The purpose of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute’s
Practitioners’ Program is to offer individuals
with advanced experience, a special learning opportunity
to
develop and achieve
highest level of understanding and practice of
Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT) within a collaborative,
relationally-based
learning community. Every component of this program
is designed to
encourage the integration of growth through connection
and mutuality,
with an ongoing awareness of cultural contexts
and conditions that affect the practice and applications
of RCT. The primary
goals of the JBMTI Practitioner Program is to promote
the growth and development of all who participate
in the program
and to
contribute to knowledge of Relational-Cultural
Theory and its applications.
The Practitioners’ Program is dedicated to JBMTI Founding
Scholar Irene Pierce Stiver, Ph.D., who committed her life
to the development of RCT and to the supervision and training
of numerous students and advanced practitioners. Judith Jordan,
Co-Director of JBMTI, described the impact of Dr. Stiver’s
work when she said, “Generations of psychology trainees
remember Irene for her brilliance, her magnificent clinical
abilities, her help and generosity, her lively energetic spirit
and her warmth.” Dr. Stiver wrote many of the Stone Center
Working Papers, was co-author of The Healing Connection: How
Women form Relationships in Therapy and in Life, and contributed
to Women’s Growth in Connection and Women’s Growth
in Diversity. Dr. Stiver passed away on September 24, 2000.
The JBMTI Practitioners’ Program is a part of her
continuing legacy supporting the growth and development
of new generations
of Relational-Cultural
Please
see additional information in the application above.
