11:30 AM EST

Session 2 - 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EST
LUNCH - 12:45 - 1:15 PM EST
Session 3 - 1:15 - 2:30 PM EST

Clinical Track: Jeremiah Peck - "Integrating Adlerian Psychotherapy with Faith-Based Interventions (NBCC and APA CEs)

Break - 2:30-2:45 PM EST

Session 4 - 2:45 - 4:00 PM EST

4:00 PM EST - End

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2026 Winter Virtual Conference - North American Society for Adlerian Psychology

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This Virtual Conference focuses on the clinical side of Adlerian psychology as well as working with families. All sessions will have some type of hands-on learning or demonstration.

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Virtual Winter Conference will take place on January 31st & February 1st, 2025!
Participants can choose from among 16 workshops and listen to two wonderful plenaries.

Registration is open now (until January 25th): https://icassi-2026.ticketspice.com/icassi-2026-virtual-winter-conference

You first select the amount and then choose your workshops.

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Understanding Yourself & Others: Ironclad Logic

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So goes a BaYaka childhood. Children wander the forests in packs. They climb saplings and bathe in the rivers. They conduct day-long fishing trips: their parents glance toward them as they organize themselves, then let the kids go on their way.

But the BaYaka childhood isn't a novelty. As I'll discuss shortly, it is probably the norm for our species. And that means something has gone terribly wrong in the West.

45% have not walked in a different aisle than their parents at a store;

56% have not talked with a neighbor without their parents;

61% have not made plans with friends without adults helping them;

62% have not walked/biked somewhere (a store, park, school) without an adult;

63% have not built a structure outside (for example, a fort or treehouse);

71% have not used a sharp knife;

Meanwhile, 31% of 8-12 year olds have spoken with large language models. 23% have talked to strangers online, while only 44% have physically spoken to a neighbor without their parents. 50% have seen pornography by the time they turn 13.

In physical space, Western children are almost comically sheltered. But in digital space, they're entirely beyond our command; and increasingly, that's where children spend most of their time. You don't need me to tell you about the dire consequences of that shift.

Why do our children spend more time in Fortnite than forests? Usually, we blame the change on tech companies. They make their platforms as addicting as possible, and the youth simply can't resist - once a toddler locks eyes with an iPad, game over.

I want to suggest an alternative: digital space is the only place left where children can grow up without us . For most of our evolutionary history, childhood wasn't an adult affair. Independent worlds and peer cultures were the crux of development, as they still are among the BaYaka; kids spent their time together, largely beyond the prying eyes of grown-ups.

But in the West, the grown-ups have paved over the forests and creeks where children would have once hidden. They have exposed the secret places. So the children seek out a world of their own, as they have for millennia, if not longer. They find a proverbial forest to wander. They don't know what we know: this forest has eyes and teeth.

In most human societies, children have spent much of their time exploring and playing within independent peer cultures. This term reflects two important features of human childhood. First, the groups consist entirely of other children. Second, they are functionally and culturally distinct from adult society; they exist alongside but apart from the world of adults.

The evidence for this pattern is rich and widespread. During his research among the Trobriand Islanders, for instance, Bronislaw Malinowski described the "small republic" of children that "acts very much as is its own members determine, standing often in a sort of collective opposition to its elders."

Margaret Mead reported similar patterns in Samoa. One group of young girls formed a cohort "which played continually together and maintained a fairly coherent hostility towards outsiders." Of their activities, she writes:

On moonlight nights they scoured the villages alternately attacking or fleeing from the gangs of small boys, peeking through drawn shutters, catching land crabs, ambushing wandering lovers, or sneaking up to watch a birth or a miscarriage in some distant house . . . They were veritable groups of little outlaws escaping from the exactions of routine tasks. ( p. 62).

These peer cultures don't like to be seen - many ethnographers have noticed how playgroups prefer to segregate themselves from adults. Among the Mbuti, another Central African foraging group, Colin Turnbull observed children spending most of their time in a bopi, a playground set away from the main camp:

The water was fairly shallow there, and all day the long the children splashed and wallowed about to their hart's content . . . Infants watched with envy as the older children swung wildly about, climbing high up on the vine strands and performing all sorts of acrobatics. ( The Forest People, p.128).

Even in industrial societies, this love of solitude shows up. In the 1950s, Iona and Peter Opie documented the behaviors of post-war British children. They noticed that the children liked to roam through bomb sites, where they would build fires and play hide-and-seek.

Why do independent peer cultures emerge so reliably in our species? Anthropologists tend to view childhood as a period during which we over imitate and copy our way to cultural competency. But if that's true, it seems hard to account for the fact that kids really, really want to get away from adults. They would rather spend time with each other. If childhood is all about efficient cultural transmission, children should be hanging on our every word.

