Welcome Mineko!! I'm so glad you decided to take the risk and send us this
email. I am impressed by your bravery and I am so appreciative of your kind
words.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas!

-Christeine

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Mineko Sterling wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My name is Mineko Sterling. I am a graduate student pursuing a Master's
> degree in counseling psychology. I attended the FAP conference in Seattle
> and joined the mailing list soon after. I am looking forward to learning
> more about FAP and hopefully to incorporate FAP into practice someday.
>
> I wanted to thank everyone for organizing the conference. I was very
> impressed--and moved--by the presenters' knowledge, enthusiasm and openness.
>
> FAP to me is a completely new way of looking at and doing therapy. Yet, I
> did not feel the internal resistance to this paradigm shift because it felt
> intuitively right. "Of course! Why didn't I look at therapy this way
> before?"
>
> Writing this e-mail, I am feeling nervous. I was intimidated thinking that
> most people on the list are researchers, doctorate students and clinicians
> with years of experience, but I decided to finally complete the homework
> Mavis gave us on Saturday. This is a CRB2, especially considering that I
> didn't speak in front of the big group once during the conference.
>
> Again, thank you very much for organizing the conference. It was very
> informative and deeply moving.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mineko
>
>
>

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Christeine M. Terry
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Research Group
University of Washington
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