Special Programs

Join us for a Fundraising event for the Candidate Training Grants for Equity & Diversity
AN AFTERNOON OF POETRY & ART
MUSING ON LISTENING
with Forrest Hamer and Alice Jones

Saturday, April 5, 2025
3:00-5:00 pm (Pacific Time)
In-person at SFCP (444 Natoma Street, San Francisco) and via ZOOM

Cost: Sliding Scale Donation (free to candidates, students, and SFCP PPTP trainees).

ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE AND WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE
CANDIDATE TRAINING GRANT FUND FOR EQUITY & DIVERSITY

Silent Art Auction: we appreciate the generosity of anyone who may have art to donate for the silent art auction which will accompany this program. Please contact Beth Steinberg (besteinberg@comcast.net) if you have art you would like to donate.

MUSING ON LISTENING

Forrest Hamer, PhD and Alice Jones, MDdistinguished poets and SFCP members – offer an event where they each speak for a few minutes about their writing on listening and on muses. They will then engage the group in an interactive listening experience which will involve observing and thinking about how we receive language, tone, music and presence of another. What is generated inside the analyst/listener/writer by way of response? How does the muse give rise to a creative impulse to respond? How do we take in another’s being across differences of self and other, culture, race, age, gender etc. How do we make use of ourselves in response? We will then read some poems together, engaging in noticing how we listen, what we hear, and how we respond in feelings and in words. Together, we will engage as a group in the experience of sending and receiving (call and response) as a basis for how we respond to one another, and how a space can open between us and inside each of us. (1.5 CME/CE Credits pending)

  • Hamer, F.  Muse, That Slave. (Under Review for Publication)
  • Hamer, F. (2012). Evocative space: Where listening begins. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 60 (4): 781-789.
  • Hamer, F. (2007). Rift: Poems by Forrest Hamer. Four Way Books, First Edition.
  • Jones, A. Cadence of Vanishing. Unbound Edition. Forthcoming in 2025.
  • Jones, A. (2020). Listening: Poetry as Depth Perception, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 17:2
  • Jones, A. (2020). Vault. Apogee Press.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, March 27, 2025
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Conversations
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Conversations - Module 3
David Luna, MBA, JD
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Special Programs
An Afternoon of Poetry and Art
with Forrest Hamer and Alice Jones
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Wednesdays, February 5, 2025 to March 12, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
All of Us! - The Ones We See & The Ones We Erase
Karim Dajani, PsyD and Danny Yu, LCSW
Thursday, April 10, 2025
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Conversations
SFCP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Conversations - Module 3
David Luna, MBA, JD
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Special Programs
W.R. Bion’s Reading of C.G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Joseph Aguayo, PhD (presenter); Peter Goldberg, PhD and Mark Winborn, PhD (discussants)
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Visiting Professor Weekend
Introduction to the work of Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Peter Goldberg, PhD
Saturday, April 26, 2025, to Sunday, April 27, 2025
Committee on Groups
SFCP's Annual Group Relations Weekend
Alan Ruiz, MFA; and Janice K. Wagner, LCSW (facilitators)
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Visiting Professor Weekend
A morning with Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA - Bion's Technique
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter); Laurie Goldsmith, PhD (moderator)
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Visiting Professor Weekend
Professor's Choice: On "Container/contained Transformed"
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
Unwound and Unwound-ing: A Poetic Psychoanalytic Exploration of Whiteness
Hazel White; Jyoti Rao, MFT; and Forrest Hamer, PhD (panelists)

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