As of yet, I don't think there's a good explanation. Maybe independent peer cultures expose children to a wider variety of information. Maybe they provide safe spaces for the mimicry of adult activities. Maybe adults just aren't very much fun. As Antoine de-Saint Expert writes in The Little Prince: "All grown-ups were children once, but only a few of them remember it."

All of these accounts are probably a little bit true. The important point is that kids want to spend time together, in their own space, away from the tiresome grown-ups.

Which is relatively easy, if you're living in a giant forest with parents who don't pay much attention to your activities. But our children now find themselves in a strange situation - they have nowhere to hide, and even if they did, we might not let them go there in the first place.

At least in England, independence isn'y an Internet problem. Drop-offs in English childhood mobility have been ongoing since the 1970s. In 1971, 80% of seven and eight-year-old children went to school unaccompanied by an adult, and 55% of children under ten-years-old were allowed to travel alone to places other than school within walking distance. By 1990, those numbers had dropped to 9% and 30%, respectively.

We see similar patterns in other places. Here's data from Sweden, for instance.

So it doesn't seem like the collapse of independent mobility is a phone issue. The truth is much more complicated.

Adult employment patterns and lifestyle changes have also been slowly trending toward car-dependency, which means that kids often end up living far away from their friends. If children want people to play with, the most efficient solution is for their parents to drive them to an organized sport or other structured activity.

In the Play England survey, though, parents were most afraid that their kids would get hit by a car. Sadly, this isn't an unreasonable fear. All the forests are covered in concrete. What would we make of a city-bound parent who let their toddler roam the streets without an adult nearby?

A mix of shifting parental attitudes, car-dependency, and urbanization have led to an unprecedented situation in the history of human childhood. Children don't have peer cultures, because they have nowhere to play and no one to play with. Even if those factors were ameliorated, we might not let them out anyway. Too bad for them - they can't hide from us anymore.

Or can they?

The kids won't get off their damn phones. Children aged 6-14 average nearly three hours per day of screen time, not counting schoolwork. 50% of teenagers average over four hours of screen time daily. And so on - you know the statistics.

Amidst all the horror stories, though, people often ignore the fact that the kids don't like it either. For example: most teens, especially girls, say they spend too much time on their smartphones. 72% of 8 to 12-year-olds say they would rather "spend most of there time together doing things in-person, without screens." The kids are not alright, but they aren't dumb - they understand that something is wrong with the technological world we've handed them.

So why don't they just stop?

Usually, we blame the corporations. And there are lots of fingers to point. It is now well-known, I think, that many platforms design their applications like slot machines to maximize our attention, and that they purposefully aim for the more malleable minds of children.

But data on the varieties of screen usage suggests another explanation. Social media and gaming are now arguably the two most common digital activities for children: notably, and unlike television, both allow children to engage with distinct virtual communities that adults don't notice or understand.

Tellingly, kids really want those communities to exist. 45% of American 8 to 12-year-olds say they would prefer to "participate in an activity with their friends in person that's not organized by adults." 61% wish they had more time to "play with friends in person without adults." And again, most of them wish they could spend less time on screens. It seems like what they want is to wander together in a forest.

But they can't. So they boot up Fortnite or TikTok instead.

But the kids know, and they know that the other kids know, and they know that we don't know shit. Children have always looked for a world without us. With the advent of the Internet, they have found one lying in the rubble.

Of course, the problem is that social media platforms and video games are not Congolese rainforests - though at least there are no leopards. These digital spaces make our children depressed and anxious and insecure. They expose them to pornography. They drive them into frightening political rabbit holes. The children need somewhere to play, but this can't possibly be the right place for it.

And yet, it's hard to picture an alternative. Parents should worry less about stranger danger: fine. But everything is still covered in concrete, and everyone is still moving to cities. Do we want to tear down the skyscrapers and unpave the roads? Should we demand a forest for our children?

The truth is that we're not going back. My children will not grow up like the BaYaka, and there is nothing I can do about it.

But that doesn't change the fact that kids need their independent peer cultures. If we can't provide physical spaces for them to form, then we must accept that they will often form in digital spaces instead. So if we're unhappy with the digital spaces on offer - if we think there are too many figurative leopards in those forests - then we should make something better.

What does 'something better' look like? Well, probably a platform that preserves the aspects of digital space that kids find freeing, but without the aspects that make those spaces dangerous and addictive.

Games like Roblox present some interesting ideas. Children absolutely love Roblox; according to the game's parent corporation, their monthly player base includes half of all American children under the age of 16. They love it because it's multiplayer, exploratory, and extremely open-ended. Independent cultures and systems of governance emerge in the course of gameplay. They're sufficiently complex that some of my colleagues are now using Roblox as a playground for studying collective behavior in humans.

Still, I can picture something like Roblox that might also sustain peer cultures. When I remember the happiest parts of my childhood, everything centers on secret places: pillow forts, hidden corners in parks, soccer fields after dark. But I also remember Minecraft. My friends and I would set up a Skype call, start a world and spend hours exploring and building.

When we spent time together in physical space, we were nearly always being supervised. Not so in Minecraft. I spent thousands of hours mastering the rules of that procedurally generated world; my parents didn't even know what 'procedurally generated' meant. So, dystopian as it may sound, Minecraft servers were the closest thing I had to sprawling Congolese rainforests.

Perhaps that isn't so bad. I wish the children of today had a forest. But they don't. They're making do with what history has handed them.

We can complain about their screen time, lament the anxious generation, scoff at how 'unnatural' this brave new world has become. Simultaneously, though, we should do our best to understand why kids are behaving this way. There's no point in whining about the impulses endowed to them by several hundred thousand years of evolution. Don't hate the player; hate the game. And if you really hate the game, make a better one.

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Rob Guttenberg who is a Psychologist and a Diplomate for the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, has created a series based on teachings in his book Funtastic Adlerian Techniques for Change.

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Understanding Yourself & Others with Rob Guttenberg

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Theo Joosten (Chair of ICASSI and also a member of the IAIP Pedagogics section) has reached out for assistance with a new project. His IAIP section has developed a survey to gather crucial data directly from parents about what kind of support and training they truly want in the challenging task of raising children.

Their goal is to get as wide a distribution as possible to ensure the data is reliable, and the request is time-sensitive, with a deadline of November 9th.

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Join the Family Leadership Center community on Circle In. Find information and learn more about the new Book Group and the 4C Certification Course.

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Free IAIP half day conference January 24, 2026

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Free IAIP half day conference January 24, 2026

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Asian conference 2026 registration plus flyer 10.27.25 Final

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The Connection is back! Please send any inquiries and submissions to the team at nasapnews@gmail.com.

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Read articles and watch videos to earn CEs! 

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This program was developed by Rocky Garrison to offer NASAP members more chances to earn CEs. Both Rocky Garrison and Ben Rader have worked tirelessly to upload articles and videos for you to review. Visit NASAP’s Thinkific site today!

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Save the Date for NASAP's 2026 Conference

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Save the Date for NASAP's 2026 Conference

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Additional comments from our Meeting in July

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Additional comments from our Meeting in July

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I have to something to add about birth order/family constellation and the truths we find there is the useful purpose parent educators and parents can make of that sort of understanding:  we don’t stand idly by and just throw up our hands because of a kid’s birth order (or heredity) being so impactful in their world view — we use the insight to guide them to a place of comfort with their daily life and as members of a community.

For example, knowing that a first born most often identifies with adults and takes on lots of responsibility, give them opportunities in the family to not always have to do that or feel that they have to do that.  Same if they feel a strong sense of leadership as a firstborn:  learn to allow others to lead, or give them encouragement to see that strength without having to always take the lead, or be as capable as an adult.  Let each dial down a little.  Or learn insight for themselves so they are aware of what makes them happiest, or their effect on others, etc.

That would be a useful next topic I hope.

Bryna

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Aug 15 * Poem from Presentation by Jim Skinner

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Aug 15 * Poem from Presentation by Jim Skinner

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Aug. 15 * Meeting Resources presented by Jim Skinner

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Aug. 15 * Meeting Resources presented by Jim Skinner

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Alfred Adler - Understanding Yourself and Others by Rob Guttenberg

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Alfred Adler - Understanding Yourself and Others by Rob Guttenberg

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The second Cable T.V. vignette that focuses on the impact of experiencing 'felt' - situations, and how the collective sense of inferiority in our lives can sometimes be passed on to our children with the way we discipline them.

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Funtastic Adlerian Techniques for Change- Felt Minus Position

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Reseach Study of Social Media and 10 to 14-year-olds

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Reseach Study of Social Media and 10 to 14-year-olds

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Colleagues -

Subjects are needed for research: How Does Social Media Impact Adolescent Mental Health?

Project Director: Kostadin Kushlev, Ph.D. Georgetown University (website: Kushlev.com).

Please help finding subjects ages 10 to age 14 who are about to receive their first smartphone. Click on the link below for information on this research project.

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Adolescent SM Project — Kostadin Kushlev Ph.D.

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Some of the Family Education Section members that attended in Collinsville, Il.

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It was so nice to see the new people of the Family Education Section and meet familiar ones in person. I enjoyed connecting, sharing ideas, and making plans for the future of FES. I hope to see you all again soon!

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ICASSI (the International Committee for Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes) is a non-profit educational organization whose objective is to help professionals, students, and lay persons learn the teachings of Adler and Dreikurs and master appropriate skills, and to teach Adler’s and Dreikurs’ principles and methods where professional and personal development opportunities are needed.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Adlerian Approach to Neurocognitive Disorders, with Dr. Marina Bluvshtein. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Adlerian Approach to Neurocognitive Disorders, with Dr. Marina Bluvshtein. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.